I Try My Best To Do This Because It's Really Discouraging To Just See A Bunch Of Likes With Very Few

I try my best to do this because it's really discouraging to just see a bunch of likes with very few comments and reblogs... It's like I didn't make enough of an impact or I didn't do a good enough job on the story and that's why barely anyone says anything.. Even random rambling or keyboard mashes is enough, I just wanna see if you've really read and appreciated my work. Not just stumbled into it and 'liked' it to bookmark it before ultimately forgetting about it.

Please, interact with the authors of the fanfics you love. It makes us really happy and encourages us to make more.

IMPORTANT PSA

I told ao3, so now I'm here to tell you all.

I do see your comments and your reblogs, but I don't always respond. I try, but sometimes life just gets in the way or I completely forget for days or weeks. Sometimes, by the time I actually remember or see the comment, it's disrespectful to even respond because it's so late.

There is no such time as too late to respond to comments and reblogs. It may take a while, but most people, I've found, are pretty understanding. At least, that's what I've seen while reading comments on other stories.

Fandom culture is, for some reason, falling back onto this theory that everyone just knows what everyone else is thinking and it's sad. Interaction between everyone who creates and consumes is falling quickly and steadily.

Artists of all kinds are getting kicked in the ass because of the rise of AI creations. We're being kicked while we're down because people are seeing our stuff, we know they are, but they're not communicating with us.

I can guarantee that commenting and rebloging and tagging will motivate artists much more than you think.

I've heard stories (one of them my own) of people giving up on stories or whole art pieces because people weren't communicating or interacting with them.

I've heard stories where people have picked up pieces that they hadn't touched in years because someone commented on their work.

Fandom Culture has become less of a community and more of a consumer base. It's disappointing, to say the least.

I was born in 2004 and raised on old fandoms and fandom culture. I didn't jump into it until 2017, but even then was so much better to post and write because people were leaving comments about their favorite parts or compliments and keyboard smashes.

New people coming into fandom culture aren't getting the true experience that a lot of us grew up on and in. They're coming into a place closer to window shopping than an actual library.

2020 was largely the cause of this when huge amounts of people entered fandom culture because there was nothing else for them to do. But they're not all to blame. We didn't do a good enough job teaching them the proper etiquette. But it's not too late.

Lesson number one is to comment. Never post a hate comment and never give critique unless it's asked for.

THIS IS THE FIRST THING I SEE WHEN I ROUSE FROM MY SLUMBER?!?! ASAGIRI WHAT IN THE EVER LOVING CRAcK ARE YOU HIGH ON?!?!?

Pls tell me that Bram is coming back I will shank you sjcbjfjsksncjsnaknanxo– 😭

Mikhail Bulgakov, The Master and Margarita (1967) Kafka Asagiri, Bungo Stray Dogs chapter 114.5 (2024)

VERLAINE GET YOUR CRUSTY ASS OUT OF THE BASEMENT BOI WE NEED YOUUUUUUU

Verlaine...it's time to get ur ass UP this shit is getting Serious now...

it's gotta be Verlaine and Chuuya vs resurrected Fukuchi and Dazai vs Fyodor bc i can't have Chuuya within 10 feet of that anemic freak

I'M LAUGHING-DYING RIGHT NOW HAJDHCHBDJSNSJBXJSKSBXJ—

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So I was explaining the skk ship to a friend of mine that hasn't touched any bsd material yet but is a fan of Dazai because of tiktoks, I told her how I find it funny that 30k+ stories out of the 70k+ bsd ffs in ao3 has the soukoku ship tagged in it.

Me: –It's so hilarious to think that their ship is so much more famous even though none of them are the main protagonists—

Her: Wait, Dazai isn't the protagonist?

Me: Kh– Wait wait wait did you think that Dazai was the main protagonist?!

Her: Yeah! Everytime I see bsd in tiktok, its always Dazai in there

I then had to go to the official wiki to prove that Dazai isn't the main protagonist even though at this point he might as well be.

Her: But if it's not those two then who's the protag then??

Me: Omfg– it's Atsushi! *Googles a picture to show her* This one!

Her: Ohhhh.... I thought this guy was a side-side character..

I just covered my face with my hands because the disrespect for poor sushi is so funny to me, not even just a side character but a side-side one😭

This is foul, Daddy Bram got Rat-ified😭

What kind of magical girl transformation is this 😭😭😭

Poh-tah-toh