About Self-reccing
May. 2nd, 2020 12:54 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
marchnogirlSooo, they say "go big or go home" right? My first post and it's about a hot (? I think) topic in fandom but it's something I'm thinking about a lot lately.
We all know the first motivation to write should be inside of us, we should write the fics we want to write and to indulge ourselves and our tastes. Though, we cannot separate that from the fact that we do write for someone else too, we do look for the validation, and it is nice to know the fic we wrote for ourselves worked for someone else out there too.
That's why we self-rec, I reckon. At least, that's why I do it. I wrote something, I put effort into it, I hope people will want to read it and I try to make my fic visible. It looks, though, as if self-reccing isn't that well received in fandom-- as if it's something arrogant to do or as if people do it only to be praised.
And while I can understand these arguments on some occasions (over self-reccing can be extremely annoying), I was wondering if that applies generally to the trend of self-reccing.
What's your opinion about this topic?
We all know the first motivation to write should be inside of us, we should write the fics we want to write and to indulge ourselves and our tastes. Though, we cannot separate that from the fact that we do write for someone else too, we do look for the validation, and it is nice to know the fic we wrote for ourselves worked for someone else out there too.
That's why we self-rec, I reckon. At least, that's why I do it. I wrote something, I put effort into it, I hope people will want to read it and I try to make my fic visible. It looks, though, as if self-reccing isn't that well received in fandom-- as if it's something arrogant to do or as if people do it only to be praised.
And while I can understand these arguments on some occasions (over self-reccing can be extremely annoying), I was wondering if that applies generally to the trend of self-reccing.
What's your opinion about this topic?
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Date: 2020-05-02 01:03 pm (UTC)And obviously a lot of fandom thinks differently to the people on dreamwidth - something I've noticed on a whole bunch of different topics - so a lot of people (the majority? idk) out there will think a lot of self-promo is totally fine. It's just a shame that in a lot of fandom spaces we can't have conversations about these kind of things because people get offended or don't allow for disagreement and sensible discussion of different points of view, so it's hard to know what everyone in fandom really thinks - you just end up knowing what the loudest voices think.