[ SECRET POST #3049 ]

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⌈ Secret Post #3049 ⌋

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Comments

[(Anonymous)]

I remember the first time I recieved a fanart gift. I was stunned, and thrilled, and never for one second got the impression that the person who drew it for me wanted anything in return, which just made it even more lovely a gesture.

When it came to me gifting others later on, however, I saw a different mindset. If it wasn't "Oh, you only write fic for the people you like, what about doing something for the rest of us for once?" it was "well you did wrote for this person, so now I expect you to do it for me."

If I wrote something for someone's birthday, then people I barely even knew saw it as tacit permission to expect that I'd write for them too if they went "it's my birthday, I want a fic!" If I mentioned that a fic had come about as a result of chatting to a certain person (and dedicated the fic to them) then everyone saw it as permission to flood me with prompts. That or feel it was okay to harrass me about other more important fics they deemed I'd abandoned in favor of catering to my besties.

I was pretty shocked by the sense of entitlement attached to the concept of "gift". Maybe I was spoiled by my very first gifter being so completely altruistic, because that certainly wasn't my experience with fandom as a whole.