Two men and two women wanna found a wizarding school.They happen to have different preferences among those admitted. The dudes both want cocky fucks who’ll go off fightin dragons and basilisks and shit. And one of them is racist. The women are like “Uh, learning. I would like the children in the SCHOOL we’re founding to be into books” and “Idk, anybody? Like anybody that wants to, like, attend? Why are we even separating them again, I’m confused”
#wizardfeminism
TOASTYSTATS: AO3 WORD COUNTS, DATES, AND POPULARITY METRICS
How many words do most fanworks have on AO3? How popular are most works? When were they posted?
The ratio of comments and kudos to hits is very disheartening.
50% of fics have <= 395 hits; <= 12 kudos, <= 1 comment
90% of fics have <= 2657 hits, <= 97 kudos, <= 14 comments (remember that author replies to comments count as well, so this could be 7 comments from readers)
In the 90% of fics range, you could have 2657 people read/look at your fic and 0.03% of them will click the kudos button. It’s a single click, the least amount of effort necessary to express appreciation for the words you wrote.
And 0.005% will make a comment. Unless we’re assuming that half of those comments are you replying to other comments. Then it’s more like 0.002% of readers make a comment.
AO3 is probably the most beautiful, well organized and useful place I’ve ever seen to post fics. It makes them easy to find, easy to share and it’s absolutely great for authors, too. However, there’s definitely not a very good culture of support for those authors from the readers. A lot of authors really thrive on feedback and knowing that people both like and appreciate their work.
Comments matter. Kudos matter. Support matters. If you like something someone wrote, tell them. Even if you can’t think of anything original to say, even “omg I loved this so much” makes a difference to an author. I promise you, it does. I save every email I get from AO3, kudos notifications, comment notifications, everything. I save them all and keep them like little precious gems that remind me to keep on writing.
Works that I haven’t been able to get the spirit and motivation to work on in MONTHS, I’ve gone back to just because someone made a lovely comment that motivated and inspired me to get back in the saddle.
Comments and kudos matter.
Support your fanfic authors. Show them you appreciate them.
HI GUYS. I’LL SAY IT BEFORE AND I’LL SAY IT AGAIN:
Kudos are like facebook likes. For a writer who posts their fics precisely because they want feedback, it is like anti-feedback. It’s a number, just like the hits number. You could get a thousand hits and a hundred kudos, but without a single comment you think, “Well I guess no one liked it.”
If you really liked the fic, you’d at least say something about it; whether a little “good job” or “this is great!”
I write for multiple fandoms. One fandom, I write a chapter and get 5 comments. Another, I write five chapters and get 0 comments. Guess which fic I discontinued, and which one is now at a whopping 51,000+ words.
I read this fic with 0 comments, updated last in 2012. I comment once, and lo and behold, the writer updates. I comment again, and the writer keeps updating. “You’re the reason I keep updating” they say, and it saddens me to know that that’s probably true.
When you’re writing fic, you’re writing for an audience. Not a thumbs up, not a like, not a button you can push. An audience. For feedback.
I don’t count kudos. I appreciate them, sure, but they don’t tell me people want more. It’s easy to click a button, but that tells me you don’t really care whether I update or not, whether things move forward or not. It tells me that my fic wasn’t worth even three words.
So please. Leave comments on fics you like. Even the ones you don’t like. Short comments, long ones, emoticons—-it really doesn’t matter, as long as it’s there. It helps more than you know.
(via tinsnip)
if you’re ever having a bad day, just remember that kirk and spock once drank beer with satan
(via maketreknotwar)
(via walrus-queen)
Tracie on the intercom:
whoever left their phone in the ladies' room, it's on my desk.
At least six people:
FRANK!
elphabaforpresidentofgallifrey:
#first rule of the avatar fandom #ALWAYS REBLOG THAT’S ROUGH BUDDY
qwq
I don’t even watch Avatar and this is awesome!
(via withthingsunreal)
consider the following:
- Klingon death metal
- Vulcan pop punk
- non-Klingons being inspired by Klingon stories of honor and glory
- non-Vulcans choosing to follow the teachings of Surak
- rebellious Ferengi forming little communist collectives
- the Ferengi feminist revolution
- non-Bajorans believing in the Prophets
- Humans forming new religions out among the stars
- highly diverse scientific research conferences on a different planet every year
- non-Humans being fascinated by Earth history
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