I once had someone comment, "Why is it discontinued? It’s an awesome story!” on a fic that was 5 years old at the time. Not only that, but it was maybe 2k words long, I only ever wrote one chapter, and I wrote the damn thing in middle school. Are you serious.
o lord ik that feel a really bad fic of mine was more or less abandoned and i got like 3 people telling me to make more, and, when am i updating? i cant even read the damn thing without cringing js
I got nagged multiple times over a fic I wrote at sixteen, ten years later. I ended up giving the person permission to write a new version themselves and blocking them because I just didn't want to have that discussion anymore.
Oh, gosh, we could probably just have a fanfic reviews thread. Because I have stories. Like, a few wonderful reviews that nearly made me cry, don't get me wrong. But also some ridiculous/awful stories.
ftw people feel the need to constantly tell you your spelling/grammar mistakes in a very short manner that, and this as their sole comment: "That flashback was really poignant." now all i am is confused because does that mean you liked it or it was too sad for you or it was some conveluted, old timey insult of some kind? i know wht poignant means I just don't know what they were trying to convey by telling me this and its unnessasarily confusing.
i suspect they mean it was effective at affecting their emotions, and as a compliment? at least, that would be what i meant if i wrote it that way.
aaaah ok, that makes sense. it just startled me is all cause it was all they said and i'm used to comments that have, i donno, more umph to em, ya'know? whenever i get these short messages that can go either way i always feel bad, like theyre somehow gettin a stab at me even if it was entirely innocent. the woes of emotional ephasis that is lacking with text
haha, yeah, i know exactly what you mean. i don't have a lot of experience with fanfic reviews, but i see something that, rationally, i know has a 90% chance of being a compliment, and my brain finds the one negative way to read it and runs away with it. :P
Of course it is, i should have guessed. i have a moment of panic everytime i open my inbox honestly, AO3 can just be such a negative place at times i always worry
/raises hand/ I haven't looked at AO3 comments in months because even compliment reviews make me nervous. My inbox is...very full
i had like seven in mine the last time i let it fester but i can never keep myself away for long because im desperate for validation to feed my ego (also, does anyone know if theres a forum to talk about fics you've written because i'd love to have people from here's views on my shit)
best comment i've ever gotten is (as a positive among the gripes): "I absolutely love this and the first two paragraphs are the best description of being agender I have seen anywhere and they fit perfectly on my ipod and I have a screenshot of them." I wrote the fic in question before I knew the word agender existed, and just. Yeah.
Speaking of good comments, I wrote a fic for a kinkmeme prompt involving a non-stereotypical portrayal of OCD and used my own experiences with POCD for it. I got a lot of really sweet comments and commiserations, and it feels good to know I helped spread the word. Should go back and finish that one some time... I don't think I came across as preachy. Hope not.
I recently wrote a fic about a character with a very wide array of mental issues, and drew almost entirely from my own experiences and issues for the story. For the most part it focused on dissociation and depression of said character, and someone told my my descriptions of his mental illness' were spot on and perfectly written. And it was flattering but at the same time upsetting because I drew from myself to get there.
