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Every time AO3 makes an update, there’s a chorus of ‘and can we please please please be able to leave kudos on each chapter pleeeeease?!?!’

In theory, this is a nice idea. We’ve all smashed the kudos button on our favourite fics, bemoaning the fact we can’t give them all the love.

But ya’ll, kudos per chapter would absolutely fucking suck.

For readers, it would suck because it would compound the existing problem of making it hard to find fics that are good and not just long - not that a fic can’t be both! But there are plenty of Pulitzer-worthy one-shots out there that are buried way way down the list when ranked by number of kudos, because they’re beneath a bunch of 50/? fics where the author lost sight of where the hell the story was going 30 chapters ago, but their fic has had 50x the chances to be viewed so has more kudos. It would encourage authors to release their fics in lots of little chapters instead of a few longer ones/one-shots as they might otherwise have done (and as might otherwise suit the story).

And for authors it would especially suck, as it would compound the existing problem of people not commenting. Kudos are very much appreciated, but comments make an author’s day; but so few people bother, and frankly, it’s disheartening. Let people just click a button to show their appreciation for each new chapter? The hits:kudos:comments ratio would get even worse than it already is.

You can already ‘give kudos’ for each chapter of a fic on AO3 - by commenting. Hell you can literally write ‘kudos!’ It will make the author smile, I promise.

I actually never thought about it like this. If you are a fic writer or reader you should definitely read this 👆

Ok, question. Why not use the For You page at that point?

Because it sucks

boi no. go back while you still can. a good chunk of my answers are in the quads

Mutuals who post so much about fandoms you don't care about that you have to block tags for fandoms you don't even hate are a beautiful and treasured part of the tumblr ecosystem <3 (this is not sarcastic I genuinely love that they're getting so much joy from something that interests me as much as a bowl of room temperature unsweetened oatmeal) (it's so fun and captures the human experience) (I have something in common with a bland oatmeal fanblogger posting their blandest oatmeals) (and that's beautiful) (I may tire of the oatmeal fancams but I do not tire of you)

I get my media recommendations the old fashioned way: by watching someone I follow on here go on an unhinged reblog spree of media related content until I eventually decide to go "alright, what's all this then"

gawd this still feels so unreal like why does MF JUN WU, the heavenly emperor needs a virginity detecting sword for ??? I DON'T I'LL EVER GET OVER THIS FACT AND THE OTHER OFFICIALS WON'T TOO 😭

The thing about Timmy Chalamet is that he’s truly a great actor and he even has good taste in projects and he’s not even overexposed when you calibrate for how overexposed all that group of 25-30 year old big stars are……however something is still off. any time he gets cast in something it feels like that movie instantly turns into a parody of a movie. I cannot explain this

I don't think a dilf has to have children, sometimes he can be an old man and the PTSD he raised since he was a child, his only son - the total inability to make a meaningful emotional connection to anything except the ever-changing vastness of the sea.

fascinating that when you tell people "you have to learn the rules to break them" when talking about drawing/painting etc everyone nods and agrees but the second you say "you have to read books if you want to write better" there's a horde of contrarians begging to be the wrongest people ever all of a sudden

whenever i'm trying to talk myself out of buying something i don't need i always hear my old russian professor's voice echoing in my head: "WHAT??? WILL YOU DIE THE RICHEST MAN IN THE GRAVEYARD?" and then i make an unwise financial decision

ryan guzman has already played someone with a boyfriend haven’t you watched him and tyler hoechlin be gay sluts in everybody wants some two exclamation points??? this is the only thing i know about the 911 show btw. that ryan guzman is in it but looks completely different to how i picture him because the only thing i’ve actually seen him in was a So Misogynistic It Became Gay college baseball movie set in 1980 directed by dickie linklater. they WERE in love in that movie i literally do Not care what anyone says i’m so weird and annoying about it and you can kick me under the table all you want i WON’T shut up. anyway it allllll comes back to teen wolf somehow doesn’t it

if i posted every scene they were in together in this movie with no context you’d be forgiven for assuming that it was a romance between two bisexual porn stars with attitude problems. everyone take my hand.

hanging out with the gang

Getting a bit sick of all the "ooh I'm so glad Laios has a soft body!" "Laios is built like an average guy" still posts. Because he doesn't and isn't.

Laios is built like a fucking professional wrestler. He isn't like, super chiseled or anything but he does not have an "average" body, he his built like someone who does a LOT of physical effort and training.