Thanks for commenting, I'm glad it makes sense. I thought it was going to be longer than this but I think it says everything I need to say right now.
Looking back I am really not happy with my younger self at all, because I remember thinking "isn't this kind of mean?" but I reminded myself of all the things they were doing with canon and I didn't do anything about it. Mocking the canon errors and bad writing was easy, trying to be constructive would have taken effort. (And I thought - and still think - it's really hard to give some fics concrit because there is so much in them that could be improved, and you need to break it to the author gently without completely disheartening them.) I remember Nen's MSTs, they were entertaining because they pointed out how silly the mental images were and by the end of the MST the story was completely different to the actual fic. But I say that as someone who's never had a fic MSTed and in the end it doesn't help the author become a better writer.
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Looking back I am really not happy with my younger self at all, because I remember thinking "isn't this kind of mean?" but I reminded myself of all the things they were doing with canon and I didn't do anything about it. Mocking the canon errors and bad writing was easy, trying to be constructive would have taken effort. (And I thought - and still think - it's really hard to give some fics concrit because there is so much in them that could be improved, and you need to break it to the author gently without completely disheartening them.) I remember Nen's MSTs, they were entertaining because they pointed out how silly the mental images were and by the end of the MST the story was completely different to the actual fic. But I say that as someone who's never had a fic MSTed and in the end it doesn't help the author become a better writer.