HAH. I'm a working artist. I want my fucking pay check. I guess that makes me not a REAL artist though.
I try not to be a dick, but I've had some conversations with certain members of fandom that made my brain explode. My favorite? "Well, swiping another author's work and selling fan produced work* based directly on it is totally not stealing -- it's just a continuation of a long tradition of collaborative storytelling!"
HAHAHA. Whatever! WHAT THE FUCK EVER. You know who says stuff like that? People who aren't published. You know people who don't say stuff like that? PEOPLE WHO ARE PUBLISHED.
*and I don't mean people doing fan art of characters in novels -- I mean people selling fanFICTION based directly on FICTION.
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Date: 11 Jun 2009 04:55 pm (UTC)I try not to be a dick, but I've had some conversations with certain members of fandom that made my brain explode. My favorite? "Well, swiping another author's work and selling fan produced work* based directly on it is totally not stealing -- it's just a continuation of a long tradition of collaborative storytelling!"
HAHAHA. Whatever! WHAT THE FUCK EVER. You know who says stuff like that? People who aren't published. You know people who don't say stuff like that? PEOPLE WHO ARE PUBLISHED.
*and I don't mean people doing fan art of characters in novels -- I mean people selling fanFICTION based directly on FICTION.