If you don’t mind me asking, did you get conservative backlash or, in addition, very-left-super-entitled backlash?
Both! I feel like 2015 was a magical year between Gamergate and the U.S. presidential election in which it actually felt good to be online. I got serious backlash from 4chan (and Kotaku, of all places) from 2012 to 2014, and from 2016 to early 2019 the backlash came from Tumblr.
Thankfully, I am now largely irrelevant and no longer get weekly messages telling me to get raped and kill myself.
straight readers of this kind of romance novels – kind of appropriated the term omegaverse to mean het wolf romance/porn
I'm going to have to push back against this a little, if that's okay. I think "appropriated" is a strong term for what's going on, which is women coming directly from fandom and retooling (so to speak) their fanfic for commercial sale. Like, I don't think they're appropriating Omegaverse if belonged to them in the first place. Also, I'm always a little wary of arguments that fall into "fandom creators shouldn't make money" territory, especially because no one ever seems to have any problem with male fans commercializing their hobbies.
And honestly, if I could figure out a way to support myself through my creative work, I would have zero qualms about doing so... although hopefully I wouldn't go so far as to try to copyright my Omegaverse profic lol.
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Date: 2020-05-31 12:32 pm (UTC)Both! I feel like 2015 was a magical year between Gamergate and the U.S. presidential election in which it actually felt good to be online. I got serious backlash from 4chan (and Kotaku, of all places) from 2012 to 2014, and from 2016 to early 2019 the backlash came from Tumblr.
Thankfully, I am now largely irrelevant and no longer get weekly messages telling me to get raped and kill myself.
straight readers of this kind of romance novels – kind of appropriated the term omegaverse to mean het wolf romance/porn
I'm going to have to push back against this a little, if that's okay. I think "appropriated" is a strong term for what's going on, which is women coming directly from fandom and retooling (so to speak) their fanfic for commercial sale. Like, I don't think they're appropriating Omegaverse if belonged to them in the first place. Also, I'm always a little wary of arguments that fall into "fandom creators shouldn't make money" territory, especially because no one ever seems to have any problem with male fans commercializing their hobbies.
And honestly, if I could figure out a way to support myself through my creative work, I would have zero qualms about doing so... although hopefully I wouldn't go so far as to try to copyright my Omegaverse profic lol.