Posted in full at: https://ift.tt/2CngJHN on March 09, 2019 at 04:00PM ( Read more... )

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There are over 4 million fanworks listed on AO3. But fanvids have gained little traction....and very little attention or support from AO3. Vids (like fan art) are lost in the fanworks crowd, stuck on the back shelf, and not easily filtered or located. Fans must upload their vids to increasingly hostile streaming sites and run a constant risk of ( Read more... )

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a comment to fairestca's post: On Fandom and the "culture of selling"

But my understanding has always been that a main reason for not monetizing fandom wasn't that the money was dirty, but that keeping fandom noncommercial was the main way to keep the owners of the intellectual property off our backs. If I sell my Narnia novel Carpetbaggers, even ( Read more... )

Source: https://twitter.com/aroundab00t/status/1085922285704409089

"And, not unrelated, I also see a lot of Fake Woke purity policing popping up in the same breath. "You can't ship X because its Problematic" and "They aren't blood related but they're close to each other so its incest" and now "Multishipping is prompting infidelity!"

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 From tumblr

concerningwolves:

I feel like fandom generations are both very specific and easily conflated. Like,, you either live through so many they blur together into one hellish mess or you join in on one generation and remain blissfully unaware of the previous ones

Trekkster Gods 

• No internet
• fledgeling fandom 
• women run everything 
• seriously where ( Read more... )