Yeah, there he is.

A fandom is like a community garden; the plants and trees are fanworks, the paths and benches are structures like ao3 and kinkmemes and themed weeks or months. Comments, and kudos? Those are fertiliser. You don’t necessarily see them at work, but they make the trees grow stronger and the flowers bloom brighter. When you comment on a fic or piece of fanart, you are nourishing our shared garden and helping to make the soil fertile for future works.

I want commenters to feel proud of that contribution. Whether you turn up with a wheelbarrow of the stuff to tip on your favourite flowerbed or just drop a heart emoji in the donations box, you are helping to make the soil richer, the garden more beautiful.

And you know what? Sometimes you need to just sit in the garden without feeling obliged to do anything to maintain it. That’s okay. It’s your garden too! As an author, I don’t want people coming to my stories with a sense of obligation; I want them to be able to enjoy them and be restored by them. If they don’t have the energy to comment right now, that’s okay.

But a comment isn’t the price of an entry ticket to someone else’s garden; it’s an investment in your garden, in your community. You won’t always see it bear fruit, won’t always know what part of the whole it helped grow. But you can know what you put in, and feel proud of being part of the team nourishing and maintaining this wonderful space we all share.

Chicon 2025 main panel, last question

THEY TOTALLY GET US.

Go vote for our boys to win this group in a massive ship tournament.

VOTE HERE

“she was just...perfect. everything that i wanted” -> “oxytocin…hormone that’s produced during sex…people call it the love hormone. you know how it feels when you first fall in love” -> “they all described their stripper in the same way, the exact same way. perfect, and everything that they wanted” -> “you know, it’s almost like they were under some kinda love spell” -> “so whatever floats the guy’s boat, that’s what they look like?” -> “so it could all be the same chick? morphing into, uh, to different dream girls?” -> “do you think, she infects the men during sex?” -> nick munroe turns into an adoring, submissive little brother to seduce dean and dean is shown to be very pleased with it -> dean takes a swig from his hip flask and offers it to munroe. munroe drinks and hands it back. dean takes another swig -> “i should be your little brother” -> “i gave him what he needed. and it wasn’t some bitch in a g-string. it was you. a little brother that looked up to him” -> “is that why you’re slutting all over town?” -> “i get bored, like we all do. and i wanna fall in love again”

now add the fact that all the infected men fucked their siren before killing their loved ones. also it’s very interesting that all the victims were women, and sam was blatantly paralleled to one of them at the beginning of the episode