So I just got a super nice comment on one of my older long fics that I finished in 2024. Now, I don't get comments often for various reasons, but I got lucky today and just wanted to go through the spectrum of emotions i went through in real time (because it was kinda a bummer):
Sees email from ao3 and assumes its an update to a fic I'm subscribed to
Checks subject, oh no, it's a comment on chapter 6 of the last angel. Scrunches nose. Thats an odd chapter for a bot to leave a comment on...
Opens email and checks name, not one I know. Definitely a bot.
Scans comment for all the tells, the rehashing of the summary or just a plot beat by plot beat recounting of the story thus far. Nope, this one's not that. Hmmm.
Reads the words. Oh, this is nice, this is really nice. Starts to hope but assumes the last line is going to be "my discord is xxxxoooo come find me" or something like that. Nope
Is this... is this a REAL comment!? Holy shit.
JOYYYYY
It's rough out there in these streets right now guys with all the bots so please feed your fic authors with comments big or small, with words or just key smashes. One comment will literally make their entire day.






















