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a broken recorder: you read a fic? you liked it? it doesn't meet your "standards"? but you read it to the end? leave kudos. write comments. read ongoing fics. stop being silent. stop taking without giving anything in return. writers just ask for your thoughts and kindness.
it's really not that difficult. i see so many people hype writers on twitter to write a prompt they tweeted about, but then i see the same writers hurt because after all the effort of writing that prompt, nobody seems to want to give the same excitement from before.
is it that difficult to just tell somebody what bits of the story you liked? it's not! nobody is asking for prose & poetry. you can quote! you can literally go back and copy paste what the author wrote BACK at them. and they'll be happy.
it's not enough to tell creators not to feel upset about kudos/likes/retweets. it's natural to want appreciation. if you're silent, it translates into dislike.
if hits & engagement increase but the kudos and comments don't, the natural assumption to make is that people read it and didn't like it.
i have no conclusion. stop feeling entitled. content creators have jobs and studies as well. if they can take out all that time to create something that you enjoyed, can you not take out 5 or 10 minutes to say that you liked it? it's really not that difficult.
