#pocketlass

...tell me more about this korean boyband survival reality show

“I am a person who writes paragraphs of praise in the comments of my...”

i tend to treat my bookmarks like rec posts, so rather than talking directly to the author i'm selling future readers on the fic. of course i comment what i love on the fic itself too

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“I am a person who writes paragraphs of praise in the comments of my...”

and for me, since fic comments are like talking directly to the author, my comment tone is more...restrained, i guess? making sure my words make sense and that i don't confuse the author. whereas my bookmark notes are like squawking incoherently in the margins of a notebook and it's more about getting the ~feels~ across rather than stringing together logical sentences

I send incoherent squawks to authors all the time :D. I know that Ao3 has the ‘bookmark as rec’ feature, so it makes sense that this is why you would comment that way as part of the bookmark. 

I still agree with @notcaycepollard that people should be completely aware that their bookmark comments are public unless they deliberately make them private, though, as I am sure several people don’t know this. 

One time I received a really sweet comment from someone that was incredibly effusive. It was glowingly complimentary and I patted myself on the back for a job well done. Then they bookmarked the fic and wrote “2 out of 5. I didn’t completely buy that the main character would act that way. Some good dialogue but clunky exposition. Enjoyable but not memorable.” 

You can imagine that I found myself wondering why they had commented so favorably when that wasn’t how they truly felt.

   HONESTLY like how could they expect us to believe joan was attracted to that…….it’s just not realistic   

ah yes, the iconic scene where finn needs a weapon and maz tells him "you have one!!" and then finn destroys the stormtroops and also kylo ren with the power of his ~SARCASM~~~

he eats people betsy

literally the entire meteora album is an anakin playlist

   “we’re older and we were here first so fandom is ours not yours!!!!!!!!!!!!!” and then they have the gall to claim /young/ fans are the entitled ones

^^^^!!!!!! their entitlement is fucking laughable, it’s a goddamn joke. but no it’s the young ones that have the entitlement problem. lmao k.

like you think just ‘cause you’ve been running this game long before me I’m just gonna blindly respect you and y’all’s iron fist over how things used to be? who the fuck do you think I am lmao