I get a lot of requests for stories and captions from people. I don’t hate getting them by any means, though it does always feel a bit…frustrating, because it amounts to people asking me for free writing. That said, there are always other blogs who do the whole ask/request stories, so they can always take those and give them to others who want to do them, but in my opinion, you should be willing to pay writers and artists for their work, without expecting personal work for free.