LOL! Ao3 commenters, man. WTF? Hellooooo, symbolism or subtext, people? I guess some readers just want you to do all the work for them. There's a prescribed formula that most fics fall into, and the reason you and others like brightly_lit and kalliel are my favorite writers is that you DON'T follow it. But that commenter must just prefer the formula, and that's fine; there's PLENTY of fic out there for her. :-}

What is the point of a comment like any of the three we're talking about here? I mean, sometimes I wonder if they're all 15 (No offense to intelligent, thoughtful 15-year-olds intended). I need to quote the Simpsons here: do you ever think anything you DON'T say?

So, YEAH. We need T-shirts. It's a club I'm proud to be in...