[ SECRET POST #4273 ]

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⌈ Secret Post #4273 ⌋

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Comments

[(Anonymous)]

I think there's a 'perfect' level of popularity for fandoms.

I don't like huuuggge fandoms - there's so much fic, you can barely read it, and a lot of it is crap. There's always one or a few people (who can't possibly work or have any normal responsibilities) who endlessly churn out fic after fic after fic for the main OTP of the fandom who I do inevitably NOT ship and they are the highly worshipped BNFs who always win every fic writing contest & nobody else gets a look in.

But then there's me and my miniscule fandoms where I am often the only person out there writing certain pairings and that is as depressing as fuck. It's like being the only person to turn up to your own birthday party.

[osidiano]

I really hate the assumption that other people in fandom don't have "normal responsibilities" that keep them from being productive and so should be (however subtly) shamed for having high output. I get that it's frustrating when you have a rare pair, and that it can be discouraging to compare yourself to other people, but maybe those people just write faster? Maybe that's how much non-depressed people write? Or conversely, maybe they write as a way to deal and wow, do they have A LOT of problems right now? Maybe they prioritize their writing better? Or have insomnia or need less sleep than average and so spend more hours awake and able to write? Maybe they're like Stephen King or Spider George and just don't get writer's block? Maybe they don't waste a lot of time scrolling through their FB or Tumblr? Like, there are lots of less crummy reasons than "oh, this writer I don't care for must have no life and not do anything else outside of fandom because they publish a lot of fic in a year."

One of my fave MCU fic writers, who is very prolific and writes for the Big OTP, is also a published romance writer. Like, publishing original novels is her day job. Her output is far and away more than I could ever DREAM to write and edit. But at the same time, I know people probably thought the same thing about me during those months when I was depressed on Active Duty and publishing chapters of my fic every week, and acting as a chat moderator and Charms Prefect on HiH while turning in extra credit assignments for House Points. But when I left the Army and wasn't working? I wasn't writing. At all. So the burden of "normal responsibilities" doesn't affect everyone the same.