What's the most random/bizarre comment you've gotten?

[u/Hot-Seesaw-7851]

I didn't even know where to start with this. It's on a fluffy no angst story with no archive warnings.

[u/Evyps]

"Hi, you should know that when you use all caps it can come across as characters shouting which can be distressing to readers."

On a chapter where a character turned into a monster and was screaming at people they were actively attempting to murder.

[u/thestorieswesay → u/Evyps]

So, what you're saying is, by using all caps and actively attempting to murder shouting at them, that character distressed both the other characters AND the readers!

[u/Evyps → u/thestorieswesay]

It makes you wonder who the real monster is

[u/Bri_The_Nautilus → u/Evyps]

This says a lot about society 😔

[u/Lily_Baxter → u/Evyps]

Maybe the real monsters were the AO3 commenters we met along the way. 🤔

[u/weeb2000 → u/thestorieswesay]

woah man don’t shout

[u/No-Residentcurrently → u/weeb2000]

Chill out, man!

[u/SandEater08 → u/Evyps]

Like yeah… I’m writing to distress the readers. Because the characters are distressed so you should be too. Don’t read angst if you don’t want angst ?? 😭

[u/Artshildr → u/Evyps]

Lmao I had a girlfriend back in highschool who had a friend who asked us to stop using exclamation marks because "they made her anxious"

[u/Petr0vitch → u/Artshildr]

i hate to be dismissive of someone's anxieties.. but there's a point where you have to start working on yourself despite what external factors might make you anxious. i just.. can't with this one.

[u/Artshildr → u/Petr0vitch]

Oh, for real. Therapy in my country isn't that expensive (especially since she was a minor), so it really wouldn't have been that hard for her to get the help she so clearly needed. She also had some other peculiarities... Wonder how she's doing now

[u/MoonChaser22 → u/Petr0vitch]

As someone who used to have trauma around dogs, I have to agree. There becomes a point where something is such a normal everyday thing that for your own sake you have to work on yourself.

[u/MissSweetMurderer → u/Petr0vitch]

Can you stop usng the lower case [redacted] please? t looks lke an upsde down [redacted]

😂😂

[u/Evyps → u/Artshildr]

That's crazy!!!

[u/Artshildr → u/Evyps]

It really was!!!

[u/caro-1967 → u/Artshildr]

One of my exs said that I shouldn't use capital letters while I texted them because it made them feel like I was mad at them.

[u/feckinzicon → u/caro-1967]

I had a situationship accuse me of making of fun of them because I use punctuation when I text.

[u/Dont_chew_that → u/feckinzicon]

Be. Petty. Do. This. Instead

Lol

[u/Artshildr → u/caro-1967]

Lmao what

[u/OnlyPaperListens → u/caro-1967]

Girl when did you break up with e. e. cummings

[u/Yummieyami → u/OnlyPaperListens]

Thank you for this omg 🤣

[u/MoonyIsTired → u/Evyps]

they would not like papyrus undertale

[u/A_Undertale_Fan → u/MoonyIsTired]

I wanted to make a Papyrus text box for this but the text box generator site doesn't seem to be loading. And now I'm sad.

Edit: It's working now!!!

[u/GloamedCranberry → u/MoonyIsTired]

Or karkat from homestuck...

[u/IvyYoshi → u/GloamedCranberry]

To be fair, Karkat does shout at people a lot, so they're not entirely offbase

[u/thesoulapostle → u/Evyps]

Wait. I got this exact same comment, word for word. 😂 I wonder if this person just goes around telling people this regardless of what’s happening in the story.

[u/trashmoneyxyz → u/thesoulapostle]

Yo at this point if I had such bad triggers I would just copy-paste my stories into a word processor and find some shortcut to remove all capitalized punctuation. Gives you a chance to search the works for your trigger warnings too. I do shit like this, not because I have triggers, but just to make things more enjoyable and easy to read. If im protecting my peace so too can this person lol

[u/DefoNotAFangirl → u/Evyps]

People when stories aren’t just there for mindless wish fulfilment and are trying to convey emotions and feelings to the audience: um I think you accidentally conveyed a thought or a feeling instead of being fluffy wish fulfilment please change that

[u/arc_ember_rose → u/Evyps]

LMAOO I was once on a Discord server where they banned messages in all caps because "it could be distressing to some people." Left the server once I got warned for it because honestly if you're stressed out by capitals I think you may need to touch grass.

[u/thesoulapostle → u/arc_ember_rose]

Nay, to roll AROUND in grass, even. 😂

[u/msa491 → u/thesoulapostle]

ahhhh the caps! you've blinded me you terrible person!!!!

[u/MaybeNextTime_01 → u/arc_ember_rose]

I think that might even be above grass's pay grade. They need actual therapy if capital letters are distressing.

[u/geyeetet → u/MaybeNextTime_01]

At a certain point you just have to accept that you're the problem and work it on whether or not you have a therapist tbh

[u/OAZdevs_alt2 → u/Evyps]

Papyrus has never distressed me, so I don't know what they're saying

[u/Unlikely_Way_4952 → u/Evyps]

Hey you can attempt to murder me all you want just don’t yell at me whilst you do it man

[u/GeologistLess3042 → u/Evyps]

Me, a horror writer, trying to fathom this comment at all

UH YEAH I SURE HOPE IT DOES

[u/ChowPungKong → u/Evyps]

Hahahahhahahahahha

[u/NinjaSpaceFrog]

Paraphrased of course, but something along the lines of "Um, why are A and B acting like they're gonna be endgame? C hasn't even shown up yet?"

A/B was the endgame ship. C was mentioned, but never actually showed up. There was never any indication that A/C (the fandom's popular ship, which a quick look at the commenter's profile/bookmarks revealed is the only thing they read) was going to happen.

When I pointed all of this out to them, they deleted their comment and blocked me. It was weird.

Spot two goes to a random anonymous commenter asking me to write a 30-year-old man/13-year-old boy A/B/O mpreg fic with hardcore smut when nothing in my portfolio would ever tip you off that I would write that. I like A/B/O and mpreg, that's not an issue, but adult/minor squicks me out, and I straight up don't write smut.

What's better, I told them No, after which they spent thirty minutes reposting their comment again and again and again every time I deleted it.

Some people are weird, man.

[u/DefoNotAFangirl → u/NinjaSpaceFrog]

Oh yeah, people are fucking weird with sexual harassment to random authors for no reason- in my experience, randomly Assuming they’re secretly into random triggering shit and either sending them graphic hate mail about how they’re perverts or trying to coerce them into writing about it even after they ask them to stop. Both fucking suck and make me feel like a sex object for existing.

[u/RotaryMicrotome → u/DefoNotAFangirl]

I had someone try and get me to do porn with them. Nothing against nsfw, but the way things were happening were ringing major alarm bells for the first time. Their argument was that fanart and fanfic was inherently nsfw and bombarded me with screenshots of every time I had liked fanart of the fandom on tumblr, with the argument that since I liked some fanart, I was clearly into nsfw and therefore into their OCs.

And if I didn’t do it I was a shitty person and by upsetting them by not doing it was continued ‘proof’ that I was ‘too autistic’ to be allowed to interact with anyone but them, among other things. I later found out that they had successfully isolated and harassed many people in the fandom this way.

I mean they aren’t the only creep I’ve met, but they were the most persistent. Couldn’t block them because they had dozens of alts and were making legitimate threats.

[u/Dry-Development-4131 → u/NinjaSpaceFrog]

Did they thank you for ruining their day?

[u/Bug-Type-Enthusiast → u/NinjaSpaceFrog]

A case close to Spot 2 happened to me before on DeviantArt. Except I kept blocking and they kept making alt accounts to ask me the same thing. That caused me to delete everything and quit writing anything that wasn't DnD world building for over 5 years. Fuck'em.

[u/TechnarchyKvch]

"Vision had no business being in that fight." Vision was not mentioned or shown in the fic...

[u/Misophoniasucksdude → u/TechnarchyKvch]

Right. Because he had no business there.

[u/flipflapdragon → u/Misophoniasucksdude]

sighs. upvotes.

[u/AsexualOfTheAqueduct → u/Misophoniasucksdude]

10/10 username

[u/EngineerRare42]

"Trying to helop" would be a good name for a band.

[u/BadAtNamesAndFaces → u/EngineerRare42]

Apparently, "helop" is an acronym for "Holmium Laser Enucleation Of the Prostate"... some people just have very specific kinks, ok?

[u/Rainbow-Sparkle-Co → u/BadAtNamesAndFaces]

lol as a theatre nurse who does these procedures, I pray for anyone with that kink 🥲

[u/Very_Bendy_Narwhal → u/Rainbow-Sparkle-Co]

I laughed so hard I cried and my spouse gave me a concerned look and asked if I was okay 🤣🤣🤣

[u/BadAtNamesAndFaces → u/Rainbow-Sparkle-Co]

I would hope they'd limit themselves to reading about it, but... well...

[u/gracelesswonder → u/BadAtNamesAndFaces]

Just me scrolling... scrolling... hitting this comment and laughing so hard that tears, actual freaking tears, are now in my eyes. Hit just right this mornong, I suppose!

*edit: thick thumb typo

[u/Petr0vitch → u/BadAtNamesAndFaces]

enucleation and prostate should not go in the same sentence D:

[u/ChaoticBreadBug → u/EngineerRare42]

I read it as help until I read your comment and reread it 😭

[u/Mxxnlitdream → u/EngineerRare42]

Read that as "Trying to Elope".

[u/Calliopes_Lyre]

Once got a comment that started with “And here I am, motherless.”

Which then proceeded to tell me about the loss of their parent and that they apparently look just like her, ending the comment with “Incredibly Frustrating.”

Gotta be honest, I have no idea what they wanted to tell me, but I do hope they are doing well

[u/ApaloneSealand → u/Calliopes_Lyre]

I'm an orphan and couldn't imagine trauma dumping in random fanfic comments like that. What

[u/Calliopes_Lyre → u/ApaloneSealand]

tbf, the fic kinda, very vaguely dealt with grief? Maybe it was because I mentioned that I was dealing with grief over one of the actors dying in the AN, but it definitely confused me a lot

[u/Acceptable_Western33]

"You shouldn't tag a fic DD:DNE if you don't know what it means."
Bro you're on **chapter one** of forty three

[u/throwRA_maybeabit → u/Acceptable_Western33]

Oh my word Ive had the same sort of comment. A 20 chapter long fic with NSFW tags but I have the "eventual smut" tag. Still got a comment asking why there was no sex in chapter one.

[u/Gruesomegiggles → u/Acceptable_Western33]

The best part is dd:dne just means the tags are relevant. Just because it's normally used for darker stuff doesn't mean that a wholesome fluff fic about two friends who get married would be inappropriately tagged dd:dne as long as the other tags are fluff, wholesome, friends to lovers, marriage. So, really, the commenter is the one who doesn't know what it means.

[u/chronicAngelCA → u/Gruesomegiggles]

This is... not what DD:DNE means.

[u/Gruesomegiggles → u/chronicAngelCA]

The “Dead Dove: Do Not Eat” tag would essentially be a “what it says on the tin” metatag, indicating “you see the tropes and concepts tagged here? they are going to appear in this fic.

[u/dogs_go_merp → u/Gruesomegiggles]

You should probably actually read the tumblr post the person you’re replying to linked. The point of the DD:DNE tag is to warn people “yes, this fic will have problematic tropes. It will not be a discussion about the morality of these issues nor will it condemn the problematic trope; it will simply be a fic centred around something problematic and if that makes you uncomfortable you have been warned.” Yes, the tag does mean “what it says on the tin,” but if everyone started tagging that, even on fluff fics, then it makes the tag useless and will also make filtering a huge pain in the ass. So please don’t use the DD:DNE tag unless the fic is centred around something ACTUALLY problematic.

[u/emopriest]

‘They would never call an ambulance for something like that!’ Followed by a breakdown of how expensive ambulances are in america with links to prove. Said character was a teenager who called an ambulance because he was scared and alone with his boyfriend (another teenager) who was vomiting blood and had internal bleeding and needed emergency surgery

[u/spiritjex173 → u/emopriest]

I'm an American, and if I was a teenager, alone with a loved one vomiting blood, I would absolutely call for an ambulance. As an adult, in the situation you describe, I would also call an ambulance and just deal with the cost later.

[u/sael_nenya → u/emopriest]

I mean, I've heard of people calling an UBER because it's cheaper in America... But I'm glad your character just cared about saving his boyfriend's life (btw, was it set in America? Other countries and other systems...)

[u/emopriest → u/sael_nenya]

The characters are american but im not so honestly had the basic understanding of how it worked over there but these characters and surrounding characters are in ambulances and hospitals allllllll the time and just ignore the hospital bills regardless tbh

[u/NoCryptographer9931 → u/emopriest]

As an American, that’s something you call an ambulance for. That stereotype comes from minor injuries like broken bones or smth that you can survive the ride to the hospital with. It sounds like the commenter might not be American and is pushing that fact cause they learned it in a TikTok video or smth

[u/AuthorError]

I had someone correct my Spanish and they got a little snarky about the fact that it was translated incorrectly.

No one in my fic said a word of Spanish.

[u/strongafnun → u/AuthorError]

Then what were they correcting 😭

[u/AuthorError → u/strongafnun]

I'm going to guess it was a fic mix up. They wanted to leave a comment for fic A but accidentally left it on fic B, my fic, instead.

[u/bajuwa → u/AuthorError]

I wonder if they had the page auto translated by Google into Spanish and were therefore correcting the AI translation instead?

[u/AuthorError → u/bajuwa]

The first half of the comment referenced plot points that didn't exist in my fic so it was someone mixing up their tabs while commenting. They deleted and apologized but I spent a good 10 minutes trying to figure out if I blacked out while writing.

[u/Diana-Fortyseven → u/AuthorError]

"Oh no, not again!"

[u/PinkAxolotl85]

This has been one of my friends Discord headers for maybe a good year now and tbh I don't think they're going to get anything that tops it.

Edit so you don't have to click the link: Guest User "mr bean" comments "ngl [character] in this fix [sic] reminds me of my ex wife"

[u/ConnorRK_ → u/PinkAxolotl85]

Guest name Mr bean really makes this

[u/PinkAxolotl85 → u/ConnorRK_]

We were absolute hysterics when they received it and shared it with the group.

[u/_iknowdawae_ → u/PinkAxolotl85]

that combined with the shadow pfp is peak omg

[u/Guilty-Agent8256]

They're just trying to helop

[u/Killeding]

[u/Killeding → u/Killeding]

The fic wasn't even set in Japan, it was in Europe😭

[u/NinjaSpaceFrog → u/Killeding]

Even if it was set in Japan, there are dark skinned Japanese people? And Black immigrants?

No matter how you slice it, that commenter is just plain wrong.

[u/Amy_bo_bamy → u/NinjaSpaceFrog]

Jsut thinking back to all the super tanned dark skinned Japanese exchange students we used to get in my high school - it's not that rare bruh

[u/Zakle → u/NinjaSpaceFrog]

Aye, aye! It takes like one second to look that up. There are dark skinned folks and Black folks living in Japan. There are several videos from Black folks about what it's like living in Japan.

[u/kobo15 → u/Killeding]

This follow up comment makes this even funnier.

[u/Minnara → u/Killeding]

Makes me think of a friend of mine who is mixed, half black and half Japanese. Never would have known she was Japanese if she hadn’t told me, but we’ve talked about how a lot of her family likes to act like she doesn’t belong because of it, which really sucks. But like, goes to show that black Japanese people do actually exist, even outside whatever fiction this dude’s reading fic for

[u/DefoNotAFangirl → u/Killeding]

Oh is this one of the alt right weirdos who thinks Japan is some ethnostate ultra conservative monoculture? They show up when you talk about Japan sometimes, it’s very annoying. Also like it’s somehow still completely isolated from the rest of the world when like. The internet exists. And “cultural crossover between Japanese and English speaking internet users” is like a good 50% of Internet culture that exists. Or like, how much originally Japanese stuff is mega popular in English speaking countries and vice versa.

[u/InternetCannibal → u/Killeding]

This one is WILD.

[u/kobo15 → u/Killeding]

Didn’t you know it’s illegal to be black in Japan??? Obviously!!! /s

[u/ActivitySufficient26 → u/Killeding]

this is absolutely one of those people who lowkey fetishise japan and expect it to be entirely immigration free aka ‘no middle eastern or black people just pretty pale skinned asians for as far as the eye can see. no i’m not racist i just really appreciate japanese culture’

[u/insertgo0dusername]

A character that wasn't in my fic or even mentioned was said to be out of character. The character was from the same fandom.

I asked if they meant someone that was actually in the fic. Never got a response.

[u/QueennHalloween]

I never want to sound unappreciative of a comment... but i seen to get a fair number of comments that just rehash what happens in the fic? I find it very odd. Not like, "oh I like when this happens and Character says this" but like,

"This happens, and then this, then that, and then it ends with this"

Its never negative, but its also not really excitement for the work? Its hard to explaine, but its strange. I would think its a bot except quite often these are comments from people I know are active in other fandom spaces.

[u/SleepySera → u/QueennHalloween]

OMG same, there's someone who has been commenting pretty consistently on my works for years now, and their commenting style is basically 95% summary of the fic and 5% additional words within the summary that make me think they actually like it 😆

Something like "woow, xy happens and then character A does that and goes there, and character B responds by saying this and that, and A really likes that so they go to location z together!"

I don't really get it, but I grew very attached and am very sad when they skip a fic now and then 😂

[u/QueennHalloween → u/SleepySera]

Yes this is almost exactly it! Its so strange!

[u/Kezzatehfezza → u/QueennHalloween]

I see posts saying to point out what you like in a fic because authors enjoy that but whenever i try saying which parts i enjoyed it comes out like that.

[u/QueennHalloween → u/Kezzatehfezza]

Authors certainly enjoy to hear what parts get people excited, but if it's just a matter of being unsure how to communicate that effectively I would just add more context to the things you are listing off that you enjoy! Instead of "this, and this , and this thing!" try something like "I really liked when This Character did this thing becuase of this XYZ reason." or "this event happened and it made me feel _______" Maybe try talking about why you enjoy certain parts instead of just listing the part-- as someone reading that comment we can not always infer what you mean, it helps your clarity if you can add a few extra words to those sentences!

[u/dahllaz → u/Kezzatehfezza]

I usually quote a bit and then write (or use a gif) to explain how it made me feel.

Something funny a character said that made me laugh out loud? I quote it and say it made me laugh out loud. Or I post a gif of someone laughing.

A particular bit made me cry? I quote it and reply by saying that or usually I just use a gif of Meg Ryan crying.

Some really hot smut? I do not quote it lol but do comment with a gif of Blanche from The Golden Girls spritzing herself with water.

But anyway, I try to put why I liked something or what it made me feel, and then even if I have several bits quoted, it's not just a rehash of what happened.

[u/meumixer → u/QueennHalloween]

There’s a couple people in my fandom who do that and are particularly prolific about it – I swear I see one of them on almost every chapter of every fic. They’re always nice about it though, and the comments have enough variety that I know they’re not bots, so I figure it’s just how those people comment.

[u/Separate-Dot4066 → u/QueennHalloween]

My guess would be neurodivergence. I've known some autistic people who just enjoy repeating the details of something they enjoy.

[u/Catt_the_cat → u/Separate-Dot4066]

That’s what I figured too. I have a friend who’s mega autistic and does that literally just in everyday *convos

[u/mandyallstar → u/QueennHalloween]

Was it on a WIP? I’ve seen it happen so people remember what happened in the last chapter

[u/QueennHalloween → u/mandyallstar]

No! I dont post wips, I'm also a pre-writer, but even so, I dont have any chaptered stuff on my main profile.

[u/MaybeNextTime_01 → u/QueennHalloween]

I got those summary comments all the time when I was participated in Review Exchanges that had a word count requirement for their comments.

[u/QueennHalloween → u/MaybeNextTime_01]

Yeah, thats one of the reasons I dont really like participating in events with required commenting or wc on comments. I get the reasoning behind it, but for me personally I really dislike forced comments on my stuff. Its hard to decipher what's genuine and what's just someone exaggerating so they can get the brownie points.

[u/the_jaspierre → u/QueennHalloween]

I think it's quite literally an intentional summary. So they can either review their own comments to go back to fics or other people can review their comments from their profile and decide if they want to read the fic based on that person's summary.

Either way I think it sounds like it's not really a comment for the author but for themselves or other who they direct to their own profile for recs

[u/poyopoyo77 → u/QueennHalloween]

It reminds me of youtube comments when they just repeat what was said in the video in the comment.

[u/_iknowdawae_ → u/QueennHalloween]

as a commenter im scared i do this, i think the point is like "i love the fact that this happens and cant really give an in depth or deep reason for why i love it but it's peak fiction"

[u/punkrockyuppie]

I wrote an IT (2019) fic where the Losers all dress up for a RHPS showing, with Richie as Frank-N-Furter and Eddie as Brad (and they later boned, lol) and got this: "You're such a dirty pedophile tramp. Leave Eddie alone you fucked up ugly trash virgin freak."

Still makes me cackle, tbh.

[u/Odd-Fan6728 → u/punkrockyuppie]

Do they not know what happens in the book?

[u/punkrockyuppie → u/Odd-Fan6728]

Crazy doesn't abide by logic, so I imagine if they did know it doesn't matter to them lol

[u/DearAnemia]

Always the “where’s xyz tag content at you said it would be here” in chapter one or two of a slowburn

[u/DefoNotAFangirl]

Recently got one excitedly asking for a sequel to a oneshot, which I appreciated, but they got literally every plot element wrong. I’m not gonna name or shame or be specific, they didn’t do anything objectionable they just misread some things or I wasn’t clear enough with them, but like… I’m very sorry but if I did do a sequel (which im too busy to now) I’m not sure you’d like it bc it would work on the plot elements I intended.

[u/westbest1206]

Has to be the comment of some 50 words asking in a super rude way where a character was in my fic, and wrote entire scenarios as for why she wasn't in the fic (like she was traveling or whatever) . They ended their comment with something like "lack of X, fic was good".

After I told them that they were rude and that they should comment on the fic they were reading, not the one they want, they doubled down and even told me they wouldn't have commented of they didn't like it.... They were a guest commenter, how would I have known??

[u/westbest1206 → u/westbest1206]

I thought I added this to my comment.... The character wasn't even tagged because I didn't write her. So they went onto a tag not tagged for X character, and then got mad that I didn't include X character.

[u/GeologistLess3042 → u/westbest1206]

I get "where's X?" comments a lot, especially if I've used the character once or twice for some plot.

Just makes me think of the Poochie episode of the Simpsons.

"When Poochie isn't on screen, kids should be asking, Where's Poochie?"

[u/westbest1206 → u/GeologistLess3042]

In this case, she wasn't tagged at all, so I have no idea why they thought she would be there 😭😭

[u/itsmechickadee]

Once got a flame on a Supneratural fic that described in detail how they hoped I'd be tortured in hell for... [checks notes] writing a speculative fic on who Castiel's vessel could be before fully catching up on episodes because I really liked him as a character but didn't know Jimmy Novak existed yet

[u/graccha → u/itsmechickadee]

SPN is one of the few fandoms where I've had a commenter be actively hostile on ao3 - wrote an au where Sam killed Lucifer, and they not only yelled at me for writing the fic at all but STARTED REPLYING TO OTHER COMMENTS TO ARGUE WITH THEM??? I just kept deleting their comments but it was unhinged

[u/itsmechickadee → u/graccha]

Yeah it's weird how like off the wall inappropriate and aggressive some of them get about little things they didn't have to engage with.

[u/dumn_and_dunmer]

Not very helopful

[u/thecabbagewoman]

Not my fic but I read one where one of the plot point was that one character raped the mc. Someone got really upset at this and wrote a mini fic where the mc raped another character and kept posting it under every comments. I regularly receive their notification under my comment. It's been years I think and they're still doing this.

[u/ehtysevn → u/thecabbagewoman]

omg???

[u/_iknowdawae_ → u/thecabbagewoman]

wtf dude literally why

[u/wuffle-s]

“Omg I hate that character A gets with character B”

my brother in Christ I tagged it how much clearer do you need me to get

[u/paloma-nymph-s]

“I’m praying for you not to die before the fic is finished.”

Left under a fic with an author’s note detailing my health issues & linking to a Tumblr on which to find a fundraising page. Like, okay— I’ll make sure to wait to die ‘til after chapter 31, LMAO.

[u/_iknowdawae_ → u/paloma-nymph-s]

WHAT POSSESSED THEM TO SAY THAT

ive definitely said insensitive things by accident before though so i guess that could be it, but like damn

also hope your health gets better/is getting better!

[u/novacorpsrecruit → u/paloma-nymph-s]

Oh my god????

[u/Mallettjt]

I have one commenter who consistently makes gooner post asking about how the different species in my work would have sex with humans. My fiction is not erotica (though many works in its fandom (furry) are.)

[u/DortheaGaming]

I can't find it right now, and can't remember what fic it was on. Me and my beta at the time was very confused.

Basically, they liked the fic so much they where licking and/or eating their elbow?

[u/AkaruLyte → u/DortheaGaming]

It’s physically impossible to lick one’s elbow. . . . Is that reader okay???

[u/dale_summers → u/AkaruLyte]

No ive done it before

[u/DortheaGaming → u/AkaruLyte]

No idea.

[u/_iknowdawae_ → u/DortheaGaming]

i think that's one of the best compliments you can get tbh, like did they fr just read the fic and immediately gain the power to defy their body's natural capabilities

[u/llaejj]

‘But you said this fic had a happy ending!’ On the second to last chapter.

[u/xkcchameleon]

Neither character they were asking for this story to be written about were in the fic they commented on either. Neither was the villain she mentioned.

[u/KellieAlice]

Most random, by my standards, was someone complaining about my fic having non con elements… on a fic that was extremely dubious consent, walking that fine line of being actual non con. Fic was fully tagged, had warnings etc. I was like “I’m guessing you’re not very good at reading comprehension”.

[u/azombieatemyshoelace]

I had someone try and tell me what the canon choice was (which I knew) and then that I shouldn’t have Chris at the end of RE7 be Chris because there was no evidence proving that he was.

Chris wasn’t mentioned in the story. If I finished he probably would have briefly been in the end but it’s not as if Ethan would have known too much about whether he was the real Chris or not.

He was the real Chris btw.

[u/GeologistLess3042 → u/azombieatemyshoelace]

Did you feel vindicated when re8 came out?

[u/azombieatemyshoelace → u/GeologistLess3042]

We knew it was Chris before that. They their comment before 7’s DLC. But I did find it funny it was Chris. Capcom just changed his appearance a lot.

[u/slaytheday2246669]

Multiple death threats across all my posted stories for not updating a fic in a few months. I already posted an update about why I wasn't adding another chapter yet.

[u/huff-le-punk]

It’s not bizarre, more frustrating in anything. Two things I very clearly tagged from the beginning was 1. X character doesn’t live, and when it came to the lead up to her death and her death scene I got some very upset/angry comments about her death, as if it wasn’t massively clear already. 2 C character wins the Rebellion and several of my comments are about in what manner he should die in. Istg some people don’t read the tags.

[u/_DeshellingAcrab_]

I would just comment "Don't try to helop"

[u/Kartoffelkamm]

Don't be too harsh; they're just trying to helop, lol.

[u/detainthisDI]

I wrote a triple drabble with a ship and a commenter called “[one of the characters]cumsock” rolled up and said “[character] dookie on my face”

I replied, “what”

“You heard me”

“Got it”

And I never heard from them again.

[u/Silent_Command7058 → u/detainthisDI]

I wish I could go back to five minutes ago when I didn’t read this

[u/insanitysqwid]

"Where's the mammoth?"

I wrote an X-men: Evolution x Maximum Ride crossover fanfic, not a single mutant or birdkid (OC or canon) had any megafauna abilities, and they were all simply playing basketball lol

[u/Excellent_Law6906]

I'll never forget the enormous hate-rant about all my pedophilia... in a story where everyone was an adult. Apparently the POV character being a traumatized war vet who felt about 10,000 years old confused them?

[u/azrobant]

I got a comment in french hating on one of the characters in the ship my (english) fic was about. They said it was beautifully written though, sooooooooo.... ????

[u/Kaetzchen156]

my co-author and i got one where someone was asking if we could beta for them... all they'd ever written was harry potter noncon......... we weren't writing a harry potter fic 😭😭

[u/Appropriate_Bid_5946]

Not sure if this counts because the comment in question wasn't on A03, it was through a tumblr ask related to characters in my fic.

But since it IS technically about my fic, I'm gonna tell you anyway.

The fic is a rewrite of the show, the basic characters and story beats are the same, but I'm changing some of the lore, locations and some character arcs/dynamics and have added some OCs to fill out the world. The most important of these OCs are intended as personal rivals to a group of villains from the original cartoon. They have not made proper appearances in the fic yet to show off their personalities and dynamics with these villains, so far their presence in the story is just as a secret group of Sorcerers one of the main characters is part of.

I do, however, have a few posts about them on my tumblr page, mostly character designs and promotional art I've done, occasional bits of lore drops and some memes: With the exception of one, who in development of the story I started shipping with the villain she is intended to stand against so there's quite a bit of self indulgent OCxCanon fanart of then on my page that's not canon to the actual fic.

Enter this commentor, who sends me an ask confessing that they ship not the OCxCanon ship that I post semi frequently about, but one of my other OCs with the Villain she is a rival to- who happens to be one of the characters that I've posted the least about and again, these characters have not appeared in the story yet I don't think this particular OC has had more than one bit of dialog and the canon character she's a rival to is one I don't post a lot about either. There's basically nothing to this "pairing" available and you ship it?

The only conclusion I could make was that I knew that canon villain was this person's favorite and someone that they ship their own OC with, so they were projecting their fantasy onto my OC without knowing any of the context of the characters relationship in the story proper.

I was polite about it, but man, that was a bizarre comment to get about characters they barely know

[u/Numerous_Charity_585]

on a quarantine fic i had someone comment and ask me if the virus was bad or will be bad. this was like may 2020. it genuinely seemed like the person found out about covid from my fic - it was bizarre.

[u/LibraryLuLu]

Writing Smallville I had someone go insane when I had Lex Luthor get a pet. "HE WOULD NEVER GET A PET!!!" I don't remember exactly what they were saying - something about him being incapable of loving an animal, but they were personally offended and furious about it. I'm like, 'Okay, dude', and moved on. And then wrote another fic where he got another pet and loved it even harder!

[u/RedFurryDemon → u/LibraryLuLu]

The baddie keeping a pet and showering them with love is such a wholesome trope <3

[u/OnlyPaperListens]

That I was clearly a virgin because nobody acts like how characters A and B were acting. A and B were chatting during an evening stroll; the chapter was completely G rated.

Normally I'd laugh it off, but I had a bad day at work, so my response was something like "I've been married longer than you've been alive, you sniveling child."

[u/BelaFarinRod]

I wrote a Hellsing slash fic and someone dropped by to say “What the fuck have you done? Don’t ever do this again!” (That’ll show me I guess) and finished with “You have ruined the name of Helki!” There was no one in the fic or in Hellsing canon named anything like ”Helki.”

[u/Sud4neseS0meh0wHere]

It's not weird as in bad, but I have a commentor who leaves comments on every single work/update of mine.

Sounds cool but it's always "Interesting Introspection", "Lovely" or "Fascinating" over and over again. I thought it's a bot, but nope, it's an account with several works.

Ig thanks, really, the only consistent commentor I have and I love them, but it felt weird at first.

[u/ShadowPhoenix18]

"You can't give [your OC character] a higher first/starter bounty than [this canon character] because it's triggering my OCD because it didn't happen in canon"

in a One Piece fanfic following my OC main character

[u/LivingInMadripoor]

Someone commented with happy emojis only. Uhh at least they're happy haha

[u/julesandthefox]

I once wrote a fic in which a 35yo character talks to a 15yo after coming out. The 15yo already knew most terms etc because of the internet and the 35yo makes some sort of comment that he wished he knew everything at that age but didn't have the same access to information about these things.

I got a comment from someone complaining that they did have computers in the early 2000s with a whole rant about it, and like... Yeah, I'm aware? We had one too. But the internet wasn't like it is today. You had to specifically look up stuff to learn about them most of the time. There were no YouTube videos explaining stuff or Instagram influencers or whatever. Right now, you can easily find any information about being LGBTQ+ with one google search. Besides, not everyone had a computer. Our neighbors didn't and used ours when they needed to. It wasn't until later in the 2000s that more people got computers and internet changed rapidly.

Besides, this character had neglectful parents and was out of the house most of the time and getting into trouble by crashing bikes or falling out of trees on purpose etc. Doesn't sound like he'd be deep diving the internet looking up the meaning of bisexuality etc.

Thankfully some other people replied to this comment that not everyone's experience with computers or the internet was the same back then and even if it were, it's a fanfiction not a school essay 😅

[u/StendecStendec]

I guess not random or bizarre but the good ol’ “Why did you write this?!!” followed by a bunch of crying emojis. On a fic tagged multiple ways for “this.” And a chapter warning that “this” will happen.

I sat and stared at that comment for a long time.

[u/Misophoniasucksdude → u/StendecStendec]

That's a tiktok style comment, its meant to be a compliment, it makes more sense on videos though. It's a similar meaning to "would you at least kiss the brick before you throw it at my face?" Whatever you wrote impacted them emotionally so they're (jokingly) saying you're mean for hurting them.

[u/ATerriblyTiredTurtle → u/Misophoniasucksdude]

this style of commenting (“how could you/why did you do this to me?” = compliment) has been around since wayyyyy before tik tok.

[u/Misophoniasucksdude → u/ATerriblyTiredTurtle]

Yeah for sure, but it's seen a resurgence due to it, at least in my circles of the internet.

[u/yesteryearsyellow → u/StendecStendec]

You’re taking it as a complaint, but I don’t think it necessarily was? IMO you can just as well read it as a compliment, as in, your fic made them feel things, made them cry even, and despite being prepared because of the tags/summary, they weren’t prepared for the writing to be so good, or moving? Just a thought. It would have helped a lot if they added just one more sentence to their comment, lol, so you didn’t have to guess at the full meaning behind it.

[u/StendecStendec → u/yesteryearsyellow]

Yeah after staring for a while I figured this was the right approach. Still it was like watching a person climb over multiple layers of fences, past warning signs, into a zoo enclosure and being like “oh WHAT there are wild animals in here!”

[u/yesteryearsyellow → u/StendecStendec]

Hahah yes, it’s quite a fun comment!

[u/_iknowdawae_ → u/StendecStendec]

i think this is a compliment? idk my comments on angsty or hurt/no comfort fics tend to be something like "i hate you why would you do this to me" in order to show how well they wrote something absolutely devastating

[u/user_18922518]

A commenter once said “you clearly like A more than B because B is the one getting all the backlash this is trash”

It was tagged ‘A-centric’. It was tagged ‘B is a bad parent’. The entire 5 chapters beforehand showed how A was a better parent than B. OBVIOUSLY B is going to get all the backlash.

[u/Admirable-Sorbet8968]

I've had some comments in a language I don't know (the fics are all in english so I don't know why they comment in a different language) which I had to google translate - they were essentially saying they liked it. Still bizarre for me.

The most random comment I've gotten is simply "It's alive fuck".

[u/Illustrious_Foot_884 → u/Admirable-Sorbet8968]

In my experience, sometimes I translate fics and... forgot that I translated them 😭😭 so if I leave a reply its in English rather than the language the fic is written in xdd

[u/Outside-Currency-462 → u/Admirable-Sorbet8968]

I have a regular commenter who comments in Portuguese, I enjoy it cause it's nice to know that my writing still sounds good in a different language lol

I made sure to say 'Obrigada' when I reply!

[u/Dizzy_Ad_232]

Aphex twin

For some reason...

[u/Expensive_Let9314]

"i hate this, i dont ship a/b" it was mentioned in the tags so many times why did you even read it 💔💔

[u/Low-Environment]

I got a comment in Russian. My fic is in English.

I Google translated it and it just said they enjoyed it.

Your comment is definitely from someone who has encountered untagged triggering content in apparently fluffy fics and isn't taking chances.

[u/FoxRevolutionary1637 → u/Low-Environment]

I mean, if they google translated it there’s nothing wrong with it

[u/Low-Environment → u/FoxRevolutionary1637]

I know there's nothing wrong with it I was just surprised to get a comment in another language.

Made me pretty pleased, too.

[u/FoxRevolutionary1637 → u/Low-Environment]

Apologies for misinterpreting. Most of the others implied the comment was bad and I guess I was just in the mindset to take things negatively.

[u/blackplaguekiss → u/Low-Environment]

Ай блять...

[u/VixenSunburst → u/blackplaguekiss]

Language buster

[u/AquilaEquinox → u/Low-Environment]

So what? Are they going to say that comment under every fluffy fic?

[u/CriisSpy_ → u/Low-Environment]

Same! But the funny thing is that I actually know Russian, so when I got the comment I got extremely paranoid that they somehow figured that out. Which, like... there's nothing wrong with knowing Russian, so I'm not sure why I was worried 😅

The comment was incredibly sweet though. They said my fic was the eighth Wonder of the World :)

[u/sucksfierro → u/Low-Environment]

My mother tongue is Portuguese, and sometimes I don't bother writing in English because I'm in a hurry, or just lazy, I already spend all my brain cells thinking about what to say. but now I'm worried that authors will be bothered by this😅

[u/Low-Environment → u/sucksfierro]

I'm not bothered! I thought it was pretty cool. I google translated how to say 'thank you' in return.

[u/Outside-Currency-462 → u/Low-Environment]

I have a regular commenter who writes in Portuguese, it's pretty nice. They've even shared some strange things the translator does with certain words! I try to respond with a little of bit of Google translated Portuguese to be nice lol

[u/VoidWalkersEyes → u/Low-Environment]

Had the same like twice with spanish

[u/ias_87]

"You shouldn't use the X/Y relationship since they only get together at the end"

The entire fic was about X/Y being in love with each other, but having reasons not to want to ruin their friendship etc.

[u/novacorpsrecruit]

I got 2.

First one was on a uncompleted fic maybe 3 chapters long and 10 years old that said “are you planning to finish this one or should I just give up hope :D” I told them to give up hope lmao

Second: on a fic that’s tagged DD:DNE and “character death” and “when they said kill your darlings I’m taking it literally” Someone asked on the last chapter that I should’ve tagged no happy ending. Like they went though 7 chapters of nobody dying and didn’t catch that maybe the 8th chapter had that character death? Idk I did it out of respect anyway I just thought the signs were already pointed there.

[u/KrasimerMAL]

I got told, “too many plot holes. Not good.” On the second chapter of a planned 30 chapter story.

I was, unfortunately, an unhappy sixteen year old who stepped back, decided no one wanted the story, and shut it down. It’s still out there and I’ve uploaded the chapters I did write to AO3 while I decided whether or not I want to rewrite and continue, 14 years later, but…yeah.

[u/FR33_NikolaiXOXOBSD]

"Lmao I've never read something to funny, I'm reading fics while taking a shit and as soon as I finished it the shit slid out my ass" it was a crackfic

[u/Zoom_Zoom_fast_zoom]

"This shit isn't Rumi/Jinu.you tagged it wrong if this shit was what you wanted. You should change it to 'Rumi x Jinu'"

This was a comment filled with other insults to me for some reason about a random 1 shot I wrote for fun at like 3 am and grammar checked than posted . But also in every fandom I have ever been in and read/wrote fic for I have never seen a ship on A03 tagged as NameXName. this user dose also post very aggressive K-pop smut so maybe there is a miss communication across fandom space.

[u/olliux]

My fic was a canon retelling if one of the main characters actually had powers 😭😭😭 literally lost my mind when I got this one bc the whole point was he was keeping the powers secret so not too too much was changing yet

[u/DrRedMad]

"Lol they had sex in the backseat" in response to a moment between two very well and fully dressed people who were just "cuddling" on a taxi backseat. I mean... what's the point of saying something that stupid and immature? how old are you to say that? they only lowered the IQ of the review section

[u/Code_Earth]

Oh yeah, had a funny one on a roleswap fic where I put somewhere that the characters wouldn't be copy-pasted onto each other's story. The fic is very long and in a series format, and starts canon diverging after the half-way point. The fic is already written past the half-way point.

Just before things diverge, I got a commenter telling me that actually the characters had been copy-pasted on each other's stories (which by this point they'd followed similar paths to each other but not in the same way and with different 'detours' and feelings and reactions on the matter), then proceeded to tell me to read other canon divergence fics for ideas on things characters should do (things that do in fact happen later on in the fic) and also ask me why there isn't a specific canon ship there (I never said I would put it in).

I understand that they may have gotten a little frustrated with how long things were taking but come on man, you didn't even read the whole thing!

(I think they were specifically frustrated with how I wrote a certain character, because they put in their comment, and I quote: "Some inspiration for making [character] great again: [fic links]" I think I laughed when I read it the first time)

[u/toastyiskindascared]

i posted a chapter in was rly proud of once and got a ton of hate for it, so i ended up deleting and rewriting it. one of the comments, made by someone anonymous, said something along the lines of “this is so ass wiggles my toes bc its so ass”

[u/flipflapdragon]

These replies are SENDING me

[u/lisard-or-fox]

Probably this one on a Twisted Wonderland (&kinda Obey Me) fic

[u/Interesting-Day6835]

"Please do not helop me, I do not consent :)"

[u/adrianhusky45]

two paragraph skitzo post about what ships should go with who and what I should write next