Board Thread:Roleplaying/@comment-43779122-20200209203959/@comment-35757757-20200209214642

(PLEASE JUST LISTEN

Look, try to imagine yourself like this:

Imagine that you put almost a year into writing one story. You took the time to rewrite it over and over again. In the end, you end up with a satisfying finished product that you can say is good. However, then you end up seeing someone moping around about how people are trying to give them advice to help them improve at writing [keep in mind that the people don't have to help. They're just trying to be nice and helpful, so they go out of their way to give helpful advice] and seeming to not even listen as they just go "oooohhh it's soooo hard and I could never improve even if barely anybody is born great at things and it's through practice, effort, and CRITICISM that they improve and get to where they are. Oh, woe is me! I have a character and people pointed out problems with them that could keep others from enjoying the character and the story because of glaring issues, but I'm just going to ignore it and tell them to shut up because we all know that if you have a disease you shouldn't go to a doctor and should instead just ignore it instead!", and then when you try to help them they never actually take it into account and insetad just go on about how sad they are and how they think that improvement is a bad thing when that goes against what improvement even means, and also how they refuse to change anything about their characters because it's "too hard" even when it'd be easier and much better for them to just listen and take the criticsm into account and TRY. And instead of actually acknoweledging what you say, they just find something to mope about in your wall of advice and don't seem to pay attention to anything else. Therefore, you wasted your time trying to be a good and helpful person and it SLOWLY DRIVES YOU INSANE-

That's honestly how this is starting to feel for me.

See? Wouldn't YOU be frustrated in a similar situation?)