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bookofmac · 2 years ago

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Truly amazing to me how people bagged on Avatar for having 'no fandom' for years and yet when i write two fics in the week after i saw the film they get a higher engagment than any other work ever has. it's been an incredibly nice experiance

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#avatar the way of water #Avatar 2 #Avatar #Avatar (2009)#Avatar 2009 #big tag rant im very sorry #Also anytime people use Ao3 as a metric for pre superwholock fandom engagement for nonserialised properties it does raise my hackles #bc there was like 1000 fics of avatar on FFdot net last i checked and they dont count crossovers in the main entry #i rember 2010-11 fandom it was mostly on ffdotnet if you weren't writing slash or hard smut #and it's mean to be like 'hurdur no impact 300 fics' like dude that's not a measure of anything but how many fics it means NOTHING #the movie was good but missing those ~family bonding~ moments the im obsessed with #so i wrote a bunch of fic in a feuge state and they both have over 100 kudos and a bunch of comments #i didn't get that in star wars fandom #the whole avatar fandom as it exists seems pretty chill and nice so idk don be mean to them #(also the fan maintained lore resources are pretty comprehensive which is really nice and helpful for fic writing)#the only cross promo i did for them was linking them on my twitter which is basically a dying platform #and i've still gotten a bunch of engagment #now i do conceptually hate the idea of engagment as a metric of quality #but it's nice to be seen-heh #also its a movie i could casually mention at christmas and say i enjoyed it and not be treated like a pretenious weirdo #which to be fair i am #but sometimes it is enough to be in the cinema with 3d glasses over my normal glasses to watch a movie and just enjoy it #i have lots of feelings clearly

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