finland - cool!! i didn't factor non-anglophone fic writers into my determination there. i went to school in australia, but my conversations with others abroad in, say, north america and the UK, has suggested that First Person Is For Kids may be a bit of a trend, which is not great.
i'm really interested in your experiences in early HP fandom. i started hanging out in fandom around the same time as you, but i was very young and i hadn't started shipping wolfstar yet, so i moved in totally different circles.
one note about first person that i forgot to mention last time around: i personally won't read smut in first person. i find it really uncomfortable, because it's just too much proximity to the characters. i don't know if that's a general thing among readers or just a me thing, but i thought it worth mentioning.
regarding getting feedback: i honestly think ao3-based fandom is much slower now than it was 3-4 years ago. i mean, i suppose it also depends on how active your fandom is, and wolfstar is always going to be a little quiet because there's no new canon content being released. but, as much as i hate to be negative, i think you've rejoined fandom at a bad time for feedback. younger fans especially are spending a lot of time on twitter and instagram, of all places, which is terrible for anything other than sharing links and snippets. engagement with longer fic has gone down, and in my experience only a few long fics in any given fandom will become really, properly popular.
i think mutual reviewing is something that's really gotten lost in fandom culture. it just doesn't happen anymore, and i wouldn't know where to start in encouraging it, except doing what i currently do, which is leaving long-ish comments on all the fic i read.
but on a positive note - i definitely want to keep reading your fic and commenting! i'm still getting back into the swing of things after some months of hiatus, so i have a lot to read, but i'm enjoying engaging with fandom again. and, well, if enough of us just keep leaving long comments, maybe it'll catch on again :)
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i'm really interested in your experiences in early HP fandom. i started hanging out in fandom around the same time as you, but i was very young and i hadn't started shipping wolfstar yet, so i moved in totally different circles.
one note about first person that i forgot to mention last time around: i personally won't read smut in first person. i find it really uncomfortable, because it's just too much proximity to the characters. i don't know if that's a general thing among readers or just a me thing, but i thought it worth mentioning.
regarding getting feedback: i honestly think ao3-based fandom is much slower now than it was 3-4 years ago. i mean, i suppose it also depends on how active your fandom is, and wolfstar is always going to be a little quiet because there's no new canon content being released. but, as much as i hate to be negative, i think you've rejoined fandom at a bad time for feedback. younger fans especially are spending a lot of time on twitter and instagram, of all places, which is terrible for anything other than sharing links and snippets. engagement with longer fic has gone down, and in my experience only a few long fics in any given fandom will become really, properly popular.
i think mutual reviewing is something that's really gotten lost in fandom culture. it just doesn't happen anymore, and i wouldn't know where to start in encouraging it, except doing what i currently do, which is leaving long-ish comments on all the fic i read.
but on a positive note - i definitely want to keep reading your fic and commenting! i'm still getting back into the swing of things after some months of hiatus, so i have a lot to read, but i'm enjoying engaging with fandom again. and, well, if enough of us just keep leaving long comments, maybe it'll catch on again :)