Rufus Bear

aka clarkoholic / I make podfic now / double adult aka fandom old Stranger Things [SteveEddie] / The Bat Family [JayTim] / The Mandalorian [DinLuke DinCobb] / Star Wars [Obikin] / The Magicians [Queliot] / MCU [Stucky] / Teen Wolf [Sterek] / Star Trek / 00Q / Sherlock / SGA / Smallville / etc

[julesjuliiet]

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eddie munson commission for @isleofmae 💘

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[teathattast]

[friendamedes]

i know it sounds woefully self-centered and ungrateful but i do think a lot of ao3 commenters could benefit from a quick how-to-talk-to-strangers-on-the-internet course

[naryrising]

I hope you don't mind my adding onto this, because I totally agree, but one thing I've noticed more often lately is people commenting on a work who just say what the work is.

Examples: (not verbatim quotes because I don't want to put anyone on blast but the gist of real comments I've gotten)

"Wow, A/B smut!"

"This is the first story for this pairing!"

"Huh, never seen this [kink/trope] before."

And like, this isn't rude exactly, but it does always give me a sense of, ok, but why are you telling me this? I know it's A/B smut, I wrote it. I knew it was the first work for this ship, I had to create the tag. I know it's a rare kink - I enjoy it, I can't find enough of it, that's why I wrote this in the first place.

I've taken to replying to these type of comments with "I hope you liked it!" because it feels like the most generous way to interpret them - the person probably did like it, if they read it and left a comment, but they forgot to actually say so. Often they reply with "Yes, it was great!" or similar actual commentary about what they thought of the story. So maybe consider just saying that in the first place!

Better example: "Wow, I've never seen a fic for this ship before. I was really excited to find it, because it's so rare. Thank you very much for writing it, it was awesome!"

I realize this takes slightly longer, but it is much, much nicer to receive than a comment that just tells me that I wrote a fic. I know I wrote a fic. Let me know that you read it.

[kedreeva]

If you are someone who doesn't know what to say, a very simple "Thanks for sharing!" goes a LONG way for most authors. Adding this to any other comment is also a great idea, but in this case look at what it does to the above:

"Wow, A/B smut, thanks for sharing!"

"This is the first story for this pairing! Thanks for sharing!"

"Huh, never seen this [kink/trope] before. Thanks for sharing!"

It completely changes the tone of even the above comments from making an obvious statement to someone who already knows it to gratitude for sharing smut, venturing into this pairing first, introducing someone to a new kink/trope/etc.

If you want to take it a step further, you can simply make it personal.

"Wow, I loved this A/B smut, thanks for sharing!"

"This is the first story I've read for this pairing, and I liked it! Thanks for sharing!"

"Huh, I've never seen this kink/trope before, I'm glad I found your story. Thanks for sharing!"

You don't have to be a fancy wordsmith. You can take the obvious statement, make it personal, and thank them for sharing, and it will have a lot more weight.

[kingofthepitt]

widow's bay. s01e01.

[kosmogrl]

I can’t overshare because that would be very humiliating but everyone else should overshare because I like to know everything

[adampvrrish]

me: and then they killed quentin coldwater

my therapist: can we please talk about something else

[mr-badjokes]

Batman-themed gesture practice

[feaftlikeabeaft]

I wish depression were an emergency. I wish someone could take one look at how sick I am and go “oh my god, we need to get you to a hospital!” and then when we get there I get rushed into surgery and the surgeons say “it’s a good thing you brought her here when you did, this is a seriously advanced case” and then they put me under and spend the next ten hours pulling metres of long, sticky black strands of gunk out of my body, throwing it immediately into an incinerator so that it can’t infect anyone else. And then they could stitch me back up and I could rest a few days, and when I leave the hospital everyone can see how much better I am and they congratulate me saying “well done, you’ve been so brave, I’m so glad you’re ok. I love you.”

[the-uncanny-dag]

Sister post to The Vitamin

[sheauz-deactivated20240614]

[bigboysdrinkmilk]

Well, at least she died doing what she loved—getting her dick sucked.

[wifegideonnav]

“bits to use in everyday conversations”

[possumtion]

Batfam head turn around

Full image under cut

[flowersforvax]

haha nooooo fandom don't sand off all the rough edges and pointy bits off of that character those are the parts I scratch my brain with haha

[ceruleanheaven]

bad media will piss you off good media will heal your soul bad media that couldve been good will ruin your life forever

[compounddoe]

The difference is that a fetish is bound to the floor while a kink is suspended from the ceiling

[wordfather]

having one lock of white hair is such a classic character design like hell yeah now THATS a character

[bowditch]

[the-littlest-goblin]

the thing is I am pro-rpf on principle, but I do think you should keep it away from the actual people you're shipping. but it is NOT out of concern for their comfort (insert pete wentz bank account post), it's for the same reason that like animal behaviorists and field biologists and such try to stay out of view when they're observing animals in the wild. don't tip them off it's gonna to skew the results of my study.

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