Fandom
A fellow fan contacted me and asked if I wanted one of my fanfics published in a real book, to sell to people! I was more dubious than interested, but I asked her about the plan. She said, publish on Lulu! it's cheap and we can sell the book to our family and friends. So I had to be the one to link her to Lulu's FAQ where it says clearly "no fanfics." That was last night. No reply yet. Will it be, "I'm sure it'll be fine if we include a disclaimer!" or maybe, "You jerk!" or maybe there will be no reply at all.
I feel... like an adult in a fandom aimed at twelve-year-olds. Which is exactly what I am. I think the prospective publisher is older than twelve, but I bet she's not yet twenty. In a way it's cool being older than many of my fandom peers; I've done more things than they have so I have wisdom to share and maybe they won't do the same dumb things I did, but then there are moments like this one when I must be the bearer of the cold hard wind of reality into warm happy fandom, which kind of sucks.
I feel... like an adult in a fandom aimed at twelve-year-olds. Which is exactly what I am. I think the prospective publisher is older than twelve, but I bet she's not yet twenty. In a way it's cool being older than many of my fandom peers; I've done more things than they have so I have wisdom to share and maybe they won't do the same dumb things I did, but then there are moments like this one when I must be the bearer of the cold hard wind of reality into warm happy fandom, which kind of sucks.