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hyenabeanz · 6 months ago

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i literally watched two people on Tumblr talk about fics I wrote that they hadn't commented on and my judgy pants were so on, ngl, especially because the conversation was "why isn't there more of this niche smut?"

maybe because while we write for the love of it ourselves mostly, motivation knowing we're not smutting into the void is nice. :|

As I work through these smut prompts, I'm reminded that posting explicit fics generally halves one's average kudos percentage and does even worse to comments, which is a documented phenomenon across fandoms. Smut fics get MAD HIGH hit counts, but DEVASTATINGLY low kudos/comments. I'm more curious as to WHY this happens, so have a poll lol

Please explain in the tags because I very dearly wish to know some of the reasons that the interaction is soooooo bad on smut fics when they are, by and large, my HIGHEST hits across the board. Reblog for larger sample size!

#Read and kudos is bare minimum if I get to the bottom of the story #I comment if I liked anything in it which is most of the time because I don't get to the bottom of the fic otherwise usually #If you're too self conscious either comment anon or make a throwaway you big babies #No one's gonna hunt you down and interrogate you about your love of tentacle sex #If you don't know what to say “nice fic!” “That was a good read!” “Thanks for sharing the spice!” Anything is cool #Fic writers are sharing their work with you for freeeeeee pay them in comments and interaction #It's polite to say thank you to people who give you gifts #Art #Fandom #Fanfic #Polls #Sodium warning

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