#i don't want to vagueblog people but like. how is this in any way related to smart fridges that spy on you or whatever.

[dragonowlie]

Every day I see Posts on this webbed site

[agentrouka-blog]

Is it really anon hate, or is it just someone on anon asking you a question that you know you can't answer without acknowledging your double standards?

And while I don't deny I'm a coward for doing this on anon, maybe it wouldn't be a bad thing for you and others to examine what kind of environment you've created, either intentionally or unintentionally, where many of your fellow Sansa fans, people in your own fandom, don't feel comfortable saying these things to you under their own name, for fear they'll get dog-piled, ridiculed, and called "fake Sansa fans."

(post referenced) (I think.)

That post wasn't actually related to fandom at all but to someone else being dog-piled by aggressive anons after posting incendiary antisemitic content, and then blaming me for it. It made me want to make a statement about how anon hate is always wrong. I don't send anon hate and I don't approve of it being sent by others.

I don't recall getting any fandom-related hate recently, apart from someone accusing me of occupying a high horse, which, you know, if they feel that way, I must accept that.

If you've recently sent me a question meant to challenge my perceived double standards about Sansa, I have certainly not felt targeted by hate, though I also don't recall that happening.

That said, I am immensely amused by your view of me as someone who has the power and influence to "create an environment" where "many" fans of Sansa are somehow united in their fear of my, I can only assume, legions of loyal bloodhounds just twitching with eagerness to harrass others at my command.

I interact with maybe three people on this platform regularly, apart from reblogging cool posts that cross my dash. Where are these legions that dogpile people I disagree with? I would love to see them. I could ask them all to post cute baby sloth gifs to brighten my workday instead. I post into a void that I call The Internet and sometimes tumblr informs me I get little heart-shaped likes or amusingly tagged reblogs. I don't have the time to run a hate-based campaign against Sansa Infidels or some such, so all of you with different opinions can rest easy that while you post your truth, I'm trying to get my seven-year-old to accept the importance of brushing his teeth.

(I have been admonished, in the past, for what in retrospect amounts to vagueblogging about subjects that came up in other posts that I took as prompts for my own thought process. It wasn't intended maliciously, but I see how it was perceived that way. I apologized to the person - who approached me in private chat - and I have tried to make sure I no longer do that. Apart from that, my own impact on this fandom is pretty nebulous to me. You seem to see something very different from what I experience.)

[songlordsbug]

I wholeheartedly embraced the extra kudos style of commenting on fic years ago. I'm shy, I have anxiety, and a collection of health related energy challenges and a lot of times I just don't have the juice to make comments of much size. But I write and post fic and I know how wonderful any comment is. And pretty much even when exhausted I can tap the auto replacement words for extra or reread kudos.

For the most part the response has been very appreciative. And it's been a nice way to boost mine and the author's mood. For the most part. I have had just about opposite responses from two different people I have followed for a long time over here on our hellsite when I reread a series of theirs.

Author 1 responded to every extra kudos with a push for more in depth commentary. Later that day they vagueblogged on a reblog of one of the guides to comments posts about how extra kudos comments were almost as bad as update now comments.

I saw that post and felt like shit. I didn't have the time or energy for more in my comments and all I was trying to do was let them know I was reading and enjoying their work again and their updates. I have never commented on another fic of theirs.

Author two doesn't seem to answer fic comments on ao3, which is their prerogative. But they just made a post about how they got the notifications for my reread kudos comments and how they feel powerful and delighted.

I have had a smile on my face and have felt equally powerful. I made someone happy by letting them know I was enjoying their work again.

I fully hold to the belief that writers don't owe readers anything. We're writing our stories for us about what we want to. If other people enjoy it that's good but hopefully not the focus.

In the same vein, readers do not owe writers anything. We read fic for a variety of reasons, most to do with our own entertainment. If we choose not to expand our interaction past reading, that's fine too.

But it's not hard to give each other a little courtesy and a little belief in best intentions. I often don't have time or energy for more than the quick tap of extra/reread kudos. But I mean them as a "hi I'm reading your fic again cuz I like it/I'm still here and enjoying every update." And many authors who respond happily to my tiny comments have coaxed me out of my shy anxious shell so that when I do have time/energy I have left meatier comments.

Readers- commenting can be intimidating and scary but the vast majority of authors will hugely value even a tiny comment and it doesn't take long for autocorrect to learn the phrase extra kudos.

Writers- most readers who leave comments are trying to show their appreciation (even the hated update naows), try to remember that (obviously doesn't go for troll commenters)

I dunno what exactly I'm trying to say here... maybe 'Be kind'. When two people interact with that in mind it sure adds a lot of power to the universe