linkspam hasn't been around much
In case you missed it, Allie Brosh of Hyperbole and a Half was on Fresh Air last night. (Trigger warning for discussion of suicide and depression.)
I didn't think it needed saying, but apparently it does: don't bring your parents to work.
The chart of seasonal pies.
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Noted for later reading: Why I made terrible decisions, or, poverty thoughts.
The environmental scandal happening right under your feet.
The fall of the house of Moon (as in Sun Yung Moon).
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In fannishness: yes, this. If you don't like what someone's writing because it's not up to your standards of grammar, characterization, or whatever: your role is NOT to mock it publicly.
Nobody ever gets better, or is more likely to join the fannish community, if they think they'll be publicly scorned for failing to meet some ever-changing standard of proper writing.
I've opened enough stories that sent me screaming the other direction, like we all have. But telling those writers so, in public, to their faces? What does any of us gain from that?
Crossposted from DW, where there are
comments; comment here or there.
I didn't think it needed saying, but apparently it does: don't bring your parents to work.
The chart of seasonal pies.
*
Noted for later reading: Why I made terrible decisions, or, poverty thoughts.
The environmental scandal happening right under your feet.
The fall of the house of Moon (as in Sun Yung Moon).
*
In fannishness: yes, this. If you don't like what someone's writing because it's not up to your standards of grammar, characterization, or whatever: your role is NOT to mock it publicly.
Nobody ever gets better, or is more likely to join the fannish community, if they think they'll be publicly scorned for failing to meet some ever-changing standard of proper writing.
I've opened enough stories that sent me screaming the other direction, like we all have. But telling those writers so, in public, to their faces? What does any of us gain from that?
Crossposted from DW, where there are
comments; comment here or there.