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⌈ Secret Post #3317 ⌋

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[D.Gray-man - Miranda Lotto]

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[The Thick of It]

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[Golden Kamui]

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(The Lost Boys)

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[@midnight with Chris Hardwick]

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These comments are so effing disgusting. Not just the entitlement, but the way some of you view (and treat) fanfiction authors in general. Writing is hard and stressful and time-consuming. Sharing your work with the public is positively nerve-wrecking. How hard is it to show your thanks by leaving a small comment? How long do you think it took the author to write that 5k, 10k, 20k, 100k story? And ya’ll are telling me you can’t even take a few seconds or a minute to leave a comment? Really? Wow. Just, wow.

Authors love comments. Love them. Even short ones. You have the opportunity to make them happy, to make them smile, to reassure them that what they wrote is being enjoyed, but you’re too lazy or petty to do so. You can spend minutes and hours and days reading and enjoying the works they put their everything into, but you can’t spend a single minute letting them know you enjoyed it.

What is wrong with you people? Is this seriously the kind of world we live in, where you can’t even manage a heartfelt thanks to someone who gave you something nice? Or at least, not without expecting *them* to thank you for thanking them? How is that in any way okay?
I’m so, so disgusted right now. I’ve always known fanfiction authors were underappreciated, but I never realized how much they were. And how entitled their readers are, to expect something from them and yet want to give nothing in return.

The same kind of world where asking for a reply to a long, well thought out is entitlement and where kudos and short comments are akin to an insult.

Because apparently authors are people whose feelings matter, but readers are... I'm not sure at this point.

This whole "but think in the authors" thing is nice, because sure as hell, writers aren't appreciated enough, but readers are also people and fandom was build on fans interacting with each other, so putting one group on a pedestal while insisting everyone else doesn't even deserve a "thanks to everyone for commenting" is off putting.

I'm enjoying reading your hilarious, melodramatic, entitled comments throughout this thread.

no one owes you a comment, sis. if you want to be rewarded for writing, gtfo of fandom and start selling original work.

1) I've left approx. 3 comments so far, bub. I'm not the only one who feels strongly about this, the only one who respects fic authors.
2) You're right, readers don't owe authors anything. The same way you don't owe someone your thanks when they give you a present--particularly one you enjoyed. But you thank them anyway, because it's the right thing to do.

if you want to be rewarded for writing, gtfo of fandom and start selling original work.

That's the stupidest shit I've ever heard. You're a moron. A legit moron the likes of which I haven't come across in a while.

It's not about being rewarded. It's about being acknowledged. It's about being appreciated. It's about putting your work out there and not being made to feel like it's all pointless, like what you're doing is pointless, like you're just wasting your time.

Most artists feel this way. No one likes creating something for someone and being ignored.

If you can't appreciate your fanfic authors and artists for everything they do, then you don't deserve to read/view it. End of story. I read all my fics on my Kindle and I still take the time to go back to wherever the fic was hosted and leave kudos/comments if I enjoyed it.

I don't understand why this is such a hard concept to grasp, or why people here are trying to justify being selfish.

NAYRT

You are the one changing the thread titles and larding your comments with profanities and insults. I'm not clutching my pearls over "naughty language" but your style is pretty obvious.

JFC. How hard is it for some of the entitled authors in this thread to understand that most of us are both authors AND readers? We're not coming at this with no understanding whatsoever of what it's like to stand in a reader's shoes.

I am a prolific-ish author on AO3 in both big and small fandoms. I do not find it "positively nerve-wracking" to share my work with the public. I find it rewarding. If I didn't, I wouldn't post it. Oh, and I've got an anxiety disorder, too, so don't ASS-ume you speak for me as either an author or as a person with anxiety issues.

Also? I enjoyed writing that 5k, 10k, 20k, 100k story. It feels good when I write. Otherwise I wouldn't do it. I hope other people like my writing -- and, yes, if I never got a single comment or kudos, I'd probably stop. I'm there for the interaction. But I'm not writing solely to get attention. I could be doing other things I enjoyed more if that were the case.

Yes, I love comments. I especially love long, chatty comments. However, I also like kudos, and I'm not precisely bugged if someone leaves me kudos but doesn't comment. I sometimes don't comment on other people's fics if I have nothing to say about them. The kudos button means "I liked this." It is feedback. It is just as good as writing "Thank you for writing this" or "I liked this."

In short, as an author, I find tantrummy, bratty authors like you highly embarrassing, and I don't need you defending me.

SA: 1st paragraph should read "in an author's shoes," sorry.

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