Although sometimes I find myself wishing more people would read my fics, most of the time I'm actually perfectly happy chilling here in my little corner of obscurity ^^ Having FIL,T take off the way it did was actually pretty overwhelming for me. And even when I sometimes whine about lack of engagement in my author's notes, it's not so much that I'd want more people as a whole to read my fics, but because I can see the number of subscribers on a given fic and when there's a big discrepancy between that number and the number of engagements, it feels a bit upsetting. If there's 50+ subscriptions but 5 comments, it does make me feel a bit like being treated as a content machine. I don't need thousands of readers, but I'd love the ones who DO read to actively engage with the text and me ^^