Cherith

Editor-in-Chief at GamingAngels.com, Business Analyst, Writer, Knitter, Knitting Instructor, Reader, Gamer, Music Lover and Artist. Not necessarily in that order, and rarely all at once.

Most likely, here on Tumblr, you're going to see a ridiculous amount of anything Dragon Age, Mass Effect, Assassin's Creed, DC Comics and Doctor Who. And other myriad geek culture things.

I created the Dragon Age and Mass Effect random pairing/prompt generators and LOVE to see what writing or art people come up with after using them. I also run Dragon Age Drabbles on Tumblr to give people daily prompts.

I'm Cherith on LiveJournal and DreamWidth, AO3 and @Cherithe on Twitter. I've also got a fair amount of drabble fic type posts here on Tumblr for random things (mostly Dragon Age).  You can read them here, provided all the tags work properly.  :D

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~ Friday, January 27 ~
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passion and popularity

minorearth:

Rambling today, because I’ve been thinking about this sort of thing all week.

There’s always some kind of discussion/vague argument going around about writing/creating for yourself versus creating for an audience. There are those who say “you should always create for yourself! If you’re not, you’re doing it totally wrong!” And there are those who say “When you’re an artist, of course you’re creating for an audience, it’s a human urge to want acknowledgement for the things you create!” As with pretty much every argument everywhere, my feelings about this have come to lie somewhere in the middle of these two. (It’s the eternal curse of being a Libra: always occupying the middle ground, never getting the pleasure of feeling righteous about one side or another. Heh.)

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Smart words from a smart lady.

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  1. tamlane reblogged this from serindrana
  2. lifeofkj reblogged this from brbfade and added:
    This, so much all of this. I try not to compare myself to others: their review counts, their hit counts, their likes and...
  3. coppermarigolds reblogged this from minorearth and added:
    ^ Perfect summary of why that “Alistair never loved you” stuff bothers me so much. (Even aside from the fact that it’s...
  4. tysfish reblogged this from maeveschild and added:
    Skimmed the original argument (bad girl, sorry) but here you go. -Popularity can and usually will warp your sense of...
  5. talldarkbishoujo reblogged this from ademska and added:
    It’s cool, and I think I see where the conversation got off the rails now. Very, very rarely do I talk about specific...
  6. maybethings reblogged this from minorearth and added:
    I work with writing, but I was trained as...designer. If art speaks, mine has
  7. ademska reblogged this from talldarkbishoujo and added:
    we’re not at cross-purposes here. i said in some earlier reblog (during the complaining-on-the-internet clusterfuck that...
  8. brbfade reblogged this from serindrana and added:
    This is it exactly....feel like many (most? all?) people who battle this kind of...
  9. talldarkbishoujo reblogged this from ademska and added:
    Here’s the thing. I’ve been involved in fandom for a very, very long time. I’ve seen fandoms come and go, big ones,...
  10. iapetusneume reblogged this from cherith and added:
    more. RE the boulded: Back when I started writing for Dragon Age, I was crippled by this fear eluded to in the post. I...
  11. greytaliesin reblogged this from ademska and added:
    Agreeing with ademska here. Yet again: this isn’t a matter of big name fans (and I know some popular people who are by...
  12. maeveschild reblogged this from historymiss and added:
    Now that I get the gist of this, I honestly want to know if what someone perceives as “then take your toys and go home”...
  13. ademska reblogged this from anlamasanda and added:
    big flaw in this argument...that not receiving...or hits or...
  14. historymiss reblogged this from anlamasanda and added:
    You make some good points! I did confuse ‘doing it for the recognition’ with ‘caring about recognition’- they are quite...
  15. hobovampire reblogged this from serindrana
  16. anlamasanda reblogged this from historymiss and added:
    “Doing it for the recognition” isn’t the same as “caring about recognition”, though, and all too often “just do it for...
  17. serindrana reblogged this from flutiebear and added:
    In my experience, it’s quite possible (and very, very unpleasant) to both know that the competitive model is worthless...
  18. chileancarmenere reblogged this from minorearth and added:
    I just got home and found...shit-ton of debate on
  19. talldarkbishoujo reblogged this from historymiss and added:
    Congrats, you are literally the first person I’ve seen make that argument in that circumstance. Cake and balloons for...
  20. maeveschild reblogged this from barbeauxbot and added:
    Someone help me out here…what is this argument about? Pimping your work or being proud of yourself for being popular or...
  21. barbeauxbot reblogged this from maeveschild and added:
    A Big Name Fan. And in a fandom where the BIG NAMES get to do collaborations with the actual producers, e.g. Aimo and...
  22. maeveschild reblogged this from historymiss
  23. historymiss reblogged this from talldarkbishoujo and added:
    Hi. All my work on AO3 has, on average, 15-20 hits (mainly from...I know. My tumblr fic...
  24. greytaliesin reblogged this from flutiebear and added:
    Yes, this exactly. I’m feeling pretty inarticulate today and need to learn when to shut my mouth, but as long as someone...
  25. flutiebear reblogged this from talldarkbishoujo and added:
    should even answer...at all. But perhaps it might add
  26. talldarkbishoujo reblogged this from ademska and added:
    I don’t think you’re understanding what I’m saying, tbh. I’m not talking about hovering over a tracking number every day...
  27. ademska reblogged this from talldarkbishoujo and added:
    it has to become a matter of pragmatism at some point though, doesn’t it? i mean, i’m not going to insist that people...
  28. cherith reblogged this from flutiebear and added:
    I wish I was in a place right now where I could write more completely about this, other than to say how much I agree...
  29. coppermarigolds reblogged this from minorearth and added:
    Very thought-provoking post....this issue too. Like you, in one
  30. flutiebear reblogged this from serindrana and added:
    It’s human to wonder, sure, in that I suppose all emotional responses are human....what’s...
  31. withrevolutionarycries reblogged this from talldarkbishoujo
  32. maeveschild reblogged this from coppermarigolds and added:
    when this keeps appearing...title as “passion...poultry” and...
  33. talldarkbishoujo reblogged this from serindrana and added:
    What chaps my ass about this entire argument is I only ever see people being chastised for caring about this kind of...
  34. missl0nelyhearts reblogged this from flutiebear and added:
    useful. especially if...a world, a fandom, where
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