odd comments

[ratcreature]

Sometimes people are leaving odd comments on AO3. Like this one by inky-pen on my Furry and Animals drawbles collection on AO3. It just says "Can u draw a mixture of a snake and squirrel. Please."

It is somewhat strange to get a comment that doesn't actually say anything about having liked the art that is there, and just asks for a new drawing. And since inky-pen didn't comment from an AO3 account, I don't even know who they are. I did however draw them a Frankenstein snake-squirrel mix, though I'm not sure whether you even get email comment notifications without an AO3 account, so maybe they'll never know.

Comments

[goss]

The furry snake tail! HEE! ^__^

[ratcreature]

It seemed the most logical place (for a somewhat stretched definition of "logical", lol) to attach squirrel parts to a snake.

[sholio]

Okay, that is completely adorable. :D And very kind of you to go ahead and draw it for them!

[ratcreature]

Thanks! It was just so completely random, that I kept thinking about it, and not that complicated as far as prompts go (like, they didn't ask for their epic dream fantasy illustration that they really ought to commission somebody for). I just hope they'll see it.

[vorpalgirl]

For what it's worth, sometimes on AO3 I don't bother to log in on mobile but will comment still if something really moves me (under my usual AO3 name but adding something like "logged out"), and since doing that requires an email, I will sometimes get notifications of replies to my logged-out comments.

So you could reply to them on AO3 and they'd probably get it :)

[ratcreature]

Eventually they did respond, actually. It just took a week and a half after I posted.

[vorpalgirl]

Ha! I'm late to the game as usual then. Still, it's probably nice to know that (assuming they don't use a fake email/email they don't check) people who don't have AO3 accounts can still get notification on your responses, I imagine?

also the art in question is equal parts horrifying (stitched on, oh god) and adorable (lookit those cute little round snek eyes!), kudos for managing both at once!