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Belle Peach retweeted
“Fan artists can make merch and take comms but fic writers can’t” WE LITERALLY CAN I know 30-50 people who take writing comms you can physically print and sell fics you just have to keep it on the dl so you don’t get sued to hell and back we’ve BEEN doing this
Belle Peach retweeted
Found an interesting, if long winded substack that uses the Ao3 downtime happening at the same time of that HP fic being repurposed as a novel as a starting point to talk about the shift of fandom culture from gift economy to a transactional one
Belle Peach retweeted
they're trying to have their cake and eat it. If you want your labour to be paid you need to start from scratch and write original fiction. Fanfic gives you a shortcut to recognition, as you immediately get attention from the audience of the original work without working for it.
Belle Peach retweeted
I firmly believe that one should write for oneself but fandom is built in community and interaction. It's not to become some kind of fanfic influencer or gaining anything, but to build community and have feedback. Just like any other part of fanculture fanfics need it. In order
Belle Peach retweeted
also, the remedy to this feeling of exploitation on the part of authors is to cultivate a fandom community environment where the primary medium of engagement w/ fanworks is not ao3 comments! friends/beta readers reacting, circulating drafts or excerpts on social media, etc
Belle Peach retweeted
my critique i've been having while reading a lot of recently released queer books is i want authors to understand that just because your main couple are queer that doesn't make them interesting or that they automatically have chemistry. you still have to develop that lol
Belle Peach retweeted
It’s barely been one day of ao3 down and some of yall are already starting ridiculous discourse. Ppl downloading + sharing fics when the site is down is such a lovely example of community and is functioning exactly as ao3 intended: preserving access to fics.
Belle Peach retweeted
My opinion on people downloading fic is that: if they intended to give comments/kudos, they would find a way to do so before or after downloading the fic. Writers aren't missing out just bc someone downloaded it to their private archive
Belle Peach retweeted
lot of ao3 writers are starting to sound like those authors that lose their mind over pirating
Belle Peach retweeted
i keep seeing people referring to fic drives as work being shared without “reward” for the author and i have to be honest, it bothers me that people are posting on ao3 with their main motivation being recognition and reward. wanting comments and engagement is natural, but i think framing it as reward or a return for your work is kind of indicative that you don’t really understand why fanfiction exists to begin with.
fanfiction exists as a way for authors to express themselves, explore characters and identities and try things out. it’s a creative outlet and you should be writing because you want to do it. not because you want the attention it brings. we lose the culture and motivation behind fandom practices when we commodify them.
Belle Peach retweeted
no shade but as an artist i think its insane to be against sharing via drive. it would be one thing if you earned revenue off ao3 and someone was trying to steal your income by reposting it and claiming it's theirs but THIS is something i cannot be sympathic about!!
Belle Peach retweeted
for a while now i think younger fic writers have seen fanfic as a 1:1 exhange between a provider and a consumer and not community sharing. a lot of problems branch off that but that's the core mindset that is killing good fic/fandom
Belle Peach retweeted
im seeing a bunch of tweets like "it's weird that people have such huge archives of fics that arent theirs downloaded to share..." or "i hate that i'm seeing a copy of my fic being passed around outside of my control" and i think y'all need to touch some grass
