Posting what we write on websites dedicated to writing seems obvious, but do you post your fic on websites that are not dedicated to writing, like social medias? Or do you keep the full fic on its fic site but still post about it elsewhere?
I personally have trouble posting about my writing, it always feels like it’s not the right place for that. Like all the people interested in reading fanfic are already checking fanfic sites and it would just be annoying to most users of other sites to see posts about it. And while I’m sure part of it is just personal history with social medias, I’m unsure how much of it has basis in reality, because it’s true that I almost never see fanfic-related posts where I lurk.
What’s your opinion on that?
Oh, I’m also someone who creates just because I want to write these stories, I don’t care if there are no views/likes/whatever. But there is a difference for me between posting the story thinking “if no one reads, fine, if people like it, I’m happy for them”, and putting actual effort (because for me it’s way more difficult to post a single tweet-sized message on social medias than writing a full fanfic) into something that has no other function than pointing at an already existing story. Posting a story I would have written anyway is a no-loss-maybe-gain thing (and I feel more secure knowing it’s archived ^^), posting about it on social medias starts with a loss and I would be fine with accepting it if there was any gain but in my experience there has never been one, so why would I do it?
(As an aside, I’ve been miraculously avoiding the purity police for years, because seriously, I had some of them leaving adoring comments on some of my fics while my previous and next fics were both so obviously full of everything they use to attack people, I’ve been wondering how much time it would take for one of them to actually look up what I write in general lol. Well, I got my first attack yesterday, and it was not even the fics that have been out in the open for years. I’m trying to take it as a “well, I leveled up as an author!” moment.)
And you’re right to mention convenience/low effort in interaction! I think it’s correct to point this out as at least one of the causes for the lower… attention, let’s say, fanfic gets on non writing sites compared to images. But that was kinda my point here actually: my personal experience is that there are so few people willing to put in the effort that fanfic has no place at all on most social medias, but I wanted to know if other people’s experienced it the same way or if there are corners where enough people are interested in fanfic that fanfic posters can see that interest existing.
(Your fanwork might not be grimdark or horror, but this anecdote is a little bit horrifying in itself ;p Joke aside though, I feel that. I want to scream a lot, and I do mean a lot, at how some people cannot even read text, nevermind subtext. Even in communities of writers! You’re supposed to be interested in words, why can you not read? I’m so confused sometimes…)
Yeah, moving places for several sites at once is such a chaotic mess… I moved to Pillowfort to replace Tumblr and it was the only change for me at this point, which is clearly why I have a better time understanding that platform than I do Kbin. Reddit has always been an enigma to me so I’m here totally clueless and there are too many other things I’m juggling at the same time and it makes me want to scream into a cushion just a little bit =')
Ahhh, I think I see what you are saying! In that case if it causes such grief to do in the first place, I’d honestly stop doing it (I did for some sites before I learned of how nasty they were getting). It’s not worth trying to build up when it causes that much dread.
(Oh goodness! Good perspective to have, but do make sure to protect yourself if they start trying to dig into your personal life! Good luck!)
Yeah. As you saw, one of the fandoms I am in is one of the biggest and thus very easy to find even in non-fandom friendly sites. But most works I am into are not even 1/5k the size of it and thus I wouldn’t find anyone to connect to even on sites meant for fandom interaction. So in spades your experience is very much shared!
(So much! I may get mocked for my language skills at times but at least I try!)
Kbin has a lot differences than Reddit despite sharing an inspirational point. I find myself confused about multiple things here despite being able to draw from a similar UI experience. But I have been enjoying the many differences! Being able to do microblogs that don’t bog down the main threads is a great way to throw a casual mention of working on stuff without feeling like you are putting a spotlight upon yourself. (If you have a question, I’ll do my best to answer!)
(Don’t worry, so far it’s just one (1) idiot anon on AO3 posting on one (1) fic, I deleted the comment, they didn’t insist, I doubt it’ll go farther. But I’ll stay vigilant =) )
I’m not even on Kbin, I’m on Lemmy, and we don’t have the microblogging thing here so it doesn’t federate given we have no way to display it (and thus I can’t post that kind of thing either). I was confused about the voting culture on Reddit but honestly here with the fact that the votes do NOT federate in the same way on every instance I’m not even bothering to think about it, I consider it’s just a broken feature and the only thing it can do is prove at least one person saw a message and absolutely nothing else x’) I’ll keep your offer in mind if a clearer question than a vague “wtf am I doing” comes to me, thank you ♥
(ah! good to know it hasn’t snowballed into anything more!)
Whoops! Sorry for the assumption. Another thing I love about these federations that other places don’t have- the ability to talk to others on entirely different sites!