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Do you post (about) your writing outside of writing sites?
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I struggle with talking about my fics on other sites. I briefly maintained a blog to link to my AO3 posted fics...but I think there was a sense of "who I am doing this for again?" combined with distractability. XD
Sites like Tumblr really are fandom dependent. Certain fandoms have a home there and you can easily find content, but not ALL of them.
I gave up on Twitter while it was still cool! (That is to say, I just did not keep up with it and what it's become has not made returning appealing.)
I honestly feel weird talking about my own works outside of the sites on which they're posted. I become suddenly self-conscious and struggle to go into detail. But, I love hearing about what everyone else is working on and I beta read a lot of my husband's works.
Back when I was still on tumblr I saw tons of fan content, but it was never fics, which is why I'm wondering if some sites are just biased toward some types of content regardless of the number of fans on them.
Re: twitter: relatable x')
I don't know why I didn't think of it before reading your last paragraph but suddenly I'm remembering that there's one specific situation when I tend to speak of my fanfics online on websites that are not at all about writing: oddly enough, in the chat of some streams! I never broach the topic out of nowhere but I am regularly on streams where people are either talking about a fandom I wrote for (often art streams doing fanart) or just randomly mentioning a trope or story beat, and I often go "well, I did write about that" x') Sometimes people want to know more and generally I just give the link if the streamer allows it, but it's fun that of all types of websites out there it's streaming sites that get me to mention my writing Oo
It's super sweet that you beta your husband's works! Sounds like a dream team =)