I didn’t used to understand why authors would be offended over concrit, but then I was telling someone, excitedly, about an AU of mine, and then they suddenly said, “Yeah, but X character wouldn’t act like this, they’d be more like this” following it up by tacking on a passive aggressive, “But this is YOUR AU so you do you”. That completely ruined my good mood. Idk if that was concrit or just rude, though, but I think the point is the same.

ao3commentoftheday:

Constructive criticism (concrit) is given in a way that helps you to improve your story. I don’t see any “improvements” suggested there beyond “don’t write that person like that.” To me, that sounds more like destructive criticism – which isn’t a “thing” but is definitely a feeling. When someone criticises you in a way that just makes you feel utterly destroyed. 

In order for criticism to be constructive, it has to build in some way. It has to help you grow. If all it’s doing is stamping you down, then that person isn’t helping at all. They’re just being a dick.

-Mod Pi

Destructive criticism is most deffintly a thing. Some people are purposely destructive in order to make themselves feel better or feel better about their own work. Some people are just assholes who like hurting others. Others just like tearing down authors because they have no way of being able to write like the author they are criticising so they just attack.

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Panned By Critics, Sci-Fi Film ‘Jupiter Ascending’ Reborn As Ballet

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Panned By Critics, Sci-Fi Film ‘Jupiter Ascending’ Reborn As Ballet