Question about Archive of Our Own
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What are the impressions of Ao3 as a place to share stories that include fetish/kink content? I am aware that there are “shrink” tagged stories there, though it is often confusing to find them.
It seems like stories, while supported on DeviantArt as a medium aren’t really the interest of the user base.
I am delighted that my stories here have received so many views here, but it seems like (as has always been the case) the community has ebbs and flows.
This forum appeals to me for many reasons and I’d like to learn to interact here more fruitfully of course. But I’ll confess that I have been unsuccessful in promoting conversation organically.
Clearly people are here, the high view counts are demonstration of that. But it has always been “deep magic” to motivate the lurkers to post.
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Ao3 has a, well, vibrant fetish community, from what I’ve seen. The tagging system I think is how the justification of that works, but you can also hide bookmarks on a ‘public’ account if you’re there for more normal stories.
I know there are shrink stories, I’ve bookmarked quite a few (and a ASMR from a script from littleestlily, who is here), but SW still isn’t that common a story there, either.
Power is choice.
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I found some ASMR shrink stuff on YouTube and via the Reddit community, I think it was called audio-gone-wild or something like that. But as you say, the shrink stuff is both limited and buried.
Also, the shrink stuff is almost always less intense, more PG, weaker shorter stories, and often just some fairy smut. I like fairies but that’s limiting. I haven’t found anything like the wide variety of stories and images I’ve seen our community produce over the years (especially in the hey day of the message boards back in the day).
The truth is, the best consistent Shrunken Women content has been comics. Like our Jitensha’s work.
I was thinking, since I like to write stories, I might try my hand at ASMR. I’m told I have a good voice. But while it might be fun to make, the guys aren’t going to listen to it, and there are so few girls around I’m not sure it would suit them.
I could work a long time on something I was proud of creatively only to have maybe one or two women ever listen to it and it might not have included the specific hooks they are looking for.
I’m back posting in the M/f community because I’m motivated to create new stuff, and I don’t want to lose my present motivation with a big project that falls flat.
