stuff that feels rewarding as a fanfic author:
- when your work inspires fanart/comics
- when people point out a scene/particular line(s) that tugged at their heartstrings
- when people ask for your meta of your work that they enjoyed so much
- when someone comments on a fic you wrote 982783113502 years ago
- getting recc’d
- just the small happiness in knowing you made someone out there smile on their way to work/home or at school, in knowing you warmed someone’s heart somehow