#big fandom problems

[icepixie]

*finishes Good Omens S2*

*looks at the 53,430 works on AO3*

Holy SHIT I don't think I've ever read in a fandom this big in my life. At least, not one where I don't actively avoid the main ship. (I'm uh, going out on a limb here and assuming Aziraphale/Crowley is the main ship.)

How...how do you manage? How do you navigate? I'm used to being able to read everything posted about $thing in, like, two months tops. People still make recs posts, right? Or did that go out with LJ?

[overworkedunderwhelmed]

I think I will never understand the magic times to post/reblog in this fandom.

Tagging was hard enough to figure out with the fandom itself having several names and short hands, the main pairing having four primary version names, inconsistent spellings of the main character’s name (alter ego).

But there is often such a glut of content (and that’s awesome, make no mistake), but it means I get maybe a few minutes of visibility to hope someone might re-blog what I post.

If one or two key people with a larger follower base do re-blog, I end up with 100+ of notes.  If not, I’m lucky to hit twenty or so.

It makes me question everything about my writing:  my content, my writing style, my number and quality of jokes and antics.  I have to keep reminding myself that it might not be me at all.

But it doesn’t keep me from wondering...and worrying.

[kaylizle]

“I’m a popular author in my smaller fandoms” a novel by me.

[hellohotnesshellyeah]

I really wanna look up some thorki But I'm afraid I'll get lost.