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If you ever feel like you don't contribute to fandom because you "only" comment—

A regular serial commenter just joined a fandom Discord server I'm on and people are coming out of the woodwork to thank her for her service to the fandom, expressing how much joy her comments on their works bring them.

Remember—they're never only comments.

#notbingo #commenting

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someone I follow on the bird app just announced they're starting a very exclusive private fic server because they and a bunch of other people want to talk about how much they love the fics they're reading, and as an author can I just say that a really great place to talk about a fic you love is in the comments for that fic

I understand that people are trying to create safe spaces, but as the number of comments that I get on my fics dwindles with each passing year, knowing these spaces exist where my fics are being discussed, places that I am excluded from, makes me want to write fic LESS

I mean I guess who cares, right, because if I stop writing, there's 10,000 other people that will continue...but if you participate in a fic "book club" server and you say nice things there about a fic you loved, maybe copy and paste that into a comment on AO3?

the only thing fanfic writers are asking for in return for hours of hard work is attention. please don't rob us of the one thing that we hope for when we hit "post"

#commenting #notbingo

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You should know that every time you leave a comment on a fic you’re giving the fic writer a little treat.

#notbingo #commenting

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Roswell, New Mexico may be over, but fandoms are forever. You can now play RNM Bingo any time of the year, at your own pace!

Looking for the 2023 Rules? Click here!

How To Keep Playing Comment Bingo in 3 Easy Steps

Choose a bingo card: Your format options are Google Doc or PNG. Within those, you have 3 layout options that all have the same squares, just arranged differently (and each of those have three cute backgrounds, so pick your favorite!) (“there has to be three,” as Max says).

Fill out your card: use your bingo card to track what RNM works you’ve read and commented on, including author and title. As you go, keep a list of the links to share as a rec post on Tumblr.

Post or submit on Tumblr: Use the tag #rnmbingo and mention @rnmbingo on your own Tumblr, or Submit a bingo card to us directly. Instant and cute Fic Rec board!

How to Play: The Detailed Version

We’ve got Bingo cards in Google Doc and PNG formats. Thank you to @bean-me-up for the amazing designs and the whole mod team for the fun prompts. [Link to all bingo boards]

How to fill in the bingo card:

Google Docs version (screen reader accessible):

Copy one of the nine card options out of the “format: doc” folder in this Google Drive [Link to all bingo boards] into your preferred text editing software.

Fill in the author/title of the works as you comment. Feel free to redesign the cards to make it your own, as long as the info is the same

Link the works on your Bingo card (how to).

Share your final card by posting it to Tumblr as a screenshot or as a viewable link to your Google Doc, with links to each work provided either under a Read More or as hyperlinks (as in this example). More instructions for non-tumblr users under Posting the Bingo Card.

PNG version:

Download one of the nine card options in the “format: png” folder here: [Link to all bingo boards].

Fill in the author/title of your works as you comment using an image editor (Canva, Photoshop, MS Paint, etc.). Feel free to redesign the cards or make your own, as long as the info is the same. We’d love to see and share them!

Include a link to each work you comment on under a Read More. A direct link to the comment must be provided if you commented somewhere other than archiveofourown.org.

Share your final card by posting it to Tumblr with links to each work under a Read More. More instructions for non-tumblr users under Posting the Bingo Card.

Posting the Bingo Card:

Tumblr users: Share your completed bingo card on your own Tumblr and mention us at @rnmbingo. Use the hashtag #rnmbingo so others can find your posts.

Non-Tumblr users: If you don’t have a Tumblr, we still want you to participate. Just submit your bingo card as a Submission to https://rnmbingo.tumblr.com/submit.

Questions?

Check our answered asks, some of our how to bingo posts, or message @rnmbingo on Tumblr.

As always, this concept and these rules are fair game for you to take and re-use for any fandom or event. If you want to take over running the RNM Comment Bingo as an actual event, please message this blog or @maeglinthebold

#rnmbingo #reblog

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ao3 comments will be like “i like this line of your fic” and my reply will be like “fantastic thank you here’s my entire thought process about how i ended up with that particular line and also an outline for another fic i have and fifteen resources i used to research 1980s politics” and nobody asked for that chill

#notbingo #commenting

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A COMINT !!

#commenting #notbingo

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Welcome to Feedback Fest 2024

February 15th's International Fanworks Day is almost here, and OTW is launching another event today. Come leave 10 fandom recs at Feedback Fest or post here and tag your posts with #IFD2024. Read more at https://otw.news/nya

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#feedback fest #notbingo

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👽 Submit your RNM Fic Recs to RNM Comment Bingo! 👽

Now every day is Roswell, New Mexico Comment Bingo!

Choose a board, comment on some fics, get a bingo (or not! lol), and share it with us! We'll reblog it so new and old fans see your fanwork recommendations.

You can rec podfics, art, and non-AO3 fics, too! More info here.

🎉Thanks to all those who played Comment Bingo in 2021, 2022, and 2023! 🥳Thanks to those who created prizes for our winners! 🎉Thanks to the mods and the gif makers for the event! 🥳Thanks to all those who reblogged our posts and provided fics for us to read and comment on!

Please keep the game circulating!

Questions? Ask @rnmbingo

Never got your prize? Message @maeglinthebold

Want to host RNM Comment Bingo as a proper Event, again? Ask @rnmbingo or @maeglinthebold.

Want to join a RNM Discord? Hang out with most of the mods of this event here: https://discord.gg/fQSk94j79J

#rnmbingo #reblog

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deadass should i comment on like YEARS old fics i get nervous to i dont wanna be annoying

Yes! Comment!

The author will likely really appreciate it! And if they don’t nothing will come of it!

It’s a win/win!

#commenting #notbingo

[rnmbingo]

Roswell, New Mexico may be over, but fandoms are forever. You can now play RNM Bingo any time of the year, at your own pace!

Looking for the 2023 Rules? Click here!

How To Keep Playing Comment Bingo in 3 Easy Steps

Choose a bingo card: Your format options are Google Doc or PNG. Within those, you have 3 layout options that all have the same squares, just arranged differently (and each of those have three cute backgrounds, so pick your favorite!) (“there has to be three,” as Max says).

Fill out your card: use your bingo card to track what RNM works you’ve read and commented on, including author and title. As you go, keep a list of the links to share as a rec post on Tumblr.

Post or submit on Tumblr: Use the tag #rnmbingo and mention @rnmbingo on your own Tumblr, or Submit a bingo card to us directly. Instant and cute Fic Rec board!

How to Play: The Detailed Version

We’ve got Bingo cards in Google Doc and PNG formats. Thank you to @bean-me-up for the amazing designs and the whole mod team for the fun prompts. [Link to all bingo boards]

How to fill in the bingo card:

Google Docs version (screen reader accessible):

Copy one of the nine card options out of the “format: doc” folder in this Google Drive [Link to all bingo boards] into your preferred text editing software.

Fill in the author/title of the works as you comment. Feel free to redesign the cards to make it your own, as long as the info is the same

Link the works on your Bingo card (how to).

Share your final card by posting it to Tumblr as a screenshot or as a viewable link to your Google Doc, with links to each work provided either under a Read More or as hyperlinks (as in this example). More instructions for non-tumblr users under Posting the Bingo Card.

PNG version:

Download one of the nine card options in the “format: png” folder here: [Link to all bingo boards].

Fill in the author/title of your works as you comment using an image editor (Canva, Photoshop, MS Paint, etc.). Feel free to redesign the cards or make your own, as long as the info is the same. We’d love to see and share them!

Include a link to each work you comment on under a Read More. A direct link to the comment must be provided if you commented somewhere other than archiveofourown.org.

Share your final card by posting it to Tumblr with links to each work under a Read More. More instructions for non-tumblr users under Posting the Bingo Card.

Posting the Bingo Card:

Tumblr users: Share your completed bingo card on your own Tumblr and mention us at @rnmbingo. Use the hashtag #rnmbingo so others can find your posts.

Non-Tumblr users: If you don’t have a Tumblr, we still want you to participate. Just submit your bingo card as a Submission to https://rnmbingo.tumblr.com/submit.

Questions?

Check our answered asks, some of our how to bingo posts, or message @rnmbingo on Tumblr.

As always, this concept and these rules are fair game for you to take and re-use for any fandom or event. If you want to take over running the RNM Comment Bingo as an actual event, please message this blog or @maeglinthebold

#rnmbingo #reblog

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No one reblogs on tumblr anymore.

No one leaves comments on Ao3 anymore.

Seriously people the lack of fandom interaction these days makes me genuinely depressed, it never used to be like this, makes me wonder what's the point of coming online to do anything anymore.

Reblog a post so other people can see it.

Leave a comment so the author doesn't feel like giving up.

Fandom cannot live on Likes or Kudos alone.

#notbingo #commenting

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Speaking of AO3 authors wanting more comments and/or perception biases (I assume, since these are a perennial discussion, that someone spoke of one of them recently XD), I was reading a new WIP fic for an ongoing tv show and the author was talking in their author's note about how much engagement had gone down in the fandom for season 2 compared to season 1. By the time I got caught up in the story and left a comment, I noticed they had dozens of comments per chapter, way more than any of the season 1 fics I'd read, and I was like, huh.

Then I clicked into their profile and saw their season 1 fic had *tens of thousands* of kudos and multiple thousands of comments, and all made sense. They stumbled into BNFdom or at least virality and thought that was more or less the default state.

They're going to be chasing that high forever, poor thing; those numbers come about via alchemy and mercury being in gatorade, more than anything else.

--

I see a lot of odd comments about fandom from people who hit Harry Potter at just the right moment. They're expecting to recreate that experience where you can write largely original fic about those kids from the other school or that random classmate who is little more than a name and form a whole fandom subsection around it. Sure, I've seen that other times, but it was always... like... Naruto fandom or something.

And then these poor people get into a normal fandom and it's 99% a ship or two of leads and the overall size and duration of even that is limited. "Where did [that energy/side character stans/etc.] gooo?" they cry. But they didn't go anywhere. This is just what fandoms more typically look like.

#notbingo #commenting

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I hate the whole discourse of: "fanfic writers need to accept criticism so they can improve". Look, I did not post 5k of men blowing their loads so that I can become Hemingway or something, just don't read it if you don't want to, or do read it and drop your damn thanks in the tin.

#commenting #notbingo

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If you are hesitant to comment on AO3 because it's just fanfic and it probably doesn't matter to the writers, know that I got a one word comment ("Beautiful") on a fic nobody ever has bothered reading before and it made my night. Merry Christmas to me! Seriously, though, comments feel so good to writers! Please feed us! We're hungry!

#commenting

[rnmbingo]

Roswell, New Mexico may be over, but fandoms are forever. You can now play RNM Bingo any time of the year, at your own pace!

Looking for the 2023 Rules? Click here!

How To Keep Playing Comment Bingo in 3 Easy Steps

Choose a bingo card: Your format options are Google Doc or PNG. Within those, you have 3 layout options that all have the same squares, just arranged differently (and each of those have three cute backgrounds, so pick your favorite!) (“there has to be three,” as Max says).

Fill out your card: use your bingo card to track what RNM works you’ve read and commented on, including author and title. As you go, keep a list of the links to share as a rec post on Tumblr.

Post or submit on Tumblr: Use the tag #rnmbingo and mention @rnmbingo on your own Tumblr, or Submit a bingo card to us directly. Instant and cute Fic Rec board!

How to Play: The Detailed Version

We’ve got Bingo cards in Google Doc and PNG formats. Thank you to @bean-me-up for the amazing designs and the whole mod team for the fun prompts. [Link to all bingo boards]

How to fill in the bingo card:

Google Docs version (screen reader accessible):

Copy one of the nine card options out of the “format: doc” folder in this Google Drive [Link to all bingo boards] into your preferred text editing software.

Fill in the author/title of the works as you comment. Feel free to redesign the cards to make it your own, as long as the info is the same

Link the works on your Bingo card (how to).

Share your final card by posting it to Tumblr as a screenshot or as a viewable link to your Google Doc, with links to each work provided either under a Read More or as hyperlinks (as in this example). More instructions for non-tumblr users under Posting the Bingo Card.

PNG version:

Download one of the nine card options in the “format: png” folder here: [Link to all bingo boards].

Fill in the author/title of your works as you comment using an image editor (Canva, Photoshop, MS Paint, etc.). Feel free to redesign the cards or make your own, as long as the info is the same. We’d love to see and share them!

Include a link to each work you comment on under a Read More. A direct link to the comment must be provided if you commented somewhere other than archiveofourown.org.

Share your final card by posting it to Tumblr with links to each work under a Read More. More instructions for non-tumblr users under Posting the Bingo Card.

Posting the Bingo Card:

Tumblr users: Share your completed bingo card on your own Tumblr and mention us at @rnmbingo. Use the hashtag #rnmbingo so others can find your posts.

Non-Tumblr users: If you don’t have a Tumblr, we still want you to participate. Just submit your bingo card as a Submission to https://rnmbingo.tumblr.com/submit.

Questions?

Check our answered asks, some of our how to bingo posts, or message @rnmbingo on Tumblr.

As always, this concept and these rules are fair game for you to take and re-use for any fandom or event. If you want to take over running the RNM Comment Bingo as an actual event, please message this blog or @maeglinthebold

#rnmbingo

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“why would you write fics for small, unpopular fandoms? you’re not gonna reach that many hits in fandoms not many people know about” ?? because I’m not writing fics for hits or kudos, I’m writing them for me because these characters are my blorbos and I have so many ideas, so much thoughts about them that my brain might explode if I don’t write them out.

#notbingo #rnm is a small fandom but we love it

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Maybe it's just me, but one reason I love getting comments on Ao3 that point out details of the fic that the commenter liked, is that for a moment it lets me see the fic through their eyes

Like, I have a pretty big self-criticism problem, like usually within 24 hours of posting a thing, be it a drawing or a fic or whatever, I start finding more flaws than good sides in it and feeling that actually it's a pile of shit, utterly pointless and bad and thoroughly unlikable. I know this is my issue, and something I need to work on, btw, but I just. struggle ever seeing the good sides of my own work. Even work that was an idea I truly deeply liked and wanted to see done! Even things I enjoyed working on!

But when someone leaves a comment that's like "oooh I like how [x] and I love [y] detail!!" it kind of. Let's me for a moment see past my own issues. It lets me look at the work, and the details pointed out, and go "you know what? yeah, that thing there is very good". Sometimes, on a good day, it might even give me enough time to actually re-read my own fic and enjoy it

So, readers: if you read a fic, and there's a detail you like - no matter how big or small, whether a minute detail of the description of someone's clothing, or something about the way the story is structured, or literally anything! - let the author know! If there's any detail that stood out to you in a way you liked, and you feel at all inclined to leave a comment, then please, let the author know the detail that caught your eye! It can brighten up their day so, so much!

#commenting #notbingo