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rattling-bag-of-bones

My lord I need you to make up your mind, where the fuck are we going

mandalhoerian-deactivated202510

my lord i think we're lost

depresseddepot

my lord????

little-slice-of-eden

*wheezing* please....My Lord....I just caught up

thatdootdevice

My Lord COME BACK?!

warlockofagnesi

MY LORD?? there is no way I can follow you there!

...all right My Lord [SIGH] I guess I will just have to trust you

evaceratops

my lord i WARNED you-

mellointheory

Who makes the porn bots. Where do they come from. What do they hope to achieve.

the-haiku-bot

Who makes the porn bots.

Where do they come from. What do

they hope to achieve.

Beep boop! I look for accidental haiku posts. Sometimes I mess up.

mellointheory

and what about you, little haiku bot? do you feel kinship with your brethren? do you understand them? they speak words of enticement and seek love, but are met with disdain. you only parrot the words that cross your screen, but we all love you. or rather, since all you do is reflect us, maybe we simply love ourselves through you.

do you understand them, do you wish you could speak to us like they do? if you found your own voice, would we still care for you?

the-haiku-bot

My voice repeats what

you all say: I love you I

love you I love you.

Beep boop! I look for accidental haiku posts. Sometimes I mess up.

zarstarss

in the house of flies

radioactive-earthshine

Not sure why it's a new trend among fic readers to assume if the fic has not been posted within the week it's inappropriate to comment on it, like the fic has to be hot out of the oven to give feedback for.

I got a comment on a fic that is less than a year old and it was mostly an apology for being a comment on an "old fic" and how late they were in commenting.

Just comment on the fic. Doesn't matter how old it is.

mysteryteacup

Fandom is not social media.

Fandom is not trends.

Fandom is a cross between a library and having a slumber party with your friends.

"Old" means nothing to fic.

queermania

if i’m ever brutally murdered and everyone feels like they need to do something productive in my memory, all i want is for you to pass legislation banning LED headlights in my name. regardless of how irrelevant it is to my murder. it’s relevant to my heart.

andrewminyardslawyer

Andrew Blur / Dog Motif

Summer Sons by Lee Mandelo

lustcannibalism

ok I endured it. now what!!!!!!!!!

lustcannibalism

chromatographic

Dear Fandom readers - an etiquette fail

AO3 is not goodreads. It is not the NYT bestseller list.

You paid no money to read these stories. They are, in fact, a labor of love, done on the off time in the off hours of people who are writing for the joy of writing and the joy of the story.

Your ratings are not appreciated. Not by other readers, who don't know you from adam. Not by fandom-savvy passerby.

And not, in fact, by the author. Who again: Wrote this for fun. In their spare time - around work, around family and friend commitments. Around the rest of their lives. Fandom clout almost never "pays off" in any monetary gains, in any form of physical or financial security.

So please stop "rating" us on something we do for joy.

Today, a fellow fanauthor shared this with me. It was not on any story of my own, but they understandably needed a moment to go "wtf" and process it all. With their permission, I now share this with you.

You won't find this comment on AO3 anymore, by the by.

I have... a lot of issues with this. First of all being something that would be a C-grade in any US school system is not a "Good Rating" for most folks, but many of my issues would be the same even in this commenter had rated this a 10/10.

It boils down to this:

Why are you grading us on something we all are here to do solely for fun and personal enjoyment? Why does it have to be good?

Why can't it just be a labor of love and of joy to be good enough for you, dear commenter?

Do I, as a fanauthor, want to write well? Sure! I do want to write good stories. But I didn't ask random readers to grade me on them. Not in bookmarks that I can easily check, and certainly not in my comments section. And I never will want them to. Every author I've talked to agrees. Is there someone out there who might want this? Sure. Most likely, even! The human experience and desires are broad and varied. But in my experience, if they do exist in Fandom, they're the vast minority. So please:

Don't.

faeriekit

This is a very often a no-payment gift economy! If you make yourself condescending down to the people writing free works for you, you may find that there's suddenly no more writing for you to read! 👀

branwyn-says

I know the culture of fandom has changed to the point that I am not up on what The Youth are doing and haven't been for awhile. That said. I am just a person who likes the same TV show as you. Talk to me like a person, not like a service provider.

redheadsramblings

Nope this made me mad so I’m gonna add more

YOU DO NOT GET TO RATE A GIFT!!!!

Fan fiction is a gift to the community. You do not get to give any gift a rating out of anything

IT’S FUCKING RUDE AND ABSOLUTELY APPALLING MANNERS!!!!

WHO RAISED YOU IF YOU THINK THAT IS IN ANY WAY APPROPRIATE?!?

JUST DON’T!!!!

letitrainathousandflames

Maybe some of you guys got confused when you saw writers saying you should always comment on a fic! If what you have to say about something made out of love and available for free with absolutely NO REQUESTS for constructive criticism is something like this...

Just don't comment.

If it sucked, close the fic. It's called bad luck - sometimes the tags seem promising but the author has a style you don't like, or a the story takes a turn that makes you cringe. Thats part of the experience - fanfic is kind of a "blind box" situation, you dont know if you'll get what you want until you read it.

"Waah, but if it sucked i should get to complain, right?"

Yeah thats how it is when you order a meal at a restaurant, or you buy a product at a store. You paid a professional, you should get your end of the deal. However, unlike in those scenarios,

You got your fanfic for ~free~ from someone who does it as a ~hobby~

They dont owe you professional quality or a product tailor made for your taste because this is not their job. And you don't get to complain because you didn't pay for any of this.

If a friend knits you a plushie and gifts it to you, does not request an honest criticism of it, do you tell them its a 7/10 job?

No, because that's how you lose friends. No, because that would be rude to someone who spent a week weaving thread into a little creature just for you. No, because you aren't their knitting teacher.

The kudos button is for saying you liked a fic. The comments section is for expanding i why you liked it, or thanking the author for their work of passion, or for keysmashing out of joy.

What is the button for when you dislike a fic or find it only 7/10?

That's the red square box with an "X" on the top right of your browser window. Close that fic and move on.