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in ye olden days of fic it was super common to ask for concrit (constructive criticism) in the author’s notes. i did it at the end of almost all of my fics from like 2007-2011. but something shifted and everyone stopped and at first i thought it was like how people stopped tagging smut as lemons/limes but now i wonder if it’s because the crit stopped being con.
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there are only two reasons that i, as a fanfiction writer, do not reply to your comment:
1. you’ve written something so long and detailed and kind and enthusiastic that words cannot even begin to describe how much your comment means to me and i am so scared of fucking up the response that i don’t respond at all and it eats away at me
2. you have written literally nothing about the fic itself and there is not a single part of what you said that can even be responded to.
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PSA: For fan works, reblog and like from OP
Tumblr is rolling out a new reblog/notes system that completely disregards creators. In their new system, they're taking a twitter-style approach where reblogs will have their own notes that DO NOT contribute to the original post's notes.
Because of this, creators will no longer be able to see an accurate display of likes/reblogs/etc. This is completely altering the way feedback and responses to works are going to be received on this website.
If you come across a fan work that you enjoy, please take the extra step to go to OPs original post, and leave your comment/like/reblog there. Or go one step further and send an ask to OP directly to tell them what you liked!
I really hope Tumblr staff reverses course and reverts to the original reblog system for the sake of the large base of creators who use this site to share their works, but until then, please be considerate and make sure the creators here see/feel the love.
given the poor kudos+comments to hits ratios i’ve gotten lately, you’d think i’d be less confident in blaming shifts in fandom culture and start reconsidering my own writing abilities, but unfortunately for yall my ao3 subscriber count keeps going up so clearly im right and im going to be insufferable about it forever
IF THIS POST FINDS YOU, REBLOG AND GO COMMENT ON A FIC YOU LIKE RIGHT NOW OR ELSE YOU’LL BE CURSED TO SEVEN YEARS OF REALLY POOR INTERNET SERVICE
MAYDAY MAYDAY CURSE DELAYED UNTIL MOTHER IS BACK UP
IF THIS POST FINDS YOU, REBLOG AND GO COMMENT ON A FIC YOU LIKE RIGHT NOW OR ELSE YOU’LL BE CURSED TO SEVEN YEARS OF REALLY POOR INTERNET SERVICE
tbh sometimes i get 10+ bookmarks and 0 comments and i want to start hunting people for sport
lack of interaction kills fandoms more than being “cringe” ever has
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i’ve never had a blog blow up the way this one has and i think that’s incredibly indicative of the frustration with current fan culture
lack of interaction kills fandoms more than being “cringe” ever has
love that all but one of the comments i've gotten on my most recent fic are just scammers trying to get me to pay them to illustrate my work
within two hours of each other
love that all but one of the comments i've gotten on my most recent fic are just scammers trying to get me to pay them to illustrate my work
“ao3 always receives more funds and donations than what they ask for” yeah that’s because people love a place that actually protects all fanfics, art and artists against censorship, purity culture and capitalism. shocking, I know
current fan creation landscape is kinda like if you went to a party with a homemade cake and everyone takes a slice and silently thumbs up at you with no attempt to start a conversation except for occasionally some guy sits in the corner with a tape recorder critiquing the cake as though he was a restaurant critic and another guy is handing the cake to an uber driver like "yeah i need you to find a restaurant that makes cake like this so i can have more of it" and the only person that's talked to you in 30 minutes is a very sweet little guy who was like "hey i liked your cake" and then ran away apologizing for bothering you the moment you said thank you.
someone brought a cake analysis robot to feed the cake into to determine the exact ingredients and supposedly it can spit out the exact same cake. and if you're like dude. what. then they're like well if it bothers you you should have made more cake. i'm hungry and i deserve cake. and you're like dude we're at a party.
Three months later you find out that fifty people locked themselves in a room to discuss how much they loved your cake and how they wished you made more. None of them ever told you.
so for the love of god. please tell people you liked their cake and don’t feel embarrassed about it. because then they will make more cake.
i genuinely think that any reader of fanfiction should write and post something once. not just because it would really illustrate to them the amount of work it takes and how terrifying it can be to bare yourself to the internet and how disheartening a lack of interaction can be, but also how fun and exhilarating it is. how amazing some kudos or a single comment can make you feel for weeks. this account is for being mean, yes, but i cannot stress how consistent and wonderful a hobby writing fic has been for me since i was a young teen.
Yeah but what if it's bad and you get told it's bad and then you re-read and realize that yeah, it is bad but it was the best idea you could muster?
What then?
then you keep on writing or you give up. idk what to tell you, i’ve had anons that i blocked hunt down niche side blogs of mine to tell me, in detail, just how much they hate my writing. and that’s part of the risk of baring yourself to the public. and it fucking sucks. but that’s what every single person who posts fic or fanart or edits or whatever fandom content you enjoy risks every time they do, because there’s always going to be someone out there who thinks it sucks. i still think the risk is worth it, when it can open you up to a level of connection with your online peers that you’ve never experienced before. but that’s just me.
