also i love how i gotta make these posts practically every time after i publish something.
look, i donât give a fuck about money. iâm writing fic for fun. if you wanna throw a billion dollars at me, sure, you do you.
but literally all i want, all we all want, is for our stuff to be acknowledged. spread. REBLOGGED.Â
because obviously you read it and liked it, right?
so now all you have to do is hit that little button. it looks a little like this
or, on ao3, you write âi really liked this! thank you for sharing!â. and thatâs that.
it takes absolutely ZERO EFFORT, and it makes you happy (because you liked what you just read) and it makes us happy (because our work can get potentially more readers), and everyone is happy.
and instead, thereâs likes all around.Â
and likes are a little like seeing someone having their arms full with things and they drop their keys and you walk past and say âhey dude, i hope that works out for you!â
writers spend hours, even days and weeks or months on fics, pouring ourselves into it, forgoing sleep and food sometimes just to finish something because we hope youâll like it.
and we get a litte â¤ď¸ for our troubles and thatâs it.
and especially when you get statistics like above - 42 likes and 9 reblogs - it feels like a kick to the face.Â
if every writer only wrote for themselves (âas youâre supposed to do uwuâ), there wouldnât be a single fic out there, because weâd keep all the fics.
but we write for our audience too, hoping weâll hear back, hoping people will spread our fics, âhey, look at this cool thing i read!â.
and that doesnât happen.
so you start thinking âhey, maybe i shouldnât publish this. itâs bad anyways, right? and it doesnât make a difference if i do. itâs not like anyone cares.â
how many thousands and thousands of words for your favorite ship do you think are out there, saved on hard drives by authors whoâve given up wishing to publish their things, because ânobody cares.â
reblogging and commenting seems to be at an all time low at the moment. and you know what happens when you, the supplier, feel like thereâs no demand out there?Â
because nobody cares enough to want to share it.
âthoughts and prayers with your fic! it was so good!â thatâs what the like button means, to make an extreme comparison here.
and honestly, i donât understand why.
reblog. your. writers. itâs all we ask for.
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