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Oh, absolutely. That's what kind of wants to make me talk about it more; the myriad of factors that all come together differently depending on the fandom/author/climate/whatever.
What I find kind of ironic is that when it comes to a couple of things you've used as examples above, the reason for not commenting is so... illogical, i suppose. Like, everyone knows that 90% of the time the author will love getting a comment, will love even MORE to know that someone's reading and enjoying it months later. So what's with the reluctance to comment months later? It's not like a topical issue blog post where the conversation has ceased/moved on.
And the kink thing, too - I mean, yeah, I totally get the self-consciousness of admitting kinks when it comes to responding to idfic. But I find it a bit ironic (in a different sort of way to the above, I know it's a different kind of dynamic) - that it's hard to admit to enjoying something to someone who's just *written* and publicly posted it. WTF, do you expect that they will judge you?
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Oh, absolutely. That's what kind of wants to make me talk about it more; the myriad of factors that all come together differently depending on the fandom/author/climate/whatever.
What I find kind of ironic is that when it comes to a couple of things you've used as examples above, the reason for not commenting is so... illogical, i suppose. Like, everyone knows that 90% of the time the author will love getting a comment, will love even MORE to know that someone's reading and enjoying it months later. So what's with the reluctance to comment months later? It's not like a topical issue blog post where the conversation has ceased/moved on.
And the kink thing, too - I mean, yeah, I totally get the self-consciousness of admitting kinks when it comes to responding to idfic. But I find it a bit ironic (in a different sort of way to the above, I know it's a different kind of dynamic) - that it's hard to admit to enjoying something to someone who's just *written* and publicly posted it. WTF, do you expect that they will judge you?
Anyway...