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i’ll do another fic/fandom because why not:

i’ve started to see some really upsetting comments on other people’s fics; and it’s made me so cautious that i’ve just started moderating comments on my own.

like ‘

sad that authors think they can post a chapter their fic and then never update’ and like… of course they can?? it’s their fic, not yours. if you want control of an update schedule, then you need to write your own fic. simple as that. 

tl;dr it was a really long and upsetting thread in a fandom i write for (telling the author they ‘owed them an apology’, lmao) and i feel like there’s been this kind of shift in fandom behavior of like…demanding updates more often than you actually write a comment to the author about what you like about the story in the first place. 

and also a shift in like…spam like comments? i actually don’t agree with ‘any comment is better than none’. i would rather have none than ‘update!’ and i would rather have none than one-word comments that have no context like ‘bastard’ (you have to assume it’s one of your characters, but you don’t know which one?? if people aren’t going going to specify, sometimes it’s better to just…not say anything, tbh).