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I get an enormous kick out of AO3 comments that are basically liveblogs of my chapters <3

(I know some people are self-conscious about doing it, but I'm just heart eyes, haha.)

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In response to this post:

primeideal said:

if it’s “Fantasy Magazine” I submitted there too, might as well :P

lockedoutofmyotherblog said:

DO IT ANYWAY 💗💗

tree said:

but not YOUR submission!

I replied:

Thanks, y’all! I’ll revise for the 30th time and submit :)

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Pet peeve: “the real [Austen character] would have been/done/thought XYZ”

They are not real. They would not have been or done or thought anything that Austen didn’t write because she made them up. 

It’s one thing to say “a historical figure like Elizabeth Bennet would have probably [X]” or to consider Austen’s context generally. But any sentence along the lines of “the real Elizabeth Bennet would have [X]” is inherently flawed. Even if blanket statements could be accurately applied to historical groups (and they can’t), she is not a historical figure. Draw from history for your headcanons all you like, but the rest of us are under no obligation to accept them, or to make assumptions about fictional characters that are not suggested or supported in the text.

(This is applicable to a lot more than Austen, but that's where it's been bugging me lately. And where it's particularly pervasive for obvious reasons. Like, you get "as a man of the time, Darcy would have..." but he's not a man of the time! He's not real.)

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Unrelated pet peeve: when people acknowledge that something they’re criticizing is artistically or stylistically beautiful, but dismiss that from consideration of its overall merit as “that’s just surface shit that fools people” or “well, it had a good budget” or “that doesn’t make it good.”

Maybe not! But if you’re accepting that something is aesthetically beautiful, then that is a major positive quality that your critique should engage with, not something that a thoughtful critique can disregard—especially not when it comes to things using visual mediums.

#lol i could tag this with so many fandoms #not going to but i'm thinking of four right off the bat #'sure it's pretty but that doesn't mean anything' actually yeah it does #you can certainly question the value of pretty things #like #is the aesthetic suitable to the story being told? how does it weigh against the other qualities of the piece? #but 'that doesn't mean anything' or 'that doesn't matter'? no #esp for film/tv #(i mean. you can do that. but it's a pretty bad flaw in a critique)

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My writing playlist basically says everything there is to say about my musical tastes



[ETA 7/25/2023: Not news to any of you over here at Dreamwidth, but...]

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lesbiansforboromir at Tumblr made a post about loving Gondor, and someone else unnecessarily responded with a complaint about how Gondor is too stony and devoid of greenery/trees except the dead White Tree for them, and they prefer Rohan (this person had not read the book). lesbiansforboromir responded with a headache graphic pointing out that this is entirely on the Jackson films and book Gondor is a fertile, verdant land nourished by the largest river in Middle-earth.

I said:

This is one hundred percent me. My greatest bitterness is over Lebennin. I mean, after Denethor, Faramir, etc. But LEBENNIN. Yes, sure, maybe there wasn't time to show Lebennin itself, but they certainly could have included actual Gondorians in the relieving army. But God forbid that Gondor is something other than a conveniently placed fortress + a vague land for Aragorn to be rewarded with.

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Poll #29638 Shipping Poll 3a

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According to you, which ship is better?

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Luke Skywalker/Han Solo/Leia Organa
5 (50.0%)

Leia Organa/Jyn Erso/Cassian Andor
5 (50.0%)