I've been thinking about this for a few days, and I agree with you.
I don't know that many people who write and create visual art and take commissions, but all three of them only take art commissions. As for writers who take fandom commissions... it's all porn.
Which is cool, of course, but sometimes I miss kinkmemes. I was probably too young (or at least too emotionally immature) to be there during their heyday, but I remember having some good times on anonymous LJ comms. This is not to say that people shouldn't be paid for this sort of work, but rather that there's clearly a demand for it, and I wish there were more of an open forum for its expression than the current fannish social mediascape allows for.
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I've been thinking about this for a few days, and I agree with you.
I don't know that many people who write and create visual art and take commissions, but all three of them only take art commissions. As for writers who take fandom commissions... it's all porn.
Which is cool, of course, but sometimes I miss kinkmemes. I was probably too young (or at least too emotionally immature) to be there during their heyday, but I remember having some good times on anonymous LJ comms. This is not to say that people shouldn't be paid for this sort of work, but rather that there's clearly a demand for it, and I wish there were more of an open forum for its expression than the current fannish social mediascape allows for.