#this got long. saaaw-reee.

[khaotunq]

As author or as gif maker, have you ever got a comment that stayed in your head? Either positively or negative? (Have you ever received a mean comment?)

Very little stays in my head, first and foremost - I've often joked that if I'm not actively doing something, the inside of my head is like an empty elevator.

What I enjoy about this ask is the emphasis on asking about negative comment - I like the slight disbelief that anyone could ever be mean to me. Whether you meant that or not, it's very funny to me.

Yes, I've had mean comments over the years, but not a huge amount and I do put that down to mainly staying out of main fandom spaces. I've met plenty of people I adore through fandom spaces, but I'm way too awkward a person to do anything but hang out on the periphery - little I've created has ever attracted any interest or attention whatsoever, so I've never been of particular interest to anyone trying to be mean for clout.

That said, specifically about my writing and gifs: writing-wise, I've had one or two comments that have stuck with me over the years - one from my English teacher telling me I wasn't any good at writing (both academic and creative, woop!) and I then went on to fail those exams, another from a dear friend who told me I needed to learn grammar if I was going to write (gleefully disregarded, but appreciated in hindsight), and for some insane reason there's still a comment that haunts me at very weird points in my life about someone telling me off in the comments of a Teen Wolf fic I wrote years ago because I think I'd made a character both a shortstop and a cleanup hitter and that wasn't ever likely to be the case. I still haven't fixed it, and they weren't rude about it at all, but that comment does just float into my head occasionally.

On the flip side, I occasionally get AO3 comments that turn me into a puddle of jelly because people get bloody poetic at me sometimes. I treasure every single comment I get on a fic, but there were two commenters when I first started writing SandRay who wrote comments half the length of my works and I often go back and read those. Ao3 users hroncynning and schiannath, you know not what you've done but your words have impacted me more than mine have you, I guarantee.

Gif-wise, I can't say I've had anyone be mean about my gifs, specifically - at least, not that I'm aware? I did have one person being shady as fuck at me about my alt texts and captions, but they got summarily blocked. I've had at least three people thank me in their tags for "bothering" to do alt texts (wild considering how unhinged mine can get), so that makes up for the one person who sucked.

Someone did inbox me today to tell me my OFTS/Ray sets are coloured prettily (was that you?? Lmao. Two anons in two days is unprecedented on this blog), which is a lovely thing to say.

I also still very often think of this post, which someone submitted to a Teen Wolf fandom confessions blog. That post is 10 years old and still absolutely floors me. I hope the person who submitted it is living well.