Terra

So. A rant.

It really bugs me how oppose to fanfiction being sold fandom is, verses fanart.

It quite hypocritical.

Now, I don't think writers should make profit off fanfiction. But on the same thread I don't think fanartist should make profit.

But making a profit implies not that you walk out of, say, the convention with $100 bucks in your pocket. It means you walk out of the convention with a $100 bucks you did not spend to get there.

( Cut for some number crunching to explain my point. )

OK. So. You know the argument that it's ok for yaoi fan girls to like yaoi/slash and not support gay marriage/rights because it's a fictional kink fetish thing?

I realized the reply to that.

How many yaoi fangirls out there ONLY are interested in slash as a fetish? ONLY read explicit sexual thing (Or only read things in a explicitly sexual manner, i.e. they are reading that sweet cuddly fic TO get off)

A kink is ONLY about sex. And I understand having weird kinks (I think a friend once sent me a quote that was something like "How often have you been masturbating and looking at something, only to finish and be horrified by the midget, granny, trans porn on your laptop") A kink is too get off.

So, then, that argument only applies to fangirls who ONLY read slash to get off. Not to squee. Not to explore their writing, or talk about their favorite character, or draw their favorite bottom being cute. You don't draw the shoes being cute, or talk about the deep psychological implications of the diapers childhood. If it's a fetish, or a kink, it becomes and object, not a character with a personality. And if you're thinking in terms of character, with personalities, like...you know people, then you should be making the leap that there are real people in those situations.

I kinda petered out there at the end, but you get the point.

Oh, and I got a dreamwidth too. Penguinfaery, amazingly enough.

Dear you:

( Look hun, I can play the passive agressive 'let me just leave one post open where I can bitch at you and you can see but you can't respond cause comment are friend only even though the post isn't' game too. Except I'm not such a coward as to leave it that you can't respond. )