#fandom problem 7856

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Fandom Problem #7856:

My fav fandom is super hetero/cis centric, and the fan interaction with fic and art is so very damning- EXCEPT for the golden mlm ship. Anything non straight that follows past that point might as well be chicken feed, and it's super discouraging. Unless I write my fics to be gender neutral reader (x reader is very popular in the fandom), I don't get any interactions. I get even less if I don't follow a very specific framework that is popular in the fandom for the character I write for. I tested it multiple times. Put my heart and soul into writing certain fics only to fizzle out at 20 notes. The most mind numbing, slapped together pieces I've written have topped 1k notes.

And god, that's not even to mention the people who make OC content in the fandom, who go even more unappreciated.

Anyway, I get that we like when things can apply to us. But the beauty of art is that it isn't all about us. It can be about other people.

I've seen artists fit to be in the damn Louvre have their works all but completely ignored because they don't fit in the hetero/cisnormative bounds that the fandom all but plainly has stated is the be all end all.