[ SECRET POST #5083 ]

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⌈ Secret Post #5083 ⌋

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Comments

Re: Anatomy of a BNF

[(Anonymous)]

I kind of assume I was one for awhile because in this one fandom (medium? semi-large? definitely not the largest or smallest I've been in by far), every time someone asked for recs, my name came up and a bunch of other people would be like "YES READ THEM THEY ARE SO GOOD". I just kind of watched it happen and was glad that people were enjoying the stuff I was enjoying writing, and I tried to contribute to the fandom in other ways (archiving and whatnot) because I was appreciative of their appreciation and wanted to help the fandom out.

Honestly it got weird fast though. I don't want to make myself out to be any sort of big deal, because honestly I did not think of myself as any big deal, but a few people started acting jealous, and when there were rec threads, they would be like "oh everyone always recs [person], I'm so sick of them, check out these others instead", and once I dared to out myself on a story I wrote anonymously and someone yelled at me for being a glory hog, and then people started complaining about me allegedly trying to get more attention for myself by taking part in fandom-wide projects and so on. Admittedly it was probably not that many people, but I guess I'm a snowflake and just couldn't deal with even a handful of them thinking I was like that.

So I quit working on anything but my own fic in that fandom, have only posted stuff anonymously since, and from all appearances, disappeared.

This is why I always post here anonymously even though I have an active DW account - honestly ever posting anything under my own handle or drawing attention to anything I do makes me really uncomfortable now. I don't want fans of my name, I want my work to be appreciated only if it's genuinely good on its own merits, and I don't mind if the appreciation never includes the name of the author.

Re: Anatomy of a BNF

[(Anonymous)]

You're not a snowflake imo, that's shitty behaviour.

Re: Anatomy of a BNF

[(Anonymous)]

Admittedly it probably was, but I have always felt like I deserved it. I'm really socially awkward in real life, and I probably wasn't expressing myself in the right ways and therefore coming off as really egotistical or something, like I needed to be taken down a peg.

Although honestly I'm sure I hated myself, and still do, more than anyone else already so it really was pretty unnecessary. :D