What you will find is that people will come to you if you build it. They will like you and your take, but they will not participate in what you like. I am a source of product for the majority of fans, I am not an inspiration to go and do likewise. OOF. Mood. It's so disheartening, especially if they try to give a backhanded compliment ("You wrote it so well, I could never write as good as you!") to explain why. 8( Or someone *seems* like they might participate with you and you're excited and you offer to help and just get silence back. :/
But the reason that I'm creating fanworks that don't yet exist is because I want to read fanworks for that character or pairing instead of having to create them. Same! And since they don't exist, or don't exist to my specifications, I have to make them! And, like, sure, I enjoy making my stuff, but it sure would be nice to have other people engage with it the same way I do.
why I have so fiercely come to dislike the 'well, maybe if you organised more fic exchanges, or set up more avenues for people to participate' angle of fandom. It's so tiring. This! I try to participate in exchanges to give people an excuse to write for my rarepairs or maybe check out my stuff, and it never really leads anywhere. Even when i do my best to make sure most of my fic is fandom blind friendly, so anyone interested in the tags/summary can enjoy it without canon knowledge and maybe end up interested in canon by the end of it. :/
With fandom becoming a spectator sport (facebook/twitter/tumblr likes) rather than a participatory one (LJ/DW comments), this is more relevant than ever. It's so sad that fandom is like this now.
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What you will find is that people will come to you if you build it. They will like you and your take, but they will not participate in what you like.
I am a source of product for the majority of fans, I am not an inspiration to go and do likewise.
OOF. Mood. It's so disheartening, especially if they try to give a backhanded compliment ("You wrote it so well, I could never write as good as you!") to explain why. 8(
Or someone *seems* like they might participate with you and you're excited and you offer to help and just get silence back. :/
But the reason that I'm creating fanworks that don't yet exist is because I want to read fanworks for that character or pairing instead of having to create them.
Same! And since they don't exist, or don't exist to my specifications, I have to make them! And, like, sure, I enjoy making my stuff, but it sure would be nice to have other people engage with it the same way I do.
why I have so fiercely come to dislike the 'well, maybe if you organised more fic exchanges, or set up more avenues for people to participate' angle of fandom. It's so tiring.
This! I try to participate in exchanges to give people an excuse to write for my rarepairs or maybe check out my stuff, and it never really leads anywhere. Even when i do my best to make sure most of my fic is fandom blind friendly, so anyone interested in the tags/summary can enjoy it without canon knowledge and maybe end up interested in canon by the end of it. :/
With fandom becoming a spectator sport (facebook/twitter/tumblr likes) rather than a participatory one (LJ/DW comments), this is more relevant than ever.
It's so sad that fandom is like this now.