Nope. It would not be weird at all.
Writers love the stories they’ve written sort of like children. They were created with love and each one has a special place in their heart. They’d very likely love to talk to you about their story or their writing in general whenever you happen to see it.
There’s really no time limit on giving your encouragement and support to your favorite writers.
–Mod M
Writers are sluts for their own stories. If we could sneak them into every conversation, we would. What happens behind the scenes of a written story is often just as crazy as the actual story, and yes, we all want to talk about it constantly. Readers reaching out is how I’ve met all of my fandom friends, so I say PM authors. Never hurts.
Dude, we leave the tumblr urls in our end notes precisely because we want you to come into our messages and squeal at us. No matter how long it’s been. No. Really. REALLY really. Really.
Really.
I have met some of my very greatest online friends (and some have become RL ones!) through fic comments. Please do this.
Oh HEY RL friend I met through fic comments. How you doin’?
Anon, I recently received Tumblr messages about the first fanfic I ever wrote, from like years and years ago, in a fandom I’m not super active in any more, and let me tell you I WAS THRILLED. It literally made my week.
Authors ALWAYS want to hear from you, I guarantee it. Even if we arent active in a fandom anymore, if we’ve left the fic up it means we still hope people will read and enjoy it. And most of the time, we are more than ready to jump back into fanning about said fandom with a new person even if we havent touched it in a while.
I promise.
Question: when people leave their tumblr on a fic, do they *really* want readers to talk to them? I don’t know… i’ve thought about doing it before but it’s always seemed kind of strange to just go up and be some stranger sending messages to someone on tumblr. Especially if their fic is old. Like is there a time limit on those sort of “feel free to talk to me about _fanbase_! i’m at _url_” things in A/Ns? It would be weird to get messages like a year after posting it, right?
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