Comments | bunn: Not leaving Kudos

bunn

Not leaving Kudos

Feb 21, 2016 09:21

I wrote a series of tiny stories about readers Not Leaving Kudos on ArchiveofOurOwn, prompted by a thread over on the ushobwri community. Kept them in a file for a bit and added one when I thought of one, and eventually in a fit of randomness posted them on Ao3 ( Read more... )

writing, life is not like star wars, wittering

Comments 35

thesmallhobbit February 21 2016, 09:40:32 UTC

I have of course left kudos!

bunn February 21 2016, 12:30:48 UTC

Someone left a comment asking 'is it sarcastic' to which the honest answer is I DON'T EVEN KNOW ANY MORE :-D

oonaseckar February 21 2016, 10:41:36 UTC

Oh, I read it already, it was fun! (And I did indeed leave (anon) kudos! It felt terribly ironic as I did so... which I guess was the intent!)

bunn February 21 2016, 12:27:25 UTC

Absolutely. You should probably get an extra point for anon kudos, which raises a whole series of further questions: did the reader forget to log in, do they not have an account, is this the first thing they ever read on Ao3, are they paranoid so they turn off cookies, are they deliberately hiding their identity? If so why???

:-DDD

ladyofastolat February 21 2016, 15:00:32 UTC

I almost left anonymous kudos by mistake, but at the very last moment before clicking, remembering that my computer has recently seen fit to log me out of every website I regularly use, I thought to check that I was logged on. I wasn't. Cue several minutes of "OMG, what on earth is my password" angst. Granted, several failed password attempts and a bit of running around the house trying to find long-strayed scraps of notebook isn't the most trying of dramas, but it seemed in the spirit of the story to reveal the effort that lay behind that simple task of clicking the kudos button. :-D

scripsi February 21 2016, 22:04:04 UTC

I'm divided between "not having an AO3 account" and "not wanting to leave a signed kudo for this kind of story". Certainly my fics with smut and kink gets the most of the anon kudos...

Thread 6

What have you done to me? ladyofastolat February 21 2016, 17:37:09 UTC

Because to every story, there is another side.

Arachne was slow to surface. For hours she had been transported, taken to a place where she ran on two legs and wore clothes; a place where she wept, where she laughed, where she loved. With just words, the author had made her become someone else; had shown her marvels.

I must leave kudos, Arachne thought. The author must know...But how? Pure chance had led her to this word magic. With a random pattering of paws, the mighty Tibbles, nemesis of so many of her kin, had pressed the keys that had opened up this wonder. Tibbles was long gone now, stalking colossal rodents in the vastness of the kitchen. Only a fool would hope for the return of such a terrible beast and its fateful moving paw. No, Arachne was on her own now. If the "leave kudos" button was to be pressed - and it had to be pressed - she had to be the one to do it ( ... )

This really needs to stop ladyofastolat February 21 2016, 17:39:24 UTC

His eyes were full of dust, and he had long since lost the strength to brush them clean. His legs were pinned beneath fallen pillars, beautifully carved and tangled with dying brambles. The goats were long gone. They had done their damage, felling the fragile aedifice, and scampered on their way ( ... )

Re: This really needs to stop huinare February 21 2016, 18:04:24 UTC

*contemplative silence*

*applause*

Re: This really needs to stop bunn February 21 2016, 18:04:59 UTC

Oh god. I was only able to read the second one after going away for some time to laugh like a drain and get it out of my system.

And then....

THE GOATS! THE GOATSSSSSS!!!!!!

huinare February 21 2016, 17:59:37 UTC

The frazzled grad student considered leaving kudos on Bunn's story about not leaving kudos. "Is it really worth it to try and remember my password for this site and log in?" the grad student wondered to herself, becoming a mite more frazzled at the very thought of trying to remember yet another password.
"BUT," she reminded herself, "you COULD leave anon kudos."
She paused to consider, before deciding, "That's tacky, when you could just log in."
"Yes but then I must recall my password."
"Bunn is your friend and has written this funny and apt story, it's worth it."
"Why are we talking to ourselves now?"
"Ourselves? How many of us are there in here?"
"No matter. KUDOS LEFT. BAM."

bunn February 21 2016, 18:06:14 UTC

You had to post this when I had just finished reading ladyofastolat's. I got hiccups. I blame you both.

BAM.

whahahaha.

huinare February 21 2016, 18:11:20 UTC

...Always glad to help.