[ SECRET POST #3212 ]

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⌈ Secret Post #3212 ⌋

Warning: Some secrets are NOT worksafe and may contain SPOILERS.

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Comments

[(Anonymous)]

I agree. Whatever happened to the time where fandom was just a place for people to like the same thing and share enthusiasm for it?

I already get nickel and dimed for every other damn thing in life, and now even in fandom. It just seems like a low blow. I mean, I understand if you can get someone to give you money you'd wanna try... but the whole fandom dynamic changes.

To me it feels like going over to a friends house and they ask for money to let you see their sketch book.

DA

[(Anonymous)]

People should just do commissions. Draw/Write stuff and share it for the love of the show/book/movie/game...

If someone likes your stuff enough to want you to do something specific for them, then charge them.

Re: DA

[(Anonymous)]

That's what's happening with most people who have a fic Patreon - either they're doing straight up comission work, or they're offering to write for pay something they have an enthusiastic audience for, but might not be particularly enthused about anymore themselves. (Sequels for fic, fic of some piece of meta that's got dozens of 'write this fic please' responses, expansion on AU drabbles, etc.)

I'm sure there are a couple people out there who are writing their own vanity projects and asking to be paid for it, but it isn't really the norm.

[(Anonymous)]

You have the choice of not being friends with that person, then. It seems like a good choice to make. Fandom isn't a civil right, you know. Just like how access to fanfic and fanart is not a civil right. I can't walk into a pizza place and get upset when they want money in exchange for a tasty sausage and mushroom pizza, and I need food much more than I need fic or art. Your argument is a very weak one.

nayrt

[(Anonymous)]

and yours is invalid.

the two situations (fandom and food) are entirely different.

your pizza example would work if the pizza place originally served as a meeting place where people gave out free pizza and talked about their enjoyment of it...but then one day started charging you to even get through the door and then might not even have that tasty pizza inside it anymore.

Re: nayrt

[(Anonymous)]

Are you really saying it's not at all entitled to throw a hissy fit because you no longer get free pizza? Is free pizza a personal right? If someone gives you a free slice of pizza, are they then obligated to supply you with free pizza for life, whenever you want it? I don't think you have any grounds to declare other peoples' arguments invalid if this is your idea of a good argument.

[(Anonymous)]

There is no "sharing of enthusiasm" anymore. Fic hits a wall of radio silence.