Big Pimpin' Pity Party

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So this is something I've been wanting to do for a while now, and I hope y'all will all join in...

In comments to this post:
1. Pimp the story whose feedback most disappointed you. I don't mean your best story, or your worst story, or the story you guess could've been better. And I don't mean the story that got the least feedback. I mean the story that you thought would get more feedback, or felt should get more fb. The story for which you only got 2 reviews, and hoped you'd get 5, or the story you hoped would get 500, and only got 200. Even the story you wrote just so fandom would notice you--you included assbabies and kittens, just for those extra reviews--and then zada, zero, nil. Or 500, but not 20,000. Or even the one that got satisfying amounts of fb, but that you thought the Clem fans would flock to and the Clem fans ignored.
1a. Post a link to that story.
1b. Why’d you think it’d get more fb? What did you expect to appeal to and didn’t? Don’t be embarrassed to say how badass it was.
1c. Why d’you think it didn’t get that fb? Don’t be too proud to whine, complain, or feel sorry for yourself. Happens to the best of us, baby.

If you want:
2. Pimp a story by someone else you feel should’ve gotten more fb. Whether it’s a story you beta’ed, saw on your flist, or just randomly found. Again, not so much The Best Story Ever, as The Really Great Story No One Else Knows About.
2a. post a link or where to find the story.
2b. tell us about the praise/appeal of the story.
2c. tell us how under appreciated this person/story is.

3. Pimp this post. If there’s a lot, maybe I can compile and post a list of Unappreciated Gems Of Fandom, Which You Should Have Loved . . . For These Reasons.

Pimp yourself. Throw yourself a pity party. Ask why no one loved you. Or at least that one fic. I’m serious, here. Everyone has a fic they secretly cherish and feel sorry for, and occasionally pet with sparkly tears in their eyes . . . even if they never felt like they could ask the world why their little woobie story was so unloved. Now's your chance.

Pimp others, and offer them your hand so we can skip through the sunshine. Yes I am a fluffy mushlet; I don't care.

Comments

[tkp.livejournal.com]

I have issues with posting my own fic, because I do get some feedback on almost every story.

See, that's the thing. Most people have a fic or few they wish had gotten more fb, but they feel greedy or self-indulgent or self-pitying for saying so. I get that. I frankly get peeved when I see people complaining about the fb they do get, 'cause hey, you're not entitled, at least you *got* some. But I wanted a place for us to just lay that aside, a safe place where we could whine all we wanted.

And then no one commented. Seriously, I'm shocked about the lack of comments to this post. I'm thinking about doing a 1a. 1b. and 1c. of this post's very own. I hate to see people bitch about fb and then not come when I open the door, I guess is all. But it was posted right before the blackout so maybe that's it.

And you know, I think maybe that's it on a lot of stuff. I've done a couple of fics I *never* expected to get fb on. They weren't porny; they were dense and difficult to understand and frankly, I don't like to reread them so much because they're so exhausting to read. But I got *damn* good fb on the pieces like that, and I really think that luck is a good part of it--stuff like time of posting. Who happened to see it when. And stuff that has NOTHING to do with how I write, and everything to do with the passing moment, how people are seeing me at the time, what happens to be striking people at the time. I honestly feel like this is part of the reason some of your stuff hasn't recieved the attention I feel it should.

I was going to rec your 5 Connor Things fic for the #2 part of this post, but went to double check and saw that it *did* get a lot of comments, so I ended up not. But yes, the reason that fic stuck in my head was that none of the people I expected to--yeah the connor fans--came to the yard. I just don't get that. It was a fucking phenomenal piece and really great insights into Connor.

Thanks for the other recs. Those are two people I've seen around and wondered what they wrote, so yay.

And I hope you do pimp this, because I'd really *like* for there to be a place for people to stomp their foot and say hey, LOOK.

[frogfarm]

You get so many comments on *all* your posts that it gives my stilted view the impression of your being this huge intimidating BNF. Thus, silly as it might be, I got a corresponding thrill when you replied to me :)

Though I *have* at least gotten one feedback from someone who isn't even on LJ. So I know somehow, the word's getting out...

[tkp.livejournal.com]

hahahaha! Yes that's silly. ;o)

You know, I always tell this sad sob story, but it's true: I played in various fandoms for five years, and hardly got to know anybody. I felt like pretty much everything I said and everything I wrote got whooshed into this great big void, and no one cared. And it sucked, 'cause I *wanted* to be able to talk with people about fandom, fic, stuff I was interested in.

Another year has passed, and I feel the opposite--I really feel the fandom love. It's really really nice that people do listen, and they're people I like and admire, and I have a lot of fun with big discussions and fb on fic and squeeing about stuff I love with others.

But I know what it's like to want to participate in fandom and feel like you're talking to an empty room because yeah: been there. So I try to do as much as I possibly can to make people not feel that way. This post is a part of that--I want people who feel like they can't get a word in to . . . get the word out.

So, really, thanks for playing. I hope to read the fics you linked some day, and hope some other people drop by too.