#llf asks

[longlivefeedback]

Hey I want a bit of help about how to comment specifically on smut fics... I always find it So, so difficult to comment on them even if I normally have such an easy time commenting on other types of fic... Idk what to say so they just end up sitting upon on my tabs on my phone forever....

Not sure how long this ask has been sitting in my inbox, but...here's something to start you off perhaps, Nonny?

That was hot 🥵🌶️🔥

The way you wrote them was so amazing! X is so good at ABC! 🫣😍

I enjoyed reading this so much!

The way X takes care of Y made me melt

The way you kept up the excitement/anticipation had me hooked and the payoff was spectacular!

This fic had me asldkfhjwldkvnlkc-ing I love it so much

👏👌🙌🫶

Or use the ACD method that has just come to my attention 😅😂

However, an interesting thing I just noticed is that if you blank out the word "smut" from your ask, the example comments I listed could be used in any other kind of fic. So...since you're already comfortable with commenting, I think the root of your problem is that it is your perception and mentality around smut fic specifically.

For some reason, you may view smut fic differently from other types of fic and put it in a different category in your mind. I'm not going to tell you that you have to get over yourself or view smut fic differently (and to some extent, I suspect that smut fic writers understand and perhaps even expect the social/personal shyness of their readers), but if you really have it in your heart to comment, I would say try leaving a short, generic comment first, and once you feel like smut fics are a safe space, then have at it :)

Don't worry about comparing yourself to how you comment on other types of fic. Just accept that commenting on smut fics is more difficult for you, and adjust your expectations for yourself. You leaving even a single emoji is probably more than 95% of a fic's readers, so don't beat yourself up about not being able to leave a coherent comment. I love your attitude about wanting to comment on smut fics! Thank you for reading and (trying to) comment!

[meatgrinder-0]

does anyone have gen/non shipping gf fic recommendations specifically ford focused ones . that actually write him well. i literally cannot find any more good ones. the well is empty.

[cacodaemonia]

You seem to know a lot about AO3, do you know how to engage more of your readers? I’ve been trying to get comments on my fics but all I get is kudos. I just want to know if people are enjoying my writing

Hi there! I definitely wouldn't say I'm an expert when it comes to AO3, but I find the fandom culture around AO3 to be really interesting, so I do talk about it a lot, haha. I've only been posting works there since 2019, though, and I'm sure folks who have been doing so for longer or have volunteered as tag wranglers or on the policy & abuse committee, for example, would know a lot more than I do. <3

But I'm really sorry to hear that you only get kudos and no comments on your fics! That really sucks. :( Like you said, you have no idea what those people actually think about what you made—just that they consumed it.

Honestly, I'm not sure I'm a good person to ask about getting readers to interact because I post both fanart and fanfics, which isn't super common, at least among people I know. I'm pretty sure that most of the folks who comment on my works followed me from Tumblr to AO3 back when I used to post art here. If I wanted to share nsfw images, I could only post cropped versions of them on Tumblr, so I would sometimes do that and link to the full image over on AO3. I suspect that's a big reason why I even have subscribers on AO3, haha. My writing certainly isn't better than that of plenty of people who also write for very niche ships and don't get as many kind comments as I do.

I also started out in my current fandom making art and writing about more popular characters until I quickly shifted focus when I found some that I like much more 😂 But I'm sure that quite a few people found my stuff because of those old works, and some of them probably stuck around.

Speaking of popular... This isn't something I do because I'm only motivated to make things that I like, but of course, there's always the 'write stuff for popular ships/characters' option. :/ Even now, when I happen to include fan favorites in my fics or art, all kinds of people come out of the woodwork to comment on them. And because I'm a contrary ass, that then makes me not want to create works featuring those ships or characters XD;;; But anyway, that is one option, haha.

A friend recently told me that they started asking little questions in the notes of each chapter of their fics, and that seemed to encourage readers to respond in the comments, so maybe that would be a good thing to try? I haven't tested it, so I can't say.

One thing I have tried that I think has made a difference is adding a blurb in the end notes of my works that I got from @longlivefeedback! They have a great template that you can customize and try out if you like (just make sure to read the bug fix part about curly/smart quotes versus straight quotes, since the curly quotes will kill your html).

One tried and true method to get more people commenting on your fics, of course, is to get to know people who also like the fandom/characters/ships you write about. Read some of their stuff or comment on their art or just chat about headcanons etc. And maybe they'll check out what you wrote.

(My caveat to this would be: do not do this with the sole purpose of getting someone to comment on your fics. I've had plenty of people do this to me, and it was so transparent that they had no interest in me as a person, but just wanted me to draw their OCs or scenes from their fic, or reblog their art, etc. Trying to manipulate someone like that just for your own gain is such gross behavior, and of course, I'm not saying you would do it, but it's common enough that I wanted to mention it 😓)

Okay, unsurprisingly, this got very long and rambling, haha. Sorry I couldn't be more helpful, but I hope you get more folks interested in your writing!

I'd be curious to know if other people have advice for @sonofhighrock! :)

[maysoulrose]

IIIIIII have a question you may be able to answer but also may not, because they’re in regards to the green tail skin you made, and I recognize it’s now been 4 years since…. But do you by any chance remember how much of the green ink you used for the fluke/fins? I’m planning out my tail that is… quite a few colors, lmao, which means the body and fins/fluke are a different base color and I don’t want to get more ink than necessary but I also obviously don’t want to not have enough. I’m planning on the full liter for the body color, but I’m not sure if I should get a full liter for the fluke/fins color or if I’d be just fine with the however-much-of-a-pint the smallest size is!!

@d-o-llf-a-ce Hey thanks for asking! so yeah, I got green, black, yellow, and white. I used the green in every shade. I actually still have some paint left over.

It looks like I used about half the liter of green, almost all the yellow 300ml, a little less than half of the black 300ml, and about half of the white 300ml

I hope that helps you plan!!! obviously my whole tail is green, so I used a lot of the green. It keeps well, the paint I have literally is still useable, I just haven't done anything with it yet. I would recommend using some super good sealable tupperware to keep the paint that you mix, just so that you don't waste any cuz I know it's a bit pricey.

good luck!!!! I would love to see your tail when It's finished! also feel free to ask anymore questions.

I'mma post this just in case anyone else has the same question!

[pinnithin]

roland makes me insane. take the galaxy's most autistic man make his special interest leadership and interpersonal negotiations and set him loose in a heartless corporate hellscape where everything runs on unspoken rules. and also hes a wolf guy.

[green-crow]

Hehehe tagged by @eat-your-milk !!!! I love this kind of challenge (any excuse to yap is good) so tysm!!!

rules: in a new post, post the names of all the files in your wip folder regardless of how non descriptive or ridiculous. let people send you an ask with the titles that most intrigue them and then post a little snippet or tell us about them.

Well, instead of posting all the wip ideas I got written down (we'd be here all day) Imma just list the first 10 I see! (Keep in mind not all are httyd related!)

Also don't bully my naming system pls OTZ

1.- Motherhood

2.- Ethex

3.- BS - Prologue - Maybe don't eat random plants?

4.- BS - HT - A very familiar wound

5.- PP - Chapter 1: Whatever it takes

6.- WNF - Chapter 3: Constellations

7.- GbnF - Chapter 1: Unexpected company

8.- LLF - Chapter 3: Creatures of the Forest

9.- LLF - Chapter 4: The Cabin

10.- TWC - Prologue

I'll tag uhhh shit I don't know who makes fics and haven't gotten this game yet so sorry if I tag someone without current wips/already tagged! @julesisblue, @autisticfanperson, @cloverofhope, and @zariahthechocolatecookie <3

If anyone who hasn't been tagged wants to do it too then go ahead I officially tag u random citizen

[jingledbells]

ok truthfully i dont go here (gravity falls) but i respect the consensus on b/llf/rd . like ive seen awful ships be extremely popular and deemed as “canon” by a wider audience to the point its hard to go a day without seeing it even when you dont and never have wanted to see it (+ people disputing your own hcs or ships because “its not canon” or acting like Their pairing is better Because its “canon”, when thats not the point of media!!!!!!!! what is this christianity? sorry.) and how it romanticizes a generally awful thing but it gets completely ignored. i respect the grind and good luck out there

yeah thanks man :(( I was here before tbob released and that’s when the fandom was more dead and stuff and there were less of the Annoying People but my god the b//ford community is so annoying it’s the fucking trenches out here because they will shove that it’s ‘canon’ when it’s literally not in everyone’s face and use that to justify harassing people about it and literally everything they do(like when people heavily misinterpret their relationship or romanticize what happened) and tag as b//ford when people ask not to and say ‘well ermmmm it’s canon now so!!’ and honestly I don’t care if people think their past relationship was romantic even if that’s not what I believe but honestly the fandom is just so horrible about it that it’s just. Terrible to look at and see it’s so dark in here. however I’m kind of stuck here no matter what so there’s no escaping(I’ve been hyperfixated for almost two years now) I’ll just have to keep complaining and wait for the hype to die down

[a-lilyinthevalley]

Scenes that will be/are already written: - The first 48 hours of it all - The first full-scene hallucination - Elder Faerie's visit - The malicious voices (anons)(remember those asks i asked for? yeah, i'm putting them to use >:3)

I'll probably write all of these either way, but I wanna see what people are most interested in and go from there. This will be a nonlinear telling of what happened in the time since White Lily was put in the box and when Salt got them out.

I'll probably make a separate post for LLF specifically because certain posts will be a little much and will need trigger warnings (Loaf got too silly with the psychology knowledge once again)

Anyways, back to the writing cave I go!

[vorchagirl]

WIP Title Game

@amarmeme tagged me to do this fun WIP title meme. And I have so many WIPs that this wil be fun! :)

Rules: Post the names of all the files in your WIP folder, regardless of how non-descriptive or ridiculous. Let people send you an ask with the title that most intrigues them and then post a little snippet of it or tell them something about it. Tag as many people as wips.

My WIPs:

Saints and Liars 12

Saints and Liars 13

Saints and Liars 14

Saints and Liars 15

Saints and Liars 16

Saints and Liars 17

Moments 1

Moments 2

Moments 3

Moments 4

Moments 5

Distance 53

Harry & Sara Experimenting Fun

LLF chapter 1

Saints and Liars OS - Harry POV D/s Smut

Though A Mirror Darkly 16

King of Hearts (OG DR)

I'm going to tag @ashenlavellan @bioware-bard @lonesurvivorao3 @tlcinbflo @hawkeykirsah @foofyschmoofer @painterofhorizons @alyssalenko @silurisanguine @vela-ad-astra @heroofshield @rotschopf-thedrow @continuous-spec @pikapeppa

[olderthannetfic]

Recent asks about comments reminded me about a project from a few years ago, based on the premise that readers don't comment because they don't know how/are overwhelmed/fear doing it wrong etc.

I can't say I don't get some of it: sometimes one doesn't have spoons, sometimes you see authors say comments are worthless unless they're a multi-paragraph essay. Hint to those authors: this makes me stop reading your stuff because you're annoying ;-) but I guess I'm not the type of reader/commenter you want anyway, so ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

But! This project grew and grew into something (that I find) terrifying; it's a huge spreadsheet where you enter stuff like quotes, character names, etc and it has different levels of complexity, and you have to poke around the spreadsheet to create a final comment. It's meant to help people who don't know how to comment, what to write, etc . (because "loved it!" or "extra kudos!" or "thanks for writing this" isn't good enough? Or too hard to come by? Or not commenting is a sin?)

This project grew and grew into something (that I find, YMMV) terrifying; it's a huge spreadsheet where you enter stuff like quotes, character names, etc and it has different levels of complexity, and you have to poke around the spreadsheet to create a final comment. It's meant to help people who don't know how to comment, what to write, etc. (because "loved it!" or "extra kudos!" or "thanks for writing this" isn't good enough? Or too hard to think about? Or too much like what other commenters wrote therefore worthless? Or not commenting is a sin?) Writers are encouraged to mention this in your author's notes, to be #helpful.

And I guess my question to you and your followers, is this: does this look helpful? Has any of you used this, found it helped? Obviously, it's not for me, but I'm aware one size doesn't fit all and I've always wondered if people have actually used it, or if as authors you've seen a difference in the feedback you got after mentioning it in your author's notes. (There may have been a wank around it at the time, but if there was, I missed it, so pls enlighten me!)

https://longlivefeedback.tumblr.com/post/170952243543/now-presenting-the-llf-comment-builder-beta

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I don't remember this. I would probably not use it because my lack of commenting is pure laziness, not inability to figure out what to say.

[guardian-rocket]

Has Rocket seen a natural raccoon, and if he did, how does he feel about it? The contrasts between him and them, etc. Does it cause any complicated feelings about what was done to his body?

Ask incredibly invasive questions about the character! The writer will answer and the character will react to having their private information made public.

Mun: Rocket has not seen a raccoon before the events of vol 3 and most of our threads are pre-vol 3 based where he still takes offense to being called a raccoon because he associates it with an insult.

Post vol 3 Rocket learns to take pride in that he is a raccoon and no longer feels the need to have others validate that he is more than an animal. He comes to terms that being an animal or originally being an LLF (lower life form) doesn't mean he holds less value because all life holds value.

Rocket's always had a complicated relationship with his body because it is enhanced and he knows if it wasn't, he'd no longer be alive. He has enhanced strength, durability, agility and a prolonged life because of it.

When he was little he bought into the mission to 'become perfect' of becoming perfect because he craved acceptance, and if perfection was to be like other people, he wanted to be seen as a person, not as an animal. This causes him a lot of bitterness and resentment because his body is not perfect and he will never have in full the acceptance of others he wanted for so long.

When he sees the raccoons, and really sees how much has been done to him, his heart breaks because he sees himself in them. Not what was done to him, but who he is despite it all.

Muse: (post vol 3) It's... a lot to take in, 'burying the hatchet' so to speak, but looking back on it a part of me is glad to be me despite it all... but that's just the thing. If I was never turned into this, well... I wouldn't have all my friends and I wouldn't have helped save the galaxy a buncha times.

[longlivefeedback]

Genuine question re:smut

(And I'm not even sure if this is a question just you could answer but)

Would telling an author you got off reading their smut fic be a good comment or a wildly inappropriate one?

It probably would depend on the author and how your comment comes across, but let's hear from some authors:

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[nerice]

catharsis really is the main theme of motd tho.. what it sets out for (after all that happened in dream game, so needed) but it kind of misses the mark in every single aspect until the end when chess stops being a little bastard allows faye her true end & the universe is truly righted again & everything else falls into place after that (cue llf)

[freddyfreeman]

I wish people who interacted with my Secret Garden posts would interact with my Little Lord Fauntleroy posts 🥺

[randomeanonjustwatching]

In related to the keeper ask (as well as with a shitpost I did on my Tumblr), llf y/n got third upgrade for gent pipe and perhaps had a swiss army knife with them before they got dragged into the ink realm (by Wilson?? Maybe?? Still working on that). Finds a certain Keeper recording.

Bendy apparently finds them standing before a now dead keeper, with a bloody(inky?) Gent pipe and stains on them.

Y/N: whoops guess I don't know my own strength when all I felt was rage

Hcs or fic, that's up to u

Quiet noises

Fear pulsed through my veins.

I...I just heard something scream...and it didn't sound like a lost one nor an ink searcher....

Touching the wall, I went through it, sliding through easy.

I quickly noticed my hands were shaking.

Why am I so scared?...

I slid through another wall.

I could hear someone talking.

"Well, guess I didn't know my own strength. You hear that Wilson? I'M STRONGER THEN YOUR STUPID KEEPERS OR WHATEVER THEIR CALLED!!!" The weird person thing yelled.

It looked kinda like boss, except younger and was holding a gent pipe, with different golden glows on it.

But I flinched when it yelled. And I hit the table behind me, causing noise.

"Who’s there?" The weird person quickly said, looking around.

I quickly shoved myself under the table.

I'm scared....I'm scared....

My breathing increased, but I covered my mouth. I closed my eyes as well.

"Woah, hey little buddy...."

I could hear it right in front of me. I could feel my body increase in fear.

Then, I felt something touch my head.

I panicked and let out a mix between a growl and a whimper.

"Woah, it's okay, calm down. I'm not gonna hurt you, I promise." The weird person said calmly, rubbing my head slightly.

I opened my eyes, staring at them.

"Well hi bud. See? You're alright, I won't hurt you."

I nodded and slowly came out.

(I decided to write from Bendy's point of view, hope y'all like!)