It does happen sometimes, though admittedly not as much.
It was for charity and not profit, but a recent example was for the "help_haiti" community that started up- where people offered fic, art, and even crafts/amvs for auction/commission. But all of the proceeds were donated to helping Haiti for charity. I saw the most fic writing going on though. ^^
It's always kind of dangerous when you start profiting off of characters that you don't own though, so that might just be a big part of it. A lot of art commissioners do OCs for people more than fanart, afterall. And artwork uses up material that costs money (when it's copic markers or something) so it's logical to ask for money to repay that. But fic writing doesn't usually cost the writer anything to make so it's harder to jusify maybe? XD; *shrug* I dunno, it is an interesting thought~
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It was for charity and not profit, but a recent example was for the "help_haiti" community that started up- where people offered fic, art, and even crafts/amvs for auction/commission. But all of the proceeds were donated to helping Haiti for charity. I saw the most fic writing going on though. ^^
It's always kind of dangerous when you start profiting off of characters that you don't own though, so that might just be a big part of it. A lot of art commissioners do OCs for people more than fanart, afterall. And artwork uses up material that costs money (when it's copic markers or something) so it's logical to ask for money to repay that. But fic writing doesn't usually cost the writer anything to make so it's harder to jusify maybe? XD; *shrug* I dunno, it is an interesting thought~
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