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I don't comment on every fic I read, but I try to leave a lot of comments, and when I can longer ones. I like it, it's part thank-you, part that I enjoy talking about fics I liked, and part that it makes the authors happy and I like that too. (The fewer comments a fic gets the more I try to leave comments of my own.)

The downside is that I have a huge backlog of fics I still want to comment on and feel to various degrees anxious/guilty about if I don't. It's the worst with fics that I love so much that I want to write longer comments but that takes time and often a reread, and WIPs where I usually comment on every chapter – if I don't comment on a particular chapter or leave a much shorter comment than usual, will the author think I hated it? A few times now I stopped commenting on a WIP because I didn't get around to commenting before the author updated once and then told myself I'd catch up and then that never happened, and knowing that that's dumb doesn't help.

Prompted by me spending too much time today commenting on fic instead of doing something actually productive. This is one of my brain's favorite activities to pretend I'm not procrastinating.