i haven't made a blogpost in so long and well. lapslock ftw.

over the years i've been on aff/part of the fanfic community, i've also expanded my knowledge in both english and literature in general. someone important has taught me that writing does not consist of purely words but of thought. it is what the writer is trying to convey that matters. i swear to god, if a reviewer is going to give a particular story a terrible grade simply because the writer uses unconventional grammar, re-read the damned story again and see if they're doing it for stylistic purposes.

okay, granted, most--if not all--of us here are amateur writers. we don't think that far. we don't throw in symbolisms and allusions and all that literary jargon in our stories--we simply write because we want to create a universe for our own personal pleasure.

but what about the people who actually try to write for the sake of literature?

i've read so many amazing works--most of them not on aff, unfortunately--and i've played around with several analyses of the stories. symbolism, imagery, diction--i've taken them all into account.

terrible grammar? is it dialect? is it characterization? is it revealing something about the story--about the characters, about the setting, about the time period, about anything?

i'm so ing done with all the reviewers who grade a story based purely on the ing grammar. please, grammar is important, but no one is perfect. impeccable grammar exists somewhere in a completely different dimension.

ing j.d. salinger switched between past and present tenses, okay? he did it to emphasize parts of the catcher in the rye and to show caulfield's desire of staying in the past, but being forcibly thrown into the present and the future.

don't ing give him a 70% because he doesn't use complete sentences, or use commas in the, wrong, places (though technically, commas can be placed anywhere), or because he switched between tenses because who the cares?

honestly, no one sits there and reads a ing story and loves it and then be like, lol wait this person has a punctuation error whoops i don't like this story anymore.

please.

grade on quality. that does NOT mean grammar.

grade on plot.

grade on style--i cant emphasize this enough. writing style is such an important thing. this is the reason people love hemingway and pound.

and im just overall in a bad mood right now.

and im pretty sure this post is filled with hypocrisy, but honestly i dont give a damn anymore.

and please don't even ING GET ME STARTED ON THE REVIEWER'S THIRSTY AND SICK NEED FOR POSTERS. IF YOU WANT TO FEEL ING AESTHETICALLY PLEASED, GO TO AN ART GALLERY. DON'T READ A BOOK.