On comments

So. A few years back, I used to post on Ao3 a bit. And I still get comments on my stuff to this day.

And like. It never occurred to me to reply. Like, it felt like going over and over again “thank you”. And years later, I realise… Dude, you’re an idiot. These people took the time to comment and you didn’t even reply thank you? And some had questions, and you could have answered them!!! 

And basically I feel like a giant piece of shit. I guess… It didn’t make sense to me then.

And even though some of those comments were 4 or 5 years ago, I wanna reply to them… Because I did appreciate them.

And like, sure, there are excuses for not replying then… Like I was doing my thesis, moving states, breaking up with my long term partner, extremely sick… But that was then. Why not months later? And I was still churning out fics, so I SHOULD have replied.

And yeah. This is really bothering me. On the pro side, I am now going to a lot of effort to comment on all the fics I enjoyed, no matter how old they are, because it still makes my heart sing when I get new comments on my fics, no matter how old… 

I’d always just left Kudos. And I realise I need to support FF writers more. So. That’s what I’m doing.

Anyway. This has been a post.