#this platform isn’t TT or Tw you’re intended to engage with others

[boundinparchment]

Been thinking on this a lot lately and it’s not a decision set in stone by any means.

But I would like to stop posting fic here. I really would. I probably can’t, or rather won’t, but it’s a nice dream. Maybe for everything other than DALDOM, just to see that through.

I’m very thankful to mutuals, creators and non-creators alike. It’s important I say that because you all understand where I’m coming from (and this isn’t a new topic to most of you, either).

Posting and sharing fic is abysmal on this platform. It’s somehow essential if I want to make my fics accessible and yet all I ever experience is consumption.

Like, read, move on.

Check any one of my recent one-shots and you understand my point.

People used to reblog stories they liked. A like does nothing. It doesn’t share the work with anyone, all it says is that someone enjoyed a post enough to save it to their likes.

I’m so fucking tired. This platform makes me feel like I have to churn out fic, like I have to chase that shallow validation. That’s toxic as shit. I’ve been writing for the better part of fifteen years and never once has it felt like this.

I hate that social media has essentially told my brain that my hobby is content creation.

It’s not.

If I wanted that, I’d be in a vastly different field.

No one fucking engages with creators here anymore, so why should we continue to place food on the table.

Idk, I think I’m better off just posting links to AO3 and calling it a day if I do cross-post. Yeah, excludes a lot of people, and maybe that means “my numbers won’t be doing numbers anymore” or whatever the fuck but it’s fandom. Who gives a shit.