[ SECRET POST #4547 ]

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⌈ Secret Post #4547 ⌋

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[(Anonymous)]

Same, tbh. Obviously no one ever says anything in public but I feel like that a lot of people must be thinking it when they see it...

[(Anonymous)]

IDK, isn't it all part of the spirit of fan cooperation?

[(Anonymous)]

There was a bang fic I really loved (enough to download) that had art embedded that was just terrible. Like, almost stick figures terrible. I always scroll super fast past it when I reread it and think if the author was kind enough to embed it in the story, I can be nice about it too.

[(Anonymous)]

I always think well of an author who manages to say nice things about truly shit art.

I'm not an artist and can basically only do manips, and I do respect bad artists for trying and try to see the charm in all sincerely effortful art, but I also feel especially bad for people who get paired with someone who didn't even try.

[(Anonymous)]

It's been awhile and I am a Fandom Old and now I am too embarrassed to ask what an anti is.

[(Anonymous)]

Someone who is vehemently against something, usually a ship of some sort, sometimes a character or shippers or a kink or a whole fandom. For instance, in the MCU there is anti-Steve sentiment from some, anti-Tony from other, plus anti-Stucky, and even anti-Steve/whomever(Peggy, Sharon, Tony, Sam, etc.). But it's not just people who don't like something (though sometimes they get lumped in), but people who are very vocal and intense in their dislike and tend to rail at the people who do like that something.

[(Anonymous)]

Many thanks. I thought it was something like that but I've heard it used in a bunch of contexts, so I wasn't sure.

[(Anonymous)]

You're welcome.

[(Anonymous)]

The older term "fandom police" is coming back into fashion too since anti has become too broad and politicised to be truly useful

[(Anonymous)]

I got an.... okay artist in the last Big Bang I did. But she wasn't an artist so much as a "I'm gonna find a bunch of relevant images and make a collage" type of creator. Worse, she's a dear friend of mine, so I privately expressed my disappointment to the admins about having wanted a traditional artist and just publicly grinned and carried on. They were nice collages but definitely not what I'd originally wanted or pictured, and absolutely not able to showcase some of the scenes I'd wanted to have drawn.

It could have been worse, but it's definitely disappointing on the writer's side to not get what you'd wanted, even if it's with people you very much get on with and enjoy talking to/bouncing ideas off of to keep up the writing momentum.

[(Anonymous)]

... yeah, I would've been disappointed, too. Collages are great, by all means make fandom wallpaper! But I wouldn't consider it to be on the level of a Big Bang contribution.

[(Anonymous)]

I had a replacement artist assigned for a big bang I'd worked hard on, they took on a number of fics. My 'art' got turned in after the deadline and was a literal stock photo with title text slapped on it.
(I later got art as a gift from a friend but I was sorely disappointed that the artist claimed the fic knowing they couldn't be bothered to put in anything past the absolute minimum)

[(Anonymous)]

I'd think the opposite, because with a good artist you can make good work in short time, and part of being a good writer is taking to time to think things through.. So if anyone halfasses it, then it's the artist who gets the short end of the stick.
I'm not sure anyone should feel bad, because it's nice to get art for a fic and vice versa, and at most it might inspire another writer/artist to make work for it.
Basically I don't actually know how these things work, but so long as they do their best and the effort is there then there's not much reason to feel bad for anybody. Even if the sucky artwork is embedded, it's still one up from any other fic that has nothing.

[(Anonymous)]

I once got art in a Big Bang that was done is MS Paint. It was the worst in the whole Big Bang.

[(Anonymous)]

Middling to mediocre artist here. When I tried Big Bang the writer was obviously disappointed she got me right off the bat. She only replied to my first message and then ignored me completely. She didn't even link my art with her story.

It was pretty heartbreaking tbh. I tried really hard on art for her and actually got a lot of very nice comments from others. I later discovered she had plagiarised an obscure book for her story too. It was such a negative experience.

[(Anonymous)]

I hate the entire "embed in the story" thing, especially as an artist, bc it hands over complete control of my art to someone else and often feels like I'm handing out a prize instead of taking part in a collaboration. I can see doing it with headers or dividers, but linking to a separate art post should always be the way, imo.

[(Anonymous)]

Once I spent literal months working on a pretty dark and explicit AU for a big bang, only to have it claimed by a friend who exclusively drew chibis but wanted to work with me. I'd have happily worked with them on something else, but it really tainted the experience of the big bang for me because their art was so, so out of place given the mood of the story.