[ SECRET POST #2868 ]

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⌈ Secret Post #2868 ⌋

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Comments

[(Anonymous)]

So many shitty comments in this thread. Nobody is entitled to your hard work, OP. If they aren't giving back, then what's stopping you from doing whatever the hell you want instead of posting? As a fellow author who puts in a ton of time writing very long, complex pieces, I totally agree. If they don't have time to leave feedback, you don't have time to post the work (and possibly feel shitty about yourself for not getting any responses. Some authors feel that really intensely to the point where it triggers breakdowns and self-esteem issues).

I've outright had people demanding I update and then not bothering to thank me when I do, except constant updates and then take it for granted that I will post steadily even outside of WIPs.

Fandom as a whole really misuses the people who make fanwork. I've seen so many stories of artists dealing with people trying to become friends with them just to get free art, people outright demanding an artist draw them things even when the artist doesn't have requests open and so on.

[(Anonymous)]

I've been in that position, where the only feedback you get--sometimes right after posting a new story/chapter--is "When's the next update?" It's awful to feel that taken for granted, and I completely understand that it can trigger issues well beyond the actual making of fanworks; it certainly did for me.

However, I don't necessarily think that behavior such as holding fics to review-ransom is the answer on either score. Even if you're only doing it silently, it's still reinforcing an idea that there's some kind of supply and demand, consumerist thing going on and that we're owed something for our hard work, when in reality we aren't owed jack.

It's great to recieve feedback and praise, but if expecting that's a major part of why you're doing it then you're only setting yourself up for hurt.

[(Anonymous)]

If not getting enough comments on a fic triggers them, then they need to get help urgently.

[(Anonymous)]

It's not so much the lack of comments, it's the aggressive demands to update, followed by a lack of comments when the writer does post.

It can be hard for anyone to handle. It's just a weird experience.

[(Anonymous)]

Not OP. Not getting comments doesn't "trigger" me, but it does make me wonder what is the point of publishing what I write. At one point, when you've been writing for a new fandom for some time and you keep getting zero reviews, it starts to seem pathetic, even attention whore-y. For all you know, people aren't even reading the fic before closing the window, so why bother?

I still write, but these days I do it for myself and I don't publish what I write.

[(Anonymous)]

It's not the lack of comments by themselves, it's how that percieved 'not good enough' feeling then gets extrapolated out and magnified and exaggerated and starts to affect your life beyond the original boundary.

To those succeptible to it to that degree (which I admit is the minority, and there's a difference between that sort of reaction and general woe-is-me attention whoring), it can have a massive snowball effect on their self esteem.