striges13:

just-dread-wolfing:

ladyflowdi:

kellifer-k:

peoriarhetoriapeoria:

ionaonie:

solarcat:

pheuthe:

thebestpersonherelovesbucky:

brendaonao3:

ferlocke:

thesecondsealwrites:

siawrites:

anglofile:

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. 

I once (back on lj) had someone comment on every single chapter of a fic I wrote in one evening. It was the most thrilling night of my fanfic career. I didn’t feel creepy in the least.

COMMENT.  I don’t care how old it is or how many chapters a reader comments on.

The only thing that might possibly be more flattering is the “I stayed up all night because I couldn’t stop reading” comment.

Yes, please.

YES ALL OF THIS

all of this

Reblogging because readers somehow still have this idea that too many comments/kudos are seen as creepy or stalkery.
IT’S NOT.
Seriously. Every comment, all of the kudos, they’re greatly, GREATLY appreciated. And knowing that someone liked your work enough to click on your name and go through your other fics and liked those too, even the old stuff you’re kind of self-conscious about, is the greatest feeling a writer can have. So if you like a fic, say something/leave kudos, no matter if it’s the first or fifth fanfic you’ve read in one night from that author.

I LOVE when I get an email where it’s the same name, like a dozen or more times because they went through and read like, /everything I ever wrote/ apparently. It makes me so happy! 😀

Multiple kudos and/or lots of comments are the best thing ever

Not at all creepy. It’s like, they are reading, get to the end, said they liked it, and Prove they liked it because they read another and liked that…

And yes, it’s just as fun to see this with old stories. Maybe even more?

The other thing that is super nice? When someone comments and says, hey, I tried to kudos but I had already kudos’d so I’m commenting to kudos again because I do that ALL THE TIME. I either forgot I’d read this lovely thing and want to kudos again, or I’m doing a re-read of something and I *want* to kudos again. When it happens to me it’s seriously lovely – someone enjoying your stuff enough that they re-read.

reblogged so fast I sprained something

I know for me especially that while writing just for yourself is great, nothing drains me more from writing than not seeing kudos or comments.  If you notice in my writing at least, I get the most inspiration when I see people leaving likes, comments, even tags when they reblog (because I look and read them all).  

Please please please leave comments, like, kudo, reblog, everything!  No writer thinks this is stalkerish and is in fact one of the highest praises we can receive through this medium.  It lets us know that you like it and you want more!!  Without it, it may possibly mean we may not even continue it.  I know I get like that with several of my multi chapter stories.

Don’t feel like leaving something on every little thing?  My absolute favorite thing is when people leave notes in my inbox telling me about how much they love my characters, my voice behind canons, just the fact that they say how much they enjoy what I’ve done!  I have kept every little note I have ever gotten and once I get my set up my new desk space, I’m going to print them all out and hang them on my wall so I can read them every day.  I’m not kidding!  This thing fuels us writers!!  In this world, fanfiction is probably one of lowest forms of writing.  We don’t get paid.  Our payment comes from your feedback and the excitement that you have to keep reading!

IT IS NEVER STALKERISH!

IT LETS US KNOW YOU LOVE US AS MUCH AS WE LOVE YOU FOR READING!

It’s not stalkerish.

Suppose you went to the library or bookstore and picked up something by a writer you’d never heard of before. Maybe the cover looked interesting, maybe the blurb on the jacket intrigued you, maybe a friend recommended it, whatever. You get it home and devour it. It’s great. Fantastic. You love it. If you’re anything like me the first thing you do (after hitting “The End” on the last page) is find out if the writer has written anything else. Anything. Moar, I say! Then go buy or borrow them. 

I don’t think I’m alone here.

I picked up Dhampir by Barb and JC Hendee on just such a whim, and was disappointed at the time to find only one other book available by the same writers. I definitely kept an eye out for sequels. 

That’s not weird. Not stalkerish. That’s normal. Everyone does it, whether they found a great new comic or movie series or music or poetry or what have you. Booksellers (and music publishers, and art reproduction catalogs, and movie reviewers, etc, etc, etc) make sure to show you what else the writer or artist has done so you can find it.

If no one considers it creepy to look for other works from a published author, to follow their names and hope for more, why would it be creepy to do so for a fanfic author? They’re both writers. One gets paid when you find their back catalog. One does not. 

The latter would love commentary in lieu of monetary compensation.