tigerine:

writers are attention whores like 

please just show us attention we work just as hard as artists do we just want to be petted and praised the same way 

like an artist tag-stalks their art and sees all the #HOW DARE and #FUCK YOU OP in the tags and they’re like ‘yes good my work is done’

but a writer

we know there aren’t as many readers as there are picture-lookers and we don’t get the notes so there’s no tags to stalk to fulfill our need for validation

the ao3 hit counter going up is nice but if you don’t leave a comment (or even a kudos) how do we know you liked it and didn’t just back out and go “nope”

we value your gushing so much please just gush all over my face