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quietwingsinthesky · 3 months ago

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which is sort of but not really tied into why i’m sort of ???? about the particular kind of fic writers that will write like. Exclusively niche stuff that they enjoy specifically (rarepairs, weirds AUs, specific kinks) and then get upset that they don’t get much interaction in comments or kudos. like, my guy, this is what we signed up for when we wrote the ship only three people know about. you can’t be upset that you’re not raking in hundreds of clicks when you specifically chose to do the unpopular thing you were interested in. it’s fine not to have a lot of attention, you gotta get used to it happening, even if you think you worked real hard on a fic and it deserves it.

#like you can promote the shit out of your fic and you can complain endlessly about no one reading it #but like. at a certain point you just gotta accept you have a limited audience. and move on.#and sometimes that audience? is going to be just you!!!!#idk man i write for goofs and gaffs in the tumblr askbox and for deranged thoughts i have at 2 am to appease myself #maybe it seems. rude? but i feel like at the end of the day you’re better off letting the obsession with interaction go #accepting that sometimes you won’t get any. because you’re not the center of the universe and people not interacting with your stuff doesn’t #mean they have an agenda against it. it just means you aren’t a mass market universally appealing marvel movie. you know?#u dont wanna be a marvel movie. u wanna be the guy who writes niche fetishes on ao3. you’ll be happier that way.

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