Date: 2016-11-28 11:20 am (UTC)
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Oh yes. It is so hard to make Tumblr work. The relentless posting means if you're not on American time it's hard to connect and the lack of communities mean praying you've (a) used the right tags and (b) someone more popular in that fandom then sees the tag and reblogs. And every time I complain at Tumblr *that* post gets likes. People want better ways of connecting.

Worse, I'm wondering if I'm not getting comments at AO3 because I'm not a popular single-topic tumblr blogger in the fandom and thereby not able to promote as efficiently as someone who's a tumblr BNF. Because same fandom, ship, genre fic from popular Tumblr user is attracting actual comments where I'm not. I already have 2 fandom specific sideblogs & my additional professional tumblr though and I need to choose where to put my energy.

So yes, do what I would do anyway is good advice. But it's disheartening to not only seemingly go unnoticed but to go unnoticed in favour of others, because I start wondering if maybe I've lost my edge and maybe the fiction I'm putting out isn't worth people's time :( My self-esteem issues mean I need some sort of encouragement, and everyone can benefit from concrit and connection.

Thanks for taking the time to comment. It is appreciated! *hugs* I've got 2 episodes of "Killjoys" to watch and then I can start "Librarians" S3 and I'm sure I will have thoughts about it to discuss at the librarians comm :)
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