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A writer friend told me something that broke my heart a little bit today; they're going to quit publishing their fanfic.

My instant thought was that they had been trolled or attacked or that something terrible had happened in their life because this person is so passionate about their writing. It wasn't any of that. Engagement with their works has been going down, as it has for many of us. Comments are like gold dust a lot of the time, and just looking through the historical comment counts on old fics on ao3 demonstrates this trend very clearly. It was not simply the comments dropping off which caused them to decide to stop posting, however.

My friend came across a discord server for their fandom (I should point out here that their fandom interest and mine diverged a couple of years ago, we stay in touch but don't currently read each other's posts because I'm not into their fandom and they would rather gouge their eyes out with a wooden spoon than read anything Star Wars) and specifically to share fic in that fandom. They joined, because we all love a good fic rec, only to discover that their latest multichapter fic, which has almost no comments and very few kudos, is being hotly discussed in this server as one of the best stories ever. Not one of these people has bothered to say this to them on the fic. When they asked, none of participants could see the point in telling the author of the fic they apparently loved so much that they love it.

This discovery has absolutely destroyed my friend's love of sharing fic. They share because they love seeing other people's enjoyment, and fic writers do that through comments and kudos/reblogs/likes because we don't get paid. There is no literary critic writing a blog post/article about how amazing the story is for us to copy and keep/frame. There is no money from royalties. All we have are the words of the people reading our works.

Those people on that server could have taken five minutes of the time they spent gushing about how amazing my friend's story was to other people and used it to tell the one person guaranteed to want to hear that praise how much they loved it. They could have taken a moment to express their opinion to the person who spent hours upon hours plotting, writing, editing, and posting those chapters. Instead, they deprived my friend of thing that keeps them sharing their writing, and in the process have killed their love of it. My friend now feels used and unmotivated.

I won't be sharing a link to their fic, they said I could share their experience but not their identity. I know they plan to post one final chapter. I know they intend to express their hurt at being excluded from the praise for the thing they created, and I know they intend to announce that as a consequence they will not be posting for a long while, if at all.

So please, I beg you, don't hide your love of a story from the writer. It's just about the only thing we have.

What if I post one of my fics on AO3...

Style switch.

Been feeling down lately but these two manage to still slip thru my depression

Drawing them kinda makes me forget everything ngl

Also new chapter posted!

Here is a snippet:

“...Your connection to the Metaverse, your reaction to the call- How much do you know about this situation?!” Akira felt agitated. Even to him it felt out of character, but he finally heard from Akechi and he can’t even see his face, can’t hear his voice, can’t ask him who did this to him?! And not to mention the Metaverse returning after Yaldabaoth was defeated. 

“I can’t tell you, I’m sorry…” Chiyoko refused to look at him, she was trembling slightly.

“Why?! Shit… Why?! Are you being threatened? By who?!” The guy couldn’t find a place for himself, his body was turning in anger and confusion from this situation.

“You could say that. But in reality I… I don’t want to put you on the radar too. It’s… a very dangerous situation to be in.” She turned her head away and then Akira noticed something familiar on her neck.

“This…” 

I would really appreciate checking it out, I will draw a proper cover when I get back to my former self hehe~

Me forgetting about golden week and then rewriting the schedule actually put the whole schedule into a better pace, kinda poggers

It opened up a few days to introduce another tutorial better and not too rushed due to the second dungeon being crammed in there

It was fate hehe

So yeah i have to revise the schedule for the third time god damn it

It is a very tedious process, being the project manager is a nightmare you guys

And I wrote the events into May already ughhh

drew a shuake sketch and an hour later found another artist who drew them in an almost identical pose about a month ago

killing myself I'm not even sure if I wanna post them now cuz I can't prove that I didn't get inspired by them HAHAHAHHA

didn't sleep again but at least I finished

yeah i drew them out of order, what are you gonna do? hopefully read my fanfic because this chapter cover is so cool and you like it yeah

U can check out other chapter covers here:

Second | Third | Fourth | Fifth | Sixth | Seventh | Eighth | Ninth

If hoyo won't do Kaeya the same as Aven, I'll do it myself, damn it.

Peacocks in PJs are my favourite teehee

No color correction lower

Here is the no color correction one cuz idk which one I like more

I had no idea what I was doing, I think I blacked out after coming home and then he appeared outta nowhere

I love him sm he looks so good <3

Fun Story to Share.

I got my (now 18-year-old) daughter into Ao3 back in 2021. I taught her she should always comment - even if the fic looks old or abandoned or whatever. She did.

Well - she got this email this morning:

The fic was written in 2014 and essentially abandoned.

Bethy read and reviewed in 2021 (and was actually the only person who had commented at all).

Today in 2025 - the final chapter was posted by the author and this was her reply to Bethy’s comment.

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Never question whether a fic is too old to comment on.

Tw! Drugs mentioned, eye strain

Feeling like dropping some somewhat recent unfinished stuff cuz that ratiorine drawing is looking rough, might take somewhat long 🥹

And also my first Ratiorine thing I wanted to do but the song just didn't really sit with these two, rip (Måneskin - Off My Face)

Or maybe it does fit and I should just continue with it, u tell me