#this is niche enough that I'm not gonna bother tagging it more then this

[dirtbag-linecook-kyloren]

oh sHIT I FORGOT TO POST THIS EARLIER i had an idea for an epilogue scene to an au I haven't written yet and I needed @jaynesilver to see it so I typed it as a warm up for once which i NEVER DO but because it's typed you all get to see it too!!

all you need to know if kylo is a beauty youtuber at abt jeffree star's peak fame levels and Hux is a guy with an engineering job who also streams stardew valley speedruns as a hobby and they're very in love at the end of the fic (that again I haven't written yet)

ANYWAY have 1.6K of beauty blogger au under the cut, I'm gonna keep it out of the main tag bc It's not for a current au and I don't wanna clog it up

Armitage doesn’t read Chat while he’s in the mines, with the small exception of checking to make sure he hasn’t missed a ladder. Most of his viewers are used to this. When the first good luck day of a run comes along, and he makes the loop for foregables around the map, when he skips several cutscenes using exploits and puts years of animation-canceling muscle memory into his keystrokes, Chat dies down, mostly talking amongst themselves. 

Commentary is easier; he can talk and click, talk and type, talk and debate using a cherry bomb on a group of copper ore to save himself a few seconds. 

“I’ll save it,” he tells Chat, shifting in his chair. “If I can use it on iron later, it’ll save even more time.”

This run is going well, so far. It’s his third reset of the stream, but Armitage already has all the copper he’ll need for basic sprinklers and he’s almost through the dark levels. Huffing under his breath, Armitage imagines explaining any of this to his coworkers, can already see the glazed-over look in their eyes. He’s familiar with how they stop paying attention when Armitage talks about his hobby. Gaming, they can understand. Replaying the same niche farming simulator over and over to get the fastest time on a silly leader board? More of a stretch? Do that for strangers on the internet to watch as they pay him money? A step too far. Most of them don’t know what Twitch is, let alone understand why anyone would watch it. 

Kylo shifts in his chair on the other side of the room; it’s quiet enough that Armitage can’t hear it over his headphones, so he doubts the microphone picked it up, but the movement catches his eye. This is their first time having him in the room as Armitage streams. He’s editing, an oversized t-shirt hanging off his shoulder, and Armitage wishes there was time to have more thoughts about that, but he gets one last ladder and moves on to the iron floors. 

“I’m suspicious of how well this run is going,” Armitage says, eyes darting to his second monitor as he works his way through dust sprites. “I’m good at the mines, but I’m saving this seed to see if I can work out a perfection run from it.” 

It’s as he’s reading through other people agreeing that this level of luck is unusual, including a stranger accusing him of using mods as if Armitage would dare bother to cheat instead of just ‘getting good,’ as the kids say. 

BornToSlay: what’s ur skincare routine jesus

The huff of laughter is involuntary; he upgraded his web camera at Kylo’s request, and now it feels like his every fucking pore is captured and streamed. He’s gotten a few comments about it, but beyond technical questions and a single curious person asking why he upgraded, something Armitage lied about, the new image quality has gone unnoticed. Because he’s a good mod, Mitaka has already messaged him that the same user asked about Kylo earlier, and Armitage just missed it. 

They expected this, and they were prepared for this. Kylo’s channel has millions of subscribers on YouTube, he’s arguably a D-List celebrity at this point. Armitage speed runs Stardew Valley as a hobby. They’re operating on different levels of internet fame in different niches, but people have been curious, and some of those people are bound to stop in and watch him break rocks for fifteen minutes while hoping for a bounty of cave carrots. 

Still. Most of them have dropped in, decided his content wasn’t for them, and gone away. Apparently, this user has stuck around for a few streams, and Kylo said it was up to Armitage how much or little they interacted. He’s right there, and the run is going well enough he can afford to waste a few seconds entertaining this line of questioning. 

“My skincare routine is whatever Kylo forces me to do, now,” Armitage says, popping his headphones around his neck. “Kylo?”

When he looks over, Kylo is editing; he’s just also got Armitage’s stream up on his second monitor. He doesn’t bother to pretend he was working when he looks at Armitage, turning in his chair. 

“Someone wants to know what my skincare routine is, and I doubt you trust me to explain it properly.” 

Kylo laughs, and when he stands, Armitage can finally read the text on his shirt, and - Jesus, he’s wearing Armitage’s merch, they’re never going to hear the end of this. He can already see the stream compilations, and Armitage thinks he’s wearing Kylo’s sweater. 

Armitage finally uses the cherry bomb on a chuck on iron and Kylo settles behind him, his chin resting on Armitage’s head and his arms around Armitage’s shoulders. 

“It’s not consistent,” Kylo says, looking at the camera. Armitage can see him in the Streamlabs window, a lazy face of makeup and his hair piled on his head in a messy bun. He looks fantastic, which is to be expected when his entire internet presence revolves around beauty, but Armitage will never get tired of looking at him. Kylo keeps talking, but Armitage tunes him out, focuses on hitting floor forty, getting seven more iron, and then passing out so he can start building furnaces. 

Chat has started speeding up; Armitage doesn’t even have to ask Mitaka to turn on slow mode so Kylo can read anything, he just already does it. Kylo doesn’t have his contacts in, so he shifts his glasses up his nose to read the screen. 

“They want to know if I ever put makeup on you,” he says, and as Armitage makes his way into town to buy seeds from Pierre, he huffs. 

“I’m wearing makeup now,” he mutters, and he knows the mic will pick it up clearly, but he almost wishes it could be an aside. “I’ve been wearing makeup from streams since my first few months. Someone wouldn’t stop talking about my freckles, so I bought some shitty foundation at the grocery store so I wouldn’t have to ban the word.”

Kylo laughs, and Armitage can feel him look down, can feel his thumb drawing circles on his chest. 

EmilysWife: Beauty icon Hux PierreSucks: omg is that how you met

Now it’s Armitage’s turn to laugh. In the few weeks since someone recognized him out with Kylo, the few weeks since Armitage tweeted to confirm that was him, that he wasn’t Kylo’s assistant, it hasn’t come up how they met. They’ve not talked about keeping it a secret, although perhaps Armitage would like some parts of their relationship to stay between just them. 

This seems harmless enough, though. 

“Kylo tells this story better,” Armitage insists, because he loves Kylo, but he’s also cruel. Kylo’s breath is warm against his skin as he hides his face in Armitage’s neck. “Would you like to tell Chat how we met?”

“No...” The words are groaned, drawn out, a tone that perfectly conveys both Kylo’s embarrassment and his willingness to share. He stands up straight, and Armitage misses the press of his body, but he can hear the shuffle of his shirt, can see the chat as his absolutely ancient merch is on display, the screen printing cracked and faded from wear and hundreds of washes. “I was a fan.” 

“That’s shorting them the full story.” Armitage’s tone is teasing as he sleeps, wakes up, loads his furnaces and waters his crops. It’s a cycle of days he could do with muscle memory alone, has done blindfolded for a video on YouTube. “Phasma is a friend of mine, and when she did a video with Kylo, they had to pick up something she left at my house. What were your first words to me, Kylo?” From his spot hiding again, Kylo’s words are muffled. “I’ll tell them, then. He said, and I quote: ‘You talk me to sleep every night.’ That, Chat, was his opening line.” 

Kylo’s head pops up, and Armitage can see his pout on the screen, his playful glare. 

“It worked.” 

Armitage laughs. 

“After seven attempts to make yourself not sound like a stalker, I suppose it did work. Or, alternatively, I didn’t know you were hitting on me until we were on our third date.” Armitage could sound sad here, but he decides against it. He hadn’t been able to imagine a world where Kylo found him attractive. It never occurred to him that Kylo might be interested, so he lusted in quiet, alone at night with his own hand. “I still maintain that those dates don’t count, since I was unaware they were dates.” Kylo’s acrylics dig into his shoulders, and Armitage hisses in mock pain, as if Kylo’s nails aren’t rounded at the tip. “Don’t put holes in your own sweater, idiot.”

Though he attempts to fake angry, the last word comes out soft and fond as he looks up, doing his best to forget they’re on camera for a moment, to forget that he’s streaming this live and that he’ll be hearing about this for weeks. Phasma has already messaged him on Discord; Armitage will deal with her after the stream. 

The press of lips on his cheek is welcome, the loss of Kylo’s warmth less so. He waves to the web camera one last time before heading back to his own desk, putting on his headphones. Half of Chat is talking about his insane luck and all the pumpkins he’s going to plant while the other half still can’t quite believe Kylo was there, and is speculating how many streams he’s been just in the background of. Armitage won’t answer that; he doesn’t want to encourage them to ask for Kylo every stream, though he imagines they will anyway, now that the flood gate has opened. 

KyloAmidala: I normally just watch from the other room, though now I have to settle for replays if my sleep schedule is messed up. 

Armitage can hear Kylo snickering even as he puts his headphones back on.

[yuurivoice]

Just wanted to say that even though I do avoid exploring any tags related to me, I do absolutely recognize and appreciate a ton of you who regularly post awesome art, headcanons, and memes.

A lot of that is thanks to people sharing those fun, awesome things! Reblogs where I end up seeing them on mutuals blogs and stuff helps, so share and gas each other up!

There are people in this community that have been here for years, who have seen this entire corner of the internet shift and grow for better or worse. The OGs who have been around before I ever made this blog know how far the community has come, how much it's stayed the same, and how much it has changed. And I've grown along with it. My aspirations and hopes and creativity has evolved so much from just doing silly little posts as an anime twink to having a full blown web series.

Despite that growth, I am still just a guy trying to tell his stories and make some voices while doing it. I have a small team around me, and without them this would be even more difficult than it already is. We're not corporate, we're independent artists and freelancers and creatives just trying to do cool stuff, and are lucky enough that something worked.

I've failed so much over the course of my life. You see the results of things, and for the most part are incredibly kind and supportive. Thousands upon thousands have appreciated my work in one way or another, and that's a dream come true for me. I never bothered wanting anything more in my life than to share stories with people. I didn't have a bucket list, or many aspirations. I was at a dead end and ready to just give up. That mentality and the time spent going in circles did a lot of damage over time.

But you found me, whether it was 6 years ago or a week ago, and whatever support and vibes you've sent my way have mattered. I won't ever lose sight of that.

I wanted to say that because I know I am not as ingrained into my own community as an active participant and that may make me seem distant, or stuck up, or something. It's not for any sort of disdain or lack of appreciation though, it's just me, and trying to keep my head clear.

You don't get an instruction manual when you're suddenly a niche internet micro celebrity. They don't tell you about scrolling through fan art at 3am and then seeing the nastiest, most mean spirited, bad faith takes about your work you've ever seen. Shit is weird, man. And it's not for me, because I give way too much of a shit about my art, and that's a flaw. My skin has gotten thicker over the years, but what happens on days when your mental health is in the shitter? Weeks where I've been fighting my demons and losing can't afford me the grace to step on a weird internet landmine brought on by the symptoms of being a creative trying and failing and succeeding all at once in a world where everyone on the internet has an opinion they want to shout into the void.

And people can do that! It's my responsibility to look after myself and set those boundaries for my own comfort, not anyone's fault for just doing their thing on the internet, ya know? Once you put yourself out there, you have to accept that people are gonna people. Same irl, shit, I've been a fat kid my whole life, I'm certainly no stranger to people being obscenely rude for no reason other than they like the sound of their own voice.

I just wanted y'all to know that even though we're well beyond the "little internet family" vibes that some creators foster, I'm not up in some ivory tower (ha, said the thing) looking down like a curmudgeon. I am rooting especially hard for all the fellow creatives out there on their own journeys, wanting to share their passion and dreams with the world as well. I want you to win, and succeed, and find fulfillment with whatever drives you to make things.

Guess I was in my feelings a little bit and just wanted to say that I do see many of you and am thankful you've allowed me to play some kind of role in entertaining, comforting, or inspiring you. That means the world to me.

[killuaisaprincess]

THREE YEARS OF WRITING 🧁 (or close enough!)

Lemme start by saying I am tired. One hater takes enough out of me, I have ADD hypersensitivity, so yeah, still kinda recovering!

I wanted to make this something super happy! And actually on time, but literally, one day later, today some asshole wants to show up in my tumblr inbox and complain? And it was about the old me! So I'm doing it early! I’m here to celebrate my growth! Fuck them! Lol 🖕🎉

They were basically, oh, you’re not Q! You’ve fallen off! No, I’m not! Q is dead! And Q was never truly entirely me! I will always be grateful if she hadn’t taken the first step, I wouldn’t be here, but Q got scared even writing the simple niche of Gon carrying Ki more than once! I still remember that authors note Q wrote apologizing! I wanna laugh at her! Like she owed anyone anything! It was like her fourth fic, I think.

I get her, part of her still lies in me! Like I’m sorry to that person you’re so insecure and pathetic that someone changing and growing into a confident person who writes what she totally likes full on indulgence! Bothers you! She was always in there okie! She was just scared! 

Creating Qutie was the first step. And I’m proud of her and how far she’s come! I don’t care anymore if everyone hates me! I know most probs do! I am confident and happy about my presence here! And love that I can speak up without fearing anymore! Realizing I don’t fit! Or belong with the fandom was the best thing that ever happened to me! I don’t forgive the og hater/stalker and made me poof Q, but I am actually thankful to them. 

My third year anniversary of writing is coming up on Sept, 4! 

And I probs would’ve made a speech about how happy I am and how far I’ve come then too! So consider this that! Except it probs would’ve been 50 tags cuz that’s my style lol 😚

No matter what anyone says I am proud of me!

I love my writing, and I love my fics! It really just is the simple concept of imagining finding an author you like! And then there are tons of works ready for you to read! Even if they're small thingies like mine! I was into GK back in 2012, but I was young and there wasn't any GK really, and plus after CAA I was just depressed there was nothing there for me. So I left! And then 2020 of June I fell back into Gonki!

I watched tons of reactors and got back in, but I couldn't find anything that was my taste fic wise, so I just took a leap of fate, I found maybe one fic of Gon carrying Ki maybe one and billions that I did not like! So I decided to do it for me!

I wanna be with Gonkillu forever! I don't wanna imagine a world where I leave again! But on the chance it ever does happen? Look what I've done for me! I've become that author I would like with tons of fics all ready to read! For me! 90+ will be there if it does happen.

And nothing pleases me more! I do reread my fics as is! But the idea of knowing me of the future should something ever happen has that... it's the best feeling!

And no one will take that from me! When I couldn't find anything I wanted in 2020 I didn't go to writers and go WAHHH WAHH WAHHH DO WHAT I WANT I took action. So no loser anon is gonna stop me. If you liked the old me become her, but I like the new current me more! Who goes full in no fear!

I do wish there was a GK world and I will say stuff like that! Cuz I do wish there was! But I've never gone to a writer and been like dooo this for meee, like!

I put my money where my mouth is and am creating the GK world I want for myself!

Thank you, me! For the three years of writing! Here's to many more!

I’m on a little teeny tiny island by myself! I need a cute flag 🥺 IT HAS TO BE PINK OMG WITH GON CARRYING KI AND KI WEARING A CUTE PINK DRESS AND LITTLE BUNNY EARS 🥺 he’s a little bunny 🐰 

[dalesramblingsblog]

(Tags courtesy of @pageofheartdj)

I agree with pretty much all of this, and it's very affirming, but it's also made me realise how fed up I really am with the prevalence of this attitude. Genuinely, if I had had a better understanding of asexuality when I first considered the possibility I was ace at about twelve or so, I would have saved myself eight years of being deeply confused about my sexuality. There was a period where I just figured "Oh I must just be a prude because while I don't actively dislike sex, I rarely actively think about it."

And honestly the sinking feeling I got when I had my epiphany that I might be ace, only to realise that the particulars of my experience were a perennial topic of debate and questioning in any sort of asexual community I could care to mention... it sucked. Still does, and it's why I don't really bother to frequent any such spaces, because what's the point if the next minute can bring another fresh post questioning the validity of my experience as if I'm a particularly niche subspecies of cryptid.

Yet at the same time, what am I expected to do, hang out with the allos? 'Cause let me tell ya, whether you think I'm "really" asexual or "really" queer or whatever, allosexuals and/or acephobes are gonna view me as strange regardless. Our petty little disputes and queer infighting over terminology don't mean anything to people who would just as soon spit on me and label me a frigid deviant as look at me.

(The fact that I'm heteroromantic doesn't do wonders for my ability to feel "queer enough" either but let's just set that aside for the moment.)

If you're going to tell me that my identity is up for debate, that it's a dilution of asexuality, that I'm just a confused allosexual trying to take away the label from people with more right to it than I, well then... Is it any wonder that I'm de facto closeted in real life, with only a few close friends (and none of my family) knowing that I'm ace at all? When I actually think about it, rather than make silly little jokes about filing cabinets, it just makes me sad that the biggest reason I feel to hide myself away is not bigots who see me as a freak, but the people who you'd probably expect to have a certain degree of solidarity with me.

I dunno. This just got me thinking.

Alright I'm feeling just generally annoyed so I'm gonna post a bit more about being ace (and specifically sex-favourable ace) 'cause fuck it I keep seeing this argument and I'm just so done and wanna goof on it a bit.

"Sex-favourable asexuals are making allos confused and less likely to accept our community! This is a dilution of asexuality!"

Ah damn, fuck, my bad. I forgot about the bit where we all signed the paperwork and became the collective CEO of Aphobia. I keep meaning to get a filing cabinet so I can organise that stuff better, but y'know how it is, cost of living crisis and all that.

Thanks for reminding me that I'm supposed to be running a postmodernist Marxist conspiracy to bring down the LGBTQIA+ community and wage psychological warfare on heterosexuals by introducing the mere concept of being asexual and also maybe sometimes wanting sex. It's gonna be so cool you guys, we're gonna make their heads explode just like Scanners and everything.

[kaibaswifey-old]

I think maybe i am just easy to please and not that bothered w a fic turning out to be something I'm not into. i literally just search my ship's tag, filter out uncompleted and non-english, read the desc/tags and that's it. Like yeah I come across stuff im not interested in but the desc/tags are usually enough for me to tell so i don't waste my time reading more than that.

Does it rly bother ppl that much to look at the desc/tags? Like i get if you have niche likes or dislike smthn that's rampant in ur fandom, but this seems to be a very common thing for ppl.

Or maybe ppl are just bad at telling from the desc if they're gonna like it or not. I dunno. Finding fic i like is so easy... I mean yeah i go days/weeks where nothing of interest comes up. Maybe that's it, maybe ppl are expecting to have x amount of reading time and im just like i eat whenever there's food baybee.

also like when i get into a ship i wanna read, i start from the oldest fics till i end up on the most recent page and then i just refresh, that way i never miss anything that comes up that I'll like. Idk if other ppl do that or not or if they literally just go digging in anywhere.

Yeah no im probably just easy to please. No inc*st, only a little a dead dove, no mcd, no heavy angst or if there is it's gotta have a happy end and decent writing is all i need.

[dungeons-and-dragon-age]

about me

got tagged by @fade-touched-shenanigans! <33 Not gonna tag anyone cos i'm not sure who has and hasn't done it yet but if you read this and wanna do it consider yourself tagged!

Favourite colour: Don't have one bc it depends a lot on the context of colours etc etc but on their own i do prefer more earthy tones

Favourite food: Oh man idk there is so much good food

Song stuck in your head: None my brain is currently too occupied with various video games but most specifically Oxenfree (replayed it yesterday <3)

Last thing you googled: Oxenfree letter locations lol (usually i like trying to finding these things myself but the protag walks super slowly and i can't be bothered roaming through the whole map to search them......)

Time: 17:23

Dream Trip: Uhh dunno honestly :') Though i'd love going to Scandinavia some day, specially Iceland

Last book you read: Re-read Black Beauty recently <3

Last book you enjoyed reading: Also black beauty :)

Last book you hated reading: Not a book but the little info pamphlet from the place i work in rn it's so pretentious

Favourite thing to cook/bake: I love baking cakes!! but like the types that have creams or fillings or layers

Favourite craft to do in your spare time: Drawing for sure

Most niche dislike: My brain is in video game mode rn so the first thing that comes to mind is sequences where you have to lead or follow npc characters who are super slow

Opinion on circuses now and in history: Haven't been to a circus since i was really little and tbh don't know enough about them to have opinions on them :')

Do you have a sense of direction and if not what is the worst way you ever got lost: Lol nope. Though i'd say my gut instinct is pretty decent when it comes to finding my way even if i have no idea what i'm doing. I can't remember a good getting-lost story rn but i'll edit it here when i can think of one xD

[thetypingpup]

I’m really really sorry, I loved your new story and I came to send you an ask after you posted it a while ago, it’s a shame you feel like you need to post more popular members to get engagement, you definitely don’t need to do that at all, maybe it’s not enough but I can tell you I loved every word of it and I’m excited that you are thinking to make a part two, you really are a good writer.

the concept is also niche as all hell which probably doesn't help, and the fact that these like halloween type concepts are a touch out of season lmao 😅. i was lowkey considering doing this with ghostface!jeno at first (and am floating around the idea of a ghostface!jeno spinoff still undecided on that). most of my jeno stuff on here seems to do pretty decent, and jeno fics in general seem to do really well on nctblr. of course i picked my ult for this one bc i'm hopelessly in love w/him and got on my lovey bullshit in the second half i quite literally can't help it lmao 😅. i recognize that it's very much a crap shoot writing for wayv in general bc they haven't been active in so long, and even when they were more active wayv fics don't do that well comparatively, so yea i was lowkey thinking "hm what if i had written a popular member instead?". i'm not actually gonna write just for engagement let's be clear. it was just a lingering thought i had bc miss off script doesn't seem to be doing that well atm, but i love her and wouldn't change a thing she's perfect fr. like i'm actually very proud of it and how it turned out, and that feeling of pride is really special and important to me. i just wish more people were up for talking about it bc i have a lot to talk about and a lot of feelings, but yknow it happens 🤷🏾‍♀️

on some real shit, it's not so much numbers that got me thinking. numbers will be numbers and i never got a lot of them even when i was more active, so that doesn't bother me as much. it's the engagement and the feedback that really drives me, the asks and the tag comments and the dm messages and so forth. so thank you for this. seriously thank you, bc this is the type of shit that motivates us writers to actually keep writing.

[ottitty]

Agreed with Naarna on all counts, and if i may add from another fanwriter-who-occasionally-does-fanart perspective:

Fanfic writing is such a niche in of itself that it makes it really difficult when people don't comment. Like, yes, kudos and whatnot, but when I'm posting a fic and I get kudos and nothing else... those names don't mean anything to me.

And I do not mean that kudos themselves mean nothing. I'm grateful for every ounce of support people give... but it lacks a sense of community so severely. I get a kudo but for what, it doesn't give any gauge of what people liked, it doesn't get any feedback and it gives zero opportunity to grow as a writer. It makes it hard to not only grow as a writer but have fun with it.

Especially since, for the most part, fanfic writers rely on platforms like ff.net or ao3 where its MUCH harder to interact with people and connect with them unless its through the comments of yours or their works.

From a fanart perspective, fanart has been so much easier. Even for someone who, quite frankly, writes WAY better than I draw, its much easier to get reblogs and comments and hear through people via notes/comments/tags when its art. Its quick, easily digestible and (depending on the community and viewers) sometimes more acessible and people don't explicitly exclude fanart from their blogs like it often happens with writing (remember that whole thing about "works on tumblr rely on reblogs for reach"? Yeah, same applies for writing).

Thats not to say "ohh fanartists have it so easy, theyre the enemy" cause I know theres a whole separate issue there, we're all struggling.

And yeah, anon, you're right. We're not entitled to you commenting, but you're not entitled to our stories either. The biggest thing people post transformative works for is to reach out and for a sense of community, but when we get a few faceless kudos on a fic we worked anywhere from hours up to months or years on and no feedback whatsoever, writers are gonna lose motivation and stop posting.

Which sucks, because in my experience and those I've talked to, there's a very big trend with writers not getting comments at all and then when they stop sharing what they create or even just stop creating people will complain... the same people who hadn't given them feedback or necessarily tangible support beyond a kudo at all.

To reiterate on Naarna's metaphor: I can bring a casserole to your party, and I can make it all pretty and delicious and enough for everyone to eat, but if nobody at the party will even touch it... next time I'll just make enough for myself and not bother with bringing you a new one.

I don't care if you don't leave a comment on every damn fic you read, but don't make it another writer's issue. No, they shouldn't guilt trip their readers, but they are absolutely allowed to stop posting and/or feel frustrated with the lack of feedback on their fics and express that. If you have an issue with the way they go about it, simply unfollow, thats fine.

Support in the forms of comments, messages, asks, etc. may not be required for you as a reader, but it still should be a rule of thumb that if you like something, especially if you want to see more of it, you tell them you like it, because we can't read minds and yelling into the void is bound to get tiring no matter what you're yelling for.

If you're a fanfic writer and you're upset because you think people aren't commenting on your work because they're lazy and entitled, I think you need to ask yourself why you're writing and posting. Readers aren't entitled to your work, but you aren't entitled to their attention either. I don't want to be part of a community where commenting is an obligation instead of an expression of love and appreciation. The sweet comments I get are special because they choose to leave them. Maybe the atmosphere you create with your attitude is the problem :/ I know there's several fic authors I don't interact with anymore because of how they treat comments.

Thanks for the point of view, Anon.

If you find yourself beginning to turn towards this train of thought (it happens, we're all human), I'd encourage you to step back a bit and take a breather. Maybe re-evaluate/remind yourself why you started writing in the first place, try to focus on writing as a craft, and don't fall into the stats trap of equating the worth of your writing according to some arbitrary feedback-to-hits ratio.