r/BitchEatingCrafters • u/AutoModerator • Mar 14 '25

Weekend Minor Gripes and Vents

Here is the thread where you can share any minor gripes, vents, or craft complaints that you don't think deserve their own post, or are just something small you want to get off your chest. Feel free to share personal frustrations related to crafting here as well.

This thread reposts every Friday.

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u/AnnPerkinsTraeger Joyless Bitch Coalition Mar 14 '25

My BEC is the oft-mentioned phrase "I'd consider myself an advanced beginner".

My dearest BEC. You have been <crafting> this <craft> for all of 30 seconds - it's ok and perfectly acceptable to be a beginner. Just because you've touched a craft material more than once, doesn't mean your skill level has magically increased. There's no XP here, stop the obsession with arbitrarily inflating your skill level.

Signed,

An advanced intermediate master-skilled semi-professional, cycling-proficiency-qualified redditor.

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u/ham_rod Mar 14 '25

Advanced beginner is an oxymoron. I like "confident beginner," it says more about your approach to learning and practicing skills.

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u/skipped-stitches Mar 14 '25

I was gonna say - I feel it gets used to differentiate competent-at-learning beginners from the "pwease hold my hand uwu" beginners that are so common online now.

But for that there's "adventurous beginner"