Raise your hand if you like getting detailed critiques on the myriad flaws in a fanwork you completed over three years ago.
What.
The fuck.
Are people thinking.
I got a comment the other day asking me if I could ‘make this into a real fic, a long one i could fangirl over’. The fic was nearly 5,000 words long, and in a fandom I hadn’t been part of for nearly ten years. It was very obviously a complete work. There was nothing else to the comment. No praise, no ‘I liked this part’, no nothing.
marvel is disney’s forever cash cow! it appeals to children, teens, and sweaty adults! it’s all quite loud and colorful, with the same safe formula every time, but with different directors and tweaks to make it whatever the fuck memorable each time. plus the reliance on violence to push the plot will give them those dank US military checks until explosions go extinct. truly we live in horrific times but i don’t really care
thank u all for letting me know the military quit cutting checks for the MCU after Avengers because they got offended bc the fictional magic men are an alternative to the american military. i’m sorry i was misinformed but more importantly that’s really, really, really, really, really fucking funny
Just to clarify – the Pentagon pulled out of the Avengers (and thus the MCU) because it wasn’t clear whether SHIELD was a branch of the US government, and, if so, where it fell in relation to the military in terms of hierarchy. (Source)
So, it wasn’t just “magic men are unrealistic”, it was “magic men are unrealistic and we don’t know if we outrank them.”
Someone just left a hundreds-of-words long screed against MCU canon and characterisation and fanon and shipping in (multiple) comments on a fic I wrote a few years ago and then was incredibly shocked that I a) saw it and b) replied, telling them to kindly either a) read something else or b) keep their thoughts to themself/their blog/their twitter.
I mean, it’s a comment box. To leave comments. For the author. Did they think they could do the equivalent of taking a dump in my mailbox without me seeing it? It’s not a fucking Tumblr reblog. It’s a direct comment. To me. About my story.
Also, the whole thing was completely without a) full stops and b) coherent trains of thought.
It’s too early in the day for this shit.
Please, from the bottom of my heart, keep this kind of shit out of your comments on people’s fanworks. It’s not helpful. It’s downright depressing, and all authors take away from it is that you hate everything that they wrote about and carefully tagged for, but you chose to read it and get angry about it anyway. Why would you even read something you know you will hate? Why would you then rant to the author about hating it? Why? Do you know you can read things you like? Do you know there’s a thing called outside? Do you know chocolate exists? And ice cream? Those are pretty good. Please consume those instead. Thanks.
(Image description: A partial screenshot of a blog post. The title reads “How I reduced screaming and verbal stimming in my child with autism”, and below that is a colour photograph of a hand holding a rectangular plastic “clicker” device.)
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I don’t agree with everything this lady did, especially the correction of verbal stimming, but I think the basis of this is fairly good practice with any child. You reward good behaviors and correct unwanted behaviors, which can be done through time-outs, taking away something of value to the child, or simply ignoring them. People don’t like hearing about methods that sound like dog training, but, as a dog trainer, I’ve seen firsthand that the minds of dogs and children are pretty darn similar, and they can usually be taught in similar manners. In my child development class, we talked about how some speech therapists will utilize positive reinforcements to encourage speech in autistic children, basically training them to talk. They started out rewarding any noise, and then slowly specified to rewarding words, and then rewarding sentences. The clicker seems awful, but it’s actually a good tool to phase out food as a reward, while still giving a reward. This may have been a really old method, but it worked. I don’t think this is an attempt to “cure” a child, but to effectively teach them more appropriate behaviors, like communication. Personally, I would think it’s really important to teach effective communication, for the sake of the child. Obviously, the child needs something, they’re trying to communicate something, but can’t do so in a way that their caregivers can understand. Is it so wrong to teach children how to express themselves so that they can fulfill their wants and needs?
I’m going to go ahead and be blunt here.
Marvel has added another superhero to its vast roster. His name is Captain Citrus, and he comes with all the goodness of orange juice! He also stresses the importance of orange juice in one’s diet.
READ MORE: Marvel’s Captain Citrus Ready To Help Orange Juice Sell!
Captain Citrus and Banana Man really should hook up. After all, they’ve pretty much got the market on fruit-based superheroing.
Alright so I’m watching the Ultimate Spider-Man Spider-verse episodes where Spider-Man goes to different dimensions and teams up with different versions of him. And for this third season I’ve given the show a break because it started to actually be a little entertaining and fun to watch.
But then…
Wow I was thinking about picking this show up again but NOOOOPE
NOPE
NOPE
NOPE
It’s almost like they want to be teaching younger men that strong women are the enemy. But that would be silly wouldn’t it?
sigh
In its first season, the Ultimate Spider-man writer’s room literally drove a female staffer to resign, in part over a discussion they had about how they’d like to rape and dismember White Tiger, the only female on the team and the only Latina in the show.
Glad I stopped watching when I heard that, sounds like they haven’t gotten any better since.
It does rather sound from that review like the ep was written by fedora wearing douchebags whining about *~misandry~*. Ugh. And to think I was super excited for this season (and I think, literally this episode, because Donald Glover was getting to play Miles Morales.
tony what are you doing all i can imagine is miles taking these pictures with his phone while simultaneously going DAD NO and bruce laughs helplessly in the background
“I keep hearing hats are in, but I don’t own any hats. Well, I own the beanie, but I’m not allowed to wear the beanie. What’d you say about it? It’s the ‘most embarrassing thing I own, even worse than the fanny pack?’”
“Sounds about right.”
“Thank you, Bruce. So, like I was saying: I need hats. These are my new hats. Why are you groaning and covering your face? I look great. Don’t I look great, Bruce? He’s only snickering because I look so awesome. And wait until you see my other hat— No spoilers, but it’s origami … “
knitting in the dark 