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Don't Gimme That.
a month ago
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I've had a couple of people criticize me for writing pieces that often involve Kajex (my fursona) as opposed to more original pieces. I have three things to respond with, depending on the severity of the criticism:
1. It's not my fault if I'm commissioned to write more about my characters. The customer gets what the customer pays for. I even bring it up to them, saying that they don't -have- to involve my characters, that it feels a little unusual to be paid to write pieces that involve them, yet they still do.
2. Kajex is my go-to for when I don't have another character to really use. It's as much a handle as it is an OC, but not something I necessarily aspire to or see myself as. Call it a self-insert, if you want, but if I put anyone else in I doubt they would generate the same effect.
3. Go fuck yourself. No, seriously. Go fuck yourself. Buy a Thor and give yourself the Vlad Tepes treatment. Because if you had the talent and self-confidence to write what you wanted, and it wasn't being sold for anything but pennies, you'd inject your own ass into the fiction. Don't pretend that you wouldn't, because that's a fucking lie.
1. It's not my fault if I'm commissioned to write more about my characters. The customer gets what the customer pays for. I even bring it up to them, saying that they don't -have- to involve my characters, that it feels a little unusual to be paid to write pieces that involve them, yet they still do.
2. Kajex is my go-to for when I don't have another character to really use. It's as much a handle as it is an OC, but not something I necessarily aspire to or see myself as. Call it a self-insert, if you want, but if I put anyone else in I doubt they would generate the same effect.
3. Go fuck yourself. No, seriously. Go fuck yourself. Buy a Thor and give yourself the Vlad Tepes treatment. Because if you had the talent and self-confidence to write what you wanted, and it wasn't being sold for anything but pennies, you'd inject your own ass into the fiction. Don't pretend that you wouldn't, because that's a fucking lie.
I can't really imagine why people would feel valid in critiquing your choice to write about your character. I don't think that anyone who has actually laid down as many words on the page as yourself would ever open their mouths and say such a thing. Writing well, meaningfully, and at length is not easy.
Such a criticism isn't coming from a place of understanding or accomplishment.
I eventually moved on to my own other OCs, but people can sit and spin if they don't like me using them.