What are your favourite types of comment to receive?

[birdsofshore]

First of all, THREE of my prompts at hp_kinkfest have been claimed (one for fic AND art *flail*), and one at dracotops_harry, and I'm so bloody excited! I don't know who you are but I love you a lot already. Are you OK, mystery creators? Do you need anything while you're busy with that? I mean, can I get you a glass of water or a back rub or anything? No? OK. I'll just sit here very quietly in the corner. Waiting. WAITING AND FLAILING.

So, comments. \o/ This was inspired by a great post from blithelybonny which made me realise that writers of different genres might value different types of comment.

I think my own favourites are basically the ones where the commenter claims to be too sexually aroused to attain coherence. I'll let this one remain anon but I was extremely pleased to be told:

I think I can't brain.

I would have been happy with even ONE of the following sentences in a comment, but to have all three was a bit of a joy.

If I was male I would have turned gay for this fic. This is so disgustingly arousing I can't even describe how it made me feel. My limbs have literally fallen off !

Disgustingly arousing. LITERALLY FALLEN OFF. She typed it with her nose. I'm so happy.

This next one was actually on a bookmark, so not really intended for my eyes at all, but oh boy, I like it. :D

HOLY BUCKETS

I also remember certain comments from when I was new, and someone lovely said something really encouraging. Or how about the first time a writer I utterly fangirl over commented on something I wrote? GOD. That was the flail to end all flails. I'll keep the details of those ones private for now, sorry.

Some people leave the most wonderful detailed feedback. Those comments are pure gold. They feel like a gift - no, they ARE a gift. A gift of time, and love, and kindness. I have wanted to write since I was a little girl, and never had the confidence to properly try until a few years ago. I thought I was probably going to be pretty crap, and when I post something new, often I still think it's pretty crap, and I'm sure sometimes it is, but then - it's like magic. Someone comes along and takes a chance on what I wrote, and then they take the time to TELL ME they enjoyed it, and why. It's the most incredible thing. There are some people, and they know who they are, and they leave these comments by the bagfull. And I love them for it.

I also love making people late for work or school, or made them miss a train because they didn't want to stop reading. I REALLY like that. Or when someone was laughing so much they frightened their cat / baby / spouse. Probably half of these people are fibbing to me, but I don't care.

Any comment is great. Some people say they feel anxious about commenting, but even a little phrase or an encouraging word is lovely to receive. But I can't help having my favourites. So, to sum up, my dream comment would probably be something like: "This was so hot my eyes fell out. Reading this made me miss my own wedding, and then my whole neighbourhood was evacuated because I was laughing so hard."

What are your favourite type of comments? Do you remember your first ever comment? Do you have certain comments that you'll always remember?

Comments

[awickedmemory.livejournal.com]

My favourite comments are (1) ones that tell me why they liked it, and (2) anything enthusiastic. XD I mean, I'm pretty sure every writer ever loves the detailed commentary on their stories... but I received one comment that literally only said "E M O T I O N S" and another that was "MY HEART JUST BURST WIDE OPEN" and despite their brevity, they were just so emotive that they made me super happy. I also have a major soft spot for when I get "I loved this and went to read your other fics and then realized I already read and loved them, too." Or when I wake up to a flood of comments from one person who obviously just went right down my list of works. :D Or hell, when I get the AO3 notifications of kudoses and one person has gone down and kudosed every fic I've written over a day or two, lol...

Edit: Also, AO3 BOOKMARKS. I check those anytime I realize I've had a flood of kudoses without comments recently, and sometimes they make me awww, and sometimes they make me giggle, but they always make me just want to cuddle the bookmarker. Like... "Awww thank you for liking this enough to want to save it!" but also because they can be efusive or emotive in their own bookmarks but were clearly too shy to tell me directly in a comment, and I understand, and I just want to snuggle them.

[birdsofshore]

Aww those examples are truly delicious! I can see why they made you so happy. I think you're very understanding about the bookmarking. I forget to check mine, and then when I do and find a lovely review on there or something really cute or funny, I think "I MIGHT NEVER HAVE SEEN THIS!"

[awickedmemory.livejournal.com]

I check my bookmarks so much more sparingly (since of course most of them don't have comments, they're just bookmarks), so whenever I do and there are comments, it feels like someone threw me a surprise party. :D Only better, because I hate parties! \o/ Bookmark comments are meant for the bookmarker, not the author, so I feel like I just got a sneak peek into their diary or something, lol.