in which I get bitchy about The State Of Fandom

[alianne]

Bitching about the suckiness of real life events is exhausting, so let me get angry about fandom stuff for a moment, okay? I'll be back to good-moody blogging in a little while, I promise, so bear with me, please

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[alianne]

Yes, I know. And I get that it's a good place for people on the fringes to learn about the stuff that's been posted all week, it's just that 1) the stuff being recommended there is a fraction of the amazing things posted that week and 2) it feels more like a "let's come together and collect all the love we've been giving out all week anyway in one bog post" kind of thing. It's the randomness of what's considered "recommendable" and what isn't that makes me sad. And it's not that the things on there don't deserve the recs, it's just that they're there EVERY WEEK and others are left out. But seriously, the rec post changes very little from week to week.

I know you're right, though, about the rec post not doing very much for stories that aren't popular before they get recommended there. My stories did make it to the rec post on occasion and it didn't get me more comments at all. But that's what I said in my post too - have tried recommending wonderful stories that believe deserve a lot more love, and very few people seemed interested in that or went to read and comment on those stories.

Anyway, I will post a list of the fics I enjoyed next week. I think that sometimes it's not even about whether or not this actually makes the story itself more popular or not, it always brightened my entire day to just know that at least one person believed my story was worthy of being recommended to other readers. Whether they read it or not is a different story, I just find that it's an incredible ego boost sometimes and a sort of validation that you don't get anywhere else. But maybe that's just me.

Well, I think we can agree that this fandom (or any fandom, for that matter) is a very strange place sometimes.