**THIS IS FOR AO3 READERS ONLY **
- AO3 Authors- Go to [THIS poll] instead
- If you are both a writer and reader, I encourage you to answer both polls.
blackbird-brewster reblogged
You ever read fanfic so god tier you have to wait for real life to load back in so you spend half the day doing tasks with that dead look in your eye, replaying all your favorite moments?
I am genuinely curious, because I've heard multiple people say they don't like to comment on older stuff because they think it would be weird. (In the same way most people view it as a faux pas to like older posts on someone else's social media)
I'm really interested in this, because I've recently noticed my smut fics tend to get more hits but way less comments than my other works. What is it about smut that makes people afraid to comment??
As a fanfic author who lives on tumblr, but posts on AO3, I am genuinely curious about this