Awesomesauce2929 - RikieIrina

What happened to him? 🤔

(But for real he looks like little Korn with that hair)

Mwehehe

Dragonball Z Asks

Favourites 1. character 2. male character 3. female character 4. villain 5. transformation 6. battle 7. arc 8. series 9. moment 10. pairing 11. duo or group 12. technique 13. quote 14. animal 15. movie A scene that made you… 16. laugh 17. cry 18. get pumped up Which character is the… 19. smartest 20. strongest 21. funniest 22. sexiest 23. most overrated 24. most underrated 25. most annoying Non-Canon Favourites 26. character 27. series 28. fanfiction 29. pairing Least Favourite 30. character 31. arc 32. series 33. pairing 34. technique

I have done my assessment, my studies are finishing this Friday then freedom until January

Save a fanfic writer, leave comments on old fics

There is this a peculiar set of reasons and biases when it comes to NOT commenting on AO3.

They are all false, but here they are:

Do not comment on old fics

Do not comment on each chapter of a multichapter

Do not comment if the author left the fandom

Do not comment if the author doesn’t respond to comments

It can be summoned up as DO NOT ACT LIKE YOU ENJOYED THE WORK AND YOU LIKE THE AUTHOR.

It comes from the idea, that if you leave a comment on my old work, or leave too many comments, I will think you are strange, clingy, and gross.

Readers are imagining it as commenting on an old Facebook photo — only your granny and creepy strangers do that.

That is not the case with AO3.

Writers put their works there for long-term storage, and we expect, wish, and hope that you will like our works and tell us about it.

This all very interesting, not, but why should I care?

This has awful consequences.  Fanfic authors feel constant pressure to create more and crippling fear of being forgotten, useless, and being literally kicked away from fandom.

I’m online friends with a few great fandom authors, who wrote storied with thousands of kudos, but ALL of them at some point expressed this fear. Very talented people told me, “I’m not sure if I should have ‘writer’ in my bio. I didn’t post anything new in the last half of a year.”

Some young or entitled readers might say, “Hm, well, they are right. They should create MORE to be relevant. Isn’t that a good thing to push authors to write more?”

For better or worse, life doesn’t work like that. We are talking about real people, who go to real schools, have real jobs, families, and all the other important things outside the fandom. Some of them might push to create more from that fear, but most would only get more frustrated and depressed about the whole fanfic writing.

So, please, if you like the work comment on it.

Even if it’s old, even if it’s a multichapter, even if the author doesn’t have time and energy to interact. Especially in all those cases.

Encourage your authors, and show them your support.

Re practising my hiragana again after two years of break and I forget everything. I’m practising them since yesterday. I hope I can learn them all before December ends hehehe