Well, this really blows.

Argh. Chel chel got me hooked on Love the Way You Lie. TT_TT This is not fair. It's too awesome. ARGH. It's gonna get stuck in my mind for the rest of the week. (>_<)

Anyway. I GOT FEATUUURED. X3 I was so happy. I mean, it felt like what I wrote was really appreciated. See, I don't force my work down other peoples' throats. If they stumble upon it, and they like it, then yay. But I won't go around asking them to read it, assuring they'll love it. I'm not like that. Yes, you might say I have no right to say my work is under-appreciated if I don't take the initiative to get it noticed, but fuck you.

KIDDING. XD I won't be defensive today. Well, not much. Haha. Anyway. I am taking a sort of initiative. I have a dA account, and since dA is teeming with thousands of awesome artists, I guess that's good enough.

I'm actually more comfortable putting up my work where strangers (artists, yes, but strangers nonetheless) would have the freedom to judge, instead of going through the crushing awkwardness of letting it fall under the scrutiny of people I actually know, and who know ME. I mean. They'd read it, and their view of it would be clouded by how they view me. And then they'd judge ME by how they read it.

The most likely reactions would be

"God, she uses SUCH big words."

"Why do her sentences, like, NEVER end?"

"She's SOO emotional. KSP."

and, of course, the one that will piss me off the most:

"I don't GET it."

SERIOUSLY.

People, stop thinking so fucking LITERALLY. Stop freaking out when I use out-of-this-world metaphors and words you never knew how to spell right and PROPER GRAMMAR. That's how I write.

This is why I like having my work critiqued by artists, and not looked on by my peers. Because those artists will view my work with an artistic view, and they will understand for the most part, and they will have no prior bias based on knowledge of my personality. My peers will not.

It's also why few people know that I write. I don't feel like telling them unless I know that a) they'll never judge me or b) they'll criticize it PROPERLY.

Examples of what, to me at least, is a proper critique:

"You missed out on a period in the second stanza-- or was that just me?"

"Whoops, I think you spelled ~~~~~ wrong, in the second line of your third verse."

"As for me, I don't really agree with the entire view of the piece -- however, it made good use of ~~~~~~"

"I especially like the line/s ~~~~~~~ because ~~~~~~~"

"I don't see too much emotion in this one, unlike your other pieces, but maybe that's only because ~~~"
"You really captured the ~~~~"

etc.

Jesus Christ, people. What the hell.

~ to be continued.

Edit: It has been continued! Looky.