feathersmoons:

star-anise:

hedwig-dordt:

tygermama:

bewaretheides315:

xcziel:

et-in-arkadia:

those ao3 “kudos” emails where someone has gone through and read pretty much all of your stories, one after the other: blessings upon you and your household

don’t authors find that weird though? i don’t do that, just because i always figured it might seem stalkery, going story by story through people’s older work (which of course i do ~all the time~ because awesome fic is addictive)

if people are happy to have the kudos, i will totally start leaving them as i read

I mean, I can only speak for myself here, but no, I don’t find it creepy. Someone I’ve never met going through my old instagram selfies and systematically liking them – creepy. Someone I’ve never met obsessively reading my old fics and liking them – my favorite person of the day. Just MHO. 

seeing the same person’s name on a string of kudos for your fics because they’ve obviously read through your back catalogue is one of life’s great joys

xcziel, there’s nothing I like more as a writer than someone who is obviously reading everything.

Well, maybe comments. Yes, on old fic too. 

Seriously this is the BEST.  As is long rambly headcanons about something that happens in your fic, and derivative works.

I am seriously still not REALLY on tumblr right now beyond fic-announcements but I feel like this one I really WANT to add: when you kudo/comment all my stuff, it tells me you KEPT LIKING my stuff and I didn’t suddenly disappoint or disgust you or something.

(I mean no obligation, and I DO mean that: I never, ever want someone to do or say anything in re: my writing because they feel obligated. But a string of kudos on everything, or a string of comments on nearly everything, just means that I know that you not only liked whatever bit spontaneously brought you to my page, but that you a. liked it enough to go look for other stuff I’ve written, and then b. KEPT LIKING what I’ve written. And as someone with brain-weasels about “oh she did a COUPLE things okay to start with but then she turned into total fail”, that’s soothing to my brain.)

no seriously it is the best thing.  One morning I’ll get “x left kudos on a work” and the next morning I’ll get “x left kudos on THE ENTIRE REST OF YOUR CATALOG” and it just makes my week.