[ SECRET POST #2651 ]

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⌈ Secret Post #2651 ⌋

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

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Secrets Left to Post: 03 pages, 051 secrets from Secret Submission Post #379.
Secrets Not Posted: [ 0 - broken links ], [ 0 - not!secrets ], [ 0 - not!fandom ], [ 0 - too big ], [ 1 2 - repeat ].
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Comments

[mimi-sardinia.livejournal.com]

If I end up with a solid product after paying for fanart, I'm fine with having paid for it.

Like these:


But it's is too easy to find free, good fanfic for me to consider paying for it.

Is that unfair? Maybe it is, but I still paid GlassCamel for the time, effort, wool and needles she put into making those felties.

[(Anonymous)]

Your argument makes no sense though. If people started charging for their good fic, all you would have left is badfic. You can find a TON of good free fanart too.

[mimi-sardinia.livejournal.com]

You know what I do with free good fanart? I leave a comment, if it's posted in a place that allows comments, add it to my favourites list, and sometimes go back and admire it. If that artist suddenly decided to take it down, I would have no access to it.

Fanart I have paid for? I damn well expect to get a solid copy, on good-quality material, that I will keep being able to look at even if the artist deletes the digital version online.

My two felties are sitting over on a bookcase just across the room from my computer. I can go over there, take them out of their display canisters and play with them whenever I want. That's what I paid $250 for - having them here, to handle, instead of just looking at pictures on DeviantArt.

If a free fan is online, I do not feel beholden to download it if I want to read it. I would only pay for it if the writer printed it, bound it, and made a nice solid book out of it and mailed that book to me. If they are merely demanding to be paid so I can read it online, I don't want to read it.

[(Anonymous)]

That's what I think they are talking about...actually buying the book.

[(Anonymous)]

This, exactly. I can go online and find dozens of free fics for my favorite pairings, so why would I want to pay for one? At least with fanart, I get something I can print out and hang on my wall or print on a t-shirt or a tote bag or something like that if I want.

[(Anonymous)]

The one time I commissioned fanfic it was for a rare pairing in the fandom, for a specific take on them I had not seen done but I knew the writer would do well.

I've never hung any of the fanart I've commissioned on my wall, or printed it out or anything like that. And it was pretty good art.

[(Anonymous)]

You're definitely a different sort of person that I. When I commission fanart it's because there's a concept I want to see that I haven't been able to find for free, not because I want a physical copy of it.

I can find tons of good fanfic and fanart online, but I can't always find the particular thing I want, and that's where commissioning a piece who come in for me.