Please read!
Little edit because now it's over 2000 notes. And I don't want to complain, 2000 notes is... WOW. But still...
This is a little upsetting. Discouraging. I've seen many content creators speak up about how important reblogs are, so I wanted to join in...
These are the notes on my story Tease (the only story of mine to reach 1000 notes even remotely). As you can see, reblogs only make up 8% of the notes. And I know you can't force anyone to reblog your content, but compared to the hours, weeks, (depending on the story you're writing) even months it takes to write, the few seconds it takes to reblog are nothing, but their impact is immense.
Reblogging a creator's work is sharing it. If you're not comfortable letting other people know you enjoy smut, that's fine, I understand. It's still your blog and your decision. But if you're comfortable with sharing it, please do, if you enjoyed a story.
Seeing this gap in likes and reblogs is frustrating for content creators. For one, reblogs give us a wider reach, a chance to receive comments. Comments are a creator's payment, because we create otherwise for free. Fanfic is a free form of entertainment. Likes are good, don't get me wrong, I get excited over every single note I get, every single one is special to me, but reblogs mean so much more. It's not just "yeah I liked it" but "I liked it and I think you should see it too". It gives us validation for our work.
If you yourself are a writer, you know how hard it is to write sometimes. You stare at your doc with a plan or story in your mind, but you can't find the words for it. That is what writing is. It's not an easy hobby. It's time consuming and sometimes frustrating, but at the end of the day, rewarding. We're giving you stuff to read for free, we only ask for one thing in return, validation.
Please give us writers validation. Because it's motivating us to create more, and rewarding us for things we have already created.
Without validation, we're less motivated to create and share content, because we too can be insecure. We can think to ourselves "who will care if i post this?" about content we spent a lot of time creating.
So please give us the validation. Fanfic is free on the receiving end, but not on the creating end. Giving us validation in form of reblogs will cost you nothing, but it means everything to us.