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[pez]

30k words in and I suddenly have second thoughts about one of the character's speaking style.

Last night there was a discussion on stuff on FB, the issues it touched on was quite wide, but it once again highlighted one thing about some people which I hate: entitlement. I'm not talking about how people think they're entitled to own things, have rights, etc (which is also grating), but the sort where someone says "yeah but I did this for free, bent over backwards so that you can enjoy the fruits of my labour, Y U NO RESPECT?"

Er. If I think you're doing it wrong, or if I don't enjoy what you offer, then I don't have any gratitude. If I think you're ultimately only doing it for yourself anyway, but just felt like showing everyone, then I'll thank you if I enjoyed your work, but only then. If I sewed a dress for myself and showed it to everyone, do I throw a fit if they don't like it and say they ought to thank me for the visual pleasure?

Weirdoes.

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With scans, I suppose at least usually the aim of scanning is to share. It's more annoying when the original aim of doing something was just for themselves, for example if they enjoy photography and went and took some photos of a sunset. Then when they share it, they say "look, I took time out of my life to do this, why aren't you thankful" and I think "because you did it for yourself, not for me..."