#i always leave a nice comment

[reasoncourt]

my toxic trait is i will read 50 chapters or a terrible fanfic to see if it gets better. i sacrifice hours of my life out of sheer curiosity with absolutely no payoff

[smoosnoom]

do u ever get a comment on a fic thats just so sweet that ur like Maybe slaving over 24k of fanfiction was worth it for user SprinkleTrashcan2012 to leave a three paragraph comment

[dafry-shenanigans]

Randy: IS HE DEAD?!?

Jake: ...No, he's just tired

Not being able to tell if your half ghost friend is dead or just dead tired is kinda hard sometimes-

[p1ctur3]

Can't believe it has been a full year since I starting posting AvA/M fanart

so I redrew my first piece of fanart :]

[badgopher]

oh hey, i know that top commenter

[dykephan]

i know this is an extremely unpopular opinion but some of the stereo shows make me cringe because dan was still in his ironic "phil sucks am i right" phase and even knowing it's all a joke doesn't make it... a funny joke

[fala-alfredo-pasta]

Hi,i'm the crazy person who requested the HiyoBuki thoughts, also, i love it, you give me like 3 more headcanons Sjdjsjdjdk,Ok want to ask you three things,welp...more like 2 and 1 comic request (if You can and want). Ok 1, How are you? how's your day?,

2 i wanted to see (like i said, if you want, not rush) a HiyoBuki comic, about how Ibuki teasing about what they do in intimacy together (pet names or cuddles poses idk,get crazy my friend)only to see Hiyoko turning into a blushing mess!

3.There's a form i can do something for you? like, don't have money to support your work (is amazing!!) so maybe i can make you a drawing about a ship or even a comic (i can try)

send you hugs from Argentin🫂🫂

1-I’m doing decently ok ^-^

2-Les go

[keymintt]

the inevitabilities of an artist on the internet

[emilykaldwen]

Are fanfic authors desperate for comments. Yes, we are. There is nothing worse than shouting into the void.

But when you comment on a fic, think twice about your comment. If you are only expressing your dislike, then that is not a good comment to leave. Because you know what an unhappy comment signals? I am so upset by something in this chapter/story I have absolutely nothing nice to say and I need to focus on nitpicking/expressing my character or plot dislike.

I cannot tell you how many times I've seen my friends receive comments and when the commenter replied back to the author go 'I wouldn't be here if I didn't like the story!' or 'No I really like it!' Did you? Because nothing in your comments had indicated anything about enjoying the story.

A good rule is 'Hey, I really loved these specific thing and here's why' and if your paragraph of dislike is LARGER than your 'I liked this' portion of the comment, maybe switch that. Because this isn't a youtube comment section, this isn't debate class, nor is it Goodreads.

It's an author on the other side of the screen doing something intensive that brings THEM joy, and they share to connect in that joy with others. And you just wrote a paragraph (or sometimes more!) telling them what you didn't like with nothing about the things you have been enjoying. How is anyone meant to take that as anything but you not liking their story so much you needed to yell it at them.

When an author receives a bunch of comments of people complaining about things, you know what that leads to? people not finishing their story. Because why would they if all they ever receive are unhappy people in their comment sections.

This is why telling people you liked their work is important.

[this is not about my comment section, this is about what I've been seeing in other comment sections and it's been leaving me utterly flabbergasted like what the hell my dudes???]

[the-kipsabian]

a quick hot guide for people that struggle commenting on fics aka things authors love to hear and youre just over thinking it and its actually really simple to leave comments on stuff!!

key smash/emoji spam/reaction image/etc (it conveys emotions way more than you might think)

drop a line you really liked

say how much you love a ship/character and how happy you are that theres content about them

ALL CAPS ANYTHING

"i liked/loved/enjoyed/whatever it!" its better to say the most basic thing than saying nothing tbh; writers appreciate hearing anything over nothing 💜

"thank you for writing this" its short, sweet, and very powerful

think what kind of feedback you'd personally like to receive on a piece of art you made. try to translate that want into comments you leave for other people too

you dont have to be critical or constructive or anything, even if the author asks for that stuff in their notes. they'll get it from someone else, you just do you

i feel like people make leaving comments too hard on themselves, so really just make it simple. if you really dont come up with anything, just say thank you. youre there reading for some reason, tell the author what it is. fic comments dont need to be book analysis essays (tho those are. incredibly appreciated as well if you want to write one!!), writers publishing their works for free online appreciate any kind of feedback regardless if you consider it good or well written. a comment is a comment

bottom line is, leave comments on fics and other written works. its whats keeping this game alive

[thyandrawrites]

I was just told that the author of a fic I commented on appreciated my comment so much they screenshotted it and gave me a shout out on their twitter shaflkhas

If those "comment on your favourite fics and their authors will forever love you" type of posts aren't enough to convince you that's a real thing, take this as your sign :'D

[kitakami-kid]

i keep forgetting to say this, but thank you to everyone who sent me a "send this ask to 10 other bloggers you think are wonderful" chain ask!! you are all very kind and i'm so grateful to receive them!!! i'd like you all to know that i go back into my inbox and reread them sometimes. it truly warms my heart 💚

that being said, since i got so many i won't continue the chain due to the sheer amount of people i would have to send it to, so i hope this message will suffice

love you guys goodnight

[wtfforged]

it makes me really happy that people like my art, that it can inspire them or make them happy too. i feel so mushy about it. thank you!!

[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)

[kingdomvel]

I think being a small writer/artist here is very discouraging in the sense that you see other accounts post small fic ideas and they have a bunch of people asking about them, commenting on the posts, while yours inly get like a handful of likes and reblogs. And for me its not the number of notes, I don't really check that, but the people actually being interested in your stuff and expressing it you know? And you end up wondering if maybe what you do/your ideas are shit and in the end its just that you have a small following. Most of the time. Nothing to do with the quality of your stuff. In ao3 it's better distributed I think.

[thefrogdalorian]

Having of those moments where I wish to yeet the like button into the sun or maybe make it so there was setting you could turn on so that people can only reblog posts (even better with the minimum requirement of adding at least one tag)!!

It's kind of absurd that one of my fics is getting close to 500 notes while simultaneously being one I've had the least actual human interactions come from. Like...... come on, that's now how it should be AT ALL!

Don't get me wrong, I'm so thrilled people are clearly finding it and I guess enjoying it(??) but just having endless likes without people letting me know what they enjoyed about it or even if they liked it kind of makes me sad. That's not why I want to share my writing here!

I love having those little human connections with others. I don't ever want my writing to feel transactional. I would love to talk to more people about things I've written. It's truly one of the best feelings and I would hate to lose that, the more I write or the more notes my fics get. Please don't be shy!! I get the social anxiety, but there is no reason to be. I am truly just a Din Djarin obsessed loser.

Anyway, whine over. I don't want to focus on the negatives here and I appreciate every single person who has ever left a positive interaction with something I've written. You are truly a light!