You Too, The Loveliest, Jiminie 💖💖💖 30 DAYSSSS OMG

ive also heard abt replying to comments as artificial cumment inflation

and also, a fic of mine that has a bestiality tag on it is getting overlooked (compared to my other ones) and it makes me feel that theres this disconnect between "pwp/wank material readers" and every other vanilla reader to add to the fact that the hits are alright, so ppl maybe feel ashamed or something to kudo/comment, which is nuts.

I just want crazy porn, good writing and community. isnt that what ao3 is abt? 🌈🫶

One thing I feel like the Ao3 community lacks compared to other sites, especially Brazilian fanfic websites which was part of my cultural upbringing as a Brazilian writer, is responding to comments.

Sometimes I’ll see a fic with a lot of comments and the author rarely replies anything, even to the bigger ones. This is something I personally had difficulty adjusting when I moved to ao3 from Spirit Fanfics, the Brazilian fanfic website I used to post on.

You guys don’t have a culture of replying to comments and I think you miss a lot by not doing so. A lot of my greatest friends were found by talking in the comment section of fics, whether they were mine or replying to my comment, and it’s very nice to engage with readers and authors in that way. I feel like ao3 doesn’t have much of this and I have the feeling Wattpad isn’t much different.

I get very happy when an author replies to a comment I’ve made and it makes me more excited to actively engage with what they write, knowing it could start a conversation where we both gush about the media talked about and the fic itself. But for every comment I leave, there’s a bunch of people that end up never replying, especially those with bigger fics (which partially I understand cause they get a lot of comments and it gets hard to manage every single one, but still) and it’s kinda disappointing.

I’m not trying to say the author owes the commenter a response for their comment, but I do think it could improve the influx of them by engaging with the readers in that section. It’s very often I see fics with lots of comments but absolutely no reply from the author. At best it’s a “thank you for commenting” on the start of the next chapter and that’s it. It’s a nice thing but still, generic thanks. It’s not much to gush about and have a bigger interpersonal connection with.

Maybe I’m just steamrolling here or maybe I’m too Brazilian for gringo culture, but I think y’all are missing out on some great experiences by not engaging more with comments, whether it be between author-reader or reader-reader.

this is amazing

the suffering never ends

im always suuuuper chill when i see that service unavailable page

so beautiful...

Hi everyone it's trans day of visibility!! If ya feel like it, I'd love if you shared my work.. My name is Rachamim and I make personal queer fantasy work inspired by my Greek Sephardi background.

It's what always kept me going through my hardest periods of illness and instability and I feel very lucky to still be here sharing with y'all. If ya want links of where/how else you can support my work they're all here!! Thank you!

sometimes you need dialogue tags and don't want to use the same four

my imagination's running wild wth these ck pics 💜💚 like, criminal au were bad boy jk is the primary suspect to detective kim's imvestigation and such >///<

The “That’s immoral you shouldn’t write that, we need to get that taken down” discourse on tiktok right now is PISSING ME OFFF

Wdym you want censorship for a literal ARCHIVE are you fucking stupid

Ao3 was literally founded to preserve works that were largely getting taken down due to censorship

Censorship is the opposite of what Archive of Our Own stands for

The TAGS and WARNINGS are there for a REASON. Use them and stop complaining

The universal rule—don’t like, don’t read

It’s THAT simple

It is not the prettiest but here is a little chart I made of skin tones.

The idea is to eye-drop anywhere on the chart to get a unique skin tone instead of getting stuck in the loop of “white, tan, dark”.

I tried to leave Kudos on a fic that was already deleted (i had the tab open) and I was expecting it to just bug out or not work but this is so much more unsettling