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Comments

More Impressive Game

[(Anonymous)]

Gut reactions only.

1. Come up with two types of comments that would make you go "dang"
2. Coalies will tell you which one they think is arbitrarily more impressive

Re: More Impressive Game

[(Anonymous)]

Forty 1k treats or four 10k treats?

Re: More Impressive Game

[(Anonymous)]

Forty 1k treats

Re: More Impressive Game

[(Anonymous)]

Four 10k treats.

Re: More Impressive Game

[(Anonymous)]

+1

If I cut myself off at 1k and was more strict with reserving my time for treating, I feel like I could pull off 40 short treats. But I cannot for the life of me write the bare minimum of what could be called longfic.

Re: More Impressive Game

[(Anonymous)]

Four 10k treats. Receiving, because writing forty comments would probably make me have a stress meltdown, whereas I would love four longer, meatier explorations of my requests. Writing, because I'm always wishing I could write those longer, meatier explorations for other people. I just find that kind of writing more satisfying.

Re: More Impressive Game

[(Anonymous)]

Forty 1k treats because... so many ideas??

Re: More Impressive Game

[(Anonymous)]

This

Re: More Impressive Game

[(Anonymous)]

A letter that inspired 15 treats or a letter that inspired a 150k fic?

Re: More Impressive Game

[(Anonymous)]

150k fic woooooowwwww

Re: More Impressive Game

[(Anonymous)]

As a treat less person, the idea of 15 treats makes me super jealous, so that. :-)

Re: More Impressive Game

[(Anonymous)]

15 treats, 150k fic says more about the author than the letter I think.

Re: More Impressive Game

[(Anonymous)]

Authors note saying they got into the fandom because they liked the recip (as a person) vs. Authors note saying they got into the fandom because they were so inspired by the letter (as in thought the prompt was so cool that they consumed the canon in order to write it)

Re: More Impressive Game

[(Anonymous)]

Imo liking the recip

Re: More Impressive Game

[(Anonymous)]

I’ve had people tell me both, but I think doing it for prompts is more impressive? I wouldn’t turn away the fics I got because they liked me as a person, but I do kind of feel like they just wanted my comment or to pay me back for a fic I wrote that they loved. When someone says my prompt did it, especially when other people requested it too, it feels like your ideas are sooooooo amazing that the actual canon is secondary, they just needed context to make your headcanon a reality, which is so flattering 🙈

Personally, I’ve gotten into fandoms because of letters but never actually managed to get into anything for people who have treated me before/left me nice comments...does that mean it actually is harder and therefore more impressive after all 🤔

Re: More Impressive Game

[(Anonymous)]

100 comments all of the recip losing their mind with detailed praise or 100 comments from individual people

Re: More Impressive Game

[(Anonymous)]

I feel like the first one is more impressive, because the recip seems to be having some sort of religious experience, but I would much much much prefer the latter.

Re: More Impressive Game

[(Anonymous)]

All things being equal, I would agree with you. 100 people loving my fic in detail would be great. But if most of the 100 comments are like “this is great!”, “cute!” etc I would be annoyed so I think I lean towards a recip hitting the comment limit 100 times or constantly coming back to reread and finding noew things to love more impressive without further context or guarantees about the individual comment content.

Re: More Impressive Game

[(Anonymous)]

+1 I can't imagine the former unless it is for a crazy long story. If it has 100 chapters and the recip commented on each, then that makes sense. But otherwise, you're talking about a comment that is a factor longer than the fic itself... :/

Re: More Impressive Game

[(Anonymous)]

lol same (IDK why but this made me giggle so hard)

Re: More Impressive Game

[(Anonymous)]

1001 words for the fandom you want most, or 100,000 words for the fandom you want least*

*Relatively speaking

Re: More Impressive Game

[(Anonymous)]

1001. Please please please.

Re: More Impressive Game

[(Anonymous)]

If this is fandoms in my request, for sure 100k for the one I want "least".

If this is for the fandom I want least in all of YT.... Uh... Yeah, I'd definitely prefer 1k for the fandom I want most.

Re: More Impressive Game

[(Anonymous)]

CYRT yeah, I meant "least" of your requested fandoms

Re: More Impressive Game

[(Anonymous)]

Are they both well-written? Then the 100k for sure. If the writing is poor or mediocre, then 1001 words please (but this has everything to do with the lengths and nothing to do with the fandoms).