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Okay, am I the only one who is desperately in love with the kudos function in AO3? It's like tiny cookies left in my inbox. Not that I do not adore regular feedback (or epic length examination, whoo boy, do I love), but kudos! Tiny cookies of happy! In inbox!

This has been a message from she whose amazon boxes of manga goodness arrived today. Also, I'm on volume three of loveless. I have no clue why I'm reading this. I'm not even sure where they came from (barnes and noble), or how I got them (with a credit card). Okay, lies, but there was this other one with a guy with a really creepy red hat and vampires. And a wicked sword for cutting people (vampires?) up; maybe a war? I was more staring at the sword, tbh. I really feel I should have gotten that, too, but I'm trying to like, set a good example, which would have worked better probably if I hadn't just agreed to get him Sin City next month because apparently my parenting skills when it comes anything readable consist of "Shiny," and "Wait, don't I have this somewhere?" or more depressingly, "How can you be my kid and not know that's in the box under my bed/in the closet on the top shelf/if you can't find it, you don't deserve to have it".

My life lessons - invasions of privacy and being sneaky. Well done, me.

Comments

[zanzando]

Hellsing? If so, oooooooh.

[elaran]

/seconds!

[ineptshieldmaid]

I am desperately in love with the Kudos function. Little tickies of approval every day!

[ineptshieldmaid]

You may be interested in this: I did some counting-up, concluded that using the AO3, and the presence of the kudos button, does not correlate with a reduction in discrete comment threads, at least not in the case of my Narnia fic (I stuck to one fandom in order to get a good longitudinal sample of response patterns across time and three different platforms).

[basingstoke]

I know! Ping! Ping! Happy!

[medie]

I have a love/meh relationship with kudos. On one hand, YAY, upswing on kudos on older stories, but on the other hand I can already see a fairly substantial drop off in comments for the newer ones and that's a little disheartening.

[nianeyna]

Loveless! How can you resist the adorable kitty ears? And the blatant D/s overtones? Loveless is a manga that was tailor made for fangirls.* XD

*not to exclude fangirls who are not big on D/s. I'm pretty sure the kitty ears have universal appeal, though.

[seperis]

By blatant overtones, you mean canonical sitting around wearing bondage gear while talking passionately about master/servant? Holy shit, did not see that coming. At all.

[nianeyna]

That is indeed what I meant. Glad you could decipher my cunning code. ;)

What really tickles me is that this is a mainstream manga. Regular people that I meet in real life have not only heard of it, they've read it. I mean - what? Really - what? So... as long as it's Japanese it's okay? Or did you just not get - yeah. O.O Not that I'm not thrilled of course, but normally I face constant ragging over liking teh gay, and now you're like, oh yeah Loveless! Good stuff!

Idek, it's bizarre. Seriously, they picked Loveless to be totally cool with, and yet The Shoebox Project is just too weird? WHAT IS GOING ON HERE.

ETA: AND AGAIN I FAIL HTML. Sorry. >.>

[bikitchi]

Ahahaha... not to keep rec'ing... but:

Manga Fox is a manga scanslation collective that keeps up with licenses so it will pull licensed manga (although they seem to get away with having some big titles there). Add it with Chrome's extension All Mangas Reader extension and you've got yourself an awesome time tunnel of manga goodness.

Also, if you like Loveless, I think you'd like Black Butler (Kuroshitsuji) - the synopsis is kinda lame but the art is badass and the crazy awesome violence and costume....



CASE CLOSED.

[nianeyna]

BLACK BUTLERRRRR. I just started watching the anime. SO AMAZING, AAAAAHHHH. I love how it's like - super dark, and creepy as hell, and yet totally cracktastic at the same time. Plus, gorgeous art and costuuuumes.

I get... excited sometimes...

Not sure how different the anime is from the manga though?

[bikitchi]

I definitely recommend the manga over the anime. They had to totally revamp the storyline in the latter half as the mangaka hadn't gotten very far in the serious when it blew up in popularity so there's all this "whhhaaa...?" moments.

I personally stopped watching after a bit but my friends that kept on still liked it, although even they were sorta meh about the latter half.

The anime is beautiful though! If you have the money, I'd definitely recommend buying the manga. The art is always A-grade and the storylines are interesting. If nothing else, stop by B&N/Borders and take a look at it! I think the first 3 volumes are out. :D

[silverflight8]

I am also in love with the kudos function. I think I've been recced somewhere; guests are leaving kudos :D

Amazon deliveries! Mail makes me happy in general. I mean, sent personally to you? (except bills, I guess.)

[laurajv]

I do wonder about recs when I get a string of kudos all in a row on something not-new! Where are they coming from? :D

[dameange.livejournal.com]

you are not the only who loves kudos like chocolate. both as a user and as a recipient, it is the BEST THING EVER!

and? I am desperately wanting it for every other archive, lj, and dw site out there.

[welfycat.livejournal.com]

The Kudos function is really really great. I love when people do it (it always makes me smile when I open my email and there's one there), and I like being able to use it when I like something, but I don't really know what to say to the author.

[boji.livejournal.com]

Actually the Kudos function stunned me when two small kudos' dropped into my inbox. I was gobsmacked with surprise. They also proved people are reading my fic over on AO3 and that I better

a: proofread pronto
b: Put the rest up there!



(This comment was deleted & reposted for coherence. & the only thing I miss from having a paid account is the comment edit function)

[roguewords.livejournal.com]

Yes with the kudos love. I've put up a couple of comment fic stories, and I'm getting kudos for those. It makes me so happy to see that email in my inbox.

And I love the kudos as a reader because I don't always have anything to say other than, Hey I really enjoyed this. :D

[tricksterquinn.livejournal.com]

Yes you are. I find them annoying. Other people find them annoying. Meh.

[hollyxu.livejournal.com]

I remember reading Loveless and trying to figure out some overarching theme or point to the story, and yet it was just, 'Let's all whump Ritsuka/Soubi, he's so pretty when he cries'. The animation is very shiny, however, should you feel like checking it out.

(Also, kudos! Now I know my hit count isn't from random bots pinging around on AO3! Well, not only.) (It also works the other way when, as a reader, I don't really have more to say than, 'Well done! *claps*'. Instead of feeling stupid for leaving something like that, I press the kudos button. :D)

[stripedpetunia.livejournal.com]

I like them fine now that I don't have to get emails about them along with the comments. I am pleased to go look at the story and see the kudos number there. But one story has like almost 200. I got an email for every single one of those. It was kind of annoying. (I didn't turn off email notifications because I didn't want to miss an actual comment on something else and I never check my AO3 inbox.)

I still prefer when people take the time to type a few words at me though, since I took the time to type them a few thousand. I am pretty okay with a 'Cool story bro' kind of comment, actually. Since less than 10% of readers--ha, okay, 1-5% depending on the phase of the moon and the day of the week and what colour shirt I might be wearing--bother commenting in the first place. I like and appreciate the reason for the existence of kudos but it's a slippery slope to the vagaries of facebook 'likes' as far as the likelihood of substantial contribution to a dialogue goes.

[harriet-spy.livejournal.com]

Did you know there are people who hate the kudos function?

These are insane people. Possibly, they hate America. Maybe even the baby Jesus!

[seperis.livejournal.com]

You know, I can't even tell who the sarcasm is directed at. I'm thinking me, but I can't be entirely sure. *thoughtful*

[harriet-spy.livejournal.com]

The sarcasm is endemic and free-floating. I love the kudos function and think people who hate it are silly.

[harriet-spy.livejournal.com]

P.S. When I wrote my last story, I totally felt like I was back in Smallville, circa 2001. Do you know that is now ten years ago?

[seperis.livejournal.com]

Shhh. I try not to think about it too hard. It feels way too recent.

[flambeau.livejournal.com]

You were trying to set a good example? I don't think Loveless sets a good example of anything except Teh Creepy (but boy does it do a good job of that, as witnessed by my randomly breaking into ALL CAPS to express my feelings). Swords might be an improvement.

I like the kudos function -- mostly I've liked it from the other side, tbh, since I can never think of anything to say in feedback. It's like getting to stamp something with a little stamp of readerly approval.

[seperis.livejournal.com]

...I'm not saying it was a good plan. I am saying it was sadly, one of my more cunning. Which no, is not comforting.

[seekergeek.livejournal.com]

Heck no, I ADORE the kudos function on AO3! Getting those little nuggets of love make my day.