@anaer was talking about how Cloud would rather spend time chocobo racing instead of saving the world, meanwhile Squall can’t help but stop to play triple triad ebery other minute.
“English isn’t my first language” is not a serious excuse!
To all of you fanfic authors, bloggers, artist, to write/make something and then post it means that you are satisfied with the product. Now, to have created a piece that is fully/mostly constructed of text and to not have made the effort to at least get a grammar check is called arrogance. “I don’t care what you think, I wrote it, you read it. Who cares if you’re struggling to get a past every sentence. That’s your own problem!” You’re basically setting yourself up for negative feedback and criticism which, while many don’t bother to give, I would provide without hesitation.
Some say “I don’t need approval.”(which I sincerely don’t believe). Well, then, why are you posting this? Isn’t the whole point sharing something you can enjoy with people?
And then you start getting defensive and angry about it. “Well, English isn’t my first language!” I don’t care! Nobody does! Plus, if you post something online you should anticipate criticism. Great artists, celebrities, and basically everyone, face criticism on a daily basis EVEN WHEN the final product is marvelous.
So, what makes you different?
“English isn’t my first language” is not a serious excuse!
To all of you fanfic authors, bloggers, artist[s:] to write/make something and then post it means that you are satisfied with the product. Now, to have created a piece that is fully/mostly constructed of text and to not have made the effort to at least get a grammar check is called arrogance. [Replacing “to have” and “to not have” with “having” and “not having” would make this much easier to read.] “I don’t care what you think, I wrote it, you read it. Who cares if you’re struggling to get [remove superfluous “a”] past every sentence. That’s your own problem!” You’re basically setting yourself up for negative feedback and criticism[,] which, while many don’t bother to give, [That’s one hell of an awkward construction; consider “while many don’t bother with it” instead.] I would provide without hesitation. [In fact, the best solution would be to put the subclause starting with “which” at the end of the sentence. Otherwise it’s just clunky.][space]Some say[:] “I don’t need approval.”[space]([W]hich I sincerely don’t believe.)[remove incorrectly placed full stop] Well, then, why are you posting this? Isn’t the whole point sharing something you can enjoy with people?[space]And then you start getting defensive and angry about it. “Well, English isn’t my first language!” I don’t care! Nobody does! Plus, if you post something online you should anticipate criticism. Great artists, celebrities, and basically everyone[remove superfluous comma] face criticism on a daily basis EVEN WHEN the final product is marvelous.
Hey, English actually is my first language and lemme tell you…I am floored by fanfic authors (and hell, artists who do comics too), who write all their stuff in a language that isn’t their first language. Because they really could’ve just…not done that.
But they did. They went through all the hassle and actually did it. And without a beta? Damn son. That’s not arrogance, that’s fucking brave. People who write in English when English isn’t their first language and share their stuff anyway in the face of potential unwanted criticism are braver than any of us, marine, and to anybody reading this–don’t let people like OP make you feel any different. Fans like me think your effort and the stuff you make is fucking awesome.
Putting more pressure on those people (I don’t care if you think you can do this because ‘well English isn’t MY first language either!’ which is…ironic…using that as an excuse…to berate other people for not using perfect English…) to correct any and all mistakes before sharing the stuff they wrote for free and for fun so that a handful of asshole native English-speaking trolls won’t sneer down their noses at them when they post it is…not actually helping. Maybe OP’s coming from a good place and just trying to save people some grief (I…have my doubts lol), but this isn’t actually inspiring people to improve.
If your goal is to make people not want to create at all, this is how you do it. That “Well if you don’t go the full 100%, why do it at all” mentality is damaging and counterproductive for any and all creative types. And I would much, much rather see people write about something they love with grammatical and spelling errors and poorly-translated words all over the place, in their free time for no money, than have them lose all motivation and curl up somewhere and go, “Well, why bother?”
I’ll make the fucking extra effort to figure out what they meant to say and I’ll get the gist of it and I will gladly take that, dammit.
I am a native speaker of multiple forms of English. I was an ESL teacher for a while. English is hard. It’s confusing and illogical and patched together out of so many borrowed parts that even native speakers can’t make sense of it in school and fuck it up on the regular our whole lives long.
If this is your roundabout way of seeking congratulations for going the extra mile with your fanwork, OP, you set yourself up for disappointment. Fanwork is supposed to be fun, in any language, and nobody owes you fun at the expense of their own. Try to understand that even if you enjoy an intense editing process, not everyone does. If something is too error-riddled for you, stop reading. It’s that simple. Unsought criticism of a hobby is a rude imposition, not a gift.
With how much I’m stressed about money I really need to find some🙏🏾
Yall better not be fuckin lyin to me.
!!!
Why chance it?
I got my money when i reblogged this last time.
Let’s go for round 2
Lord please 👏🏾👏🏾👏🏾👏🏾
Inshallah yes!
anybody else do the thing where you have a serious issue you want to raise with somebody so you lead in with something smaller and innocuous to test the waters and go (or don’t) from there
Millennials (and their younger
siblings, generation Z’s) are the largest, most diverse and progressive group of
potential voters in American history, comprising fully 30 percent of the voting
age population.
On November 6th, they’ll have the
power to alter the course of American politics – flipping Congress, changing
the leadership of states and cities, making lawmakers act and look more like
the people who are literally the nation’s future.
But will they vote?
In the last midterm election, in
2014, only 16 percent of eligible voters between the ages of 18 and 29
bothered.
In midterms over the last two
decades, turnout by young people has averaged
about 38 points below the turnout rate of people 60 and older. Which has given
older voters a huge say over where the nation is likely to be by the time those
younger people reach middle age and the older voters have passed on.
I’m not criticizing younger
non-voters. They have a lot on their minds – starting jobs, careers, families.
Voting isn’t likely to be high on their list of priorities.
Also, unlike their grand parents –
boomers who were involved in civil rights, voting rights, women’s rights, the
anti-Vietnam War movement – most young people today don’t remember a time when
political action changed America for the better.
They’re more likely to remember
political failures and scandals – George W. Bush lying about Saddam Hussein’s
weapons of mass destruction; Bill Clinton lying about Monica; both parties
bailing out Wall Street without so much as a single executive going to jail.
Most don’t
even recall when American democracy worked well. They don’t recall the Cold War, when democracy as an ideal worth
fighting for. The Berlin Wall came down before they were born.
Instead, during their lives they’ve
watched big money take over Washington and state capitals. Which may explain why only about 30 percent of Americans born in
the 1980s think it “essential” to live in a democracy.
Many young people have wondered if their votes count anyway,
because so many of them live in congressional districts and states that are
predictably red or blue.
Given all this, is there any reason
to hope that this huge, diverse, progressive cohort of Americans will vote in
the upcoming midterms?
My answer is, yes.
First, the issues up for grabs
aren’t ideological abstractions for them. They’re causes in which Millennials
have direct personal stakes.
Take, for example, gun violence –
which some of these young people have experienced first-hand and have taken
active roles trying to stop.
Or immigrant’s rights. Over 20 percent of Millennials are Latino, and a growing percent
are from families that emigrated from Asia. Many have directly experienced the
consequences of Trump’s policies.
A woman’s right to choose whether
to have a baby, and gay’s or lesbian’s rights to choose marriage – issues
Millennials are also deeply committed to – will be front and center if the
Supreme Court puts them back into the hands of Congress and state legislatures.
Millennials are also concerned
about student debt, access to college, and opportunities to get ahead unimpeded
by racial bigotry or sexual harassment.
And they’re worried about the
environment. They know climate change will hit them hardest since they’ll be on
the planet longer than older voters.
They’ve also learned that their
votes count. They saw Hillary lose by a relative handful of votes in places
like Michigan, Wisconsin, and Pennsylvania.
They’ve been witnessing razor-thin special elections, such as Conor Lamb’s
win by a few hundred votes in the heart of Pennsylvania Trump country, and Hiral Tipirneni’s single-digit loss in an
Arizona district Trump won by 21 points in 2016.
They know the importance of taking
back governorships in what are expected to be nail-bitingly close races – in
states like Wisconsin, Minnesota, and Kansas. They’re aware of the slim but increasingly real possibility of taking back the Senate. (Who knew Ted Cruz would be so vulnerable? Who even knew the name Beto O’Rourke?)
As doubtful as they these young
people are about politics, or the differences between the two parties, they
also know that Trump and his Republican enablers want to take the nation
backwards to an old, white, privileged, isolated America. Most of them don’t.
In my thirty-five years of teaching
college students, I’ve not encountered a generation as dedicated to making the
nation better as this one.
So you know how groups of animals sometimes have weird names, like a flamboyance of flamingos or a shrewdness of apes? What if we did that with academic disciplines too?
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