[ SECRET POST #2210 ]

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⌈ Secret Post #2210 ⌋

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Comments

[lyndis]

That's always how I felt, but this was years ago. I've done both writing and art, and always had a hundred comments on my art but never many on the writing. (But think about it this way, art is easy to look at and access on a basic level, fanfiction takes time to read.)

However, you're right about community. Writers tend to talk more about the characters, the source material, et cetera, and form friendships based off of that, while artists seem uninterested in those things for the most part. It also depends on the fandom. I think Harry Potter is a really hard fandom to get into. I've written some things for it but I'm basically a nobody there, despite having once been a Somebody in various other fandoms in the past.

I'm into fandom more for the community than comments, but in my longest-lived fandom, I have to say that we did encounter a problem where people started to feel obligated to read other people's fanfics...and eventually people seemed to just...stop commenting. I call it burnout, but it was disheartening for a lot of folks, I know. Even if you have a good community of artists, at least it's pretty easy to look at art and find something you like about it/something nice to say, whereas with 'fic, sometimes you'll spend hours reading it and then saying "I liked it," seems pretty shallow when you know the author put hours into writing it and YOU put hours into reading it, etc.

Not that artists don't do as much work of course.

But I think my fandom (video game series) is pretty balanced. We have a lot of writers and artists (and crossovers between the two) who mingle and have fun character discussion/etc.

I really, really enjoy looking at art...it's just disappointing that I suck so badly at it. HAH.

(Also there isn't a good place for artists to really...make connections. I'm convinced deviantART has gone to the dogs.)