#commentathon

As promised, we bring to you a small event to celebrate both the Holidays as well as Portgas D Ace x Vinsmoke Ichiji reaching 100 fanfics on AO3 ❤️🧡👏🤩

💥The Comment Marathon! 🔥

(aka The Commentathon Bingo)

What does it consist of? It's simple: starting from today to Dec 31st, we encourage you to go have fun on AcexIchiji's AO3 tag, read some fanfics, and fill up the Bingo Card by leaving comments!

How do I win? Theres two ways and it's your choice: By filling up a line or the whole sheet!

Only Comments Left Starting Today Count.

TAG! YOU'RE IT!! We challenge you to comment on 5 or more fics from the choices below, then tag 5 or more other people to spread the love! Be sure to BOLD the numbers that you do when you reblog this post(and share the fics / comments if you'd like!) You don't have to be tagged to complete the challenge!

1. The very first wilmon fic you read 2. The 5th fic you bookmarked 3. The 50th fic you bookmarked 4. Find a fic with no comments and write something you liked 5. Write a comment that's 50(+) words long on a fic of your choice 7. Sort and filter by 'Title.' Leave a comment on a fic with a title that starts with the first letter of your first name. 8. Sort fic by 'Author'. Leave a comment on a fic by an author that starts with the first letter of your last name. 9. The very last wilmon fic you read 10. Go to a number generator. Set the upper limit as 250. Sort any way you like and go to the 'works' page with that number. Leave a comment on a fic of your choice. 11. Find a fic with 5 or fewer comments and write something you liked about it 12. Find a WIP with 10k or fewer words and leave an encouraging comment 13. Find a WIP that was last updated over a year ago and leave an encouraging comment 14. Find a fic with less than 5 kudos and write something you liked 15. RANDOM!! Leave a random comment and share what you chose!

Only three days to go, folks! :D

Our extension of the Ichiruki Commentathon will end on January 31st - which means that you still have three whole days left to participate in the event.

If you are looking for something to read, remember that we have many recs available in our blog! Also, take a look at our Saint Lucy’s Day challenge for inspiration: leaving a review on a fic with zero comments is a sure-fire way to make someone very happy!

Finally, don’t forget to check Ao3 and fanfiction.net for all of the latest Ichiruki stories: new writers and new fics are always in need of encouragement and support!

As always, details about the event and prizes can be found here - while instructions on how to send us your spreadsheet can be found here.

Okay. So people who have known me for a while here probably have noticed that every time I have a bout of self/fandom negativity, I try to counter it after with a bunch of possitive/self-affirming actions, because I believe in karma and that kindness is a performative action. And since is summer and therefore my duty-load is lighter, and inspired by @memorizingthedigitsofpi‘s great Comment Squad, I decided to set a goal for myself to leave 200 comments in AO3 from now till classes start again in March.

Now, I could have decided to do this all by my lonesome and you all would be none the wiser, but I ended up deciding to share this for some reasons:

I’ve seen many of my friends/mutuals here complaining about lack of feedback in their fanworks, particularly their fics, and I want to make a statement about this and also do something to change this, even if with my small two cents. As they say, you have to be the change you want to see in the world.

Maybe some of you want to do something like this too! You can set your own goal, and nobody will care if you don’t reach it. Whatever you do, not matter how small, can be a step in the right direction to forge a kinder, more positive fandom for all of us.  

I will try to keep a masterlist of the fics I have commented (try being the key word here); not only for counting purposes, but because maybe you can find something you like too and make the comment-amplifier begin!

I want people to recommend me fics in AO3 (if you have them, send tumblr links too, so I can also reblog them!). Your friends’, your own, your favourites. I don’t care if they are old or new, popular or not (I might not choose the longer ones, because reasons, but send them anyway! I wil save them for later). I have a long-ass list of fics to read (and ~90 in my kindle I have read already and still didn’t get around to comment), so I can’t guarantee I will read everything you send me, but I will try, especially if it can help boost someone who is feeling a little down about their writing/lack of response to their works. (Here is a list of my ships, but I’m fairly flexible.) Therefore:

Please, signal boost/share this if you want!

I’m tagging a couple writers I follow, in case you want to send something my way- hope you don’t mind. Feel free to add people!

@for-within-the-hollow-crown , @nerdlove4thewin ,  @whentheskyequakes , @buskidsburgade , @kienova66 , @marvelthismarvelthat , @theclaravoyant , @buckysbears , @the-nerdy-stjarna , @ladymissandei ,  @agentofserenity , @unlessimwrongwhichyouknowimnot , @loved-the-stars-too-fondly.

(Also, @aosficnet2, @thefitzsimmonsnetwork, @bsquadbrigade, maybe I can get a signal boost too?)

Ft. Regina

Swan Queen • Dragon Queen  ‌•  Red Queen  ‌•  Beauty Queen • Regina/Marian • Regina/Tinker Bell • “Hyde” Evil Queen/Emma • “Hyde” Evil Queen/Regina/Emma  •  Dragon Swan Queen  • Red Swan Queen

Ft. Emma

Swan Queen • Dragon Swan  • Red Swan  •  Swan Beauty  •  Wicked Swan  • Frozen Swan  • Emma/Lily  • “Hyde” Evil Queen/Emma • “Hyde” Evil Queen/Regina/Emma  •  Dragon Swan Queen  • Red Swan Queen

Ft. Red

Red Beauty  •  Red Warrior  •  Red Kansas  •  Red Wicked  •  Red Snow  • Red Swan Queen

Misc.

Day One: Overlooked Gems - June 1, 2026

stories with no comments; stores with less than 100 kudos; stories in fandoms with less than 1000 fics, stories about a main character or pairing that makes up less than 5% of a fandom’s output

One of the things I always admired about Ruby was her ability to find something to praise in stories I might not think were very good. While I might click away or not finish them, Ruby understood that a new artist of any kind is someone who needs to be nurtured.

We all know why a story might not have a high comment or kudo count. But that story, Ruby knew, was still written by a person. And when she would reach into her giant heart and give that person praise, she was building her community just a little larger. Maybe that person would get her comment and write again, and again, and hone their muscle. Maybe they’d become great, or maybe they would just find a fun hobby they enjoyed. Either way, Ruby could be part of that growth. And how many of us were encouraged by her along the way? How many of us improved because she believed in us?

She also was a voracious reader and a member of a truly shocking number of fandoms in her life. So shining a light on smaller fandoms seems to be appropriate. Who knows, maybe if you go and read something in a fandom you’ve never seen before, you might end up enjoying it and staying?

And finally, rarepairs and underserved characters. We’ve all been in fandom, we know what characters and pairings are likely to be underserved. Characters of color. F/F ships. PolyShips in all their forms and configurations. All things that Ruby appreciated and all things that represent parts of who she was, as a poly, queer woman of color. I know she always wanted to see more love for characters who looked like her.

Ruby was also what the kids today would call a proshipper, a believer in IDIC and YKINMKATO. She loved to see people exploring the canon and the characters, and took great joy in reading something new and unexpected. She was overjoyed to see rarepairs in her fandoms, and I wanted to celebrate that part of her.

If you have any ideas for fandoms, pairings, or specific fics that will meet the brief, feel free to drop them in the comments! Help people find things you love!

As a reminder, there are no police of this week. No one is going to tell you that you did a bad job because a ship wasn’t rare enough or a story low comment enough. The point is positivity and community. The prompts are guidelines, you won’t be punished for not doing something perfectly.

stores in the original fiction tag; stories that rely on a canon that isn’t firm such as mythology, Goncherov, Humans are Space Orcs, or Athropomorfic; stories that make you go “Huh? Huh!”

Infinite Diversity in Infinite Combinations

Ny wrote so much, and she wrote so many different things. I mentioned in Day 2 that she has 124 fandoms tagged on AO3, and a number of them are Original Fiction, fairy tales, myths and legends. She loved stories that could surprise her, and she loved those weird moments when people came together to make a new canon out of nowhere.

So your mission for day three is to find a canon that isn’t set in stone. Mythologies are a great start- if you want to honor Ny, we all know how much she loved the Minoans, but anything passed down as oral history would do. Anything that varies from place to place or person to person.

Folktales are good for this. And one of the things I think Ny took glee in was the way that sometimes a community comes together to just…make up a story together. Things like Goncharov, Humans Are Space Orcs, or Anthropomorfic.

Ny also loved a story twist. Something that surprised a reader as voracious as Ny is rare and wonderful, and she took joy in it. Look for fics told in unusual ways - interactive fiction, original comics, games, other unusual and wonderful ways that people have interacted with their favorite canons.