Who did this? I need to know whose face to gently cup and remind to take sleep/food/bathroom breaks in their marathon reading session while also making dolphin noises in an attempt to express the level of my gratitude. ;_;
For the record, this is why kudos still count. I learn SO MUCH from this and what I've learned is incredibly flattering and actually made me tear up when I got it.
So don't worry if you never leave a comment for me. You kinda did, actually! Any feedback at all ever tells a story, even if it isn't literally telling a verbal story (another example: when I suddenly have a flurry of kudos on a specific fic, that tells me someone linked it or recced it and that is ALSO immensely high praise and deeply meaningful).
Plus love to my lurkers, I have a baffling amount of hits and I am so grateful to the story you're telling me there, too (which I know because I have been told that some of those hits are rereads, which is some of the highest praise you can give a writer and HOLY SHIT I have given you a piece of my infinite gratitude/soul)!
Comments are wonderful, but they're far from the only way to show an author you care. I used to be a "you should comment! Authors thrive on feedback!" person, and I don't really disagree so much as I think it's better for me to focus on what I already have.
Which really is pretty clear. 😳🥺💜
Whoever you are, Guest, thank you. You made this writer very, very happy.
I love my readers. All of them. Not on a personal level, ofc, but as a whole. Collectively, you've done so much for me over the years, and I couldn't have done it without you.
