So shortly after joining a fandom writing discord in 2021, I set all my fics to anonymous. I find that there can be this unspoken pressure to support each other’s works, and I didn’t want anyone to feel obligated to read anything of mine, nor feel obligated to read anyone else’s (which can be hard for people for a variety of reasons — executive dysfunction, pathological demand avoidance, attention span, time, mismatch in preferences)

It’s certainly easier to develop rapport when you can mutually support each other’s work, but I think you can be friendly without doing so, and that it’s better to do so without that sense of transaction

Over time, some people became nervous about anonymous fics, because people are people and fallouts happen, so I put mine into a series to distinguish them—some people figured out that I wrote certain fics anyway

By the time I started posting on twitter, a lot of writer friends already knew the series was mine, and posting art or promo links defeats the purpose of anonymity, but I just leave it like that now because the fics are spread over two accounts, so deanonymizing would just look confusing and serve little purpose

Lol sorry for the long answer, thank you for asking ❤️