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#you never know when a comment will bring an author back from the darkness beyond

In fact, kind words brought me back to finish a story I'd left hanging for ten years.

Ten. Years.

I wrote eight chapters, and then life got in the way. Marriage, graduation, kids, cross-country moves, probable undiagnosed ADHD (still need to get an assessment). But people would leave a comment on it about once every six months or so, and that would remind me that the story still existed, and was still unfinished.

And eventually, motivation kicked in again, and I had ideas on how to finish it, and I came back and wrote seven more chapters. I finished it.

And then I disappeared for another decade, but at least I didn't leave any stories hanging that time.

And I would be ecstatic to still receive comments on that old story.

thinking about that post of people assuming ao3 has an algorithm and also about how bonkers persistent the view is that ao3 is social media lite. like with startling regularity I get comments saying something along the lines of "it's probably weird to comment on a fic this old--" no it isn't!!!! this is an archive I am literally just assuming you searched for a selection of specific tags or sorted by kudos or looked back on my pseud or any other number of completely normal ways to use an archive site ?? kill the tiktok ghost in your brain and comment on old stuff it's NOT weird