In The Spirit Of Encouraging People To Comment On Fanfics While Also Making It Easier To Do So, I Feel

In the spirit of encouraging people to comment on fanfics while also making it easier to do so, I feel obliged to share a browser extension for ao3 that has quite literally revolutionized the comment game for me.

I present to you: the floating ao3 comment box!

From what I've seen, a big problem for many people is that once you reach the comments at the bottom of a fic, your memory of it miraculously disappears. Anything you wanted to say is stuck ten paragraphs ago, and you barely remember what you thought while reading. This fixes that!

I'll give a little explanation on the features and how it works, but if you want to skip all that, here's the link.

The extension is visible as a small blue box in the upper left corner.

(Side note: The green colouring is not from the extension, that's me.)

If you click on it, you open a comment box window at the bottom of your screen but not at the bottom of the fic. I opened my own fic for demonstrative purposes.

The website also gives explanations on how exactly it functions, but I'll summarize regardless.

insert selection -> if you highlight a sentence in the fic it will be added in italics to the comment box

add to comment box -> once you're done writing your comment, you click this button and the entire thing will automatically copied to the ao3 comment box

delete -> self explanatory

on mulitchapter fics, you will be given the option to either add the comment to just the current chapter or the entire fic

The best part? You can simply close the window the same way you opened it and your progress will automatically be saved. So you can open it, comment on a paragraph, and then close it and keep reading without having the box in your face.

Comments are what keep writers going, and as both a writer and a reader, I think it's such an easy way of showing support and enthusiasm.

As usual, I’m having far too much fun writing the notes for my fic.

I could write, or, consider this, I could take a nap

Jason Todd's pain tolerance and responses

what is your ideal whumpee like?

Oof, I mean the answer to this question is gonna say some concerning things about my psyche no matter how I spin it—

But I think for me it’s all about the stoic whumpee; refusing to admit that there’s a problem until they absolutely have to, spinning their reactions to a whumper to reach a goal, insisting to a caretaker that they’re fine when they categorically aren’t—the disregard for their own needs hits me directly in the soul every time.

Me in real life when any of my patients have poorly controlled pain: This is the WORST why aren’t the meds WORKING YET i HATE THIS—

Me, writing Whump: hehe Suffer