I've Lost Motivation For Fics I Was So Passionate About Because I Saw Minimal Engagement. Comments MAKE

I've lost motivation for fics I was so passionate about because I saw minimal engagement. Comments MAKE MY DAY, they do more for me than tell me someone likes what I made, they tell me "hey, you matter to someone for this thing you created" and i think more people should engage w/ fics. Im just as bad as everyone else, but I also don't read as often as some people do! We all need to be better at engaging.

Had to share this here because you're right and you should say it. It's incredible how many people came out of the woodwork as soon as AO3 was down and suddenly had no compunctions at all about screaming how much they love and need fanfic--on the AO3 twitter. Is it so much harder to do in the comment section?

At this point I don't care anymore if people call me entitled or think I'm out of line. If fanfic is so meaningful to you that you cannot go half an hour without, let alone 24h, then you can get over yourself long enough to write a fucking comment. No excuses.

"writing comments is hard and scary" yeah well GUESS WHAT so is writing fanfics. fandom as a community is dying, because it is instead treated as a COMMODITY, a CONSUMER PRODUCT. We're not asking for much. We're asking for a CONNECTION. We don't want to sell, we want to share.

You've shown your hand. You've admitted you cannot live without us. Now ACT LIKE IT. Go write a fucking comment.

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