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F!S Anon Meme (the Seventh, and now on DW!)

Secrets, rants, opinions, anything you want to say about your fandom or a fandom or fandom in general, do it here! Anonymously, of course. Get it all off your chest.

Some ground rules:
1. Going anon is encouraged but not absolutely required (for those who struggle with captchas and stuff).
2. No autoplaying/autolooping embeds, or embeds that cover/stretch the screen.
3. No dropping personal info or IRL contact info, etc.

That's about it, though!

I'll be linking some general/general-fandom threads I see so people don't repost new threads with the same stuff.

Unpopular Ships
Obligatory Masturbation Thread
Fandoms you wish existed
How old are you?
What series have you always meant to watch/read/play/etc. but have never?
Time and location
Female-centric works
How do you feel about Tumblr?
Pet thread
Guilty pleasure thread
Favorite old shows
First fandom?

Comments

Reviews

[(Anonymous)]

I'm kinda ashamed of the fact that I still really care about that my fics doesn't get all that many reviews. I've been writing for five years, and I know how this goes, but dammit! Why don't they love my -**Master Pieces**-?

*shame face*

Re: Reviews

[(Anonymous)]

Maybe they're not that good? Or maybe there's just nothing that stands out and makes a person need to write a review? Or maybe they're not advertised well and you don't get many hits? Or maybe your summary sucks? Or maybe you just have a small fandom? Or maybe you're just not that good.

Re: Reviews

[(Anonymous)]

I know how that feels, and I feel pretty pathetic about it. When I first joined my fandom I got a lot of reviewers, but now, I barely get any. I feel sad when I see that no one has reviewed it.

Re: Reviews

[(Anonymous)]

You're probably not hitting the fandom's "sweet spots", so to speak.

There are certain clichés (genres, plots, [mis]characterizations, pairings, etc.) that fans go nuts for in each fandom, and if you don't cash in on them, no matter how good your writing is people simply won't want to read it.

Re: Reviews

[(Anonymous)]

This.

Fanfiction appeal is largely about itch scratching. The more popular the itch, the bigger the audience, especially when a fic is one of the first to hit it. I've seen so much slobber over dull, rushed fix-it twaddle posted directly after a particularly unsatisfying canon bomb drops. Popular pairings are also a huge draw, as are particular styles (plotty longfic, short PWP, angst, ensemble cast lulz, etc.) that large subsets of fandom prefer.

Re: Reviews

[(Anonymous)]

Check your page views, son.

A lot of my fics have 100K+ visitors on them, but maybe less than 20 comments. There are probably a lot more people reading your fics than you think, they're just not commenting. Most people don't comments on fics they read. Hell, I read a lot of fanfiction and rarely comment on the ones I like.

Re: Reviews

[(Anonymous)]

I get that ways sometimes, too. Partly because I wish people would go ahead and post crit if they found something wrong with it. But I know the chance of that happening is pretty low.