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Case ([personal profile] case) wrote in [community profile] fandomsecrets2024-02-23 07:01 am

[ SECRET POST #6257 ]


⌈ Secret Post #6257 ⌋

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


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[Unexpected Star - Michael McIntyre's Big Show]



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(Anonymous) 2024-02-23 02:01 am (UTC)(link)
Everyone's too depressed.

Even if creators can imagine an SF future or alternate world that's really different from ours and fantastic and optimistic, they wouldn't be able to get any money to get it made because the audience wouldn't be able to believe in it either.

(Anonymous) 2024-02-23 02:12 am (UTC)(link)
Authors are paid to imagine a better life for us.

(Anonymous) 2024-02-23 02:29 am (UTC)(link)
That ain't how that works.

(Anonymous) 2024-02-23 02:37 am (UTC)(link)
That is exactly how it works, and always has. Just right now the billionaires who benefit from a people who are devoid of hope are the ones paying the pipers.

(Anonymous) 2024-02-23 02:44 am (UTC)(link)
No, authors are paid to write what publishers think will sell. If they don't think imagining a better life will sell, then that isn't what they'll pay for.

(Anonymous) 2024-02-23 10:06 am (UTC)(link)
Are you an idiot?

No, they're not. Not unless they're literally told by their bosses "the brief is an optimistic future..."