#and the comments are always so positive

[masonjarsmoments]

Why is it always men wearing weird carrot costumes and never the girlie's from tennisblr

[glitterarygetsit]

Why do you comment?

Was discussing fic commenting practices with a friend the other day, and realised we both comment on things for different underlying reasons. So I thought it might be interesting to make a poll about it! Why do you comment? Do you see it as a one-on-one interaction with the author, or as a way of supporting the community? Is it a form of payment or the start of a dialogue?

I think there are a lot of different and valid attitudes to this, and I’m curious to see what different readers’ thought processes are! I’m sure that for most readers, multiple of these answers apply—try to pick the one that feels most important to you, and please do expand on them in the tags if you like!

[mandaloriandragontrainer]

“Rayllum was rushed and forced” actually it wasn’t because I wanted them to kiss. Moving on.

[possamble]

i wonder if you have any thoughts about how marcille always seems to dislike it when falin wears men's clothing ( i bet she wears it out of its comfiness rather than because she prefers masc style tho, although i hope both lolol) and super short hairstyle

I wonder if it's just her interest in cute feminine fashion in general or maybe there's something more

For the clothes, at least, it's like... Marcille is probably more horrified by the clothing being actually made for and marketed to men than anything else. I bet she'd be fine if Falin wore the exact same things but they were in the women's section, or at least, branded unisex. She would be so so silly about arbitrary stuff like that in a modern setting.

The hair I think is a tangled issue of Falin's resemblance to Laios getting a little too obvious for Marcille's mental health, and Marcille's own very intense relationship with how (female) mages should treat their hair. Also, since it's mostly a joke doodle, I kind of took it as a flanderized Bad Taste Marcille being horrified by a woman with short hair because she buys into gender norms. Some people are... weird about what women do with their hair and unfortunately I can fully see how Marcille can be weird like that in a vacuum joke setting.

(there's also something to be said about how this kind of femininity policing could also be used as plausibly deniable homoerotic subtext. like, girl, why do you care that much about how cute another girl looks? hm?)

[canisalbus]

I'm sure you get loads of these but heck I said I'd give it a shot anyway!

Your artwork is so inspiring and beautiful. I recently graduated from art school with a degree in Animation Production but I've decided I'd love to be an illustrator some day. Your work really motivates me and gets my brain juice buzzin. Keep it up!!!

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[57sfinest]

speaking as someone who played team sports for like 2/3rds of their life there's this thing that coaches universally do where if theyre pissed off at something a player does during a game they just start squatting on the sidelines. like if you look over and see your coach squatting you know you're fucked next practice. i think harry does this squat i think even after total brain reset he gets annoyed while on an investigation and just drops into The Squat and most people are like huh ok but anyone who's ever been subject to the whims of a gym teacher sees the stance and has an immediate fear response.

[authenticcadence18]

Twice this week I have received comments on Can’t Help Falling in Love critiquing my use of tags and I’m just like?

those “extra” tags have been there for four years? no im not going to delete them?? I think if it truly was a big issue one of my moots/writer friends would’ve brought it up to me by now???

I use tags to express my creative voice and personality. And I DO include lots of real tags.

if someone makes something FOR FREE and it’s not harmful maybe just say what you like about it and move on?

like? do yall like my tags?? have my tags dissuaded you from checking out my stuff??? because I’ve been posting on ao3 since 2019 and this is the first time anyone has ever brought it up :/

[intheholler]

are we submitting love letters? bc the last few have made me sob at work

I'm from the northeasternmost end of the range but i see so much of home in everyone's asks. I've been waiting for such a long time to move back, and now it's shaping up that I may be moving even farther away. Sure, there are problems, but I think the northern mountains are imprinted on my soul. How is it a place can be so deep in you?

My partner isn't American, and I am so so so proud to be able to show them how beautiful and complicated and raw the US is. Not the version that gets exported out of California, but *our* version. It helps - I'm still grieving that I may not be able to return home in the way I'd hoped, but helping break that narrative is a silver lining.

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[fumifooms]

Heyoooo. I wanted to say, I'm sorry about that mean-ass, insulting anon you got a while back. That ask ended up pissing me off so bad I ended up actually reading your Marchil analysis posts. Originally, I was meh and kinda confused when the ship showed up in Ao3 because I didn't see what people liked about it. Reading your posts about how they were narrative foils opened my mind more, and I realized, Oh shit yeah there's a lot of potential in this ship for how these two can develop each other.

Part 2: Marcille and Chilchuck may not have scenes like the infamous bath scene with Farlin, but the concept of someone who's terrified of being alone, the reality of her friends' mortality, a hopeless romantic catching feelings for a repressed, divorced man whose wife left him--okay yeah, I absolutely understand the appeal of this ship. Marcille would be like, Why the fuck is my heart thrumming for this sharp-tongued bitch, and also the terror from falling in love with someone so short-lived Part 3: Either way, love your analysis posts. I am going to be contemplating the potential of Marcille and Chilchuck for a long while. There is something so tragically sweet about it

You get it, you really do… I could list off everything I love about them but I’d be here forever because it’s literally everything and there are so many fun ways to spin it… You’re very right about them being tragically sweet, overall where their arcs meet the most is "Loving is something worth doing even with the risk of loss", and I say risk but really it’s more the inevitable eventuality of it as canon does love to point out. If you want the reward of being loved you must go through the mortifying ordeal of being known. No love however brief is wasted. Let me see you and stay. It’s very much sort of the final boss to their arcs for them to get invested in each other in such a way, to get involved romantically— emotionally with someone knowing what’s coming and that she barely has two decades left with him (who mistreats his health so much he very well could die early), and to shoot your shot for something new with hope in your heart and enough confidence that you’re worth loving. He’s not a prince charming but to her he sort of is, all virtuous husband this reliable dependable Chilchuck that, all "you may be flawed but I’ll still romanticize your qualities and convince you that you and your love for your beloved are something worth fighting for".

What if I was old bread that solidified to be hard as rock and you were like warm soup and by soaking in your presence I softened……… What if you stubbornly grew on me like yeast and it brought out my flavor like beer as I opened up and allowed you in………. What if your hair was golden, the epitome of beauty to me, and my hair turned silver, your worst nightmare……. I think about them a normal amount

[mephew-j]

hi I wanted to say that your NiD Jackle is amazing! it reminds me of the classic Disney/ children movies that were drawned I really love it! keep up the good work and also both design are amazing ^^

It´s so nice of you to make the effort to tell me that!!! <3

[altschmerzes]

i've never understood the rising attitude i've seen since the invention of the ability to turn off reblogs that anyone who previously asked people not to reblog posts was somehow fundamentally misapprehending the nature of this website or acting in some kind of naive or ridiculous way that flies in the face of internet safety and common sense and is deserving of mockery.

like, yeah, it was always gonna be possible for people to reblog your posts no matter what, before the ability to turn reblogs off. no, a tag that says 'don't reblog' or 'dnr' or 'donut rebagel' (or any other iteration given people would SEARCH for posts tagged dont reblog specifically to reblog them) was not going to stop that. yes the internet is public and it's good to be aware of that.

however, that doesn't mean you should inherently know better than and refrain from ever saying anything on an online platform that you're not Totally Cool With potentially being spread around by people you don't know? a lot of people here use their blogs as personal blogs. which is like... fine. it's part of the function of the platform. and just because it is possible for someone online to do something doesn't mean it's normal and fine for them to do and anyone asking them NOT to do anything they want forever is being a naive idiot who doesn't understand internet safety.

obviously asking someone not to do something mean and shitty is not a guarantee they won't do it but i do not understand the attitude of "well what did you expect, the mean and shitty thing was POSSIBLE. why the fuck would you put yourself in a position to have that thing done to you in the first place. that's on you for just asking people not to be an asshole. this is the INTERNET."

[longagoitwastuesday]

Every day I am haunted by the fact JJK could be amazing but it will be just idk Bleach or something

[nomairuins]

i like overthink everything now it makes me feel so dumb. i used 2 be able to just talk 2 ppl but nowadays every single thing im like Is that actually going to make them hate me. Yes probably. and then i just dont respond which makes ppl hate me. this is how it is

[leafywillow]

Also omg!! I just reached 500 followers wow!! Thank you all so much for being here 😄🥰 def did not expect this with how inconsistent I am lol but I appreciate you all so much and love interacting with everyone!! You all have made my experience here so far so lovely and i couldn't ask for better mutuals and followers 🥰💕🥰

[xannerz]

Hi I just wanna say thank you so much for your Tangled Hector art, you're the only one keeping the weird old sexy man flame alive in this fandom

!!! thank you sm, anon 🥺💖 this fandom is v small and quiet these days so your message is rly encouraging!!

i'd honestly thank @pennumbra - her hector art/takes rewired my brain and if it weren't for her i most likely would have migrated from this fandom years ago (hi ilu bb LMAO)

[sysig]

Nice healthy obsession you got there (Patreon)