I'm just going to have an unsolicited rant about A03 etiquette on here for a moment, because unfortunately for me the person who commented this logged in as a guest so I'm not sure if responding to them on A03 would notify them.
Nothing makes my day like receiving a comment on A03, and I love you all. I try and respond back to everyone (even if I am a bit slow sometimes). Nice comments keep me motivated to write and lets me know that you all want to see more from me.
Which makes it very disappointing when I open my phone to receive a notification like this.
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I have no words.
It's not like it's a relevant insult to the fic. They havn't explained themselves. I don't get it.
I expect this behaviour from the Star Wars fandom unfortunately, it is why I left it. The good news with the Star Wars fandom is nine times out of ten you are commenting at an adult, this fandom randomly commenting things like this is more likely to find a child's ears.
I am aware of this. I try not to swear in my fics, I overwarn for adult content. I respect the fandom space I am in.
Luckily, I am an adult, but imagine for the moment this sort of comment was sent to a child who could be posting on A03. I posted on A03 as a child, comments like this in the Star Wars fandom were why I stopped writing for several years before falling in love with it again in this fandom.
This is a child's fandom. If you found my fic through this website, and this was you who left this comment I strongly suggest that you think before you comment. When I was a child, I was suicidal, receiving a comment to graphically kill myself on something I have spent at least 40 hours writing and editing would not have been great for my mental health at that age. Luckily I am old enough to just be angry about someone having the gall to post something like that rather than take it to heart.
This is a memo to take the words of Thumper to heart.
In other words, thanks for everyone who has left lovely comments on my writing. I'll get back to you all later when I have calmed down.
If this comment, or comments like it, were made by you, you should feel very bad about it.
This isn't a PA against leaving comments on my fics, I really do love them. They make my day when they're not comments like this.
