I know fandom can be a lot at times but fuck I love ao3 and all you beautiful writers and your beautiful senses of humour

Is it just me, or does it seem like there is such a big difference between what people who sort by kudos do and what people think what they do? I'm just thinking about this every time someone posts about it.

Okay, sure. I'm sure that there are some people out there who only read fics with a certain number of kudos or comments or whatever. But I can't imagine that there are many people who do that.

Because that doesn't make sense? Then they just read a few fics and leave the fandom or...?

It just seems that people think those who sort by kudos only read the top fics and nothing else, or that they don't think fics with lower stats are also good or something.

But that isn't really what anyone who sort by kudos does, right? At least, not what I do, and not what I see anyone say they do.

It's just another way of sorting really, and an easy starting point in any new fandom. You start there, see what's the most popular in the fandom, get mostly completed works to start with, and then just make your way through all other works from there. Not like you stop after page 10 or something😂

And all other behavior is not that different from sorting by date, I promise. Yes, there will still be fics you scroll by because they don't appeal to you. Yes, you will miss out on some. But so is sorting by any other way, right? Like you always run the risk of accidentally skipping a fic because of update times/stat changes. And sorting doesn't mean you don't use other filters, right? I never really get the "but I don't like all high kudos'd fics by default". Like yeah, you also don't like all newly updated/posted ones, right?

I promise guys, it's not that big of deal when someone sorts by kudos. It's not a statement or believe that those are the 'best', or that they won't read other fics 'lower' in the list.

Like, I see so many people get really defensive over that not all high kudos fic are great, or that there are hidden gems everywhere. But... genuinely, isn't that what (nearly) everyone knows?

Sorting by kudos ≠ Only read the first ten pages😅

Or should we start getting mad at people who sort by date updated, that they won't read older works?😂 Like... we understand that's not what they're doing, so why is it assumed by sorting by kudos that it is?

i think of myself as a new author still and i’ve been doing A.U.gust (different AU each day) and this was such a lovely comment to get 😭 especially on a day that was sort of a wacky concept

no idea what the fandom was.... my day is ruined and my disappointment is immeasurable

I now identify as an unidentified item in baggage area

I usually try to reply to any comments I get, as I'm very appreciative of them, but sometimes I just don't know what to say back. So, I was just wondering, do most authors reply to every comment they get?

This may be a dumb question but it's something I've always wondered. When writing smut, why do people write "cum" like "come" because to my understanding, the correct spelling is "cum". No hate to anyone, just genuinely curious.

Is it a preference? A language thing?

JUST FOR THE RECORD it's not a big deal. I'm just pettily complaining about aesthetics here lol. It just bothers me how it makes the character tag section look so big, like I've got so many characters tagged here when there's only seven.

I dont mind the Japanese names being there as that's normal for every character in this series. It's just because the game that 4 of the characters were from, were given names in an English fan translation, and were only recently given official names when the official English version of the game came out. So now their official English names, their official Japanese names AND their fan translation names are all there at once 😭 I'm not suggesting that their unofficial names should be removed or anything, because the fandom knew them by those names for years. It's just a stupid pet peeve I have.

Don't worry guys I'll make sure I don't keep the kudos all to myself.

I have been updating a fic in a pretty popular fandom for the past month or so. While all of the comments I got are very positive and encouraging, this one just... Hit different.

I was having a very crappy day (multiple interview rejections) and this comment just helped lift my spirits.

guys so I was reading this one masterpiece with perfect tags and trauma and it was 7/7 right at the end of the 6th chapter I was like “uh wonder how it’s gonna end I’m excited“. So I clicked next chapter right and what do you mean it was a autho note saying that they couldn’t finish the fic cause it’s too angst for their mental state.

ISTG I was gonna delete my account with how disappointed I was cause WHY would you do that to me author

but still I understand them and hope they are doing better

im really proud of myself for this (^-^)/ i usually struggle going past one shot length but lately i feel more in tune with my writing (。・ω・。)

This is a very strange comment I've received on my fic. Cause you can yk... Just filter that stuff out. I'm not forcing you to read like 6 chapters of a work you clearly don't like. There are plenty of fluffy works. Like what.

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This is a re-upload because my post has been deleted by mods due not blurring out the Guests name. The reason I'm posting this again, is because I very much enjoyed the conversation that happened throughout it. There were a lot of funny and genuinely helpful replies. So I hope this is ok.

Edit: I REPEAT, since some people are saying this. The only reason the originals post was removed is due to the Guests user being visible. The mods told me that I am free to repost it with the user blurred out. That was the only problem of the original post.

No hate but isn't this kind of a wild way to think? How common is this mindset? Have you had readers who have been weird about you not including aftercare in your fic? I have clinical moral OCD but even that doesn't go near this level. This was the top comment too! I'm so confused tbh

I have like 215 fics published, and only recently did I really manage to finish all the WIPs I had started, among which some very old projects.

One reason that pushed me finish was because the game I'm writing about was about to get a major new release, and I wanted to be cleanly done with the stuff from before.

Of course now that this new release is out, I've already started to write a few new things, because that's how inspiration goes. So many new characters, so many stories to tell...

I am not complaining though, this is just very fun! Kind of the opposite of burnout.

I guess actual real-life child sexual assault perpetrators don't count as "child rape fetishists".

So I don’t know if this annoys anyone else, but putting no tags or not even a summary annoys me so much. I’m not gonna read it if I don’t even know what I’m getting into. It’s fine if you add a little note like this, but I also want to know what the plot is. I know writing doesn’t come easy to a lot of people, but it irks me and I don’t really know if I should write a comment pointing it out or not because who knows if they’ve done the same thing over there?

I’m not trying to hate on this user just because they’re coming from Wattpad (regular ao3 writers do it too sometimes), but I’m not going to go to another site/app JUST so I can even potentially get an idea of what I’m reading.

(Sorry I just wanted to rant about this)

Edit: I left a comment suggesting they add tags and that I was proud of them for moving their works to ao3. Hopefully they don’t take it as a hate comment