#but don't comment it on my fucking fic??

[bonesandthebees]

ao3 commenters PSA: even on older fics with a ton of comments the authors still get the notifs for every single comment

re: the person who just left a multi paragraph comment on one of my older fics talking about how much they disliked the ending and detailing several alternate endings they came up with instead that they thought would be better, and ending the comment with "no one is going to see this but oh well" authors see your comments yes even on old fics and it really doesn't feel good to see a comment like that even years after I finished the fic

#as always you can dislike a fic idc if you complain to your friends about how much you hated one of my fics or whatever #but don't comment it on my fucking fic?? #theres a proper place for that stuff and it's not shoving it in the authors face #ughhhh #ramblings

[marypsue]

So if you follow me (and aren't just stopping by because you saw one of my funney viralposts), you probably know that I've been writing a bunch of fanfiction for Stranger Things, which is set in rural Indiana in the early- to mid-eighties. I've been working on an AU where (among other things) Robin, a character confirmed queer in canon, gets integrated into a friend group made up of a number of main characters. And I got a comment that has been following me around in the back of my mind for a while. Amidst fairly usual talk about the show and the AU and what happens next, the commenter asked, apparently in genuine confusion, "why wouldn't Robin just come out to the rest of the group yet? They would be okay with it."

I did kind of assume, for a second or two, that this was a classic case of somebody confusing what the character knows with what the author/audience knows. But the more I think about it, the more I feel like it embodies a real generational shift in thinking that I hadn't even managed to fully comprehend until this comment threw it into sharp perspective.

Because, my knee-jerk reaction was to reply to the comment, "She hasn't come out to these people she's only sort-of known for less than a year because it's rural Indiana. In the nineteen-eighties." and let that speak for itself. Because for me and my peers, that would speak for itself. That would be an easy and obvious leap of logic. Because I grew up in a world where you assumed, until proven otherwise, that the general society and everyone around you was homophobic. That it was unsafe to be known to be queer, and to deliberately out yourself required intention and forethought and courage, because you would get negative reactions and you had to be prepared for the fallout. Not from everybody! There were always exceptions! But they were exceptions. And this wasn't something you consciously decided, it wasn't an individual choice, it wasn't an individual response to trauma, it wasn't individual. It was everybody. It was baked in, and you didn't question it because it was so inherently, demonstrably obvious. It was Just The Way The World Is. Everybody can safely be assumed to be homophobic until proven otherwise.

And what this comment really clarified for me, but I've seen in a million tiny clashing assumptions and disconnects and confusions I've run into with The Kids These Days, is that a lot of them have grown up into a world that is...the opposite. There are a lot of queer kids out there who are assuming, by default, that everybody is not homophobic, until proven otherwise. And by and large, the world is not punishing them harshly for making that assumption, the way it once would have.

The whole entire world I knew changed, somehow, very slowly and then all at once. And yes, it does make me feel like a complete space alien just arrived to Earth some days. But also, it makes me feel very hopeful. This is what we wanted for ourselves when we were young and raw and angrily shoving ourselves in everyone's faces to dare them to prove themselves the exception, and this is what I want for The Kids These Days.

(But also please, please, Kids These Days, do try to remember that it has only been this way since extremely recently, and no it is not crazy or pathetic or irrational or whatever to still want to protect yourself and be choosy about who you share important parts of yourself with.)

#also Kids These Days please if nobody's told you: you can't send cheques through email #and if somebody sends you one through email They Are A Scammer and Yes They Are Scamming You #that's not related I just am constantly tearing my hair out about how many people of ALL AGES don't know that #something something something invoking the fuck word in the hopes it will keep this poast from search #i love how the internet has created Magic Words Of Power #unfortunately most of those words perform the action of 'summon jackass idiots to comment on your post' #i am paraphrasing the comment that was left on my AU fic because I am too lazy to go looking for it right now but #it was very similar to that wording #this is just a thing that has been rattling around in my brain and it was finally smoothed out and polished enough to come out

[killerandhealerqueen]

Can I bitch for a second? Like, I just want to understand why, in the past few years, comments and reblogs on fics have gone the fuck down. Like why? What fucking changed?

In 2020 and 2021, I used to get comments all the time on almost all my fics and now it's like...I'm lucky to get any. I also know that I write for small fandoms so like, that's a contributing factor, but still. Even with my latest multichapter fic, there are no subscriptions. Like, everything has just gone down.

And while I realize that the pandemic happened in 2020-2021, the decline has been happening for a while, especially here on tumblr. Comments and reblogs and asks about fics are just...not really a thing anymore.

And people wonder why writers don't wanna continue. Yeah, yeah, that whole thing of write for yourself, we all write for ourselves, lets be honest. We do. But we also want to share our creations with you because that's the whole fucking point of art. You want to share it with others and have them appreciate the work and time you put into it. And we'd like to hear feedback! It's literally not a bad thing to want comments. And people need to stop making writers feel bad for saying they want comments. And reblogs. Likes and kudos are great but they don't do anything. They just tell us that you liked the fic/work. But they don't tell us what you thought, what moved you, what rewired your brain, what made your heart thump or flutter or clench. That's what comments tell us. That's why we want comments. We want to see our fics through your eyes.

Writers shouldn't have to beg for interactions, so please. Reblog and leave comments on fics. Please. It's really the least you could do

#sass rants #i'm sure someone's gonna get pissy with me for this but i don't fucking care #i shouldn't have to fucking beg people to reblog and comment on my stories #it's fucking 2024 people #how about we start acting like a fandom again and start reblogging and commenting on EVERYTHING #from gifsets to art to fanfiction #(of course let's have the comments be nice we don't do rude comments here) #but yeah #start commenting on fics that you like #because the writers you love WILL stop writing after a while if they don't feel appreciated #because we all need to remember that this isn't a full-time job for most of us #so show your favorite writers/gif makers/artists some appreciate and reblog/comment on their shit

[not-poignant]

Every now and then I just get the kind of comment that makes me stop working on a fic and just has me going 'how about you write it since you're so concerned with correcting me on this one tiny thing that doesn't matter because it's fanfiction actually'

And like, I do want to work on this fic, but damn, not today.

#personal #i don't know how many times i can tell people #to fuck off when it comes to canon details and palmarosa #but if you ever have the instinct to correct something in palmarosa #just know you're the reason i don't want to work on this fic atm #because it's not at all motivational to have people arguing with me #about the NOT CANON COMPLIANT details in my own fic #like it's tags and author's notes at this point #reading comprehension i miss you #you all get gold medals for knowing the canon better than me #now leave me and my fic and it's very clear “not canon compliant” tag alone #because palmarosa isn't for the people #who want it to be canon compliant #and cannot let it go otherwise #i've just deleted a bunch of comments i will no longer be justifying #this fic to people who just exist to win #know it all contests

[quirkle2]

he's such a fuckin nerd

#qkdraws #id in alt #best thing abt drawing characters with canonically terrible fashion senses #is that i (bad at fashion) can draw him in Whatever I Want #bc the result will either be comments like ''oh my god look at that fit that's so ugly and on brand /pos'' #OR ''YO TERU'S WEARING SMTH GOOD FOR ONCE THANK GOD'' #i always win. there is no losing here #that fit in the corner ? idk if it's good. i have no fuckin clue #maybe it's bad. maybe it's rly cute. i don't fucking know #and i never will. and neither will teru #mp100 #mob psycho 100 #mp100 teruki #teruki hanazawa #typoed his name yesterday as ''teruki bananzawa'' #so . what with that what u will #im kind of obsessed w him a lil bit #u know it's a good show when u can't even pick a fav character bc u love them all sm #is it reigen is it mob is it ritsu is it teru who knows #one thing i do regret with my fic is that i wish i had included more teru #he needed more screen time .... i robbed him

[rollercoasterwords]

hey just wanted to comment on ur fanfiction that u wrote and edited and posted to let u know that ummmm u wrote the character with flaws?? sorry but did u realize that u gave the character flaws?? i don't really like this character because they have flaws did you mean to give ur main character flaws?? just wanted to let u know that character has flaws and i don't like that!!

#based on. a real comment. that i just received tonight #jeeeeeeeesus fucking christ #tiktok and its consequences honestly!!! #feel like this person probably wandered over bc they saw people recommending my fics for woke points this week #and now they r dismayed 2 discover that the characters are not. in fact. perfectly woke!! #also it was on. chapter FIVE. of a FIFTY-TWO CH FIC. #like....damn that's so crazy that the character has flaws.... #i wonder if we will see them grow and change at all over the course of the next 200k words.... #thanks for letting me know that u don't like it when characters are not perfect little angels <3 #i think u should ummmm. check out the children's section of ur local library. might be more ur speed xoxo #grumpy posting #txt

[fantasticalleigh]

🖤🖤🖤🖤Another one for The Education of a Lady 🖤🖤🖤🖤

used this Pin as a reference

#fantasticalleigh's art #fantasticalleighs art #dramione #dramione art #dramione fanart #dark dramione #draco malfoy #hermione granger #artists on tumblr #illustrators on tumblr #shoutout to that one shithead who once left a review on this fic saying my art is terrible and that i shouldn't bother sharing it #guess what bitch: the point is to keep doing it in order to get better that's how it works #i was proud of my work at the time just like i'm proud of this one now #i sincerely hope you don't go talking to other artists that way bc not everyone is going to be able to take a comment like that well #so fuck you and sorry for my followers who see this in the tags and go wtf? #but that's actually one of the comments that have really bothered me and i do actually think about it a lot #so whoever that anon was: i've gotten better (not that i need to prove it to anyone) #and i hope you go suck a wet fart out of your own asshole before you comment some shit like that ever again

[hamartia-grander]

Hi so ao3 decided to suspend my account until march 3rd because I added the tag "this is an ada wong loving zone. ada haters die" to one of my fics, which they have also hidden, and I'm incredibly fucking frustrated for obvious reasons but yeah uh if you can't see my fic Another Time it's because ao3 fucking took it down without warning me or letting me remove the tag. So there's that.

#I'm literally shaking #“harassment” for fuck's sake I'm not attacking anyone I'm telling idiots to stay away from my fucking fic #like yeah okay maybe i shouldn't have said the word “die”. in technical terms that is considered bad. #but still wtf am I gonna do like it's a stupid tag #they said they'll put it back up if I delete the tag once my suspension ends but until mar 3rd i cannot post edit or delete ANY content #INCLUDING comments on OTHER PEOPLE'S fics #which is fucking insane #also who fucking reported me because this fic has been up for MONTHS and I never got word so there's no way it's just ao3 doing it randomly #what misogynist was so pressed that i don't want them reading my fics #edit: i double checked the email and they straight up said someone reported me. lol.

[elialys]

nothing quite like receiving a mean comment in the morning

like, you're entitled to dislike what i write, i've been doing this long enough to know my particular brand of drama really pisses off some people, but i just don't see the point of reading THIS far into the fic, and then taking the time to let me know you think I'm "artificially generating angst"??

#the fuck is wrong with readers #don't like? STOP READING #anyway definitely still not making me want to continue my tess & ellie au #apparently my tess is shit haha #(i know she's not) #(i actually like that i've given her trauma and the ability to feel emotions) #fic comments #the not so nice kind

[volivolition]

reading Kim's Disco Inferno and i absolutely needed to read this fic earlier than im reading it right now. this is so fucking interesting.

#chemi chats #AIRHGHGHHHHH THE SKILLS THE SKILLS I WILL SPONTANEOUSLY COMBUST ABOUT THEM ARUGHGJHGKJFHF!!!!! #okay im normal. back to it #kissing voli on the forehead. my friend. this is how i imagine my life these days. voli sitting on my shoulder as i do things #echem's also there but he can't do shit except go ''hey you should get a treat today'' so he just keeps voli company. #EMPY HAS ARRIVED AND I LOVEEEE HER. CRIES AND CRIES AND CRIES AND #''Stop fucking around Esprit'' LMAO. LMAO. THANKS AUTH APPRECIATE IT. oh my fucking god this fic is so cool. this is so good. #SUGGESTION YOU SILLY FUCK GET OUT OF HEREEE!! oh thats FASCINATING!! 'I'm not... shit. I am.' THIS IS SO COOL. OH NO WAIT DON'T LEAVE VOLI? #oh of fucking COURSE ITS ECHEM. OF COURSEEE. oh hi halflit. little kiss on the head before you scamper off sweetheart #i miss voli i want voli back. voli come back please. oh there he is hi little guy!! oh echem. silly guy. i love you. this fic is so fun?!!! #oh hey!! composure. nods. ''Harry; Kim. We're Harry.'' YEAH! YAHHGKJGH!!! like i sure have my faves (empy; voli; echem) but #OUGH. MOTORICS AS A WHOLE. MY FAVORITES i love the team smiles :) oh they were all so sweet hahskj motorics have never done anything wrong #NO VOLI CAN'T COME WITH US?? WHAT'S THE POINT EVEN. STARTS CRYING. oh nvm hes with us in the glasses WE'RE ALL GOOD #this fic. is so cool. good morning lieutenant. OKAY!! DONE!! COMMENTING TIME!!! thanks for looking at my spontaneous liveblog lmao

[nateriverswife]

I've seen this going on for a while, and I have to say something, so... genuine question. why do people that write OC x CC feel like they should turn it in a CC x reader? I come from a fandom that thrived off OCs so maybe that's why I can't understand it. I also don't read CC x reader, so there's that too. but genuinely, it feels like this very prominent dislike for OCs has pushed writers in that direction against their complete will (I mean, that's my impression. Perhaps they do like putting the reader in their OC's shoes). and I get a bit sad, because your OC's story is... Your OC's story. That's what it makes it special. No one can fit that role better than them. I want to know more about this silly character you decided to put in that universe, and I cannot do that if it's a "x you" thing.

#I could never imagine changing my OC x CC fics in x readers because I spent hours crafting their whole lore and personality #I'm also very protective over them like... you can empathise with them but you don't need to replace them #I guess my hatred for this stems also from this new trend of people thinking that 1st person pov is them in the story #wild thing to say but yes. So common for people to hate on 1st person pov because ''that's not me. I would never do that'' #yeah fucking genius. 1st person pov is not you. #so any negative comments for 1st person pov could easily be said to 2nd person pov based on an OC & I don't want writers to get those #tl;dr: own your shit. own your OC's story. #btw I'm saying this with the sweetest tone to OCs creators. I love you & never stop #d.exe

[lordsardine]

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#okay like sue me. sometimes i google 'neioo' just because im a nosey bitch and want to see if anyone is talking about my fics #(i just got a comment on awh and like it makes me nostalgic etc. whatever. wanted to see if anything posted somewhere prompted it) #and i havent done this in a while #so please tell me why. WHY am i cited in someone's fucking PhD dissertation #yes the paper overall is about fandom and examining hetalia in particular so it's not like out of left field #but there are two fics total cited and mine is one. AND also there is a post from my fucking neioo blog cited??? #like my book announcement one?? #and neither of these are cited directly in the dissertation just at the end #so now i feel like im going a bit insane but like okay #i have work i need to be doing and i was reading this fucking dissertation instead #wish i could turn to 15 year old me and be like 'hey there champ. you know that fic series youre day dreaming in your head #that you don't want to write down because you think no one will read it #good stuff. anyway. one day it'll be cited in a dissertation #oh and your grandmother will have read it. have a good day' #...............well. now i need to focus back on work

[daydadahlias]

I know that I've bitched abt this before but since I can't find the original post, I'll just say again that I have so many issues with people that will send screenshots of fics they’re reading to their friends (or talk publicly about a fic on a platform that the author is not on) but then won’t leave a comment on the fic itself or ever directly talk to the author of said fic.

Like ok so you clearly loved the fic but you don’t think the author should know that?? You don't want to encourage them to write more work?? Because you don’t perceive fanfic authors as real people, do you? you only perceive their content as real and given to you like a commodity or some sort of given in a fandom sphere. and you can enjoy it in whatever means you want but you don’t care about the author, you care about you.

fanfic is not just a consumable product <3 fanfic authors are real people sharing our time and our energy and our love for writing and our love for our fandom with you for free <3 and the whole point in doing that is to connect w/ other people that love what we love.

so every time you read a fic (or any book !! or any art piece !! or literally anything MADE by another human being !!), consider the person who poured their energy and their love into that. and if you liked the fucking thing?? tell them that??

#it's so not that hard im gonna scream into a pillow #getting screenshots from groupchats being like 'people love ur fic' is actually asdfgh not as much of a compliment #as the multiple people who have sent me that thing #considering that. none of the people in that gc or in those texts will ever comment on my work or talk to me #and im not UNGRATEFUL for the interaction I already get I love it :) #but it's really fucking frustrating <3 that people read a fic and love it <3 and don't want to tell the author that #bc they dont percieve fanfic authors as real people #just ~content creators~ #me when im pissed lolz

[sapphire-weapon]

real talk the real reason why it pisses me off that so many people in the fandom have been duped into thinking the whole “Leon’s parents were killed by the mafia” thing is canon is because like

who the fuck looks at RE2 Leon and goes “oh yeah, that guy’s definitely had a hard life”??

it’s antithetical to his, like, entire fucking character arc.

the whole point is that Leon is privileged and naive and doesn’t know how the world works, and a flat tire is probably the worst thing that ever happened to him pre-Raccoon City, and that’s why he’s such a fucking dumbass.

if Leon’s parents were murdered by the mafia, that means that they were involved in some shady shit in order to piss off the mafia in the first place, which means Leon should realistically have some iota of street smarts and not be a complete and utter dipshit who’s so easy to take advantage of that Ada actually convinced him she was an FBI agent in a tight dress and stiletto heels -- all because she flashed a fake badge at him.

if Ada had pulled that shit on Claire, Claire would’ve just laughed and been like “yeah, ok” and walked away from her. because Claire has actually, like. lived through some shit.

there’s a reason why this shit was never actually canonized and put into the games. it’s because it doesn’t make any fucking sense.

#resident evil #leon kennedy #im sry i just had to get this out #it's just #i dare ANY of you to go find an RE fic on livejournal that used this shit for leon's backstory #you can't #because back in the day fandom knew it wasn't canon and was bullshit and didn't make sense #and now to see it EVERYWHERE #to the point where i'm actively avoiding putting my own headcanons in my own fics #just because i really don't feel like putting up with a bunch of comments like 'UHH ACTUALLY ISN'T THIS LEON'S BACKSTORY??' #for no other reason than it's just annoying as fuck #like #go be wrong on your own time #christ #this post has been brought to you by me actively taking an entire chunk of a fic and deleting it #because it involved leon backstory headcanon #and i just looked at it and went #'it's not worth it' #'for how minor the scene is it's not worth the headaches it's going to cause' #because i remember that day i dared to mention my own headcanons #and had to deal with like six hours of WELL ACTUALLY from ppl who probably were not yet born when i was already writing RE smut #and it's not their fault #someone fed them bullshit #but it just really sucks that this is where the fandom consciousness is at

[aphelea]

ok but tiergan endal got life right. live in an isolated tower nobody comes to bother you. put on your rocksona and hate the government. disappear from public life for twelve years and come back to teach One twelve year old. be definitely not part of the black swan cough cough. attempt a prison break to save your boyfriend. literally what else could you want to do with your life

#tiergan transgenderism endal #spent today praising juline but you know what. tiergan IS so character #hes a man hes a woman he's a rock(star)!! #or. the king of every sunset and the queen of every sunrise <- watch me quote my own fics #i actually don't know what that line means oh FUck i have to go respond to every comment from last week. mmmm #august rambles

[rotisseries]

people are very weird about shockfics like what is up with that

#like. it's a hazing ritual almost cause every fandom has a shockfic so very fandom has that hazing ritual #AND IT'S WEIRD TO ME #you hear about some fic with just absolutely disgusting tags and strange sex acts or whatever #and it's very much NOBODY'S cup of tea and it's got the vibes of something that was DEFINITELY written #to get the “OH MY GOD WHO TF WOULD WRITE THIS⁉️” reaction #and people GIVE IT THAT REACTION #they go on the internet and talk about it CONSTANTLYYYYY #but they have to let you know just how traumatizing it is in a way that let's you think they at least tried to read it #like it's some sort of fandom rite. to have tried to read this fic no one likes #but they still have to let you know how horrible they think it is so you don't think they're into any of that #AND THENNN they follow that up by trying to trick people into reading it?? #comments full of “you should try this fic it's so lovely😊😊😊” on the profiles of TOTAL STRANGERS #IS THIS A FUCKING HAZING RITUAL TO YOU GUYS??? BE SO SERIOUS #I genuinely think it's so weird to be telling any random ass fandom account the weirdest fic you can find and telling them to read it #cause like some of those shockfics are actually abysmal. trying to subject any rando to this is weird of you