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g0thcats

i want to be a cat. jobless. educationless. useless. there to be pretty and soft

6balls

godlessondheimite

oldmanpusspuss

If you told me, almost 9 years ago when I finished brba for the first time that in the future I would spend my downtown at my real adult job reading fanfiction about tuco salamanca's cousin getting dicked down by saul goodmans former boss well....actually nevermind I would've been like yeah that tracks...

entertheaardvark

I think better call saul should absolutely just kill off one of the characters who appears in breaking bad. Just do it and never explain it. Can’t imagine a more efficient or funnier way to ensure that people are still talking about your show decades from now

snarky-bee

I think another problem with the mindset of kudos/comments on AO3 is part of the “stalking” culture on instagram. If you like a picture that is months old on instagram, its “insta-stalking” because you had to scroll through that person’s profile in order to find those months-old pictures. That is NOT how AO3 works. It’s not cringe or embarrassing to find a fic that was posted in 2012 and like it. It is there to read.

Same for works on AO3. Sure, maybe some of us have some old works that aren’t up to our current standards of writing. But I, personally, am never going to look at a kudos email and think “ew omg I can’t believe someone found this fic from 2016 why are they liking it”. In fact, I am entirely going to go “nice! people are still reading some of my older works too, I’m glad they enjoyed it”. It’s an archive, it is meant to be a collection of transformative works, old and new, and you are meant to find them.

In fact, if you find a work that is from five years ago and you really liked it? I bet the author would love a comment even then.

Stories are written to be read.

Show some appreciation.

barbex

Writers write to be read!

Older stories need love just as new ones. Please don’t let stories and chapters die of neglect after one fucking week!

elfwreck

I got a comment a couple of months ago for a nearly-10-years-old crackfic and I was thrilled!

Part of why there’s sortable searches at AO3 is to let you find fics for a now-dormant fandom, fics that are no longer canon-compliant after the new episodes, fics that work with fanon tropes that are no longer popular, fics from authors who are no longer actively writing… and just fics that weren’t written recently.

Comments on old fics are great! Often, they bring back a rush of memories for the author - oh wow, I remember when I was obsessing about this fandom, how much I loved this pairing, the fics I read that inspired this fic!

villa-kulla

where is my BCS fix-it fic where depressed, midlife crisis Howard goes into Jimmy’s office to yell at him about something, and bumps into Lalo coming out of Jimmy’s office and thinks “oh he’s scary and kind of dreamy” and they hit it off and fall in love, and they both cook/make cappuccinos together, and Lalo teaches Howard not to take life too seriously and Howard teaches Lalo how to button a shirt all the way up, idk (jk he loves it), and gradually they catch on to Jimmy and Kim scamming Howard and think “hey wouldn’t it be hilarious if we got them back” and devise a plan for Howard to confront them, all like “first you tell them they’re twisted freaks! and then I come in and pretend to shoot you in the head!” and they use special squibs they got from the student film crew who they were paying double the whole time, pretend to shoot Howard in front of Kim and Jimmy and then psychologically torture them into thinking they have to kill Gus, and when Kim goes to the house and lifts the gun and the door opens she sees Jimmy tied up, Lalo and Howard actually alive, and the rest of the cartel behind them like ‘surprise, assholes, you got punked!’ and Kim and Jimmy break down from the stress, meanwhile a week later we cut to Howard’s car parked on the beach, shoes kicked off, and Lalo and Howard lying on towels and drinking pina coladas, taking the beach vacation they both deserve, and howard says “how did we ever get here” and Lalo says “I guess I just had to shoot my shot;)”, they clink glasses the end, where is THAT fic

oh right, it’s in my head

villa-kulla

the way i have a full outline for this now lmao

archliches

ppl who don't get cats will try to argue that cats don't love you meanwhile cats will cry and cry and cry and cry like the world is ending until you hold them like a baby and give them a kissy on their perfect lil forehead