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Chapters: 15/? Fandom: 너의 시선이 머무는 곳에 | Where Your Eyes Linger (TV) Rating: Teen And Up Audiences Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply Relationships: Han Tae Joo/Kang Gook Characters: Han Tae Joo, Kang Gook, Choi Hye Mi Additional Tags: Alternate Universe - Different First Meeting, Alternate Universe - Royalty, Modern Royalty, Alternate Universe - Superheroes/Superpowers, Superpowered Kang Gook, Telekinesis, Happy Ending, Romance, Angst, Angst with a Happy Ending, Implied/Referenced Child Abuse, Homophobia, Idiots in Love, Mutual Pining

In which things go horribly wrong, and it’s not even Tae-joo’s fault.

Chapter 15

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Chapter 14: Xux-something

Every family has a crazy uncle, but Tae-joo's is crazier than most. Must be the inbreeding. Also, every hero must have an origin story.

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THIS! Please do!

Save a fanfic writer, leave comments on old fics

There is this a peculiar set of reasons and biases when it comes to NOT commenting on AO3.

They are all false, but here they are:

Do not comment on old fics

Do not comment on each chapter of a multichapter

Do not comment if the author left the fandom

Do not comment if the author doesn’t respond to comments

It can be summoned up as DO NOT ACT LIKE YOU ENJOYED THE WORK AND YOU LIKE THE AUTHOR.

It comes from the idea, that if you leave a comment on my old work, or leave too many comments, I will think you are strange, clingy, and gross.

Readers are imagining it as commenting on an old Facebook photo — only your granny and creepy strangers do that.

That is not the case with AO3.

Writers put their works there for long-term storage, and we expect, wish, and hope that you will like our works and tell us about it.

This all very interesting, not, but why should I care?

This has awful consequences.  Fanfic authors feel constant pressure to create more and crippling fear of being forgotten, useless, and being literally kicked away from fandom.

I’m online friends with a few great fandom authors, who wrote storied with thousands of kudos, but ALL of them at some point expressed this fear. Very talented people told me, “I’m not sure if I should have ‘writer’ in my bio. I didn’t post anything new in the last half of a year.”

Some young or entitled readers might say, “Hm, well, they are right. They should create MORE to be relevant. Isn’t that a good thing to push authors to write more?”

For better or worse, life doesn’t work like that. We are talking about real people, who go to real schools, have real jobs, families, and all the other important things outside the fandom. Some of them might push to create more from that fear, but most would only get more frustrated and depressed about the whole fanfic writing.

So, please, if you like the work comment on it.

Even if it’s old, even if it’s a multichapter, even if the author doesn’t have time and energy to interact. Especially in all those cases.

Encourage your authors, and show them your support.

UPD:

my previous post How to start writing comments

explanation about fics from 70s by olderthannetfic. Thank you so much for it.

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Chapters: 13/? Fandom: 너의 시선이 머무는 곳에 | Where Your Eyes Linger (TV) Rating: Teen And Up Audiences Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply Relationships: Han Tae Joo/Kang Gook Characters: Han Tae Joo, Kang Gook, Choi Hye Mi Additional Tags: Alternate Universe - Different First Meeting, Alternate Universe - Royalty, Modern Royalty, Alternate Universe - Superheroes/Superpowers, Superpowered Kang Gook, Telekinesis, Happy Ending, Romance, Angst, Angst with a Happy Ending, Implied/Referenced Child Abuse, Homophobia, Idiots in Love, Mutual Pining

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And...Tae-joo and Gook are out of the bunker!

Chapter 13

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🐰📸  winmetawin: vacay 🌴 // 01.02

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this theatre magazine from 1993 really gets it

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insp

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Give Us Roses While We’re Still Here Transgender Day of Remembrance // Nov. 20th

This is just a poster I made the other day. I love all of my trans family, and I hope you take the day for remembrance & self care. 

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I’m proud of all of us. This was a TEAM EFFORT, and we DID IT. Everybody hit the showers.

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gender queer at 34? stop obsessing over your identity - you're old enough to know it doesn't really matter to anyone but you

Coming up on 37 and still genderqueer and still too lazy to update my profile. 👍

And it apparently mattered enough to you to send me an anon

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Care to debate abortion?

Nah

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