General pet peeves thread

nyainou thank you for info! I actually had no idea.

RocketShipDown (Apologies for the ping if you didn't want it)

Seeing them as "elaborate adopts" is actually a good way to see it. Something similar to a brand, if that makes sense. 

I also don't engage with CS anymore just because I like having more freedom on my characters as well. I do keep the CS from my friend only 'cause it's fun to have written stuff with my friend using the lore he had for them, but I most likely wouldn't have used CS specific lore if it came from someone else, honestly. (Edit: I forgot the boy in my icon is CS actually, LOL. So I guess he's included in this)

&That's an entirely reasonable concern! This is something that I feel a lot of people are actually concerned about. Things are bound to clash when it comes to ideas, specially since there are millions upon millions of ideas floating out there. That's probably my only concern with CS as well, since these things can be unavoidable. It's a bit unfortunate :<

Seeing as how this thread has caused A LOT of controversy, and i don't want any of my threads to be responsible for doxing and harassment of anyone.

All I can say is, y i k e s

i'm going to either lock or delete this thread soon. If anyone needs to argue, please take it to dms

It's best if you locked/deleted the thread if you're not fond of whatever's going on with it. That happened to me with a certain thread, and I personally don't want to associate myself with it anymore due to controversy.

Anyways re: CS discourse

This isn't a pet peeve, but I recently fell off of them due to... various reasons. I still love my pacapillars, but I've been using them way less than my regular OCs (And I'm already planning on converting three of them into my own personal species). I used to be into Ranebopets as well, and while I still love the species, a fiasco regarding its owner caused me to leave the ARPG for good, and voided all (But one) of my Ranebopets into regular OCs, with Valor turned into a pacapillar.

Also, I'm pretty sure the person (I have him blocked a while ago) arguing about this has written AB/DL (It's on his DA account), and I'm surprised no one brought that up.

(Just a heads up: before anyone tries to view his DA account out of curiosity, a lot of his stuff are marked as mature content, many of which are AB/DL. If you're a minor, don't view any of his stuff labeled as such.)

ETA: I agree with toonalien that arguments are better off elsewhere, preferably in DMs.

+1 with what historical said. If you're not comfortable best to lock/delete.

I gotta learn how to touch type... sick of typing like a luddite

It kinda gets to me when older artists are like "everyone improves at a different rate!" to young artists who're like, kids and teens when they say they're not pleased with their art, but then when a 12-14 yr old is more advanced than they were at that age they're suddenly so mindblown? It just seems idk,,, weird? 

It MAKES SENSE objectively that a lot of teens now have a better chance to be more advanced than you were at that age because when you think about it we have easier access to more and better stuff. (eg. easier access to better and more tutorials and tips, often we have access to better digital art apps and drawing tablets, etc) I get it, it's just like... it's not that mindblowing logically speaking that a 13 year old now has a better chance to advance quicker in art knowledge and skills than a 13 year old did when you were that age.

Secondary kinda related peeve, It also can come across as really condescending and unnecessary when people go "Oh WOW your art is really good for your age!" like... just "Oh wow your art is really good!" would have been fine too? Why do you need to mention the age part? I know it might seem like you're complimenting us on being somehow 'advanced' but it kinda feels more like you're boxing the whole age group into not being good at art and only the few chosen ones that are "really good for their age" are actually any good. Or alternatively it can feel like you're saying "you're not actually that good but you're good if we group you in with THESE people who aren't AS good in my opinion :)"

I know it's not meant to seem like that and maybe I'm just a whiny teen who's reading too much into it but it honestly doesn't feel too good when you stop to think about it.