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if you have an emotional support fanfic, do yourself a favour and click that download button at the top of the page. then you don’t have to worry about it being deleted

but everytime i come back i boost hits 👉👈

the download is your emergency backup! keep reading however you like to read in the meantime ❤

you could also. leave a comment. when you download it. I am not one of those writers who’s like “ah i hate kudos only heartfelt comments make me happy” or whatever. “i’ll stop writing if people don’t reply with novels.” not true! not so. not at all. lurkers are fine. i love you. i write what i want; i’m inspired by commenters sometimes, i’m inspired by conversations, but I don’t need it from literally everyone. all of it is fine, you can just lurk, i am getting what i need. You do you. this is not one to one transactional.

but.

if it’s your emotional support fanfic, firstly yes make your own copy so you have it no matter what, don’t worry about the hits, but if you are worried about the hits… well, in that case, take your worry and shape it into a lil note, and stick that note on there. “i love this so much i downloaded it because i can’t face a world where it’s disappeared, and just know i’ve now read it on my device a thousand times, and it’s imporant to me, thank you.”

you don’t have to do this. but if you’re worried about the hits. you could do that instead. because i have gotten one or two lil notes like this and they really helped me a lot when i was feeling sort of bad about some abandoned old works and such.

(also i recently published a story that got a flurry of comments, and in the midst of that i got a comment on a much older story and it was somehow even more great in that context to be reminded that people sometimes like my old shit too, my worth is not entirely predicated on whatever the latest thing is. it’s just so reassuring. if you have a favorite thing you downloaded ages ago maybe now is the time to go back and say “i have loved this for years”; someone might really love to hear that. But, of course, you don’t have to.)