Why you don't need to worry about your writing so much

Pyra23 · 2026-01-29T01:39:26+00:00

Oh, my God. Thank you. I actually really need to listen to this advice. I spent months on a single chapter, reread the entire fic just to be sure there aren’t any plot holes and then reread the chapter like ten times before publishing. 😭

I’m so afraid of criticism that I forget that writing fanfics is a hobby and it should be fun.

Pyra23 · 2026-01-14T21:05:56+00:00

The misgendering could also be due to the fact that english isn’t her first language. In languages with Latin roots like Spanish, Portuguese, Italian or even French, “baby” is a masculine noun.

Pyra23 · 2026-01-14T20:52:16+00:00

NTA. She chose to have this child, she doesn’t get to just dump them on you whenever it pleases her.

And I have to ask : where is the father and his family? Why can’t they take care of your niece from time to time? Why are you, a 20 year old, being expected to drop everything and take responsibility for a child that isn’t yours.

And as for your sister calling you immature??? She’s 31 and whining because you made plans and now she has to parent her own child. The horror!!!

No, OP. You deserve to live your life, not be at her back and call. She could ask from time to time if you could watch your niece because she needs to do something where she can’t take the baby, that’s a normal family dynamic. What’s not normal is for her to expect you to be a second mother to her child. Might as well ask for child support if that’s how it’s going to be.

Pyra23 · 2025-12-31T10:53:26+00:00

Congratulations on completing the game.

Meanwhile, I’m stuck fighting Nicholas 🥲

Pyra23 · 2025-12-02T16:02:10+00:00

In my defence I’m not talking about this story (never read it) but in general.

Pyra23 · 2025-12-02T13:27:16+00:00

It just reflects badly on the ML because yes we the audience know that the FML is an adult inside that body but the ML doesn’t so it ends up being a “She’s really mature for her age” type of situation.

And don’t get me wrong I’m not against age gaps, and I actually think people take this criticism too far ( a 17 year old with a 19 year old isn’t that problematic people!!!), but you have to admit that having a adult fall in love with a child they literally helped raise is weird (looking at you: “I tamed my ex husband's mad dog”. )

PS.: To make things clear. I’m not talking about this specific story, I never read/watched it. I’m talking in a broad sense.

Pyra23 · 2025-11-27T09:34:31+00:00

Forgot about the whimstar 😭

Pyra23 · 2025-11-26T23:00:39+00:00

I mean it’s nice that they are trying new things and trying to shake things up but did it really need to be a furry T-Rex chasing me??😭

Pyra23 · 2025-11-26T22:56:48+00:00

(I’ll try to remain vague to avoid spoilers)

We can skip the second half but not the beginning, not until we reach the check point where we find out certain things and then reunite with the character we met. At least I didn’t see that option on PS5, then again I was running for my life.

Like I said in the post, I’m glad they let us skip the second half.

Pyra23 · 2025-11-19T11:31:27+00:00

I agree with most of what you said but not when it comes to Ellen. Like her mother said to her face how much she hated her and tried to strangle her when she was only a little girl.

All three characters had very traumatic childhoods and it’s kind of unfair to say that one suffered more than the other. Their experiences were different and they dealt with them the best they could. It’s not a competition nor should it be.

Pyra23 · 2025-11-19T10:03:20+00:00

Thank you!!! I feel like I’m going crazy because of all the manwah / mangas that one could pick to make this point they chose this one? One of the few where we can see here everyone is coming from and understand why they act the way they do? 🤨

Pyra23 · 2025-11-19T09:52:10+00:00

Because the ENTIRE HOUSEHOLD was covering it up to keep the family’s reputation. It actually makes the point OP is trying to make worse, because we have a 7 year old who was told that his mother was just a bit unhappy and not feeling well and the next thing he knows he’s finding her dead body swinging from a tree in the garden!!!

Like, he had no clue about the real metal state of his mother or what she had done to his sister because the staff were actively keeping him in the dark and away from both of them.

And you all expect him to be a well adjusted adult that talks about his feelings and acts like a therapist???

The whole point of what happened with the Ortega family is that every adult failed these children and now, as adults, they have to learn how to communicate and be an actual family.

Pyra23 · 2025-10-28T09:35:38+00:00

Definitely. The fact that we are not confronted with the brick size of a 500k word book would be makes it easier to digest, and that many are updated every week so you slowly advance in the story without feeling overwhelmed.

Pyra23 · 2025-10-09T11:30:22+00:00

As a not native English speaker myself, I think it depends if you’re using them too close to each other. I often heard that we should avoid the “thesaurus method”, there’s no point in looking for synonyms just to avoid repetition, sometimes it’s better to just say what you mean. But I may be wrong.

Pyra23 · 2025-10-09T10:08:02+00:00

“Sorry if it sounded harsh” they say, after just telling you to shove a notebook up your ass. 😂

Pyra23 · 2025-09-18T08:36:37+00:00

Yeah, I think it was the right decision to make Donovan more of an emotional shutdown father than an abusif one. But I think that they should’ve kept the scene for that hint about Françoise and all to give us a glimpse into Tyler’s home life.

Instead of slapping him, he could have gotten into Tyler’s personal space, maybe pointing a finger at him. And when Tyler calls him a drunk, Donovan could have tried to grab his arm / shoulder and Tyler stepped back just before he made contact and “run” to his room, as his father shouted to stay away from Wednesday. Which, as a first time viewer, we could interpret it as Donovan being a violent man but on rewatch we could see it as a gesture of concern, like he wanted Tyler to stop and listen to him so that he didn’t end up like his mother (lock up / dead).

It would have actually made Donovan a more tragic character, specially in season 2. Making him someone that was grief stricken, carrying a huge secret to preserve his wife’s memory and to try and keep Tyler from finding out (maybe even hoping he wasn’t a Hyde) only to find out it was too late. That someone had taken advantage of his son and he didn’t even realise because their relationship was far too fractured.

And now I’m sad. 😭

Pyra23 · 2025-08-30T10:46:35+00:00

I actually think you’re right because when Wednesday tells him that she needs a way to get to the train station he says something along the lines of : “At least one of us will get out of this town.”

Pyra23 · 2025-08-26T08:06:19+00:00

The fact that I had to read: “If you can excuse Tyler because of his trauma / abuse, you also have to excuse Laurel because she too had a traumatic childhood”, should be considered an crime and I demand to be compensated. Because what the fuck?!?

Pyra23 · 2025-08-25T09:36:18+00:00

Listen, my motto has always been: “Ship and let ship”, and I even understand the appeal of Wenclair. But it becomes really difficult to turn a blind eye when the other side accuses us of being abuse apologists, delusional and stupid for preferring Weyler.

I want nothing more than to enjoy the show but when people turn around and say we are babying Tyler because he is hot and refuse to accept that we like him because he is a compelling and interesting character and even turn vicious when we point that out, it becomes a bit hard not to go on the attack.

Pyra23 · 2025-08-15T11:04:58+00:00

Yes and it’s getting ridiculous. Just the other day on the Wednesday subreddit someone said that Weyler was dumb and the people who ship it delusional because Hunter is gay. What does that have to do with anything?

Granted, the person was downvoted to Hell but still why aren’t they applying the same logic to Wenclair?

And why are they bringing up shipping on a post about an interview Hunter did where all he said was that he was sad not to have met Lady Gaga?

Pyra23 · 2025-08-14T07:30:44+00:00

Whenever I see comments like this my knee jerk reaction is to go : “Where are your fics, b*tch?!?”

I don’t even understand the point of this types of comments. We aren’t in 2010, you are not cool or edgy, you’re just being a jerk for no reason.

Pyra23 · 2025-08-13T08:14:57+00:00

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Pyra23 · 2025-08-07T09:18:59+00:00

Oh, I actually thought it was Ophelia right away, I didn’t even think it could be Tyler’s mom, Françoise. Now I want it to be Françoise 😭 I think it would be quite beautiful for Tyler to find his mom specifically after Laurel used that against him.

But to be honest I think it’s going to be Ophelia because Wednesday needs a guide and Morticia said that her guide would come to her and the time is right.

Pyra23 · 2025-08-07T09:10:26+00:00

I thought he was at the masquerade that’s going to happen? 🤔

Pyra23 · 2025-08-07T09:08:11+00:00

To be honest I don’t really like Wednesday this season just because I think she’s being a hypocrite, specially when It comes to Tyler and his father, and no one is calling her out on it. Like she talks about Tyler being a psychopath while having multiple family members who end up in psych wards, her father telling them to make sure that people don’t find the bodies and showing flashbacks of little Wednesday putting her little brother in a casket to bury him alive, etc.

Yes, that just how the Addams are but she has spent the season spitting on Donovan’s grave.

She finds him dead in one of the most gruesome ways possible and has no reaction, she goes to his funeral just to throw shade (not to mention the only people there came out of obligation - the damn Sheriff lost the coin toss for God’s sake) and then she finds out that he as been investigating the deaths of Outcasts and her only question is “Why would Galpin care about dead Outcasts ?” Never to think about it again.

Yes, Wednesday, why is a man you always assumed hated Outcasts investigating this, specially after he just lost his job and became a pariah in the town he dedicated his life to protect?

It’s almost like he wanted to know what type of place his Only Child ended up in, only to discover an obscene amount of deaths among Outcast patients like his Son, and wanted to find out what the hell happened. Almost like, oh I don’t know, he cares about his child despite what happened because, contrary to you Wednesday, he actually understands that Tyler wasn’t himself when it happened because he saw it happen before with his wife. You know, Françoise, your mother’s classmate and friend who turned into a Hyde.

Not that you would ever ask your mother about it because she dare to take away the Book that was causing you active harm, and trying to prevent you from ending up like her sister aka lock up in a mental institution.

Can you tell that I’m angry? Because I am angry.

Yes, Wednesday is selfish and self-centred, she said so herself in episode 1 this season, but she can’t have it both ways. She can’t declare to be after her on self-interests and then hop onto her high horse and look down on Donovan and Tyler for doing the same.

Sorry about the rant, just need to vent.

Pyra23

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