an AO3 question

[ratcreature]

When you post a work and filled in the "inspired by" field, does the author of that get an automatic alert of some kind? (as default setting, I mean, I suppose you could turn off all notifications) Or do you need to check the "gift for" field? I'm asking because so far I haven't heard anything from the author of the Pinky & Brain story I illustrated, not even a kudo or anything, which is slightly discouraging. But then I didn't actively comment on their story with a link to the picture, I just assumed they'd get a notification of "ratcreature posted X inspired by yours" and then see my illustration, but didn't mark the extra gift ticky box. Along similar lines, I guess the author needs to approve related works somehow before they get linked from theirs to prevent trolling or such? Because I notice that my illustration is not just automatically linked from the bottom of the story. Of course they could simply be offline over the year-end period.

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[somnolentblue]

(via network)

I linked some of my own works with "inspired by", and I did have to manually approve the connections between them. The pair I did for this Yuletide I did receive an automatic notification ("Related Work Notification") about, and the email mentioned needing to approve the relationship. However, I never received a notification about the paired works I did earlier last year; I only discovered the need to approve the linkage when setting up the Yuletide pair.

[ratcreature]

Huh. That's not encouraging that notifications don't always happen. I noticed that "inspired by" notifications are not mentioned in the preferences where you turn things on and off either, just collection emails and gift emails. Maybe I should just manually comment saying that I liked and illustrated it.