[ SECRET POST #4915 ]

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⌈ Secret Post #4915 ⌋

Warning: Some secrets are NOT worksafe and may contain SPOILERS.


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Notes:

Secrets Left to Post: 03 pages, 62 secrets from Secret Submission Post #704.
Secrets Not Posted: [ 0 - broken links ], [ 0 - not!secrets ], [ 0 - not!fandom ], [ 0 - too big ], [ 0 - repeat ].
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Comments

[(Anonymous)]

idk about other authors but I literally never keep track of who comments or kudos various fics or how often. I appreciate every acknowledgment of a reader and respond when it warrants, but I ain't keeping score or agonizing over whether or not azuredragon420 has read my most recent post. and frankly if there IS an author out there who's keeping track and would actually get mad because azuredragon420 hasn't appeared to place a kudo or comment today is not the kind of author I'd want to support.

relax, op. unless you're actually friends with the person and you two intimately know each other's usernames, chances are better than zero that the author wouldn't know your username from a hole in the ground and hasn't noticed if you didn't comment yet. and if you ARE friends, then you have a much more open ground to mention things like anxiety or whatever. otherwise just live your life and give it a kudo for now.

[silverr]

^^^ all of this.

[(Anonymous)]

I think a lot of authors do notice it. At least authors who don't get 50 comments on every new chapter. I certainly notice it. I'm not getting mad if someone doesn't comment (and I never notice who gave kudos, it's just comments for me) but if someone hasn't been around for a few chapters, I notice and I wonder why they stopped reading. Of course the main reason that comes to mind is they don't like the fic anymore, which makes me feel bad.

OP of the secret comment

[(Anonymous)]

First off, I just want to apologize just in case it could have been me who jumped ship, when all I wanted to do was sail, on your fic.

If you don't mind me asking, would it be incredibly awkward for a commenter to come back a notable time later (months, like seven-eleven of them, if we're counting...) after replying to the authors comment that they were so excited to get reading again after coming back from vacation (which was true at the very least).
Ugh, it's just that as soon as I get involved with something I end up being overwhelmed. I don't even know.

OP of comment

[(Anonymous)]

I get what you mean, honestly I hope that's true for all my comments, but at the same time I'm majorly talking about my sudden sign off when it comes to multichaptered fics, especially when the author themselves go out of their way to thank me for my comment.

Like one of my biggest holdups has to be reading a very old, very long fic. I alway review anonymously but despite all that, despite my comments not being very long winded as is my best. Rather than replying to my reviews (on A03 even) they were so appreciative that they made a special authors note in a later chapter because, even by their own words, they knew I read their notes and they wanted to make sure I saw their gratitude...
I lay my heart out for every comment I give, and even recently I made a fool out of myself by somehow interpreting a certain character as being blind when they obviously weren't, the author and I exchanged a few comments over the first few chapters before I felt my anxiety coming on strong. I went back to an old method of commenting I used to do which was essentially split-view the chapter and a note pad to write down all my thoughts; I would type everything that came to mind as I was reading in order not to forget even a single second of what was written... It... ended up being... 2,368 words, and 13,109 characters... (I don't even know, I mean the longest fic I've ever written was about the same word count somehow...)
Had it been within the limit I would have bit the bullet and submitted the reply, but even then I think that would be worse than the blind assumption...

Ugh- I guess what I'm trying to say is that I have a history of being commended on my comments. Even by people who aren't even the authors, and as much as I know what you say is true, it still hurts my heart to think that anyone could (and imo very rightfully) would come to the conclusion that something they wrote turned me off from reading entirely when really I just have such a hard time finishing anything, and even then I just don't have the words...