There also needs to be a button for “this is the 5000th time I’ve read your fic because I’m having a horrible day and this is the only thing in the world that always brings me happiness.”
*helpful*
I know… but I am afraid to leave multiple comments when I re-read, for fear of being thought a spammer.
I have been lucky enough in recent months to have not one, not two, but THREE people go back and reread a fic of mine and comment every chapter for a second time! Every single one of those people got effusive replies from me and every single one made me grin like a fool until my face hurt 🙂
comments are 100% the opposite of spam. They are precious emails that get saved and reread like love letters in an Edwardian romance
Honestly, you could claim to be a Nigerian prince or try to sell me penis enhancing pills, and I would still get all heart-eyed at your comment.
You could leave your comment over the course of my entire fic, one word at a time, and I still wouldn’t think of it as spam. In fact, I would try to guess what you were about to say.
You could leave YouTube links to songs you listened to while you read each chapter. That’s not spam. That’s a playlist. And you would gift me a goddamn playlist. OMG. Why don’t people do that more often?!
You could copy and paste your favorite line or word with absolutely NO CONTEXT and I will high-fucking-five you as a reply. Haha, she said “boloney pony”.
You could share a picture of the tea and cookies you inhaled while you read my fic. I wanna see and I wanna share.Still not spam!
I will say that, however, repeating “update” over and over again, is kind of annoying and borders on spammy simply because you are rudely ordering the author around. You wouldn’t do that in any other situation …
At Starbucks: “DRINK!”
At home: “FOOD!”
With your spouse: “NAKED!”
Ok, that last one you might do …
Point is … assume all authors want to hear from you. The whole point of all these blogs about comments is because authors are starved for feedback.
(but please don’t try and convert me to a different religion in the comments or tell me fanfiction is sin…that will never go over well)
me when people ship real celebrities, draw/write porn of them, harass them about ships on social media, or are just generally creepy towards them:
Hey this is getting notes again so imma remind y’all that one of the one direction guys said shippers negatively influenced his friendship with one of the other members so it does affect people especially if you’re really upfront about it
also want u 2 kno that this is even affecting kids like millie bobbie brown who had to delete a photo of herself and finn and make a video abt how it made her uncomfortable
Hello everyone! This is Fancy. She is a ~12-13-week-old dilute tortoiseshell kitten my girlfriend found on the street while delivering pizza. Her long coat makes it hard to see how thin she is, but she is very thin. Her bones are so prominent that we have to cuddle her wrapped in a towel or she can’t get comfortable. (Yes, that is exactly as heartbreaking as it sounds.)
In addition to being dangerously underweight, she is suffering from an abscessed bite wound and some sort of problem with her tail, as well as a heavy parasite load that is giving her runny poop issues and sapping her energy. She is too small to even have the shots given to babies half her age.
Despite all this, Fancy is heart-meltingly sweet. She loves people. She talks a lot and even vocalizes softly while purring herself to sleep. She is alert but she tires easily because she has no energy reserves and right now she basically only sleeps, eats, poops, sleeps, cuddles, talks about everything she does, eats some more, and sleeps.
She looks rough now but with some TLC she will be a beautiful cat with a nice, low-maintenance medium-length silky coat and vibrant lemon-lime eyes. We want to find her a forever home, but we can’t do that until she is healthy enough!
We took her to the vet on Monday, July 30 and she has been wormed, treated for earmites, and tested clean for FeLV and heartworms, and her abscess has been cleaned out, which is all good, but she has some challenges.
The vet says that at 3.6 lbs. she is ½ to ¾ of a pound underweight, which is a big difference when you are as small as she is. Imagine being 30 lbs. underweight. That’s scary. This is the biggest hurdle right now. The odds are absolutely in her favor, this is a problem we can fix, but she is still severely malnourished and that presents a very real risk.
Also her tail doesn’t work so great. She can only move the first inch or so closest to her behind, and sometimes it’s hard to get it out of the way when she uses the litter box. If it doesn’t improve as she gets stronger the vet wants to take X-rays to see what’s causing it and what needs to be done.
She has a checkup in 10 days but right now we cannot afford to take her to it, let alone pay for any more unexpected urgent treatment, because today’s vet appointment blew through everything we had saved back.
I’ve set a goal of $700 to cover what we had to pay today for testing, wound treatment, and medication, and the things we had to get to take care of her (piddle pad crate liners, her own toys, some special food to get her weight up, baby wipes to clean up her bottom, all that sort of thing) plus some extra for her next checkup, her shots, and some extra for imaging or in case something unexpected comes up (most likely another abscess, a respiratory infection, or gastritis). We have other cats, one of whom has kidney disease and needs specialized food that costs kind of a lot, so this is putting a big strain on us financially.
Just an FYI for those in the US with insurance issues
this sounds oddly plausible
a good doctor will pester the insurance company on your behalf. a couple times in my Back Pain Odyssey my insurance noped out on a procedure, and my doctor called them up and was like “no, really” and they gave in.
so if your insurance is in the habit of going “you don’t actually need TWO months of physical therapy, just walk it off,” tell the doctor who ordered it, and they may very well volunteer to, or agree to, call up the insurance people and go “simon says pay for the fucking therapy.”
For all my peeps out there fighting the good fight against Big Pharma Bureaucratic Bullshit.
Basically, if you download the app and use a coupon, you can get a free medium fries once every Friday, as long as you buy at least $1 worth of other stuff.
IIRC, their drinks are $1, so that’s a drink and fries for $1. They also have a dollar menu. I’m sure this will help out a lot of folks.
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