Not leaving Kudos

[bunn]

I wrote a series of tiny stories about readers Not Leaving Kudos on ArchiveofOurOwn, prompted by a thread over on the ushobwri community. Kept them in a file for a bit and added one when I thought of one, and eventually in a fit of randomness posted them on Ao3.

I woke up this morning to find that 600-word story suddenly has way more kudoses than anything else I'd uploaded there.  I find this hilarious.

It's here.

Comments

[bunn.livejournal.com]

Absolutely. You should probably get an extra point for anon kudos, which raises a whole series of further questions: did the reader forget to log in, do they not have an account, is this the first thing they ever read on Ao3, are they paranoid so they turn off cookies, are they deliberately hiding their identity? If so why???

:-DDD

[ladyofastolat.livejournal.com]

I almost left anonymous kudos by mistake, but at the very last moment before clicking, remembering that my computer has recently seen fit to log me out of every website I regularly use, I thought to check that I was logged on. I wasn't. Cue several minutes of "OMG, what on earth is my password" angst. Granted, several failed password attempts and a bit of running around the house trying to find long-strayed scraps of notebook isn't the most trying of dramas, but it seemed in the spirit of the story to reveal the effort that lay behind that simple task of clicking the kudos button. :-D

[scripsi.livejournal.com]

I'm divided between "not having an AO3 account" and "not wanting to leave a signed kudo for this kind of story". Certainly my fics with smut and kink gets the most of the anon kudos...

[bunn.livejournal.com]

Based on the comments here, I'm thinking that 'finds self inexplicably logged out, what on earth is my password' is also a more common phenomenon than I had thought... :-D

[scripsi.livejournal.com]

It seems so. :D I really don't mind anon kudos- I'm happy just to get them. I just find it amusing how they are more common on controversial fics.