#The comment dissection
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OK! (This is all about fanfics) I’m an essay commenter, and I’ve seen a bunch of posts talking about sample sentences for smaller comments and what you can do to step into commenting if you’re shy or don’t know what to say, and those are great, those are wonderful, and if I could easily find them I would put a link to one or more here. But, I’ve not seen that many dissecting how to write longer comments, and I know that it would’ve been helpful for me when I was in between the “I do comment, but it’s only a sentence, I want to do more” and the “I must write every thought I had during this fic and take an hour on one comment for one chapter” (both are extremes, obviously you can do as much or as little in commenting as you want, I want to make this clear, this is not a “you need to write longer comments” this is a “this is how I personally write longer comments to be used as a resource if anyone wants it”)
@callmerose0 (you said you’d want to see this when I mentioned doing it so tag for you)
Everything is under the cut because I get rant-ey
Alrighty! Let’s go!
Beginning:
I always start with a keysmash. Every time, with little fail. (Genuinely, I know what my first ao3 comment was and it started with a keysmash, if you take anything out of this, take keysmashes) It helps me get the AAAAAAA that I feel when reading and the nerves of writing a comment out. It also shows how insane I feel about the fanfic while allowing me to write in understandable language for some other parts of the comment.
Next, I give an overall thought sentence or two. It can be the first thing that comes to mind or just more screaming about how wonderful the fic is. It can be a favorite part or a little detail you go crazy about.
Middle part 1:
Trying to start at the beginning of the fic or chapter, I take note of an event that gave me a clear reaction. If it’s a shorter fic or chapter this may be something as small as the characters saying a goofy line or something larger with more events it could be an action or event.
Write out what event it was, and what your reaction or thoughts were. This can be done is one or multiple sentences and can look like anything from screaming for <20 words to yapping about it for 200+
Do this again and again until you run out of memorable events.
you have officially gotten through the main portion of an essay comment, congrats!
Middle part 2:
Go back and skim through the fic/chapter, making sure that nothing slipped your mind and there wasn’t anything else you wanted to talk about.
I’m not a live commenting person and prefer to describe rather than copy paste quotes, but I hear that style of commenting works for some people, try it out!
If there are other comments, read those too! Build off the other people in the community have been saying, it may spark something in you!
End:
I always end my comments with: “(sometimes blah blah blah) thank you so much for [writing and sharing, this wonderful fic, etc]! <3 <3 <3”
You can do something similar (or feel free to copy paste that, I’m not here for gatekeeping, spread the love to the wonderful authors we all adore) but I personably think a thank you is a nice thing to end on :)
General / other stuffs:
this is more idiosyncrasies that I wanted to expand on
I describe this in a very play by play way, but these middle steps can look really loose in practice and just end up with “AGGHHSIDHAKHDOSH I LOVE WHAT YOU DID WITH [insert event or character here] I AM GOING CRAZY ABOUT THEM IM SO NORMAL I PROMISE” or “[insert character] I love you but please, [insert character] please
I am a worrier, take note of this and continue. I tend to not say things like “can’t wait for another chapter!” I am not a fan of saying “can’t wait” because i think of it a little as a little impatient, and in my head I know it’s probably a me thing because I don’t see people complaining about that phrase but y’know, worrier. I tend to go with “I loved this so much, super exited to see whatever you do next!” It shows the same effect and tells the author you’ll be back if they continue the fic, but doesn’t say “can’t wait”. (I just don’t like that phrase)
Italics! I love love love italics, but ao3’s italic system isn’t the most intuitive for new readers. Here is the link to the Archive’s FAQ page about how to format HTML.
You can also theorize! Or yap about their world building if that’s more your style!
Add personal voice! I have so much more fun writing like how I talk, and if you’re having fun writing the comment, isn’t that a massive plus?
Describe what you’re doing while reading!
I can’t think of more at the moment, but may be back, hope it was at least an interesting read!
#lamp can talk#Lamp can write#The comment dissection#Ao3#fanfic#ao3 comments#essay comments#Tags how
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Watched that episode where wilson compared house to god and icarus before house bitterly remarks that god doesn't limp then stalks out of his office . Hey what the fuck you guys
I FEEL CRAZY? LIKE I WATCHED IT LAST NIGHT AND HAVE NOT STOPPED THINKING ABOUT IT SINCE
Why does wilson start crying after house leaves . What was "god doesn't limp" supposed to imply . Does it imply that his leg is the only thing that proves he's just as fallible and mortifyingly human as everyone else and house resents himself for it . Does house resent himself for being human
"If we told you that you'd solved a case based on zero medical proof... you'd think you were God. And... I was afraid that your wings would melt." Are u fucking CRAZY
Their entire relationship revolving on how wholly and entirely devoted they are to each other . Then Wilson using religious metaphors to describe house .Wilson confessing that he's "afraid of house's wings melting" . I'm afraid you're going to kill yourself trying to outdo yourself again and again in the hopes of feeling like your life means something
God . House's entire life isjust him screaming for someone to look at him. Idk . Can't stop thinking about how House will die trying to prove that he's useful for something. die trying to maintain the one thing he thinks makes him worthy of being loved And yet wilson loves him above all without house having to do a single thing . Idc (lying)
#God. God. God#PLEASE TELL ME YR THOUGHTS..... I FEEL LIKE IM GOING CRAZY#If i do not dissect and analyse every piece of subtext and passing comment in this show I Will Die#hate crimes md#house md#hilson#james wilson#gregory house
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I know she had era tour but I don’t think I can do it w a broken heart is actually eras tour
I thought of this too. Maybe sometime down under? No way to know, but I did think the line she threw in at the end “Try and come for my job” might have hinted at something. I can read it both ways. As always, we’ll never know for sure. But I think it’s fair to say she has felt this way many times. It reminded me of Katy having to go on stage immediately after having her husband tell her he was filing for divorce. And it’s relatable. We’ve all had to put on a happy face at work and pretend things are fine at home.
#on a personal note#it reminds me of one of my depressive episodes where everyday I just didn’t want to get out of bed or do anything#and as a result I lost 15 pounds in a short period.#and when I did get out of bed and smiled I got a lot of comments about how great I looked#so I don’t think we need to necessarily dissect this so much#the point is sometimes she is deeply unhappy and we won’t know because like everyone she hides her feelings#and we should remember this always. we don’t know her.#body language experts should shut up because if she’s in public she knows she can be video’d or photographed at any moment always#so she always has the face on she wants people to see#that sounds so exhausting
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haha….. d-do i have a type
#anime crush#this all started when i watched naruto at like 12 and decided from that point on i like emo boys#knowing fully well that kenjaku would dissect me yet i still simp#levi ackerman my beloved i will always hold you dear in my heart#choso deserved so much better i love him#i am one of those unhinged satoru gojo fan girls you see in a tiktok thirst edit comment section#rengoku is so cute i would have loved him as a friend tbh#makima would step on me and i’d love it#sung jinwoo was almost a no but then that cave scene happened where he went feral and i was like HELLO#they could never make me hate you shoko i will be your ride or die
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today's latest example of the apple not falling far from the tree: my mom has hyperfixated on true crime and paranormal and horror shit for my entire life. a month ago she made a youtube channel where she talks about the current true crime cases she's obsessed with -- specifically where she goes through and dissects every single line of various texts & statements made by the murderers. because her expertise is in how language is used to manipulate and to tell stories.
and she's like. REALLY good at it.
a video she made two weeks ago has ten thousand views and is now trending in true crime. she's gained over a hundred subscribers Just Today. despite not having a background in keywording, SEO, and/or clickbait.
i know most people in my circles find true crime pretty tacky, which is fair. however.
.....if ANY woman was gonna raise me,
#i'm more like my mama than i am like my dad. YAY.#i do the EXACT same linguistic dissection she does i just do it for fictional murderers and unreliable narrators.#this is making me laugh. she sent me the video & i was like oh this is your video. OH THIS HAS SO MANY VIEWS AND COMMENTS#you know that question of 'if your mom had 100k tiktok followers what would it be for'??#now i know!!!!
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TW: Discussion about Roman’s possible ED
Something that I think doesn’t get talked about very much is everyone asking/commenting on Roman’s condition pre-pilot/the pilot.
Like we know that he was out of the company as things weren’t working out at the studio.
But they are also commenting on his appearance, saying he looks fantastic. Now this could just be Logan being polite as he’s not seen Roman in a while, but he hasn’t seen Shiv or Connor either and doesn’t comment on their appearance. And he never brings up appearance later on.
I have a theory that it was more than just Roman being a bad fit and maybe he had a breakdown or even possibly a bad period with his body issues which the show alludes to at other points
I have a theory that it was more than just Roman being a bad fit and maybe he had a breakdown or even possibly a bad period with his body issues which the show alludes to at other points
And also the way Roman kind of shows himself off after Logan compliments him
Almost like “Yeah Dad look at me now, I’m doing great”
But as he gets roped into the company again, scenes suggest that not everything is okay
#roman roy#The urge to dissect every inkling of Roman Roy#tw: eating issues#tw: ed#logan roy#succession#succession hbo#pre canon#what happened at that studio#why are they commenting on his condition like that#they wouldn’t ask him how he is unless something really bad went down#kendall roy#shiv roy#succession scripts
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Can you imagine the world if people realized again that fandom and fanfic are supposed to be fun
#personal#i read a fic and a comment was another 'this felt ooc' and i just. WHO CARES#its for fun!!!!!! fanfic writers are not defending a fucking thesis in which you the reader must dissect it#sometimes. things can be ooc. because it simply. does. not. matter. it's for fun. click goodbye if you are not having fun#there is absolutely zero net loss when you hit the back button#some people like theme parks and some people like libraries but you don't stand outside the theme park and scream that you prefer libraries#you simply dont go to theme parks!!!!!!#it's just not that deep 😭
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there was some display gallery showing off the various logos in hypmic and the ichikuu peeps on the tl were in shambles over both of them using halos in their mc name signatures lol
#vee queued to fill the void#i understand lol this is a pretty big deal like actually lol#one fan suggested an nb logo could have angel imagery since nb was under stairway to heaven#another in a very fast paced series of tweets cried about it being potential sign of ichiro and kuukou’s bond spanning from life#but even into their deaths and beyond when they reunite in heaven (and even pointed out the meaning of stairway to heaven)#and goddamn i sure love being jacked into the hypmic hive mind i can’t believe i was just musing about kuukou and death#and then directly got food for thought LOL but ichiro!!!!!!! i wasn’t expecting ichiro lol!!!!!!#but bb has been weirdly associated with christmas aka the birth of jesus#who gave his life for humanity and i am too in shambles no way does both ichiro and kuukou have self sacrifice themes NO WAY#god i remember when the hella awesome banquet mv dropped and bat fandom banded together to dissect the video#one person commented it’s strange to see kuukou in association with catholic/christian imagery#but posted a wiki article talking about the similarities between buddha and jesus and the ideologies in those religions#*crying* i even posted about it the black crown above kuukou’s head was both catholic and buddhist and meant to be beneficial for humanity#ichiro constantly being shaken to his core by sacrifices…….. him trying to show the nation the path of hope…………#this is so much lol i love getting food for thought from random observations and drops lol
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good morning lis fandom i. fucking love you
#you guys!!! are so nice to me!!!!!!!!#wtf!!!!!!#i've got some of you writing whole ass essays also. you have no idea the Joy i feel when i see like four paragraphs in a single comment#🥺🥺🥺🥺🥺🥺🥺#(excited 6y/o voice) Look Ma My Fic Is Being Dissected! Yay Yahoo Yippee!!#nebular.txt
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So many posts I see that are anti-pedantic nitpicking often devolve into championing shallow storytelling and treating all critique or plot analysis as inherently toxic.
#I should stop scrolling through the comments of this post#even posts that are like 'You have to suspend your disbelief!' bug me#I know 'You don't owe a story suspension of disbelief' is a bit of an extreme position. But it's how I feel.#Now. If you want to be taken seriously. If you want to discuss a work in a legitimate way. You have to meet it where it is#in order to dissect it#but you know a story has to make you want to suspend your disbelief and maybe that glaring plot hole is bad actually.
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Sick and tired of people using Concord as an excuse to be homophobic/transphobic
#cant even watch a single video dissecting why it flopped as a project#without a fuckton of comments going haha thats what you get when you get the fucking lgbts to design a game for lgbts#concord is just soulless corporate slop. thats what the hate should be about
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I'm free from the hell of school and I now get to play catch up with all the lore I've missed but more importantly all the fics I've missed
#baby i'm coming home#oh ao3 how I have missed you#to my favorite authors#i've missed you so much#i feel like a soldier who's been overseas for years#and i finally get to come home to my lovers#i've missed you too tumblr#ao3 addict#literally#and tbh i have been on ao3 this whole time#but i couldn't pay attention to any of the fics i'm too emotionally invested in#so i've been saving them to read when i can sit and dissect#and also write some long ass comments#the outsiders#the outsiders musical#the outsiders fanfiction
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just wanna say I stumbled upon hunger au about a week ago and since then it’s crawled inside my brain like a parasite and started feasting on my emotions girl help (/pos)
No joke I downloaded the fic to read on a long plane flight and reread it THREE TIMES before landing. Incredibly normal behavior not at all obsessed
THE THEMES GOOD GOD THE THEMES anyways sending this bc you’re god tier at writing angst and could probably rip my heart out and I’d thank you. +kudos :)
WTF THIS IS SO SWEET..... anon this made my DAY i cant believe you reread it 3 times???? Holy shit. Holy shit!!! Thats SO MANY....
So glad you too are a lover of Themes™ bc man i love putting those little guys in my work, and hunger au has so many layers of them going on in it. Makes me insanely happy to see people recognizing some of them and commenting abt it :DDD
Tysm for the incredibly kind compliment anon, i appreciate it SO MUCH ❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️‼️‼️‼️‼️‼️‼️‼️‼️
#shouting speaks#asks#hunger au#compliments#every time someone does a dissection of my writing or comments abt the themes my brain starts doing jumping jacks /pos#txt
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“Imagine if a man said this about a woman” and it’s something men have been saying about women since the invention of spoken word
#a girl was joking about not liking her bfs haircut and the comments#meanwhile men will get mad at you one time and dissect you head to toe like. I’m done
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there is truly something in the air abt getting my first hate comment on breaking patterns/mending threads two years after i finished writing it, and that it happens to be during one of the worst periods of my life
#don't even know what to tag this as#it's not personal bc arguably it's what this blog is for in the first place#but i don't want it showing up in my fandom tags#i don't even want to mention the comment itself bc it's not on them for being upset that i ended it the way i did#but there is something so triggering abt phrasing it as being 'disgusted'#about something very emotional that i honestly relate more to today than i did when i wrote it#if it feels like that whole fic was a projection of certain emotions#it probably was#a dissection of what i write about vs my personal life draws very clear emotional similarities#i've grown a tough skin abt legitimate criticisms on my writing#in fact i genuinely like being told the ways in which my writing is shit#so that i can improve it#but something abt this being abt the fic being too depressing#and having hope but not necessarily happiness#and having that relate to disgust abt the way i presented something that contains emotions that i have felt#and continue to feel bc life is a fucking nightmare and yeah i relate to the impoverished fucking asshole with the desire for affection#it's exhausting to experience this sort of thing even in a fandom space#where expressing my feelings is still not realistic or palatable enough#i get that people have triggers but i put trigger warnings in every single chapter#and you can't put a trigger warning in a comment#or know that i'm having a particularly bad time#it just reminds me why i stopped actively participating in fandom anyway#like i said. triggering
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me: ooh a video on apollo justice, which of course is dearly loved by all!
video: the fandom HATES this game
me:
me: huh
#starli speaks#immediately stopped watching to scroll through the comments#bc like. huh. what. but 7yg is so interesting and cool and fun and great#oh well. im happy to sit in my corner where the best meta dissections of that era are.
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