Anon 1: As someone who’s also
extremely busy, my advice would be to break it up into parts. For example,
focus on reading World Stars, then the non-linear strips, then Bamboo Thicket…and
so on. It’s a lot of content, but even if you read snippets here and there, it’s
better than not getting any of the reading you want done!

Anon 2: AusHun without a doubt.

Anon 3: Thank you! (Ah…you must
be reading old fics).

Basically, I don’t care
if people favourite or don’t favourite/ unfavourite. That’s up to you, and it’s something I can’t force people to do. Favourites are one of the most flattering honours, though 🙂

I get offended when
people unfollow only after a fic is finished.
It’s not a nice feeling when you complete a story, only to have 10-15 people
unfollow right afterward. That’s why I feel used, although I used to be a lot
more sensitive lol. 

Point is, there’s really no reason to unfollow either since you’re not going to get the alerts anyway. Sometimes –because I’m silly–I’ll follow a story
even though it’s completed, just to show my support for it.

Anon 4: Not being able to answer
all my asks in a timely fashion. It really eats at me, and I feel bad. As
always, anyone is always free to DM me. I’m much quicker with replying (it’s
not months like some asks, yikes). 

Anon 5: Did you mean defense
mechanisms? If it’s a defense mechanism, then that sounds like reaction
formation. 

There is one strip where
you see something similar to what you’re describing, sans the resentment. Japan
invents mind-reading binoculars and puts them on Italy. He doesn’t believe what
he sees and concludes that the binoculars don’t work [x].

Anon 6: Why not? It’s heartrending.
As someone who has poor self-esteem and is used to being neglected and
forgotten about, this moment is not only foreign but beautiful to him…Perhaps
I’m projecting a bit too because I grew up being ignored by my classmates, but
eh. I like it because I like it.