[ SECRET POST #3314 ]

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⌈ Secret Post #3314 ⌋

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Comments

[(Anonymous)]

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People aren't 'stepping all over you' by taking down their fic. They're doing it because their careers are futures are important to them. Sometimes having your fic up can jeopardize that.

So take them down. No one's stopping them. What I find shitty is when they take it a step further by stating their works can't be shared privately.


Fuck off with your hypocritical talk of "community". Your idea of a 'community' sounds like a shitty one and I wouldn't want your support.

Honestly, the post-OP's(?) idea of community is spot on. What more do you expect? Community members to smile as integral aspects of the community are ripped away? For them to support you even when you've made it impossible for said aspects to be shared privately?

I'm sorry, but you can eff off. What happens when authors take their works down and prevent them from being distributed all willy-nilly? Like the poster said, you get The Twilight Fandom(tm) which can barely be considered a community at all because there's nothing left of it. It's not a fandom or a community, it's just a stepping stone for authors who want to publish. Nothing in that fandom is tangible, nothing stays. The fans can't discuss fanwork with each other because all fan creators left and took their fanworks with them. Non-creative fans just reminisce about old fanworks, though most left because what's the point of staying when everything else is going? New fans don't stay long because there's nothing left, just dead links that go nowhere. It's a dead community.

When canon ends, fanwork is what keeps it alive (i.e., Harry Potter). It prompts new discussions, sparks new ideas, etc. Take fanwork away and tell me, what are you left with?

This might seem melodramatic to you, but I was in that fandom when it was popular and bustling with fans and witnessed it die a slow death not because the fans lost interest in the series/characters, because over the years bits and pieces of it kept being taken away. There used to be this pretty popular twific rec community that shut down not because new fanworks weren't being produced, but because the administrators were sick of having to re-edit their posts with "FIC DELETED," and there were a lot of them.

And new authors? Don't get the attention or enthusiasm they deserve because most fans have become apathetic. I know some who won't even show support because they know that the instant a work gains popularity and reaches star-status it's probably going to be turned into an original work. So what's the point?

There are measures that can be taken to prevent works being taken from the community. Even if authors have no other choice but to delete their works, they could at least allow it to be shared privately. But they choose not to.