My dms are always open and I am always ready to listen or chat or distract or whatever you need right now.
I don't care what's going on or how well we know each other or how much we interact. You're never bothering me. I've got your back.
500 kudos is low? bro, that's wild. I read fics with like 2 kudos and i'm kudos number 3 bc they are amazing. i do not trust the opinion of the masses. kudos tell me nothing about whether i will like a fic. Summary and tags are all I need.
It's just gonna happen. You've probably seen the phenomena where an artist will post a meme and it'll do more numbers than an actually polished piece. We can't fully control what people will end up connecting to the most. You kinda just take it on the chin and move on.
I'm so exhausted from this idea that authors aren't entitled to seek anything but readers are SO entitled to everything. ppl have commodified fanfic so badly that authors are villified for wanting support for their freely shared work, but readers are treated like paying customers
commodification of fandom haunts me every single day of my life. people will pay real money hand over fist for physical merch but withhold leaving even a 10-word comment on a WIP fic because it's not a fully rendered 'consumable' product. nobody can appreciate a process anymore
A nazi becoming the first trillionaire off taxpayer subsidies mergers and apartheid mine inheritance isn't an anomaly. It's showing you what the system rewards.
Capitalism is a death cult