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Welcome to the DBDA Comment Festival!
Want to give more love to fanfic authors? Want to create a deeper sense of community by talking to the people sharing their works with you? Well then, welcome to the Dead Boy Detective Agency weekly comment festival, which will run for a year, from the first anniversary of the release of the show until the second!
Every week, starting on the 25th of April, there will be three levels and three chances to drop a comment (though, of course, you're always encouraged to leave as many comments as you're able to on the works you read). This blog will be generally safe for work, but beyond that no tags, headcanons, ships, or characters are excluded from the event, so if a given comment prompt doesn't work for you that week, just skip it! This is a no pressure, no obligation, year-long festival—there will be plenty of chances for you to leave comments on other works!
The comment prompts will be graded by how "easy" it is to find works that fit that prompt and will be one of the following types: fic rating; fic category; character tags; relationship tags; freeform tags; fic status; fic word count; date updated.
Level 1 prompts are (relatively) common for Dead Boy Detectives. These are things as simple as comment on a completed work, to the Edwin/Charles tag, to fics rated T. Level 2 prompts are less common, but still relatively prevalent. Expect things like the Crystal/Charles relationship tag, the Simon character tag, and the F/F category. Finally, level 3 comment prompts are the rarer ones in the fandom. You'll be prompted to comment on things like works that have over a hundred thousand words, or the Esther Finch & Monty relationship tag, or the Mystery tag.
This year long event is geared toward commenting on fics on AO3, but it's not restricted to that. Obviously, some things will be specific to AO3 tags and the way the archive is set up, but if you want to leave a comment on a F/F gifset, or fanart about Simon, here on tumblr, please do so, and feel free to count it as part of this challenge! Also, feel free to use the comment prompts at any time, don't feel the need to be restricted to the current week's prompts (and if you want to use the comment prompts as a writing/art prompt, go ahead!).
Once you've left your comment, feel free to share what work you commented on with this blog to be further shared with the community, either by tagging @dbdaweeklycomments, using the #DBDA Comment Festival tag, replying to the weekly challenge post, dropping it in submissions, direct messaging, etc.
That's a long intro, but hopefully it answers most questions! Now, enjoy the fandom, enjoy the community, and get out there and talk to people, even if you're just leaving a 💖 on those fics!