also i love how i gotta make these posts practically every time after i publish something.
look, i donāt give a fuck about money. iām 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.Ā
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 writeĀ āi really liked this! thank you for sharing!ā. and thatās 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, thereās likes all around.Ā
and likes are a little like seeing someone having their arms full with things and they drop their keys and you walk past and sayĀ āhey dude, i hope that works out for you!ā
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 youāll like it.
and we get a litte ā¤ļø for our troubles and thatās it.
and especially when you get statistics like above - 42 likes and 9 reblogs - it feels like a kick to the face.Ā
if every writer only wrote for themselves (āas youāre supposed to do uwuā), there wouldnāt be a single fic out there, because weād keep all the fics.
but we write for our audience too, hoping weāll hear back, hoping people will spread our fics,Ā āhey, look at this cool thing i read!ā.
and that doesnāt happen.
so you start thinkingĀ āhey, maybe i shouldnāt publish this. itās bad anyways, right? and it doesnāt make a difference if i do. itās not like anyone cares.ā
how many thousands and thousands of words for your favorite ship do you think are out there, saved on hard drives by authors whoāve given up wishing to publish their things, becauseĀ ānobody cares.ā
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 thereās no demand out there?Ā
because nobody cares enough to want to share it.
āthoughts and prayers with your fic! it was so good!ā thatās what the like button means, to make an extreme comparison here.
and honestly, i donāt understand why.
reblog. your. writers. itās all we ask for.
tangentwithtanner
germansingergirl
andulkaphoto
amandla
