Okay let's do this thing: THE GUILT MEME

[ladyfoxxx]

Aahahahaa, okay so we were talking on Twitter about feedback; kudos vs comments and how sometimes you love a story A LOT and really WANT to comment, but don't and then never do and I discovered I'm not the only person who psyches themselves out of commenting like that. So here, have THE GUILT MEME

Comments

[ladyfoxxx]

Holy crap, a quick skim of Hard To Be Soft had me bookmarking it on the SPOT. Hhhhngh. I nearly had to add allfourinches girl!spencer fic I Wish I Could See It From Over There to my own list but I FINALLY commented on that quite recently after rereading it like eleventy billion times (jesusfuck that fic is hot) - baby steps, okay?

Oh I have a TERRIBLE fic memory too. Don't even get me started on Amateur Cartography or Tell Me To Stop! I read those when I was first going "oh wow Panic has SO MUCH MORE KINK FIC than MCR" phase and didn't comment on anything because I was like LALALA this is just a phase, I'll totally get over reading Panic fic. Ahahahaa. How the mighty have fallen.

I would say that I'm sorry for sending you on a rereading spree, but I'm really not. ;-)

[ladyfoxxx]

Oh man Jez's fic! I adore the Fall and Rise of TBP but the one of hers I've reread beyond all reason has to be A Lovely Apparition. SO MUCH LOVE. So well done. It was one of the very first fics I read in Bandom and it was absolutely one of the reasons I stuck around in this fandom. Oh god, that one really belongs on my list up there too.

PS. <33333333333333333333333333333 NO YOU.

[turlough]

The Fall and Rise... and A Lovely Apparition are both among my favourite of Jez's stories. They're both so GOOD! And A Lovely Apparition is one of the fics that made me realise that crossdressing!Gerard is awesome.

[tabula_x_rasa]

I have probably not commented on most of bexless's stuff, even after multiple rereads. /o\ And I am terrible at commenting on older fics, so all the stuff I read when I first got into bandom, all those fandom classics, I never commented on. Which is stupid, because whenever someone comments on old fic my reaction is pure joy! And this is probably true of other people! And yet. It might just be laziness, or no words to express feels, or some combination.

[And awwwwwww bb! Thank you!]

[tabula_x_rasa]

Well I think it's really hard to comment when you're first getting into a fandom because you don't know anyone and you don't know how long you'll stay in the fandom or it you'll just lurk or what. I was 95% SURE bandom would be the sort of fandom where I read all the fic for a week and then left and maybe read more every few months or never looked back. Ha. Ha ha ha. /o\ That's my excuse/reasoning, anyway.

[ladyfoxxx]

I am terrible at commenting on older fics, so all the stuff I read when I first got into bandom, all those fandom classics, I never commented on.

YES EXACTLY THIS. I mean, I had to put Conclusions up there because I really do reread that one a LOT. A LOT. But stuff like The Holly Golightly Club and Thing-Thing and Unequivocal and stuff, like IDK I sort of left myself off the hook with those because they are practically required reading in Bandom at this point. Which is a dumb way of thinking because as you say, getting random comments on old fic is AWESOME, I guess I was just looking at the 6 PAGES of comments going "is there anything I could possibly say here that hasn't already been said, and better?" you know? (Oh man I have SO MANY excuses)

[seriously, I don't know if I ever mentioned to you how I read all of K&C in a SINGLE NIGHT and I stayed up til like 3am because I just could NOT put it down. Ugh. So good bb. HEY LOOK, these are things I could tell you IN A COMMENT ON THE FIC /o\]

[ladyfoxxx]

WOW SO I TOTALLY DIDN'T JUST CLICK A BUNCH OF THOSE LINKS AND C+F MY USERNAME TO SEE IF I'D COMMENTED.

Oh dear, there are some of these that should be on MY list. I mean, ones that I LOVED but never commented on. Oh GOD, Cee I'm a BAD BAD BAD person.

YES Born to Motorbabies, that one holy shit, I'm fairly sure I didn't comment and I remember reading Working For Joy On Overtime on my phone in a tent at a music festival, so I guess that explains the lack of feedback, but I neer went BACK

And yeah, see my above comment about how I never commented on soem of the Bandom Tentpole fics like Unholyverse and Holly Golightly because I was a n00b etc etc.

LOL but I totally just checked Sit Tight and I TOTALLY COMMENTED ON THAT ONE. GO ME.

(oh god /o\)

[ladyfoxxx]

AHAHAHAA OMG I'VE HAD TOO MUCH WINE. I totally meant to be talking about Born to Motorbabies with mrsronweasley a few comment threads down. BUT YES.

GO YOU. Keep coming back! Every time people post more links I see more fic I should have commented on IT'S LIKE I'M IN A GUILT VORTEX CEE. WHAT CAN I DOOOOOOOOO

[ladyfoxxx]

Oh GOD Panties and Lip Gloss, I know I kudos'ed it but I can't remember if I left an actual comment (or a coherent one at that) I'm pretty sure I've flailed at sunsetmog in RL as well as on Twitter about it though, so hopefully that is SOMETHING.

[cho_malfoy]

*jumping in* Oh my GOD Last Outpost of All That Is. I literally couldn't comment on that one because I was so destroyed after I finished reading it.