Unapologetically Me. It took a while but I made it

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Nothing beats the feeling when you start getting comments on every fic in a fandom or ship from one person, and it’s clear that they’re going on a fic-binge. 

Wait writers like this?

Easiest way to make a writer smile! It’s how I learn usernames and start up conversations these days!

I’m always petrified that I’m going to look like a crazy stalker!

We all love this kind of stalker.

please do this, the author will adore you.

100% can confirm, even if it’s an older fic you should never be afraid to leave a comment or kudos, it will make us smile :)

What kind of monster convinced you that you weren’t allowed to express your appreciation for the things you enjoy to the people who created said things?

Most of my 15+ year old internet friendships began with a deluge of fic comments. @ussjellyfish wrote me a story based on an off-handed comment in a mutual’s lj thread before we met! There is nothing like waking up to multiple emails from AO3, or getting through a tedious workday as the emails appear one by one. That’s how we built community.

idk if this is a young fan thing or new fandom culture but some of yall think fics are abandoned way too quickly. a few months or a year or two is not unusual to go without a fic update. sometimes fics take longer to write, other times writers have rl events, or maybe there's multiple fics and one gets more priority. there are tons of reasons for fics not to be updated every week or every month. it also isn't uncommon for people to come back and update fics after a number of years—ive read updates that took five, or ten years. people's lives change, but they still want to tell their stories. personally, i never consider a fic abandoned unless the author has said so; though if it's been a few years i manage my expectations. but a last update being a year ago is... generally not a sign that a writer has abandoned their fic

That! Exactly that!!! Writers have lives and writing is hard! It takes time. Stop assuming fics are abandoned!

Original fic usually goes through this same process before being commercially published. Readers just don't know that bc they aren't receiving it in bite-size chunks online. Large periods of stagnant writing are historically just another Monday for most writers.

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