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.

Comments

[sholio]

You do get a notification, but it seems to glitch sometimes and fail to deliver it. For example, aqwt101 recently translated a bunch of my stories into Russian, and I got notifications on most of them, but not all. They were all uploaded at the same time, and most of the notifications arrived, but not all of them.

When you get the notification email, there is a link to give approval, which creates the automatic link back.

I'd leave a comment just to be on the safe side. As well as notifications not being 100% reliable, things are so busy over the holiday season that someone could easily have failed to notice it, especially if they have notifications turned on for *everything* (kudos, etc).

[ratcreature]

Yeah, I now left a comment (also sneakily ensuring that readers who look at the comments can see that there's art without the inspired by link).