Okay I Was In-between Quests, So I'm Doing Zaeed's Personal Quest Now

Okay I was in-between quests, so I'm doing Zaeed's personal quest now

Finally playing Mass Effect again! I'm still on 2 and I don't really remember where I left off, so this should be interesting 😅

Leliana for the Six Fanarts challenge ^ ^

Okay so I have been watching one of my friends play through Gotham Knights, and I am OBSESSED with Harley's design in this game!! Some spoilers for Gotham Knights ahead:

Harley has 3 outfits in this game, and they're all incredible, but her boss battle outfit??? Amazing! Impeccable!

I think one of the things that makes me so obsessed with this particular look is that sure it's a boss villain outfit, but you can absolutely tell that they paid attention to how it's actually put together! Just the little details of the sweater as the base layer that you can see the pattern of the knit, and the lacing that goes up the arms???

Ah okay it makes a bit more sense now!

as the crazy person with over 3,000 fics on AO3, who just hit over 2,000,000 hits, i have done... The Math

roughly 5% of readers leave kudos.

0.27% of people leave a comment.

truly, i GET that a lot of people, especially younger people who grew up on youtube and are living on tiktok, see "opening the page and viewing with their eyeballs" engagement in itself. but a) it's not, for fanfiction, that's not how it works; and b) "engagement" does not build a community -- interaction builds a community.

if you like someone's fanfiction, and you want more of that fanfiction, please react to it in some tangible way. leave a kudo. leave a comment. let the writer know that you didn't open it, see the first sentence, and decide it was garbage. let the writer know that you aren't a bot that trawls every webpage for AI content. let the writer know that their work is appreciated.

the point of fandom is to be a community, not a content engine. if people stop feeling like people are being reached with their work, they stop creating work for that fandom and move onto the next. there's a lot to be said for the way binge-model TV is killing fandoms prematurely... but there's a LOT to be said for the way infinite-scrolling consumption is killing fandoms prematurely.

if everyone binges a show on friday and feels weird about reacting to fics posted longer than a week ago/doesn't react to the fics they read at all, that fandom is dying out in about a month, max. even though there are probably a lot of people who would love to discuss it with someone or create more work or finish and post a WIP or whatever. because no actual community is created by consumption alone.

reading a fic is only step one.

reacting to a fic is the crucial step two of the equation.

step three is the fandom proliferating! and you getting more stuff to enjoy!

Wtfffffff why do all these scientists make such bad decisions?????? Do not experiment on VI or on Geth, but it's an exceptionally bad idea to do BOTH IN THE SAME FACILITY!!!

I always wondered what would happen if everyone’s translators broke down