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⌈ Secret Post #2153 ⌋

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Yesterday discovered a really prolific fandom writer. They'we written over 500 freaking stories for their formerly tiny fandom. The average hit count per story is, like, nine. The overall number of kudos is ten.

I think that's what I'm scared of now - to end up as an authour of 90 percent of all the works in my really tiny fandom that don't even get any hits. It just feels so creepy and so damn lonely. After reaching some number of the works published I'm probably going to keep the rest to myself.

It really doesn't help that I'm already the author of 77 percent of all the works in one of my fandoms - although the ratio is 7:2, not 500:5.

And my second fandom contains three stories, one of which is mine.

Oh, I surely meant "they've".

I don't really see what's so scary about that?

It's not like you'll be forever known as that washed up writer who wrote a bunch of fics that not a lot of people read.

It's not about my reputation, it is just scary as it is. It's like living in a huge empty building all alone, while other people don't even pass by. IDK, I'm probably fucked up.

Yeah I think you're kind of getting worked up over nothing.

Also, I love finding fics for obscure fandoms. And I think a lot of people would get interested in something if they saw that there was fic out there. You don't have to post it if you don't want to, but it's more likely that someone will read your fics and maybe talk to you if you do.

Hahahah I'm the author of 100% of the fics for a certain fandom on AO3. Just chill. It's okay with small fandoms. Now if you were the author of 77% of the fics in, say, Naruto, I'd be worried.

Do they post on other sites? They could get far more responses than you think they do...

Yeah, on FFn. The number of reviews is slightly bigger, but still trifling.

maybe that author doesn't even give a fuck

and keeps on kicking ass, writing awesome stories

I don't see anything creepy about that at all. You might pleasantly surprise someone who wasn't even aware fanfic for your fandom existed. Even if there aren't many other writers or readers, I don't think there's anything to be ashamed of. You like what you like, and just because there isn't much of a fandom doesn't mean other people don't like it too.

Ao3 hasn't been around for ages, dude.. That writer could be the only one in her fandom who has bothered to archive her works there, and maybe all of her stories got tons of hits on a now-defunct former fandom-specific archive, or a message board, or even FFnet.

If her stories are shit, though, that could just be another explanation..

Yes. My old fandom lived on Yahoo Groups, and now all that fic is gone. *sobs* I keep thinking maybe if I uploaded my old stuff to AO3 maybe someone else would crawl out of the woodwork and do the same, but mine really wasn't that good and it's so many years later it'd feel like attention whoring. So I don't. But one day, ONE DAY, I will write something new and fabulous and kick start fandom all over again!!!!! Perhaps.

Why do you think that's creepy, exactly? I mean I can understand sad and even somewhat frustrating but...creepy?

I love finding fics for tiny fandoms! It's like discovering a hidden treasure, a special gift that is lost to the masses. There's a certain glee that comes with stumbling across them. I would urge you to upload your stories and try not to worry! Someday I might come creeping along and do a little victory dance over your fic.

If it really bothers you, maybe you could make a few socks and upload a few fics to each? Then you wouldn't seem so alone.

Then don't write them?

IDK. I've written two fics in my entire life. They were for a dead fandom, but I didn't particularly care. I wrote about 120k, posted it to the LJ journal that's been dead for 2 years and felt accomplished.

I've had a few comments that enjoyed it+reminiscence over the days the fandom was active. That's enough for me.

Sure it's an abandoned house, but I enjoyed making the 'furniture' and placing it in the house for future passer-bys to enjoy.

Not to mention how damn fun it was.

i'm in a few tiny fandoms, and i feel your pain!

and now i'm curious as to what the fandoms are...

I've been scared of that, too, when I've seen fics in my smaller fandoms that got no response whatsoever (I reviewed when I liked anything about the fic). But I wonder how much different it is to enjoy writing a fic and never post, and enjoy writing a fic, post, and get little to no response. Either way, as long as I enjoyed it, its primary purpose was achieved, even if I'm a little disappointed. I might give it a shot, stopped avoiding little fandoms.

I think I'd only be truly crushed if I got no hits or faves or reviews posting in a large and active fandom, on a popular site, writing a popular character or pairing. I'd endlessly agonize over how I personally managed to fuck that one up.

Someone has to take the plunge and write the first fic. Someone has to be there to start off the fandom. Maybe more people will start writing once they know a fandom exists, no matter how small it is.

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