[ SECRET POST #3979 ]

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⌈ Secret Post #3979 ⌋

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Comments

[(Anonymous)]

You're really not making sense. I'm struggling to understand how someone like me, who has NO realistic expectations of ever "making the big bucks" writing LGBT sci-fi/fantasy novels and would rather give some away for free and continue to work minimum wage retail (or some other "normal job") than be a compassionless jerk to someone too poor to pay for them is the "privileged" one, here?

Not someone like you, who thinks they're so important that they ought to be able to spend hours sitting comfortably as they pen their masterpiece?

I'm not saying writers should NEVER be paid, by anybody, ever. But for fuck's sake, have a bit of kindness.

[(Anonymous)]

Sitting comfortably? Really? You think most writers are comfortably off?

Let me tell you a little story about my sister in law. She's a writer. Started off in fandom and moved to writing ebooks. She doesn't make very much but has a steady income that supports her for the necessaries.

Also? She is disabled. She has spinal injuries that confine her to a wheelchair and she has also been diagnosed with anxiety and depression, due in part to the fact that she is now wheelchair-bound. Writing is one of the few ways she can make a living under her physical and mental conditions. And she does. However, she is not "spending hours sitting comfortably" as she pens her "masterpiece" and she cannot get a shitty retail job in order to make her work accessible for free.

So who's privileged now? Who deserves kindness and non-judgmental reactions more? Whose mental illness trumps the other? Whose ableist assumptions that she can just "work in retail and offer her work for free" are hurting whom?