It is not surprising news that fanfiction writers are highly underappreciated.

There’s something wrong with the numbers: let’s take a popular fic with almost 4k hits. For let’s say 700 readers, it will get about 50 comments and 300 Kudos (those numbers are just an example, sometimes it’s worse than that). Maybe I’m being too kind, maybe not, but things stay the same; there’s something wrong here. Can you see it?

It takes us days, weeks, sometimes months to write a story for you. We write for ourselves yes, but we also write to share. We write to offer you content about your favourite characters. We write to bring our and your ships to life. It takes you a fraction of second to leave a Kudos, ten seconds to one, two or a few minutes to leave a comment.

And here lies our problem: there’s no proper sharing if there’s no proper feedback. An author not getting comments is generally a sad author. If I didn’t get feedback I’d wonder what’s the point in keeping on writing. A comment makes a writer’s day, most of the time even motivates them to write more.

Another important thing thrandythefabulous and I noticed: why on Earth do so many readers don’t comment (even kudos) if the fic has been up for a little more than a week or two? Why? Your feedback is still welcomed and much appreciated.

We write for ourselves, but also we write for you. And sadly, many readers are being quite… ungrateful, when giving feedback is the least they can do to thank the people offering them stories for free.

So, before we get started on our little day, let’s talk about comments:

It doesn’t matter if other readers already said what you wanted to say, we’ll still love reading it again in your words.

It doesn’t matter the fic has been up for weeks or months or years; comments on those ones are unexpected and so, it makes them ever better.

It doesn’t matter if you don’t have much to say, we’ll be glad anyway.

Most authors leave the comment section open to people who don’t have an AO3 account, which means you can still… comment! How amazing is that.

• "please for the love of god help you’re the only one here who speaks English" AU
• "i go to this restaurant every week and sit at the same table and suddenly you’re my new server" AU
• "i’ve been breaking my phone on purpose just because you work at the help desk" AU
• "i saw you taking selfies and i wondered if i could take one with you" AU
• "i’m the sarcastic techie who got dragged into running your stupid presentation" AU
• "we somehow ended up in charge of senior prank" AU
• "i’ve walked into your classroom four times by mistake can you please help me learn my way around this stupid school" AU
• "your music’s way too loud bUT THAT’S MY FAVORITE SONG" AU
• "bored single parents at a OneDirection concert" AU
• "mutual drunk friend called BOTH of us to pick them up from a party well this is awkward" AU
• "for the last time we do not sell hydrochloric acid I’M CALLING THE COPS" AU
• "your email address is one letter different from my friend’s so i keep emailing you by mistake" AU
• "you accidentally added me to this group chat and i don’t know how to take myself off" AU

1. a good dream
2. sports festival at Karasuno
3. indirect kiss
4. "you need to calm down"
5. Kageyama meets Natsu
6. trying to be sneaky
7. can we stay like this for a while?
8. that time a teammate/manager dressed them up for a date
9. sleepover
10. sensitive spot
11. at a haunted house
12. someone acts as chaperone
13. a nightmare
14. that time they were in charge of decorations
15. cuddling
16. juicebox
17. Kageyama trying to be smooth
18. that time one of them twisted an ankle
19. role reversal
20. "that was cheating!"
21. Hinata trying to be smooth
22. an apology
23. the perks and/or downsides of communal showers
24. on the bus
25. crossover
26. phone call
27. trying something new
28. confession
29. if they’d met later/earlier in life
30. favorite canon moment