i am chronically online but not in a way that others recognise unless they are also an active tumblr user in the year 2023 🫡
tags from @umamidjezhda because LITERALLY
This seems like a weird thing to justify myself over but okay.
- That exact fic you’re talking about spawned a huge harassment campaign which boiled down to “hey hasn’t anyone noticed this dark-fic tagged as dark-fic is dark? that’s so fucked up the author should probably die.” When it comes to engaging with fic comments, I’ve found it’s vastly better to do it with discretion and in places where I have control of the conversation
- That exact fic has a discord I am VERY active in, for engaging with commentary about the fic.
- I’m a very tumblr-first fic-poster. I engage a ton with comments on tumblr. Most of my fics on Ao3 are the result of someone on tumblr asking if I could reupload the fic to Ao3 for ease of bookmarking. Which is fair! So I usually do it. But it DOES mean I don’t “use” Ao3 much.
- This one is maybe silly and stems from my “don’t use Ao3”-ness, but I’ve worried in the back of my mind that engaging in the comments looks like an excuse to boost my own fic metrics. That’s probably not worth being worried about, but this is off the heels of getting dartboarded to the wall in 2017. Go through the pre-2020 edits on the A Breach of Trust TVTropes page if you want a quick preview.
- I do love getting ao3 comments!! Love them!! For every ABoT chapter update I make a follow-up post on Tumblr with an out-of-context compilation of reactions from ao3 comments/tumblr tags/discord messages. I just don’t really use ao3 for the engagement part.
