Okay, I get it. You’ve read my 350k monster of a fic. That’s a lot of fucking chapters, and I’m really impressed. I don’t even want to reread that thing most of the time. And I get that you don’t have anything beyond Chapter 75, posted on Febuary 25, 2017. Mind you, that was a really hard chapter for me to grind out because it fought me every step of the way.
But if I haven’t posted a chapter in over a fucking year, don’t fucking review it with the following:
Holy fucking shit, I can’t even begin to tell you how much this bothers me. The fic Things We Don’t Tell Humans was started back in 2011, when my uncle died and I needed something to distract myself from the pain. I’m no longer active in the Transformers fandom because I got burnt out on the drama and the gatekeeping bullshit. I’m dealing with the death of my grandmother and my father, both on the same goddamned side. I’ve been dealing with the death of my aunt from my mother’s side. I’m trying to keep my head above water, and it’s not an easy thing to do when depression is being a clingy cunt. I’ve been using the Star Trek universe as my mental jungle gym while I try to keep myself smiling and finding something to enjoy.
You want to help motivate me? Fucking leave a review like the following:
Great fic! So glad you saved Jazz and Ironhide. So their worries are a lead up to age of extinction? Poor Sam and Carly having to forget for a while. Interesting that Mearing was trying to protect Sam keeping him away but maybe she should have thought and realised there was a deeper reason the autobots wanted him close? Looking forward to the rest
This right fucking here hits all the ways that you can encourage an author. It shows that you read the fic, that you respect the whole 350k bulk of the fic, that you’re thinking critically about the fic, and that you’re not pressuring me to update the fic. Will it be completed? Hopefully. I love it and it’s my baby, but it’s also hard to pick up the strings from where I laid them down.
TL;DR: Give me a good review and not a one word-demand for a fic to be updated.