Vraith wrote:
Zorm: you are being a freaking moron. --- etc.
Since people managed to persuade me back, and many issues here remain unresolved, I'm writing a second response to this, after which I'm not interested in talking about the matter any more.
First off, your comment was extremely rude, and I don't know where the humorous part or "encouragement" is supposed to begin. I've spent quite a few years on various online communities and
never have been called such names. After spending hundreds of hours of my free time attempting to create content to this community's enjoyment and drawing people's requests, these kinds of insults feel something akin to a slap on the face with a ten-kilo cactus. Moreover, it seems to miss the point on more than one level.
Just because I might be more extroverted when it comes to creativity doesn't turn me into a 'fricking moron'. Does a heavily detail-oriented person go to seek inspiration in a blank room? Certainly not. Even if you claim not to be a visual person, did you perhaps notice that 60-70% of the pictures et cetera I once had up here sat in various stages of progress? The
whole idea of showing WIPs stands upon getting feedback, not the other way round. You don't start fixing perspective errors or whimsical foreshortenings when you've slapped 30 full-color layers together and erased all the blueline grids. The same applies to writing, albeit with more flexibility.
Also it's not my 'damn work'. None kind of obligation binds me (or the other artists here) to contribute anything to this board; it's all voluntary. We don't get paid for it, as opposed to commercial art commissions. Hence fanworks perch even more upon the concept of sharing: fans create content for the entertainment of other fans, not just their own.
Besides, what's it to anyone if someone loses their inspiration when and if some essential part of their creative process is broken? I said I wouldn't write another TCTC thing, knowing how difficult getting help with it was in the first place, and might turn near impossible the next time round, no matter what ideas one might possess. May I ask how many languages do you speak and what's the longest piece you've written in a second or a third tongue? How many times have you run across the embarrassment of involuntarily using words with a double meaning, or something that mismatches the context hideously? How many times have you accidentally misplaced a somewhat similar-sounding expression from maybe your fourth tongue, thus perhaps rendering the whole sentence nonsensical? At that point,
you do care. Especially if you've repeatedly asked for help.
As for the rudeness of your comment in general: it's very inadvisable to write something like this to a person of whom and whose cultural background you know next to nothing. You're a grown-up person and, I'm sure, also capable of civil conversation without swearwords and contemptuous language. I still don't understand the purpose of it. If it strove to 'encourage', then it achieved the exact opposite. Even if I'm present while writing this, I'm very, very wary of posting anything 'creative' here another time (or fixing old threads, for that matter).
I'm done with my answer and not interested in continuing the debate. Thank you. This forum has several times prided itself on being more civil than many others of its ilk, so please do try to uphold that standard.)
