TGIF? We ain't got no TGIF! We don't need no TGIF! I don't have to show you any stinking TGIF!

[furiosity]

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[prettyhairs]

I ticked set work hours but I adore that I can come and leave any time I want at work as long as I get vaguely enough work hours in. It's because I prefer a set of rules that I can decide to respect or flaunt as I chose. No given structure drives me spare even if I don't adhere to the structure I feel reassured because it's there...

[furiosity]

Yeah, set hours with ~freedom would be good too. ^^

[henpecked]

I don't know why I chose positive remarks from someone with bad taste as the worse scenario. When someone says "this sucks," that isn't detailed enough to really understand why something sucks or is problematic. If it's detailed commentary, you at least have the ability to be encouraged to reflect on your work and think "yeah I agree a bit, let me make this better" or "no, I don't agree, I like this as it is." People with bad taste annoy me because they actively encourage people who create awful, thoughtless, stupid and erroneous things to make MORE things like that and, worse, make them think the work they produce is as good as quality work

[furiosity]

For me positive remarks from someone who sincerely enjoys awful things (for heir own sake, not ironically) is extremely discouraging because there's no wiggle room -- like, yes, it's possible that this person happened to demonstrate good taste when they enjoyed my thing, but it's impossible to tell what the % of possibility is without actually getting to know the person, which I'm rarely interested in doing. Negative remarks of any stripe are not discouraging in the same way. I don't like everything I read, either and it's not always because it's objectively "bad" (actually, it's rarely because it's objectively bad because once I see that something is bad, I stop engaging with it). This person didn't like it, and that's okay -- if they have thoughts on how it might be improved then I'll take them on board if I agree and ignore them if I don't. But if someone with terrible taste loves something I wrote I am always like "oh god does that mean that my stuff is just like [bad thing i don't like]". IDK if that even makes any sense. -_

[henpecked]

No, no, that makes perfect sense to me. I was reading an interesting comment the other day that really hit me: do people like mediocre and even bad things because they don't know or haven't learned how to differentiate between the two? Especially when what is understood to be "good" is generally considered such because of whatever criteria are applied to that subject. Like, with sciences and maths, it's much easier--does this formula work? No, okay it's not good, let's re-work it so it works. This experiment failed, why did it fail, how can we make it better?, etc

[furiosity]

I think generally speaking most people are EXTREMELY easy to please? Most people don't create anything and find it magical that someone else does create something -- I'm like that with artwork, for example. I can't draw to save my life so even though I draw the line at obviously BAD art, sometimes artists I follow will make fun of/disparage some art style and I'll go look at it and be lke "but this is incredibly beautiful?" I think when you don't know how to do something it's much easier to have lower standards in it

[reddwarfer]

Life is too short for hate-reading. I now follow 'avoidcomments' on Twitter as a daily reminder to not read comments. I just don't want to spend any extra time angry than I have to be...I mean, being a pansexual feminist is enough, yanno? There are enough things to make me angry in every day life that I never have to go out looking for them.

[furiosity]

Yeah I only follow dumb humour and personal twitters, and on Tumblr I basically just can't block people fast enough. ^^;

[empath_eia]

1.) I don't really check out the profiles of the people who comment on my stuff and I'm such an internet hermit that chances are they're either my friend or I've never heard of them

I have one particular reviewer that I loathe, but for very different reasons >____>

2.) I am a creature of routine and also a perpetually exhausted and unwell wreck, so flexible hours would be utterly intolerable for me. I need to know where I'm expected to be and for how long so I can budget my energy and teach my body when to sleep.

3.) Being angry literally makes me feel sick so I avoid it whenever possible, hatereading would be incredibly masochistic lol

[furiosity]

For me I usually don't check out people's profiles unless I recognise their name -- I feel like, wow, this person's dedicated MORE than 5 minutes of their time to comment on something I wrote, that's really cool! That's usually when I end up going to see if we have mutual friends/other fandoms in common/etc and sometimes discover that they're into some questionable shit, taste-wise. It doesn't make me dislike the reviewer, though, like, my concern is not so much about their taste as it is about the objective quality of my work, hahah. ^^;; There was one reviewer I had on a WiP years ago in HP who was very snooty and I kind of cringed whenever I saw their comments pop up because they had some interesting things to say and were never outright rude, just really ... condescending and back-handed-compliment-y; it was a challenge. /o

[blamebrampton]

I just read a really WTF review about that film. I wanted to enjoy the books, but they were just hopeless for me, and I couldn't even get in far enough to decide if that was because they needed something or because they lacked something integral. Or, third possibility, I could just be too old and raised in a time when the trashy fantasy was by masterful writers like Ursula le Guin, hence spoiled.

ETA saw your comment above: must say that I am not hugely fussed about good reviews from the differently tasted, but I have had glowing ones from people who have misread my stories and mention they recced me on their blog, which, when I idiotically clicked to read, said 'It's so lovely to see a right wing writer in HP' or 'It's wonderful to have a Christian perspective on the books' which, while I fully support people's rights to be religious and conservative, has always left me going 'WTF?? HOW did you get that from an atheist Green?'

[furiosity]

The books were basically recycled HP fanfic it was kind of embarrassing? So I'd say they lacked something integral; namely, originality. ^^;; It's kind of sad because CC is on Twitter claiming she didn't have ~all that much~ to do with with the movie except that's not true at all. It's a bit sad.

ETA: HAHAHA right wing, really? I'm pretty glad I never encountered the sort except from a safe distance.

[blamebrampton]

I'm lucky in arriving here a little after the whole CC saga and being far too lazy to look it all up. Though that sort of explains why her books so thoroughly failed to engage with me. I sometimes describe some of the Anne Rice books I tried and failed to read as 'fanfiction for invisible canon', and City of Bones had that feel now I think on it. Well, the first 11 or so pages did at any rate …

[blamebrampton]

I know. But on the other side, it does mean that I am equally good at taking the piss from the left as from the right and possibly sometimes better due to more familiarity, so that warms my satirical heart :-)