[ SECRET POST #5038 ]

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⌈ Secret Post #5038 ⌋

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


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Comments

[(Anonymous)]

Speaking AS an artist, artists don't get a say in how people interpret their work. They can have their own opinions, they can be annoyed by how some people will inevitably take their work in exactly the opposite way as intended. But art is inherently an abstract form of communication, (even if all you're communicating is something like "giant robots are cool,") and when you get into abstracts, different people with different experiences will see things in vastly different ways. Fortunately, this is a two-way street. The artist can always put out more work to expand and clarify, and in doing so contradict whatever interpretations they feel like. But trying to make those arguments outside of the work itself is pointless. One day, all those peripheral notes you made and things you tried to assert will be lost to the passage of time, and all anyone will have is what was preserved through your art. Even with the internet, data decay is real, and no website is up forever. Hell, even contemporaneously, not everyone will care enough to go see what you have to say on Twitter.

That said, in fandom spaces it's usually more useful to defer to authorial intent for the sake of getting everyone on the same page. But fandom spaces are, ultimately, a pretty small sample of the people who'll be consuming and interpreting a given work, and that's something you're just going to have to live with.

[(Anonymous)]

Artists do get a say, through a creative process that involves hours of revision work. If it still missed the mark, it's the author's problem.

[(Anonymous)]

This.