I just saw a video that said that men and women psychologically rate their pain differently. If you're in an ER, and ask a man to rate his pain, between 1-10, he'll base that assessment on the spectrum of his actual experience with pain. 9 out of 10 of the worst pain he's ever experienced.
Women however, will rate their pain based off of pain they haven't experienced. Rate between 1-10...well 10 would be being burned alive. They imagine the worse possible scenario, and make that their 10. I'm not being burned alive, so like a 6, or 7.
I had to check with my husband on how he would rate it, and now we are both laughing at each other.
"suddenly a tech genius" she literally went to midtown school of science and TECHNOLOGY and was the leader of the acadec team and got into MIT … there’s no suddenly
thinking about the difference between fandom and consumerdom and realising that’s been the major shift over the last few years, that fandom used to be mostly creative (art, fics, theories, discussions) and now it’s inherently consumptive (demands, entitlement, discourse, hate)
I know correct comma placement and sentence structure, but guess what. It is more fun to put commas wherever the fuck I what. It literally doesn’t matter.
A lot of ppl are taught to put commas where they would pause/breathe in a sentence as an introductory step in elementary/middle school, and they only retain that part, not the part they learn later about clauses and sentence structure :/
people want you to do well, when you go on a date that person wants it to go well so they can stop dating. when you interview for a job they want it to go well so they can finally hire someone. people want to watch, read, hear and experience good things. we’re rooting for you
a fandom friend had a great metaphor that fanfiction is a potluck. you don’t complain about the quality of food that’s brought for free, but also you’re not entitled to have your dish eaten over something more crowd-pleasing and more skillfully made.
This is such a funny mentality to apply to other hobbies
"If you aren't training to do 20000 peice double-sided monochromatic puzzles can you even really call yourself a puzzle enjoyer!?"
writing, and all art, is just an endeavor towards the artist's highest creative vision. sometimes that creative vision does not align with what the audience wants to consume.
critique should help the artist achieve their vision, but fandom confuses critiquing with complaining
my biggest problem with the fanfic criticism debate is that if you think you can write better than those "shitty fanfics," you should go ahead and try!
i don't really see people in twt fandom trying to create the things they want to see. they just like to sit around and complain.
literally every fic i've ever written was born out of "god i can't believe no one's written this yet what the hell"