echolalia is maybe. the weirdest adhd/autism Thing because sometimes you just. hear something. or read something. and your brain just goes. No. You Must Say This And Only This In An Extremely Weird Voice Over And Over For The Next 2 Hours
speaking of. ive just been wandering around my house for a bit repeating Fucka You. Basard over and over again
“wouldn’t you rather earn something than have it just handed to you?”
Yeah when it comes to actual awards and fancy goods, but when it comes to basic needs, basic human decency, and accomodations, those things should always be handed to people. No one should have to “earn” those things.Value people as people, not base it on how much they produce.
just in case you’re wondering what i’m talking about:
13%, 21%, a whooping 30%, 15%, 21% again. and those are the stories that do well.
it’s almost like tumblr has a reblog button you could USE
LIKE IT? REBLOG IT!
it’s not fucking difficult.
also i love how i gotta make these posts practically every time after i publish something.
look, i don’t give a fuck about money. i’m writing fic for fun. if you wanna throw a billion dollars at me, sure, you do you.
but literally all i want, all we all want, is for our stuff to be acknowledged. spread. REBLOGGED.
because obviously you read it and liked it, right?
so now all you have to do is hit that little button. it looks a little like this
and then that’s that.
or, on ao3, you write “i really liked this! thank you for sharing!”. and that’s that.
it takes absolutely ZERO EFFORT, and it makes you happy (because you liked what you just read) and it makes us happy (because our work can get potentially more readers), and everyone is happy.
and instead, there’s likes all around.
and likes are a little like seeing someone having their arms full with things and they drop their keys and you walk past and say “hey dude, i hope that works out for you!”
writers spend hours, even days and weeks or months on fics, pouring ourselves into it, forgoing sleep and food sometimes just to finish something because we hope you’ll like it.
and we get a litte ❤️ for our troubles and that’s it.
and especially when you get statistics like above – 42 likes and 9 reblogs – it feels like a kick to the face.
if every writer only wrote for themselves (”as you’re supposed to do uwu”), there wouldn’t be a single fic out there, because we’d keep all the fics. but we write for our audience too, hoping we’ll hear back, hoping people will spread our fics, “hey, look at this cool thing i read!”.
and that doesn’t happen.
so you start thinking “hey, maybe i shouldn’t publish this. it’s bad anyways, right? and it doesn’t make a difference if i do. it’s not like anyone cares.”
how many thousands and thousands of words for your favorite ship do you think are out there, saved on hard drives by authors who’ve given up wishing to publish their things, because “nobody cares.”
reblogging and commenting seems to be at an all time low at the moment. and you know what happens when you, the supplier, feel like there’s no demand out there?
you stop supplying.
because nobody cares enough to want to share it.
“thoughts and prayers with your fic! it was so good!” that’s what the like button means, to make an extreme comparison here.
and honestly, i don’t understand why.
reblog. your. writers. it’s all we ask for.
No writers or artists are trying to sound “whiny” by asking for this. It’s literally how our work gets any recognition since we’re not doing it for money. If you’d like to make a writer’s day or an artist’s day, please consider reblogging works that you love. I promise you will put a smile on their face. ❤ ❤ ❤
Yep.
If my work (in a large fandom at least) doesn’t get comments, I think ‘hm they must not have liked this one.’ Especially as the hit counter (or likes) climb to prove that people have /seen/ it, they just don’t like it.
So then I delete it. Because clearly it wasn’t my best work.
You wouldn’t believe the reblogs on my post about this very thing that are just people accusing writers of being ‘whiney’ or writers apologizing for sounding ‘whiney’.
I even legit got someone accusing me of being lazy by asking people to reblog my posts. “Just post it on ao3 and stop guilt tripping your followers into doing YOUR JOB and boosting your fic.” Wow. Way to miss the point, Susan. I can reblog it all day, and the same people see it. But if other people reblog it, different people see it. It’s not that hard of a concept.
I’m not whining. I’m asking you for recognition. I’m asking you to reblog a thing if you’re able. Likes do not boost the work’s visibility. Likes are lovely and likes are great, but likes don’t make your work visible. Reblogs do. It’s not rocket science, people. Sharing it boosts visibility. Liking it does not. It even makes sense if you think about it.
ALSO.
Something I’ve also noticed about comments (most notably on Ao3) is that I won’t get any more than maybe 3 to 5 comments on any of my In Progress fics
…..until I stop updating them of course.
¯_(ツ)_/¯
Then suddenly I’m getting comments left and right that are all:
“What happened???”
or:
“Update plz???”
and my fave:
“Loved this! More soon?”
LOL NO IF YOU LOVED THIS FIC THEN YOU’D HAVE SHOWN ME SOME LOVE LONG BEFORE I LOST INTEREST IN IT AND MOVED ON.
Guys…. please support fic writers, preferably with feedback.
You have no idea how many friends I have who have literaly gigs on their hard drives or in some cases multiple ring-binders FULL of unpublished fics. Simply because they believe nobody else cares.
Also that “update plz?” is too real.
The last fic I posted was an abysmal failure on Tumblr and it made me feel like shit. I worked hard on it and really loved it and only a handful of people reblogged it. It definitely made me lose interest in working hard to produce and post anything else. If people don’t like it or care enough to reblog, why should I care enough to put my time and energy into something that gets me literally nothing otherwise?
Just gonna put it out there (because I know a few other people do it too) I read the tags of the very few people who reblog my fics. Yeah, I open up the notes a fic has gotten and scroll through clicking on the reblogs to see if they might have added anything in the tags. Sometimes it’s a simple #sterek #fic and occasionally it’s nice little notes of #this was great #love it and even (once) #THIS ASSHOLE BROKE MY HEART AND PUT IT BACK TOGETHER IN LESS THAN 3000 WORDS
It’s kinda sad tho because a bunch of people don’t say anything. I feel awkwardly desperate for validation and I tell myself I don’t need it, but it still sucks not to get anything out of the effort I put in. It’s like throwing all my blood, sweat and tears into a void and as much as this hellsite is essentially a void, at least sometimes the void gives a soft “you’re doing great, honey” back
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