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Re: Direction of the Meme

[(Anonymous)]

Hard same. I mean, there is vanilla and non slave fic that is being written. There's that raccoon fic which is cute and that Foggy being depressed fill and that Hamilton fill is still truckin along and that one where Matt liked being degraded is posting continuously on ao3 but I think those are all sort of off the beaten path and those slave fic fills are crowding out flatmeme at the moment. When I went off flatmeme for the first time in a week I finally noticed how many prompts just weren't getting responses at all.

We also have to keep in mind though that a lot of writers are in college and are currently having finals, preparing for finals, or moving back home. 18-early twenties is a really big fandom demographic. I personally just graduated college today (!) and I know other people are focused on school as well. Plus there are holiday exchanges like Yuletide and the daredevil secret Santa exchange. People are putting their time and energy into writing for those because the due dates are in a few days. Also, nanowrimo just wrapped up two and a half weeks ago which pulled people away also I'm sure. Plus, Christmas time people have a lot to think about in terms of getting together with their families, preparing for the holidays, etc.

Basically there are a lot of factors contributing to the meme not being as varied as it could be right now. It will pick back up though I am sure :)

Personally I have like five WIP now that have a significant number of subscribers and three of them are official km prompts while two of them are things I personally prompted and got good responses to so I decided to write them myself. So my fills and prompts at the moment are completely gone from the meme because of school and works in progress lol

Re: Direction of the Meme

[(Anonymous)]

This is a good point.

And re: the Secret Santa, things may be slow now, but over the holidays those fics are all going to drop and liven things up a bit too.

Re: Direction of the Meme

[(Anonymous)]

Congratulations!

Re: Direction of the Meme

[(Anonymous)]

Thank you!!!! I walk commencement in two days and I am like......ahhhhh!

Re: Direction of the Meme

[(Anonymous)]

Good point. I've been feeling sad that everything seems so slow. But- I'll keep that in mind and hope that the holidays get filled with an influx of more fic!