#hope i did it justice and. jsyk you gave me like the biggest motivation to keep posting ty ty ❤️

[witchsickness]

different anon but i just wanna say i’ve been missing you’re writing so much!!! and not to discredit your feeling at all bc it must be disappointing to not get as much interaction as you were hoping for/used to get but i think maybe it’s also kinda a self-fulfilling prophecy or vicious circle where it feels like people aren’t interested so you post less which equals less interaction which just confirms what you already thought? Idk and I don’t just mean you I mean writers/artists in general! tldr i just wanted to pop by and i will read anything and everything you choose to share with us 💕

babe hi first of all thank you? so much for taking the time to send such a thoughtful message. i can’t even begin to explain how much i appreciate it. it feels really really really good to hear people have been missing my stuff and would be into more, like. can’t even tell you. it’s so freakin encouraging. makes me wanna maybe try putting my stories out there again <3

tbh i do think lack of interaction and validation is a problem lots of writers come across? like, not even just in this fandom. fanfiction, out of all forms of fan-made content, is the most time-consuming and not always easy to get into. which is totally understandable! nobody has enough free time to dive into 12-chapter saga-length stories every night after they’re done with real life stuff, like. i totally get that. it’s way easier to interact with fanart, and edits, and bite-length headcannons on a day-to-day basis and save long fics for when you have lots of time to spare. unfortunately, that automatically narrows the field for writers, whose reach is very limited to begin with

now, i’ve never tried writing for another fandom regularly, so i’m not familiar with how things work elsewhere, but harringrove is a small fandom, which means that most people active either on tumblr and/or twitter know one another, and promote each other’s work. which isn’t a bad thing by itself! the problem begins when the only works getting any attention are the products of The Fandom Famous and their mutuals. again, i can only speak for the writing section of this fandom, but i’ve been here long enough to see how things work, and it’s. not good. writers who consciously choose or don’t have the energy to be active on platforms like tumblr on a daily basis and only post their stories on ao3 will mostly never get any fandom recognition, even though their stuff might be pure gold. the reality is that, unless you’re willing to be here and constantly remind people you exist, writers tend to get ignored and forgotten

which is! super discouraging, given the time poured into composing a story, no matter the length. writers shouldn’t feel obligated to produce something on a daily or weekly basis to prove their worth, and they definitely shouldn’t have to beg for scraps of validation and encouragement. after a while, watching the same people get all the attention and praise over and over gets disheartening, and i’ve heard people deciding to give up before. which is awful, especially in a fandom this size, already running out of canon content for their characters

i’ve never been an active member of this fandom, and i’m pretty sure a lot of people will disagree with the way i view things, bc their fandom experience is totally different, and they personally feel safe to share their stuff, and, like, i hope so? i hope only a small portion of creators can relate, and most people have never felt this way. it’s been more than two years since we got any new st content, so it’s not a reach to presume that people have generally lost interest in the show, and the ships born from it, too. that’s definitely a major reason for this decrease in interest and interaction lately. but also, like, i genuinely believe that, fundamentally, the fandom’s algorithm for promoting content is skewed, and ends up being harmful for lesser known creators who are so enthusiastically willing to share their stuff, but ultimately feel it might be pointless

anyway i could probably go on but i already wrote a whole-ass essay you absolutely did Not sign up for alksnflasalsfj;sa i just? can’t thank you enough? hearing you say you’d be willing to read more of my stories means more than i could ever explain, and i’m super super grateful you shared your thoughts with me and gave me the space to talk about stuff i’ve had on my mind for A While. ‘i will read anything and everything you choose to share with us’ this made me cry, so now i, like, have to kill you, you understand. it is how it is 

#kinda wanna put this in the tag in case someone might be interested but im also not looking for a fight so. eh #anon youre a literal sweetheart and so considerate and kind and im? so grateful for this ask 🖤 #hope i did it justice and. jsyk you gave me like the biggest motivation to keep posting ty ty ❤️ #fandom stuff #ask #anon