I am now largely irrelevant Oh, congrats on that at least. So much for attempting to be a good scholar and communicate your research to wider audiences.
I think "appropriated" is a strong term for what's going on Ah right, I stand corrected. Let’s go with… ‘adopted’ the term?
I personally appreciate reading original works written by (and maybe, for) people who came from fandom. It’s great to see writers and artists, who started by creating fanworks that I enjoy(ed), being able to support themselves, now, with their work, be it original (as far as ‘original’ goes) or heavily drawing on fandom. Especially in case of queer and tropey stuff – I really appreciate it, even though some people don’t quite like it.
Somehow I feel that self-published works are more ‘true’ to the author’s original intention, cuz having a publisher may mean that they had to change some stuff for it to be ‘sellable’. So, my personal preference is to look for this stuff on Patreon and similar platforms.
Also, I don’t see making fanworks as a stepping stone on the way to making own original works. Illustrators get money for, basically, fanart, so… Money for fanworks is always problematic to discuss. Like, ok, there are those promoted fans whose works got endorsed by the franchise/creators, they might or might not be allowed to legally make money from it. But then the majority are doing stuff which will never be accepted as being close to the canon…
Oh yeah, back to omegaverse and the article… The authors came from fandom and, yeah, no problem with that. They turned it into het (or, perhaps, they wrote het from the start…), who I am to judge. But the readers, at least based on the info in the article, are not from fandom. Fen, imo, won’t be supporting authors who try to sue each other and copyright this stuff. Fen know it’s not, strictly speaking, original. It can't be.
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Date: 2020-05-31 01:45 pm (UTC)Oh, congrats on that at least. So much for attempting to be a good scholar and communicate your research to wider audiences.
I think "appropriated" is a strong term for what's going on
Ah right, I stand corrected. Let’s go with… ‘adopted’ the term?
I personally appreciate reading original works written by (and maybe, for) people who came from fandom. It’s great to see writers and artists, who started by creating fanworks that I enjoy(ed), being able to support themselves, now, with their work, be it original (as far as ‘original’ goes) or heavily drawing on fandom. Especially in case of queer and tropey stuff – I really appreciate it, even though some people don’t quite like it.
Somehow I feel that self-published works are more ‘true’ to the author’s original intention, cuz having a publisher may mean that they had to change some stuff for it to be ‘sellable’. So, my personal preference is to look for this stuff on Patreon and similar platforms.
Also, I don’t see making fanworks as a stepping stone on the way to making own original works. Illustrators get money for, basically, fanart, so… Money for fanworks is always problematic to discuss. Like, ok, there are those promoted fans whose works got endorsed by the franchise/creators, they might or might not be allowed to legally make money from it. But then the majority are doing stuff which will never be accepted as being close to the canon…
Oh yeah, back to omegaverse and the article… The authors came from fandom and, yeah, no problem with that. They turned it into het (or, perhaps, they wrote het from the start…), who I am to judge. But the readers, at least based on the info in the article, are not from fandom. Fen, imo, won’t be supporting authors who try to sue each other and copyright this stuff. Fen know it’s not, strictly speaking, original. It can't be.