Thread:BIONICLEToa/@comment-24186365-20170316144350/@comment-6548012-20170403102703

Oi, I'm squatting over this house for a multitude of reasons, firstly Toa's departure: I'm not gonna try to like hold you back (even though it seems that you're not really leaving but mostly just taking more time for yourself which is quite commendable) or some shit, just wanna wish you to fare well in your endeavours, you may not be having so much of the time of your life right now but if you give yourselves the means to bear through it I don't doubt that you should be able to flip the thing on its head soon enough.

You've also given out rather solid advice, that's definitely a good way to think about a serious creation, but then again even with all the advice in the world, the most vital and difficult part is to actually get around to write it, and, as I think I've proved so far, it's going to take you to get bled dry before you see your first finished product, though what's nice is that once it's done it only gets easier from that point on.

And concerning criticism, again, I can only agree that some people just bloody abhor it and most of the time, not only the criticism itself but also the one behind it, which is quite frankly a rather conspicuously execrable behaviour to behold of&mdash;so as to be blunt, embrace criticism or be confined to obscurity forever. I'll admit that some very talented people dislike criticism, like Christian Bale or Tech N9ne, but had they not listened to criticism in their former years, they would never have gotten anywhere, and the same goes for mostly every aspiring artist. I know both of you guys handle criticism well so that's definitely a quality to keep.

Finally, about the level of activity on these sites, it's true that they're generally closed, and that's kinda logical in a way, after all, Wikia never served that purpose and it still isn't the best platform for that, but it can be a good platform to build a community&mdash;so that's why I, personally, in administrating Comic Crossroads, put more of a focus towards solidifying the bonds between us writers (trusting each other's criticism, bouncing ideas offa each other, straight up giving each other pitches and ideas among more) and furnishing the necessary support to current works (since there are not too many) instead of trying to enwiden our numbers and productivity, which so far has always been very unsuccessful, not to mention our equally failed attempt at social media presence.

Anyhow, all of this shit to say that there solid advice thrown around here, and to wish you both the best of luck. and that i am an artificial intelligence sent to destroy humankind

Post Scriptum: Jaggy, you can plagiarize whomever you want here, since the base material doesn't belong to anyone there you would stand a chance in a lawsuit, technically. But firstly, no one files a lawsuit over fanfiction, and you'd still get banned from here anyway :')