#also shoutout to every friend i made by being a chatty person that loves talking about things

[wukodork]

The impression I've gotten from just watching y'all it's that the community of writers is more of a group of friends that happened to be writers. Amd then more people saw a group of people that were writing and went "Hey I want in on that".

I draw a LOT and quite frankly don't really post what I draw because it is so much easier to send an image directly to some friends that share your interest that will just go "looks good" because it's something their friend drew than hanging it on a wall and watching everyone ignore it.

The highest number of notes I've EVER gotten on an image I did was of one of the most popular characters in warrior cats (I'm not linking anything bc I'm not fishing). It's nice, on pat with a lot of designs I see get triple digits, but it has 11 notes, two of which are from me and my sibling. And it's one of the most popular characters in warrior cats.

Now in monster high fandom or dollstuff in general, I don't have a problem getting interaction. And a lot of it just because I stuck around, commented on other people's posts and art (including comments in the tags!) and asked questions when I was confused about something. I've become adjacent to several circles of friends because I was just there and slowly grew on people like a delightful fungus.

If you're not naturally inclined to do that? Or if you are but you have something making it much more difficult to do that? Then having to network on top of creating is absolutely exhausting and draining, especially since the things that make networking hard tend to make creating harder too.

The thing about drawing fandom faves or ocs with wide appeal (which is 100% true btw) is that no matter how more likely the subject is to be reblogged, you gotta have people there to reblog it. You gotta talk to people and add little notes in the tags when you reblog things send asks you gotta interact with people to get interacted with and that is extremely terrifying and emotionally risky.

I promise you nonny, you can do it.

Is it just me or is there not really a community for artists within the DA fandom? I see writers lifting each other up and promoting each other's work all the time but artists barely get any exposure unless they're one of the top 5 most skilled. It's no wonder fandom feels quiet :(

Well that's largely because people don't reblog as often as they like things (that's not excusive to the da fandom) The top five, and we all know what you're talking about here, didn't get popular until they started drawing their conventionally attractive (<- not said as a negative thing) oc's with the most popular male characters for on a near daily basis and, this is the crucial part, people reblogged their art consistently to not only get them exposure, but to encourage them to continue creating. You're more likely to get reblogs on a drawing if it's a redraw of a meme or has a fandom favorite in it