Terminal Hanaki? Boring. Chronic Hanahaki? Exciting.

writing my fic rn, and it has texting in it, right? I've made Ochako's contact in Himiko's phone "Chako Chip" with cookie emojis and I start giggling like a FOOL every time I type it out, because ?????? IT'S SO CUTE????

I kind of suck at tagging, so I made this infographic to help make it easier.

we've all got that one fic that just keeps getting hits, with the very rare comment, and it's like "No. Quit! This one is bad, it's super old and cringey and you need to look at this new one I made!" but you wouldn't dare take it down because that still is YOUR CHILD and people like it and even if it's bad we've all got that monkey brain that likes checking on it every once in a while and seeing that the number went up

cruel irony

I need a friend to dm at odd hours because that single lyric from that really obscure song was SO togachako coded that it HURT MY SOUL. Since I don't have any friends that want to listen to my rambling (and I don't want to make the friends I do have hate me for said rambling) I'll give my list of togachako songs to Tumblr!

SO! Here we go, Kingston's Togachako song rec list in no particular order:

So Alright, Cool, Whatever - The Happy Fits

Lover is a Day - Cuco

Cover This Song (A Little Bit Mine) - Will Wood and The Tapeworms

As the World Caves In - Matt Maltese

space girl - Frances Forever

For the Departed - Shayfer James

Lovesick - Laufey

Promise - Laufey

From the Start - Laufey

Valentine - Laufey

Lovers Rock - TV Girl

How I'd Kill - Cowboy Malfoy

Cliche - mxmtoon

Figure You Out - Djo

Orbit - Mia Stegner

Crazier Than You - Addams Family Musical

Tongues & Teeth - The Crane Wives

Never Love an Anchor - The Crane Wives

The Red Means I Love You - Madds Buckley

Skeleton Appreciation Day - Will Wood and The Tapeworms

Villainous Thing - Shayfer James

Don't You Dare (Make Me Fall in Love with You) - Kaden MacKay

Twist the Knife - That Handsome Devil

Under My Skin - Jukebox The Ghost

Rule #7 - Angel Tango - Fish in a Birdcage

Bet - Rio Romeo

Cannibal - Tally Hall

When Somebody Needs You - Will Wood

Um, It's Kind of a Lot - Will Wood

Misanthrapologist - Will Wood

Good Luck, Babe - Chappell Roan

Yes, to Err is Human, So Don't Be One - Will Wood

Against the Kitchen Floor - Will Wood

Bonus Songs:

League of Villain-coded

My Alcoholic Friends - The Dresden Dolls

Where We Belong - Shayfer James

Himiko-coded

Rivers Is a Vampire - Bear Ghost

Ochako-coded

all-american bitch - Olivia Rodrigo

(Admire the self-restraint I have not to list "Simping for the Villain - Boy Jr." under the Ochako-coded section.)

Okay thank you for listening Tumblr, goodnight <3

sobbing, crying, dying, I'm deceased now, just like them

thinking abt how jinx told sevika she gave silco his injections because "he was a big crybaby and didn't want to do it himself." thinking abt how we know silco has given himself his injections plenty of times without issue. thinking abt how silco took in a little girl who could never do anything right, who could never be trusted with anything important because she'd fuck it up, who was a jinx, and told her "I trust you enough to put this needle in my eye." thinking abt how vulnerable of a position silco put himself in just to make jinx feel safe and loved.

Apparently a lot of people get dialogue punctuation wrong despite having an otherwise solid grasp of grammar, possibly because they’re used to writing essays rather than prose. I don’t wanna be the asshole who complains about writing errors and then doesn’t offer to help, so here are the basics summarized as simply as I could manage on my phone (“dialogue tag” just refers to phrases like “he said,” “she whispered,” “they asked”):

“For most dialogue, use a comma after the sentence and don’t capitalize the next word after the quotation mark,” she said.

“But what if you’re using a question mark rather than a period?” they asked.

“When using a dialogue tag, you never capitalize the word after the quotation mark unless it’s a proper noun!” she snapped.

“When breaking up a single sentence with a dialogue tag,” she said, “use commas.”

“This is a single sentence,” she said. “Now, this is a second stand-alone sentence, so there’s no comma after ‘she said.’”

“There’s no dialogue tag after this sentence, so end it with a period rather than a comma.” She frowned, suddenly concerned that the entire post was as unasked for as it was sanctimonious.

Comment resources

Receiving comments means so much to fic authors so we’d love to encourage people to leave more. But we appreciate that leaving comments can be a bit daunting or draining, especially on days when we are tired or already stressed. So here are a few resources to hopefully encourage us all to leave more and to make doing so easier.

Archive of Our Own floating comment boxes

There are a couple of versions of these out there and they can be helpful. They are browser extensions that allow you to keep the comment box on the screen whenever you like so that you can easily comment as you read, rather than getting to the end and panicking about what to say.

Here are two different versions:

AO3 Floating Comment Box by ScriptMouse

Floaty Review Box by ravenel ← I use this one and think it’s great - Squid 💕

Feed The Fandom Fest

Have you heard of the @feedthefandomfest bingo cards? Because if you’re participating in these, maybe one of the recs on this blog could be the perfect way to tick off a square on these cards. Or, if you’ve not started one yet, why not pick one to encourage yourself to comment more and have some fun while doing so?

Here are the different cards:

Original Card

For Beginners

Fluff Edition

Angst Edition

Smut Edition

Old Fic Edition

Billy Hargrove Edition

Or put your own together!

I’d also just recommend having a look through the Feed The Fandom Fest blog in general, it’s such a wonderful resource 💖

Additional AO3 Kudos

Here’s some images of additional kudos for when you’re longing to mash that button again but all it greets you with is that mocking red smiley face. These are complete with the html to easily put them in!

AO3 Random Nice Comments

This browser extension will give you a short, nice comment from a list at the press of a button. It may be useful for beginner commenters who want to say something nice but are unsure what.

Comment prompts

If you want to craft your own comments but are unsure what to say, here’s a few starting points:

What is the first thing that comes to mind when you think back on the fic? I’m sure the author would love to know

Who was your favourite character in the fic? 

Where are you reading the fic?

Speculate on what could happen after the end of the fic

How did you react emotionally? Did you laugh? Cry? Smile? Scream?

Or there’s the simple but ever loved:

Keyboard smash

String of emojis

‘Loved this!’

Here’s some more lists of prompts:

Good and easy comment ideas by ao3-shenanigans

Some more easy comment suggestions by ao3-shenanigans

Unhinged fic comment ideas by magpie-murder 

Our comment stickers

Here’s a few stickers we made to use in place of comments if you want to leave something but still don’t know what to type out yourself:

html for the above, in order:

<img src="https://i.postimg.cc/yYRJxJ8C/readforbookclub-sticker.png" alt="sticker with stars and text reading: I READ THIS FIC FOR FANFIC BOOK CLUB AND LOVED IT"/>

<img src="https://i.postimg.cc/yxgDFxh9/greatwork-sticker.png" alt="sticker with stars and text reading: I ADORE THIS FIC GREAT WORK"/>

<img src="https://i.postimg.cc/c12gd7Zc/howtheactualheck-sticker.png" alt="sticker with stars and text reading: HOW THE ACTUAL HECK IS THIS SO GOOD?"/>

<img src="https://i.postimg.cc/V6HSrntm/amazingwriting-star-sticker.png" alt="star-shaped sticker with text reading: AMAZING WRITING!"/>

<img src="https://i.postimg.cc/RZzWHMW6/screamingcryingthrowingup-star-sticker.png" alt="star-shaped sticker with text reading: SCREAMING CRYING THROWING UP"/>

<img src="https://i.postimg.cc/1XkfMSMd/mayiofferyoumyfirstborn-star-sticker.png" alt="star-shaped sticker with text reading: MAY I OFFER YOU MY FIRSTBORN? OR PERHAPS MY SOUL?"/>

how to grow the fuck up

Me: "Well, I published the last fic I wrote while I was still writing it, and it stressed me out a little because I didn't want to leave anyone hanging. I should probably not do that again."

Also me: "publish now. publish now. You should publish now, because you're on the second to last chapter. There's a seven chapter buffer, you'll be fine. Do it. You'll get to watch the number go up more if you publish now. Don't you wanna see if anyone leaves any nice comments?"