#and roo has written more than sole creators in big fandoms do

[keepswingin]

since my annoyance has only grown, I decided to crunch some numbers

out of 508 works in the ao3 archive for zombies-

my own word count for zombies alone is 246,043 from 14 works (this number is without the 64 fics from tumblr I have yet to transfer to ao3), @zombiedadjokes word count is 262,994 from 18 works, @kokinu09 word count is 429,102 from 22 works, while @sayorseee word count is 146,764 from 17 works, and @c-rose2081 word count is 51,220 from 4 works.

Going off these numbers alone, it's absolutely ridiculous to hear people say there's no content. There's no content when it comes to people nitpicking what or who they will or won't read, and I'm done pretending it isn't a thing that happens every single time. Going purely by this information, why are some of these creators treated like they don't create??? The ones complaining that there's no content will go and read all 51,220k from rose, and will literally beg for more from sayorsee constantly, acting like they're the only ones currently writing chaptered stories, but then won't go and read the combined 692,096 words from both zombiedadjokes and kokinu???

Imagine how much more content this fandom would have if people actually showed their support for anything other than the two authors they solely support? That For the First Time story you all love by sayorsee, everyone realizes that's just a mix of rose's Starchild and kokinu's Alien Armada stories, right? Granted, all stories are made of one another, that is what is so great about writing, but since when is this fandom so desperate that we're just losing any individuality and creativity? Like come on. This wouldn't even be a thing in the first place if there was enough support for literally anything that's different around here.

I support kokinu even if I don't read everything she writes due to personal preferences, and I support zombiedadjokes every time she posts something period because she gets zero recognization for anything she does in this fandom, or otherwise. You guys know that that chaptered story she's writing, the river near the valley, is a completely unique built from the ground up story that's at a casual 66,921k, right? That's still being updated? Within this dead fandom? You guys also know that kokinu has literally written every au you could possibly want from just two characters that she loves? That she is also still updating today, just because she loves these characters that much? Those that are saying there's no content, like, you know this, right? You know this before making annoying comments, right?

"there's no content" give me a break, you just want the same recycled content over and over again, and refuse to interact with anything that's not that. Interacting with content creators and just talking to them like normal human beings (aka when you leave comments on stories they write) goes a long way in keeping a community going, we're all aware of that right? It's also how you get things that aren't just the same thing over and over again. Ridiculous that I even have to say that.

Finally, I want to get one last thing clear. I'm not begging for views with this post, for myself or any of the people mentioned. I'm literally just saying something that apparently still isn't clear to this day, which is support the content in your fandom. If you truly want to keep something alive, support is all you need.

Send asks. Reblog. Interact.

Stop picking and choosing when there's more than enough content to go around.