So Guess Who Never Finished Inktober? My Little Deficient Brain Can Never Stick To Something To Longer

Blog Introduction

Hello! Welcome to the No More Zero Comments Project! This is a blog dedicated to reducing the amount of fics on ao3 that have no comments at all.

The goal is simple: find fics with no comments, read them, and leave a comment for the author. However, I (this blogs creator) am not in every fandom to ever exist on ao3 so this is not a task I can do alone. That's where you come in!

There are two ways you can do this. One is to go out and find fics with zero comments in your fandoms, and leave a comment. The other is to take a look at the spreadsheet i made with a list of fics i found with no comments and see if there's any fandoms you know. If I did my job right, you should be able to filter it? Who knows, I suck at technology. This spreadsheet will be updated regularly by adding new fics (and removing ones that have now received comments) so there will always be new stuff to see!

So far, the spreadsheet contains mostly fics from @febuwhump collections, as their commentfest is where i got this idea. If you want to submit one of your own zero comment fics for the spreadsheet, you can do so here.

If you read a fic from the spreadsheet and leave a comment on it (or have received a comment on your own fic that is on the spreadsheet), you can let me know here so I can remove it from the spreadsheet (you do not have to do this, I will try to check regularly to see if fics have received comments, but doing it this way will be a HUGE help to me)!

Some preemptive answers to potential FAQs under the cut!

Who runs this blog?

That'd be me, Izak, also known as @lightningzombie! Hi!

Wait, I see one of your fics on the spreadsheet!

Look. I'm not doing this for no reason. Around 14% of my own fics have no comments. In the interest of fairness, I'll only be adding one of my own fics to the spreadsheet at a time. This limit only applies to me as the owner of this blog. Everyone else can have as many as they like on there lol

Do I have to read fics from the spreadsheet?

Nope! It's just a handy tool for if you're looking for something to read, and want to help out an author in need of their first comment. You can go find zero comment fics wherever you usually get fics from

Is there some sort of prize/competition?

Nope! This is just an effort to increase fandom engagement since it fell off post-COVID. You don't have to report to me about it, you just gotta do it!

Why did you decide to do this?

Frustration with the lack of comments on my fics and the death of comment culture in general. Bewilderment when I saw a fic that had 1200 kudos and no comments. The joy that leaving 100 comments and receiving 20+ during the Febuwhump commentfest brought me. Boredom. Many reasons!

Will you do events?

Maybe! If there's enough interest we could do events similar to justleaveacommentfest.

Can I submit other peoples fics for the spreadsheet?

I mean, yeah, of course. But like, if you're going to the trouble of submitting someone else's fic, why not just leave a comment on it?

(edit: if you want to add a bunch of stuff from your fandoms that you don't have time to read/have tags you can't read then go for it!)

I don't know how to comment!

Yes, you do. "I like this" is a comment. "How dare you do that to [insert blorbo here]" is a comment. "<3" is a comment. "KAJSDAKSDHJ WHYYYYY????" is a comment. "I am rapidly approaching your location" is a comment. Just be kind!

Will you be doing this for platforms other than ao3?

For now, no. Ao3 is the platform I've used for a decade and the one I understand. However if you comment on fics that aren't on ao3, that's great! The spirit of the project is so give love to authors so do that on whatever platform you see fit

Happy commenting!

Another ashigo redraw! (Redrawn on left original on right) I’m not really happy with how it turned out but I’m not unhappy either. Maybe in another 5 years I’ll redraw it again and be happier/hj.

If I had to gues why it would probably be that the river isn’t bending enough and it’s too straight and doesn’t quite line up with the rest of the perspective.

You know I drew this. Took hours to make it. And then redesigned one of the characters. It’s gonna bother me for the rest of time now.

Another redraw! This is how I keep track of all of my ashigos because looking for this one drawing to see how many I have is easier than looking for all of their individual references sheets.

One of my favorite parts of hyperfixations in media where you can customize your character in a personal way (like the lamb, frisk, a y/n, among others...) is when little by little the character stops being the character of the medium and begins to evolve into an oc with a totally different story than the original, keeping only minimal details that only a few could identify as the source of origin of the character.

I don't know, I think it's kind of cool

STOP BEING SELF CONSCIOUS ABOUT YOUR CREATIONS STOP SECOND GUESSING WHAT YOU REALLY WANNA DO STOP DEBATING IT'S WORTH. LET YOUR ART SERVE YOU INSTEAD OF THE OTHER WAY AROUND

I think it’s so funny when I fuck up the eyes and they just become sentient and crazed for a moment.

Not quite sure what inspired this one, it’s a temple but that’s all I really got

6h 7m, 6945 strokes

0773 Silvally

I digitalized it and removed pandora in the corner cuz I didn’t like out she came out

I don’t usually use pens but I found one I really like at my job and it’s taking all my self control not to steal it.

The sticky notes were definitely for the aesthetic and not because I fucked up and needed to hide the evidence. Definitely not

Guardian Angel 💜💕🔪