[Image is a page from the Book ‘How The Grinch Stole Christmas,’ showing the Grinch looking very pleased. His finger is up in an ‘a-hah!’ gesture, and a spiky aura is emanating from him. Text reads, “Then he got an idea! An awful idea! The Grinch got a wonderful, awful idea!”
This has always baffled me. I… guess I never absorbed the idea that my food preferences are inherently funny?
I mean, I don’t mind being laughed at all, I like weird food and dislike normal food all the time, but… can someone explain the joke?
The joke is that it’s popular opinion that steak tastes best when it’s medium rare or rare and that if you like it well-done then you’re ‘ruining’ the meat and have bad taste in food.
It’s basically just food snobbery tbh. Most people just joke about it and mean nothing by it but there are plenty of people who get genuinely really mad and offended if you like well-done steak.
The funny thing about it to me is when I was a kid and had sensory issues with food to the point of being super picky, I ordered everything well done and no one made fun of me. Now that I trained myself to tolerate medium well (because of that whole “too much charring is a carcinogen” thing) I see people mock it all the time.
And I’m just sort of “??? why were you not bullying wee Fiercelet ???”
I mean, I’m glad of it, wee Fiercelet would have taken it to heart and I’ll just eat everything the rare meat likers don’t want. 😉 but I’m still kind of “…where did this come from”
Me, I do mind this. Not from people I know, who I tease back about eating their food raw, but the joke here, where I’m a bad person who is unwelcome because I have a food preference others don’t share? And actively go hungry if the meat’s too rare for me to choke down (I too have trained myself to tolerate medium well now, and even appreciate it. For me it’s a flavor thing more than a texture thing.) That hits me at a vulnerable place.
This is by way of saying thanks for sharing that you also have this preference and don’t get the hate about it.
People think that you can cover up the difference between a cheap steak and an expensive one by cooking it for longer. Steak is a middle class luxury item, so they get really invested in that price difference.
If your steak isn’t as tender as possible, you aren’t appreciating the money they spent enough. How rude of you.
Welcome to another “my best friend and I send each other headcanons” this time featuring the Batman Lego Movie somehow followed by a discussion of Talia? I don’t know how that happened
I think one caveat to how people are searching is that it happens a lot when people are new to a fandom or new to fic for that fandom. It’s an easy way to read the “fandom classics” as it were. But once people have been in a fandom for a while, they know to search for certain fandom-specific tags or ships. And of course, when you’re really in it deep, you look at the stories that were posted since the last time you logged in, like 4 hours ago 🙂
If you want more exposure, some ways to do it are to join fandom exchanges or other events. Those fics tend to get promoted more and have special tags associated with them. That gives a newer writer more exposure than they’d have on their own, and it also introduces you to more writers which will also increase your chances for exposure
I always search by “most recently updated.”
I guess looking at kudos would be helpful if you like popular tropes. Its never been very helpful for me.
I search by tags and characters, or authors I like’s bookmarks.
‘the office type’ is a game in development you’ll be hearing about a lot. its transphobic garbage. it heavily implies you have to be pansexual to date trans people, it calls non-binary a ‘third gender’ and their current representation of NB people is what appears to be a 50/50 male/female mix.
the devs themselves refuse to listen to these legitimate concerns. i tried talking to them about it on twitter and instead of acknowledging that i, an actual IRL non-binary person, found their current actions to be transphobic, they just kept arguing with me like a bunch of children instead of saying something a simple as ‘we’re sorry to hear that, we’ll do better’
i highly recommend you stay away from that game or you at least hope that they listen to the actual concerns of trans people and make changes.
While the “three genders” thing is a legitimate issue, the devs did say there are going to be many more nonbinary characters that are going to be more diverse in presentation than the two that they’ve shown.
Also I didn’t see any implications of you have to be pan to date a trans person, I just saw people asking if there was going to be trans representation, which the devs assured them there was going to be trans representation.
People really seem to be excited for this game and excited to be represented, but we’ve only seen 6 out of the 24 dateable characters. We don’t know what the rest of the nonbinary chars are gonna look like, and as a trans person myself, I’m excited to know that the guy who played Damien in Dream Daddy is going to be involved with this project as well.
I @’ed the devs on Twitter, asking if they had a release planned since… You pick 1 character from each set of 3 office supplies, and there’s 8 sets, so that’s gonna be a lot of writing especially if there’s story elements where 2 characters will have to have a conversation (and the personality traits given suggest that they’re not just variations of the same character, but different altogether).
They responded with this:
Which seems pretty promising to me at least, they seem to be quite responsive as the game’s early in development, too early for them to project a release date.
I think it’s way too early to write off this game, we should be patient for more information to be released before formulating an opinion.
Thank god some people are bringing up good shit about this game because I’m 100% tired of things being ‘problematic’ when we know next to nothing about them.
Okay. Is this whole thing a complicated joke? Because I’m been searching Google, and the only mentions of this game and company are Tumblr posts.
Like, why can’t I find any company webpage? Or even the Twitter those screencaps are from?
This is a snapshot of the results of the kudos poll at 2500 respondents. A couple of things to note:
There are 209 other interpretations for kudos. These range from “I’m too shy to comment.” to “You wrote a smut and now I can’t talk.” to “I’m on an inconvenient device for commenting.” to “I read things in bed and fall asleep without commenting.” In each of those cases, the kudos were meant as a compliment and a thanks in place of a comment.
Another stat to look at is the 248 people who use kudos because the fic wasn’t good enough for a comment. I know that a lot of writers have this opinion, but only 9.9% of all respondents admitted to it. And when you count people who identified themselves as readers (as opposed to writers or both)? Only 1.7% of them feel that way.
And in case you’re wondering how many readers answered the poll?
1,067
If you haven’t taken the poll and you want your voice heard, you can find it here.
Image transcriptions under the cut. Thanks to @kiragecko for reminding me about the importance of accessibility.
A lot of authors have similar thoughts, although the ratio changes based on author and fandom. I certainly have a tendency to think that way myself.
But then I wrote a one-shot that I thought sucked. A friend convinced me to post it anyway, and the kudos went (for me) through the roof. That was when I realized that 1) I really do not know what people want/like at all and 2) my judgement of what’s “good enough” is very different from my readers’ judgement of what’s “good enough”
I’ve been trying to revise my thinking lately. Instead of focusing on how many comments/kudos I didn’t get, I try to focus on how many I did get. Each one of them represents someone wanting to tell me they liked my fic, and that’s not nothing.
Don’t be so hard on yourself. And please don’t remove the stories from your page. The people who did kudos liked that story, and they might want to read it again someday. Your call, but I think they’d appreciate having it stick around.
How are you measuring your 1:10 ratio, though? Because I often visit a page 5 times while reading a chapter, closing it after every attempt, just because my brain doesn’t always let me read. Are you sure that you’re really measuring 1 kudo per 10 people?
kiragecko 