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There could be a lot of reasons. How long did you take to update? Did the canon material end recently? Has there been and drama in the kmeme lately? Has the kmeme page had any technical problems lately?

Good luck anon. I guess the only thing I can say is, yes, reviews are awesome but as long as you like and enjoy what you're doing then it's worth it.

Yep, there are plenty of reasons people might not be responding, and it might not have anything to do with the OP's writing. Hell, I know sometimes I mean to comment on something then accidentally lose the link or just forget, then try to make up for it next update. You shouldn't stress so much about it OP.

I lose kmeme stories all the time. It's actually quite frustrating.

I was just looking for something I lost last night. Never found it after an hour and a half of searching. @_@

So I feel ya.

Agreed, though I'd hedge much closer to questions one and two here. I might read a kink meme fill, but, if it takes a long to update, I might get tired of checking frequently.

Yeah, I've abandoned some long ones when it becomes obvious they're not getting finished. Imagine my surprise when two of the ones I abandoned came back. One was finished and posted on Ao3. The other got picked up and dropped again. This time more permanently.

If you're posting on Livejournal, that could be a huge part of it too.

Did you accidentally swap them over?

That would freak the fuck out of me, too. Don't feel bad, anon.

It might just be that people aren't tracking comments anymore, particularly on LJ since a lot of fandom people canceled their accounts.

I want to cancel my old LJ account so so badly but haven't because of comment tracking. Some people HAVE done this (you courageous bastards), so that's a legitimate reason.

Same! Plus I can't quite bring myself to dump a permanent account. :/

Abby!

And I don't blame you! If I had a permanent account I'd leave it be... Those things are expensive.

Yeah, I have a permanent account and its one of few reasons I still cling to LJ. :(

Was there new wank I missed?

A lot of fandom left lj after what the creators did with the comments, and their reaction to people getting upset over it.

Wait, what happened?

Made the default comment form all blue and bulky with terrible contrast (hurt the eyes of people with vision issues), got rid of comment headers in all formats except some crappy simplified version people hated (pissing off kink memes and RPers alike), screwed with the icon selection tool (pissing off RPers some more), stealth implimenting things they supposedly "beta" tested (pissing off everyone, including the beta testers), and then refusing to respond to comments and just generally being dickbags to everyone (igrick.)

I'm sure I've forgotten something, but that's the gist of it.

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I think it's silly that it's considered bad to want comments. There's a huge difference between being upset because you only got ten reviews and being bothered by not getting any. It's annoying when that happens, though I wouldn't necessarily say it's personal. I understand the feeling though.

how long was it between updates? i used to keep track of a lot of fics on kms but after a while i just stopped because i couldn't subscribe to the thread (did they change that recently so free users can? i just checked) and 99% of long km fic gets abandoned, and if not, the author unanons and posts it on Ao3 or something. it was way too much hassle to go through all my bookmarked WiPs to see if they had updated yet.

If you don't keep posting you'll never know.

Lord, this is always me, not even gonna lie.

All I know is that, in my corner of the 'net at least, things have been dead lately. So it might just be that.

Midterms, maybe? I'm hella busy with midterms right now, barely had time to check fandomsecrets, much less read fanfic and leave comments.

Readers might be drifting away from your fandom, it might not be you. Or, it could be that they don't like where you're taking the fic, not necessarily that your writing is bad.