[ SECRET POST #3588 ]

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⌈ Secret Post #3588 ⌋

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Comments

[ariakas]

This happened to a few hugely popular BNFs in an old fandom of mine. They would occasionally talk about their original projects and everyone would be very supportive and/or enthusiastic because, you know, they'd probably react poorly if people did otherwise and lots of people suck up to BNFs. Thing was, their original work sounded dreadfully uninspired: they were basically Yaoi Cliches, The Novel, in a fandom surrounding a main cast where nobody acted like that. And thus probably weren't interested. When they self-published, nobody bought their books and very few people rec'd them because you don't want to push something you think is crap on your other friends, right. And yeah they were equally crushed and fandom flounced and everything.

What I'm trying to say is that while someone might love the way you write, they might not like your original ideas at all. Or think they might, but when they find out what those ideas are they decide they'd rather not. How similar are they to the fandom source material? You might want to look for a very different crowd. People aren't going to read/rec things they don't like out of loyalty. This is everybody's fun time. You're not paying them. Unless you've, say, bought their original novels in the past they don't owe you anything.

Also, as others have pointed out above, you do have to do your own signal-boosting. They aren't going to do it for you.