[ SECRET POST #2917 ]

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⌈ Secret Post #2917 ⌋

Warning: Some secrets are NOT worksafe and may contain SPOILERS.

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Comments

[(Anonymous)]

If you figure out how to not be that way, let me know. I'm pretty much like this with my art and it caused me to drop out of both fandom and art for the longest time. I draw a little now, but it's a much smaller part of my life, and I mostly stick to drawing gifts/requests to get individual thank-yous rather than the name recognition or praise.

One thing that did help is that the long time spent away from fandom made me realize there were legit reasons why my older fanart fell flat at times in the fandom even though it was well-drawn and (I still think) pretty aesthetically pleasing. There were some ways in which the art and my comments attached to them came off as racist or otherwise ignorant (and I was completely clueless about how it was coming off, which made it worse). I'm a more aware person, but I still avoid big and competitive fandom spaces because I don't want to go through that again and stop drawing altogether.

[(Anonymous)]

Posting fanfic/fanart online is nice because there's a ready audience who's willing to engage and leave comments.

It's also stressful for the very same reasons.

Sounds like you're working this out in a sensible way to see what works for you. I did a similar thing, but for fanfic. I changed my user name and moved fandoms. Best of all I started posting in anon memes only. There's much less of those horrible cliques and fawning which follows BNFs around in an anon meme. And if one of my fics drops into obscurity, well, so do those of BNFs, so I worry less about the fact that X is getting so much more attention than me, and their fic is shockingly terrible. I still feel that way occasionally, but much less.

Sometimes I fantasize about submitting some of these other terrible fanfics which are inexplicably popular to fanfic mocking blogs. I never do it, because it would be mean-spirited, but just imagining it is highly therapeutic.

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I'm not sure if this would work as well when it comes to art, but I "figured it out" (sort of) by just not reading anyone else's fanfiction at all.

If you don't know or care what other people are doing, then it frees you to do whatever you want with your own work.