Do not confuse Enthusiasm with Entitlement.
Hello!
I’m relatively unknown in the fanfiction world which is great, but I’ve got some friends who are known, and I’ve got things to say, from an outsider perspective.
I’m a writer, but I’m also a reader. I participate in the fandom in the way I know how, which is through writing stories.
Here’s what fandom should be. It’s a village, called Fandom, and people all interact in the village in some way. Write, Art, Ideas, Comments, Reblogs, Kudos, Podfics, Bookbinding, Etc etc etc. It’s a Smurf village, because currency doesn’t exist, and everyone does what they can for the community to thrive, for fucking free. They offer gifts, and encouragement, and once a week we all gather round in the center of the village and scream about it in a very unhealthy way. Some people are more active than others, some like to be known, some prefer to remain anonymous, some watch from the sidelines and everything is done with care and a warm heart between our teeth.
There are pockets of that, which, great.
Here’s what fandom is, sometimes.
1/People elevating others to the point of God, sometimes dragging other writers down (for no reason, no one asked to be rated as the best fic writer of all time) to make a point. What is the point? Is there one?
2/People harassing writers for more things. Write an epilogue, write another chapter, write this and that. Writers aren’t your own personal AI machine to make what you want to write. A lot is blamed on age, and perhaps there is an element to it, but I believe it’s just decency. An 18 years old kid is capable of making sensible decisions, just like a 24 years old, just like a 14 years old. Your age doesn’t give you a passe-droit to be a dick to people you admire (!!!???!)
3/I won’t even touch on the subject of hate reading because that’s just straight up insanity.
But it’s just… hate and tantrums and anger breeds more hate and tantrums and anger. There isn’t a virtuous way out of that, and I’d love for people to…just, cater to a more positive experience for everyone.
When your fingers are typing rot on your computer, you are venomizing everything that it touches: the people who will read it AND the people who will respond to it.
So far, from what I have seen, this behaviour leads to only one thing: depressed writers/artists/etc who stop writing/drawing/etc, or pull their work, or take breaks, or retreat from the limelight because it is too much.
You are pushing too much.
Enthusiasm is wonderful. It’s a powerful tool and should be used, everyone on this fandom is posting because we looked at The Thing and thought, “yeah.” No one in the history of the world (I hope) has posted after thinking “that is straight up shit and I hate it with a passion.”
Enthusiasm does need to be curated in a healthy way. I understand that Fandom is for fans, but it is also by fans. No one here is better, everyone here is different.
Some writers have a voice that resonate with more people, or stories that resonate with more people, and that is perfectly fine, but, once again for the people in the back, do not confuse Enthusiasm with Entitlement.
In what universe, in what galaxy do you believe complaining about someone’s work will make them go “oh right, nevermind all the work I put into this thing I love, let me just do the thing a random stranger is asking me to do.”
Do not confuse Enthusiasm with Entitlement.
Maybe I sound like bitch, but by god, the shit I’ve heard from my “popular” friends the past few months is absolutely mad. Mad, people.
You are normal people, and SO ARE THEY.
They have lives and interests and they are people. Treat them as such.
Do not confuse Enthusiasm with Entitlement.
Thank you for coming to my TED talk, I hope everyone enjoys Le Mange Dieu et le Dévoreur de Mondes, which we wrote and enjoyed writing, and which does not mean other writers weren't doing their own thing and writing other stuff in the meantime, and I HOPE we can all start to have some fucking respect for the people who spend hoursdaysweeksmonths pouring over a project and posting it for fucking free, all at once, so it’s not stressful for the reader. YOU.
Because against all fucking odds, we actually care about our readers. When you’re being nice.
Thank you and good day from a Fandom Elder.
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i’ve been taking a second (well, third [actually mor like fourth])look at the northern caves and, honestly, if i was a fan in-universe and then i read the northern caves and the notes by his friend about mundum and the terrible task or reorganizing the world i would have been extremely dissapointed
i feel that, as a fan, i would have understood that chesscourt was a great big allegory to communicate a system of thought, a strange life philosophy, talking about great terrible responsabilities and the unsuspected consequences that stem from a complex network of connections that are related to the most minimal of seemingly innocent actions.
but i would have interpreted the series as a blue print of sorts, a greyboxed interpretation of a system. where if you swap the labels and change the texture packages of the thing, you would find a 1:1 correspondance with some great and terrible mental mechanism which had been unsuspectingly built inside your brain as you read it all
but is not really that, is it? is not a simile, is more like a metaphor. its meant evocate the mentality of someone who understands the system, not necesarily explain the system itself. is meant to hypnotize you into the cast of mind needed to understand the philosophy of salby.
which means that the actual particulars of chesscourt were actually irrelevant, the story could have been about anything and told in many different ways in order to get that effect. the system presented in the universe of chesscourt would not even be a toy model of it all.
and if i was an avid reader of chesscourt going down on spelunk 04 with the other guys i would have been actually kind of underwhelmed by it all. the actual machinery that was built on paper is not important, the cast and design of its gears is superfluous, all that mattered was the impressionistic result it had on your mind.
the actual choice of words in the giant manuscript is not actually relevant, passages like
"clest mmdm clest abup with Tommy boysmoke fun with the kidly mddm and more? For it is said that mmembmp. Un in the boy we had a deep palaver canyon, down in clover depths, with precious mineral deposits ridging a central shaft about yea deep and lit only by the luminodes upob from cletes understurm.
are not really a code, there is nothing special in “clest” or “luminodes” or “understrum”. the words dont matter qua words, the whole is meant to be more than the sum of its parts. is meant to point and gesture at something that is actually independent from its parts.
is not that is gibberish, is something worse, it’s poetry.
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Hijab row during the exam in north Bihar college
Hijab row during the exam in north Bihar college
Muzaffarpur : A college student in this north Bihar town alleged that objectionable remarks were made against her by a male teacher who got annoyed when she refused to take off her head – scarf ( hijab ) during an exam on Sunday.
The incident took place at the Mahant Darshan Das Mahila College, better known by its abbreviation ” MDDM “, situated in the town’s Mithanpura locality where…
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Video: Muslim student alleges teacher made objectionable remarks after she refused to remove hijab
Video: Muslim student alleges teacher made objectionable remarks after she refused to remove hijab
Muzaffarpur: Bihar college is under fire after a student alleged that teacher made objectionable remarks when she refused to take off her headscarf during an exam.
The incident took place at the Mahant Darshan Das Mahila College, better known by its abbreviation “MDDM”, situated in the town’s Mithanpura locality where intermediate students turned up for their tests.
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