musings on big and little fandoms

So. On one hand, being a part of Big Fandoms like Teen Wolf and Captain America/MCU is awesome. SOOOO much fanart. More fanfiction than I can possibly get through (I’ve had to put a limit on myself finding more because all three of my devices have about 30 tabs of new fics on them…). It’s AMAZING. Fics for every mood!

But it’s also hard to find a place in it. Like… it’s SO huge. How does anyone find you? And like… All the ideas I’ve had have been done. I wanted to write a Marvel x Martian crossover… But it’s been done. And sure, the ideas are different, but like… There are just so many cool people who have done it all. And I feel small and tiny.

I used to be primarily involved in smaller fandoms. And that was amazing. Everyone knew each other. But despite our best efforts, there wasn’t ever a huge amount of fan work. So you’d like… NEVER HAVE ENOUGH.

And I mean. I don’t CHOOSE my fandoms. I just fall into them (deeeeeeeep – I fall into them deeeeeep). But it’s just an interesting thing… I love and hate them both for different reasons.

I just wanna write fic and not feel like a dumbass basically.