Could be the active part of fandom is getting older, and younger kids are not as into spending all that time writing fics, while older folks have other priorities?
And there are so much media out there, one could only be active with one thing at a time. When I play video games, I don't fandom. When I read novels, I don't fandom. So much distraction out there now.
And the Hetalia fandom was significantly larger, as far as kinkmeme filling goes. I still remember the dragon age kinkmeme where fill ratio wasn't super high either. Plus LJ's demise, I find, decentralizes the writing part of fandom to an extent. The feedback and back and forth between fans is a lot harder to organize on tumblr.
Re: Expectation about getting your prompt filled
And there are so much media out there, one could only be active with one thing at a time. When I play video games, I don't fandom. When I read novels, I don't fandom. So much distraction out there now.
And the Hetalia fandom was significantly larger, as far as kinkmeme filling goes. I still remember the dragon age kinkmeme where fill ratio wasn't super high either. Plus LJ's demise, I find, decentralizes the writing part of fandom to an extent. The feedback and back and forth between fans is a lot harder to organize on tumblr.