you win some, you lose some
Dec. 25th, 2018 05:19 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
dragonlady7I got a series of lovely comments on very old fic, recently, and some of them were just general nice comments, but there was one great one, on an old unfinished series, that so beautifully phrased how they didn't mind so much that it was unfinished, because it had been left in a hopeful place and not everything had been resolved but it was nice even with loose ends, and so on. It was lovely.
This morning, I was all pleased to have comments on the new stuff I posted, but mixed in there was another one on another old unfinished series.
This person was like "Since you're not finishing this, you owe it to readers to say that."
I wrote a pretty heated response because that is rude as shit, but instead I just wrote back, "How do you know I am not going to finish it?" because, I mean, did I say that? Then I've told readers that. Did I not say that? Then you're making an assumption there, and that will probably suit for your purposes.
Listen, if you don't know how to look at Last Updated stats on AO3 and make your necessary choices from there, then that archive is not a safe space for you.
I know of people who've come back to series after literal years, that's a thing that happens. Am I likely to? No. But am I going to say never?
Well, if I get enough of a preponderance of update plz shit. It's not like this person has ever left me any kind of feedback before. And it's a story for a TV show that went off the air in... 2009?? I mean, it's not like I'm waiting for new content or something.
That's what Subscribe To Work is for. Like, yeah, it's exciting to do it when the work is actively being updated, but where it really shines is in works you figured were abandoned. For me, now, I've spent so little time on AO3 this past year, there aren't many works I subscribed to anymore, but when I get a notification for one, hoo boy is that good news.
Anyway. Merry Christmas to everyone. Don't leave shitty archive comments. Believe me, I know I didn't finish that thing. But I don't owe anyone shit, after posting hundreds of thousands of words of free content that they get to read for free anytime they want to.
This morning, I was all pleased to have comments on the new stuff I posted, but mixed in there was another one on another old unfinished series.
This person was like "Since you're not finishing this, you owe it to readers to say that."
I wrote a pretty heated response because that is rude as shit, but instead I just wrote back, "How do you know I am not going to finish it?" because, I mean, did I say that? Then I've told readers that. Did I not say that? Then you're making an assumption there, and that will probably suit for your purposes.
Listen, if you don't know how to look at Last Updated stats on AO3 and make your necessary choices from there, then that archive is not a safe space for you.
I know of people who've come back to series after literal years, that's a thing that happens. Am I likely to? No. But am I going to say never?
Well, if I get enough of a preponderance of update plz shit. It's not like this person has ever left me any kind of feedback before. And it's a story for a TV show that went off the air in... 2009?? I mean, it's not like I'm waiting for new content or something.
That's what Subscribe To Work is for. Like, yeah, it's exciting to do it when the work is actively being updated, but where it really shines is in works you figured were abandoned. For me, now, I've spent so little time on AO3 this past year, there aren't many works I subscribed to anymore, but when I get a notification for one, hoo boy is that good news.
Anyway. Merry Christmas to everyone. Don't leave shitty archive comments. Believe me, I know I didn't finish that thing. But I don't owe anyone shit, after posting hundreds of thousands of words of free content that they get to read for free anytime they want to.
