I think this just stands as more proof that Lily never grew out of that "fandom hopping" phase most people grow out of in there late teens-early twenties. On the upside @emmens that means Lily's gonna spend more time writing her shitty Star Wars fan-fic, which means more chapter for you to review!
Actually, she said she's discontinuing both.
Didn't she previously threaten to discontinue Madhouse because it wasn't getting enough attention (or the wrong kind of attention)?
Well, like I said, she's absolutely just doing what the fans want, because she's an attention whore, because she doesn't actually have a drive to tell a story, just to have people tell her how amazing and wonderful she is, but only if they tell her that in the right way. I suppose there's a reason she tries to yell at anybody who says they love the relationship between Lily and G and actually explains why it's gross and toxic and co-dependent, but as soon as somebody says 'so soft uwu' she gets all shy and thanks them.
Honestly it's... pretty pathetic.
I do art and I do writing and I post both out in the wild. I totally understand where Lily is coming from about wanting meaningful feedback. Likes are nice, but there's something really meaningful when you see that somebody took the time to actually write a positive review -- or even just a few sentences -- about your work. Not getting a response can be disheartening, and since a lot of free content is made in people's spare time that silence can discourage you from spending your limited time on pursuits that don't really seem to be yielding returns. I get that.
I expect it can also be kind of frustrating when you're looking for that meaningful feedback and the kind of responses you get are, "Oh no, Leia's so mean! I hope she gets put in her place. Rey and Alie are cute!" That doesn't say anything about your work, really, and while it's nice to see people engaging it's pretty different from legitimate feedback.
Of course, Lily doesn't
want legitimate feedback.
She's admitted this before, but yeah, she isn't writing because she feels like she has a story to tell-- she's writing for attention. Things like Stockholm are intentionally shocking to appeal to a particular part of the community (bronies that get off on the juxtaposition of their cute little show versus intense deviant perversion, there's a whole cottage industry for subversion and corruption of innocence, and I originally meant that as a commentary on 'grimdark children's cartoons' but I guess the contents of Stockholm are also a corruption of innoence); things like Animal Magnetism appeal to a similar audience for a similar reason.
Both of them were likely and very intentionally written for groups that already have a massive fanbases she could leech off of, and this is probably the reason Poke-Madhouse is even a Pokemon comic at all. It has little to do with Pokemon, but she knows there are a lot of Pokemon fans, there are other people who are interested in banging Gardevoirs, this has a high chance of attracting attention.
I'd speculate this is why she chose Star Wars, too. Obviously The Old Republic stuff is something that she enjoys the aesthetic of, but it also has a massive, ready-made fanbase that she can get attention from. I further speculate this is why she rarely posts anything from Tales of the Val'kyr or Scars; they don't have a pre-established fandom (however much Val'kyr stole from Warcraft) and they barely attract any attention. Judging by the number of notes they get on Tumblr, I suspect most of her fans just skip over them. You get more actual information from the Wiki.
But she only wants a particular
type of attention. The kind of positive actual-review attention, where people will praise her characterization and her story and express why they love it. This is different from people posting reactions as reviews (although I think on AO3 it's actually called 'comments' rather than reviews so Lily shouldn't be surprised that people are treating it like a comments section). Lily wants
direct praise. She wants to be told how
she wrote such a wonderful story and such wonderful characters. Most times somebody actually tries to engage her in critique of her work -- you know, valid, worthwhile criticism -- the post winds up disappeared and the poster blocked. Same on her YouTube videos; she isn't trying to foster a discussion or actually asking for real feedback, she just wants people to tell her how great she is.
I mean, look at how disgusted she got with all of her fans when she posted the Bonnie story and they all called her out on her shitty setup. People were making valid criticism and even giving advice for how to fix the situation (very politely at that) and Lily told them to SHUT UP because it was a UTILITARIAN STORY and she just needed an excuse to get to Bonnie like you UNGRATEFUL SHITS DEMANDED so LOOK AT THE BABY.
Now she isn't getting the right kind of attention again (not that her last demand for the 'right kind' of attention seemed to actually be met) so she's going to throw a tantrum so all of her fans come flooding to her defense and give her a temporary spike in the appropriate sort of praise just so she'll continue doing what she's doing.
None of it was ever about telling a story (I'm sure that's not a revelation). Look over at Madhouse-- she
just posted the start of a short story arc and instead of at least finishing the thought she goes off to pout in a corner.
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