razzisami, posts by tag: feedback - LiveJournal

So, today, I got the first honestly sane* (*not that my other readers aren't sane...just that it's the first one I honestly agree with) comment on CoH, talking about how "after 31 chapters...it feels like you're beating a dead horse with a very large brick" and how the new chapters are "anything but new" and how my plot-hole coverups are "weird/stretched" and the fluff is "very pointless" and "repetitive." Really, the review was a lot nicer than I just made that seem, but I wanted to give it a short version. :P
My reply to her, mostly being gracious someone was honest and explaining why I agree, was very very long. I kind of wish I had saved it, actually.

It was very nice to tell someone about the problems I've run into with this story, mostly because I didn't plan it out at allll really, and thus it's stretched itself out AND moved faster than I wanted. A bizarre and horrible combination, guys.

I pressed send, and as I was going about my other rounds of internet sites to check before I sign off, I was in a lovely mood. Thinking, "Well, I'm glad someone's being honest...this explains not only the drop in comments lately, but why everyone is heroworshipping me. So nice to have a martyr be honest! And, I'm so excited for when I can start my next, well-planned out story." and then, I stumbled upon a PM from a reader I've never heard of...

"Hi, happy valentine!!

How are you?

Am one of your fellow readers and your biggest fan!

I wanna state the obviuse! Your really an amazing author top notch and I aint
just saying that I mean it! What with all the stories you came up with so far!
My favorite ones are the ones about Peach x Bowser! I loved (change of heart)
it’s my personal favorite! am totally in love with that pairing! And knowing
someone finally noticed them and decided to put them together in such a
romantic story! (I couldn’t ask for more!) this story really made my
valentine day awesome!! I even showed this story to all my friends and they
all loved it as well as they loved the pairing! Even though there wore some of
them that didn’t support the pairing gave me positive reviews on it! They
had to! The story is way passed amazing!(is it okay with you?)

Please keep it up! And know this ill be supporting you all the way!!

Thank you, I hope ill be hearing from you soon, I wish you best of luck in
your life!

Your No1 fan Rpj-queen

LONG LIVE KING BOWSER & QUEEN PEACH!!!!!P X B 4- EVER!!!!!"

sweetheart, really.
Can I be rude and say that, just by looking at Deanna's grammar, spelling, and sense of properity I already value her opinion above that of the girl who can't end a sentance without an exclamation mark and can't spell obvious right?
At the same time, Rpj IS a sweetheart. Maybe misguided, probably doesn't realize how repetitive and old my story's gotten, but a sweetheart.

And you know what I thought most after finishing reading it? (I've yet to reply)
I feel like Stephanie Meyer. :P 

Please interpret that as you will. ;)

So today I got an email from nimily regarding a fanfic she wrote in response to this post. I really loved it and still do. C: Mikari is the sweetest girl on the internet, I think.

But anyway, so she forwarded me this review she got on "In Appreciation of Steak"

Review: I wondered why it was so similar to Change of Heart. Wait,
does that mean you and Razzi are friends? I am so jealous right now. I
would be honored to be friends, or even acquaintances with the author
of a masterpeice like that! Lucky... Anyways, I loved how you changed
her responce from Change of Heart. Just for that you are on my
Favorite Authors list, again I say your lucky! =)

:P Besides feeling a bit bad she had her comment hijacked, it's really weird. I mean, it's weird anyway when I google "Razzi" (aw come on, who doesn't google their online name every now and then?) and find like whole forum topics devoted to CoH that I didn't know about.

It's really not that good of a story. The storyline and characters and everything could be so much better....but our fandom I guess gets hungry for fanfics and we don't have a ton to choose from...mine's just the longest.

But still. It's so...bizarre...to get comments from people wanting me to look over something or tell me how good it is or...other things. My "fans" are the sweetest people and I love them to death, but goll is it weird!
And BxP isn't even that big of a fanbase!

My friend on our ebtwisty account is HUGELY popular in the Twilight fandom. Which means that she has like 20 new reviews everyday or whatever. And there's a lot of you guys who are similarly popular in the TLK fandom. 
I'm sure y'all get the same surreal feeling all the time, right?

Mrah. TLKFAA's bugging me.
It's growing like a field of weeds and so if you spend HOURS and HOURS on an upload, it'll only take like four minutes for it to be thrust under a pile of sketches or 15-minute art uploads. Then, if your name isn't very big or you have more of a life than to upload twice a day, when you do upload, you get like no responces. I know this isn't just me, I watch other people too.

I'm not old with TLKFAA enough to do the whole whiny "It's not what it uuuuused to beeee" thing, but...it's kind of...not. 
Bah. Just wanted to say that. Pretty frustrating when after almost a month of devoting all my computer arts time to one picture I get two comments and then people that upload about twice a day and spend hour at MOST on something get three times that...on a bad day. Not very fun for me.

Mah. C'est la vie. At least I'm proud of my picture....that's more than some people can say.

Y'know when someone asks you to draw something and you decide you'll be nice enough to do it? You spend hours on a picture, pouring over refrences, sketching and sketching and working and working until it finally meets your expectations. You might expect something in return (if it's an art trade or something) but often the effort, the hard-work, the valuable time spent...it's all out of love and because you decided to be nice enough to follow along.

Sometimes these situations are even requests. They tell you (occasionally ask nicely) to draw something and you do, occasionally putting your heart into it, going through software failure, art block, and sometimes even electricity failure but still getting it done...because you said you would.

Now I'm an artist who likes feedback. Comments are my favorite thing not because of the little red number but the content...proof I'm making people happy. Proof that my struggle and time is not just for my own personal benifit, but that I make other people smile. And that's often why I suprise (well, I sure did a lot more in the past when I had time than now, but still) artists who I respect- they make me smile and so I want to make them smile. But when miles and miles of land and oceans seperate people, unless you tell them something pleased you, they have no way of knowing.

This (the reason I'm making this commentary into a rant) has happened to me once or twice, but often enough that I realize it's not something I take a liking to. When you spend hours pouring over art for the sake of others, even more painfully one certain person, and you don't hear a word back. On many more than one occasion I have taken requests, art trades, or made suprises and a lot of what propelled me was the reaction I hoped to get. The proof I was making someone's day, as sometimes a simple upload of a smiling simba can make mine, the way a suprise of Razzi can liven my month. And then, when I finally feel like the picture is worthy of the wonderful person I'm making it for, I hear nothing. Nothing.

I get the nice, little email from Brian telling me they accepted it into their art-trades thing but nothing else. Not even a little "thank you". Not in comments, not in favoriting, not even in the little "send a message to the artist?" thing Brian has attached to the art-trade accepting...thing.

Of course the people I love and respect enough to spend hours on pictures for aren't the kind to just shrug off fanart for them like junkmail, of course they appreciate it, but...I'd like to know.

Now I get gushy. I have a horrible habit of waaaay overexaggerating a compliment for someone. I don't want to count how many times I've said something was the most amazing thing in the world, but usually, when I'm caught up in the moment and honestly impressed, to me it feels like it. Good art, whether written, preformed, or drawn gives me a rush that is the reason I gush like I do. I don't expect other people to do that for me.

But honestly! How hard is it to write "thank you"? Or "nice job"? To let someone know that you appreciate them and the hours and trials they spent?

/rant