NGL very tired of having to constantly say "of course people can do what they want [when it comes to writing]" in response to people. Like obviously, creative pursuits are subjective. But sometimes I want to improve my craft, sometimes improving the craft is communal, sometimes I want to discuss writing practices and characterization, and pacing. Any trope or writing device can be amazing and interesting if approached with enough thought and skill, but sometimes I want to discuss why something doesn't work even if it's popular. I think constantly having to reassure people that any writing you ever do is totally fine and good is kind of detrimental to this process. What happened to things like "it's okay to make bad art it's okay for the first draft to suck it's okay for something to need a lot of work".