#small fandom problems

[undead-nothosaur]

I dont know whats wrong with me, this bastard has all of eight lines in the whole show AND YET

Baptistin is everything to me, seeing this snarky bastard holding a bag of groceries made me believe in God again and i can't even tell you why... Also watch Gankutsuou its honestly so good and only 24 episodes

(for the record Bertuccio could also get it but unfortunately Baptistin had the funnier lines and that was enough to sway me)

[coi-arts]

me checking for the 5415489th time every bloberta puppington tag in every social media acc i have and the bloberta/clay tag on ao3 on the days without new content

[fedorah-the-explorah]

fine. i'll make the fanart I want to see in this fandom, but I'm gonna complain about it the whole time :/

[onbearfeet]

I'm making a little collage wall of my Monster Mash blorbos and realizing that, while I have little art pieces for Steve and Bucky and Peggy and Jack Russell, I've never been able to find prints for sale featuring Elsa and Ted.

This may require Art.

[seasidesketches]

When you want stickers of your favorite characters but the game is small and unpopular and there isn't much official merch at all:

I know people sell stickers online but I can't really afford to spend $ right now. And I'm pretty sure the dislyte team has a rule against selling that stuff anyways, if it's not your own fanart.

Chu Yao stickers....I will make them eventually 🙏

[monsters-without-teeth]

i don't know if it's considered weird to leave notes on posts from years ago, but that's not gonna stop me from doing it

[icepixie]

*finishes Good Omens S2*

*looks at the 53,430 works on AO3*

Holy SHIT I don't think I've ever read in a fandom this big in my life. At least, not one where I don't actively avoid the main ship. (I'm uh, going out on a limb here and assuming Aziraphale/Crowley is the main ship.)

How...how do you manage? How do you navigate? I'm used to being able to read everything posted about $thing in, like, two months tops. People still make recs posts, right? Or did that go out with LJ?

[penname-artist]

Small Fandom Problems #3: When you're the only content creator in a specific category and you've monopolized the entire genre by default

[hekateinhell]

I was going to ask for fic recs and then I remembered I have scoured every last page on ao3 for all three of my ships more than once 😦

[alwayshappyhoursomewhere]

the deep sadness of being completely and utterly gone for a ship with less that forty fics on ao3… at this point I’ve even read the ones in chinese through machine translation (…it was… a mistake…) that’s how desperate I am

[anonymousleekao3]

You are an incredible gifted artists and I treasure every story you came up with and wrote and gifted us all with the amazing imagination and talent. Your writing and your art are precious and treasured by many of us.

all the love and support <3

sorry i am so much time away - school and work basically suck the life and energy out of me buuuuut whenever I feel depleted, coming here and seeing your amazing art and reading for the countless time your stories, they help.

Hydra Husbands fans stick together *hugs*

Thank you so much, both for the kind words and for taking the time to say them. I am most touched and humbled. 💕 I'm sorry my reply has taken a long time. I wasn't sure what to say.

I can't wait to get back to reading fic (after my work is finished later this year) and finding out what you and everybody else have been up to while I've been busy! I am saving up all the delightful fic to read like a hoard of sweeties.

You deserve rest after school and work. There's no rush.

I am glad you find fandom fic and art restorative. I find it soothing to make things, so there will be more (maybe too many?) but it is terrifying to share them, especially when they are different from what other people make, and sometimes different from what they like. Your enthusiastic love for things is very valuable, and it makes me happy to see.

[thebookofthefaeries]

i'm literally dying rn

my fandom has 2 authors max on ao3 literally nobody writes for it aaa.

how many fics does it take for a work to appear in the fandoms page cuz mine still hasnt

[brittasfan]

Valid point, but it’s annoying when the only thing out there is your own stuff.

[cloud-kisser]

Small Fandom Problems

when there´s a finished poll on ur dash about one of your small fandoms and the most voted response is "i don´t know these characters" or "i don´t know this manga":

(˚ ˃̣̣̥⌓˂̣̣̥ )づ♡ <- me pointing at the fandom in question while crying

[child--ish]

join this fandom, they said. it'll be fine, they said.

[permanently-stressed]

i'm just a girl, cursed to like many books but only truly get attached to the ones with small-ish fandoms