not to be controversial bc I know this is like…not in line with shifting opinions on fanfic comment culture but if there’s a glaring typo in my work I will NOT be offended by pointing it out. if ao3 fucks up the formatting…I will also not be offended by having this pointed out…
‘looking forward to the next update’ and ‘I hope you update soon!’ are different vibes than a demand, and should be read in good faith because a reader is finding their way to tell you how much they love it. I will not be mad at this.
‘I don’t usually like this ship but this fic made me feel something’ is also incredibly high praise. I’m not going to get mad at this.
even ‘I love this fic but I’m curious about why you made [x] choice’ is just another way a reader is engaging in and putting thought into your work.
I just feel like a lot of authors take any comment that’s not perfectly articulated glowing praise in the exact manner they’re hoping to receive it in bad faith.
fic engagement has been dropping across the board over the last several years, and yes it’s frustrating but it isn’t as though I can’t see how it happens. comment anxiety can be a real thing. the last thing anyone wants to do is offend an author they love, and that means sometimes people default to silence.
idk where I’m going with this I guess aside from saying unless a comment is outright attacking me I’m never going to get mad at it, and I think a lot of authors should feel the same way. ESPECIALLY TYPOS PLZ GOD POINT OUT MY TYPOS.
I love the NATM fandom because as soon as one person posts fanart all of the NATM blogs are rebloging it. I have the same fanart pop up on my dash six times and I love it so much! We’re such a tight knit community and it makes me so happy!!!
Thank you for the icons!!!! These are my partner and I’s matching tt accounts now!
Matching icons for you and the bf!
picture this:
you, your husband, your bestie, and your bestie’s husband decide to make a band together and y’all are so popular!! Y’all go to Eurovision and rock it!!! Your song are so popular, even though you’re a European band there are people in America who love your music! Then, in the middle of your career, you and your husband get a divorce, soon after, your bestie and her husband get a divorce! Surely the band will split? But y’all and just so popular you make the decision to stay together, but what will your next so be about? You and bestie are still so devastated by the divorces, and you don’t exactly love your ex-husband’s new gf, so you do what any sane person does, write the next song about how hard your divorce is and how you hope the new girl is half as good as you were. And. Your. (Ex)Husbands. Are. Still. In. The. Band.
Could you imagine that?! You could?
Here’s the wild part, you’ve just imagined ABBA
got a ceiling fan installed in my room, and suddenly I’m on fight or flight mode when I’m trying to sleep because I turned it on before I went to bed and now something is making noises but I can’t see what and it’s probably some monster in my closet
Just started writing, decided the OC will end up with George, but there’ll be a lil OC x John sprinkled in just for kicks (chat I’m so excited to be writing again)
how badly would y’all judge me if I wrote a Beatles x OC fanfic where my OC was the 5th Beatle (and gets with either John or George I can’t decide)
Had a hot second where I thought Curious George was trending because every other post on my dash was about the series only to realize that no, it’s not trending, a NATM blog I’m following just keeps rebloging curious George posts
(this is all your fault @secretly-larry-daley /j)
I have a few blogs that I follow where their owners live in the UK, and I’ve been hearing quite a lot about the election. From what I’m hearing their democracy is falling apart not too much unlike ours (stupid America) but I don’t fully understand what’s happening. I am a firm believer that in order to properly talk about or support something political you should understand the entire political situation, so could a UK blog explain what’s going on to me?
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