If you can read this, you are too close. she/her
Joined October 2012
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I’m absolutely pro-commenting/kudosing/subscribing/bookmarking fics. I’m happy to provide a writer with a dopamine hit, I know it feels nice. But I resent some of y’all demanding it as recompense. You just aren’t that special to me.
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this new age fic writer transactional mentality is getting to the point where i think they'd want ao3 to have ads if it meant they could get a cut of the revenue from ads placed in their fics and then talk about how their labour for the community can finally be fairly compensated
.@protomolecute demanding that people provide praising comments and then blocking any critical replies? Definitely seems like you want to be in community and hate pure transactional consumer relationships
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despite all its issues, Wikipedia is one of the single greatest inventions in human history. there have been countless Libraries of Alexandria but this is likely the most comprehensive collection of human knowledge to ever exist and it’s available on a handheld in 350 languages
Reading/looking at fanwork and actively participating in the fandom community are two whole different things. You can build the latter off of the former, but you cannot mandate that those who like to do the former must join the latter.
Helen J retweeted
i think people have gotten so accustomed to treating ao3 as just another content-hosting site to build an audience around that they've completely lost sight of what it stands for and the archival philosophy behind it
Helen J retweeted
mr. and mrs. bennet discourse back on my feed… I must put in my two cents and say that austen very clearly thinks BOTH of them fail their family in significant ways. their first failure is in the act of marriage itself, because neither of them respects the other… (cont.)
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Referring to kudos, bookmarks and comments as the currency of fandom is so interesting to me. You're not being paid - in any form.
Capitalism has rotten your brains. You are being appreciated and complimented. Those are NOT payments for your labour.
Your work is not a product.
Helen J retweeted
kinda crazy how many people who dont live in dc are calling people overdramatic for caring they werent given proper notice of a plane flyover as if many people didnt live through 9/11 and 67 people werent killed in a plane crash last year within view of my window
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also, the remedy to this feeling of exploitation on the part of authors is to cultivate a fandom community environment where the primary medium of engagement w/ fanworks is not ao3 comments! friends/beta readers reacting, circulating drafts or excerpts on social media, etc
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ALSO people have the right to lurk. They have the right to read, enjoy something/not enjoy something and do absolutely nothing about that. You working touching them doesn't entitle you to their vulnerability in expressing that. Some of y'all are getting extremely egotistical.
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What’s a polite way to tell someone, “I’m not discussing this with you because your entire understanding of the subject is built on so many interconnected misconceptions that correcting them would require uninstalling your current worldview and starting the tutorial from birth”?
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it is totally understandable to want acknowledgment for your fic, but why is what you get not enough? why do you need more and more and more? if one decent comment isn't enough, a million still wouldn't be. it IS a labor of love, but why do you need readers to validate that?
To me the whole “if you read a fic you like you HAVE to leave a kudos/comment/bookmark” thing is a rehash of the japanese piracy debate except sillier
