Why Professional Ethics Matter

I put out work at a decent pace, and I started publishing at a relatively young age, so I've been around for a few years. People cite my work from time to time, and it's always an honor regardless of whether they agree with me, disagree with me, or just mention me in passing.

This year, however, I came across two academic essays that "read" my work in a way that I found creepy and invasive.

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I think the main reason why these two essays upset me, however, is because I'm always vaguely anxious about the possibility that people who are not sympathetic to me as a person or as a fellow human being are silently reading what I post online and then not so silently judging me. Like, even though I know how unlikely this is, I'm always a tiny bit worried that my stuff has been posted or linked to on a parody account or a reddit thread about bad fic or bad art, and this is sort of like the professional equivalent of that?

I don't mind people writing about my fannish and more casual work in a professional context, and in fact I can imagine getting a very welcome ego boost from that sort of thing under different circumstances, but people doing this without my knowledge or consent is gross and I don't like it, I'm just saying.