yeah, you can definitely skip or compensate one element of the 'recipe,' if you hustle. i honestly think the most important ingredient is proactivity. put yourself out there. keep in touch. ask and tag threads consistently. come up with actual ideas. don't outright suck.

that's kind of it. so many anons like to pretend dwrp popularity is reserved for popular ship shippers, sons of shakespeare, ass kissers or friends of the mods, and it really isn't that deep. those things can help, but you don't need them. if you're failing to get any kind of traction at all on a site where we consistently see people grateful to not get their 100000th thread dropped, then yeah, you're probably the problem.