....the thing I trip on is the idea that fandom doesn't already participate and isn't totally riddled with "you're not getting paid so this isn't really valuable" dynamics.
Which I STRONGLY, STRONGLY feel it is and that this is expressed constantly in fannish entitlement and how people feel the right to dictate what people should/must/shouldn't write etc.
This is why I hardcore object to this characterization of this particular "gift economy" as so wonderfully sparkling healthy because TO BE FUCKING FRANK fandom does not act like it realizes it gets millions of dollars worth of free custom novels a year. At all.
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Which I STRONGLY, STRONGLY feel it is and that this is expressed constantly in fannish entitlement and how people feel the right to dictate what people should/must/shouldn't write etc.
This is why I hardcore object to this characterization of this particular "gift economy" as so wonderfully sparkling healthy because TO BE FUCKING FRANK fandom does not act like it realizes it gets millions of dollars worth of free custom novels a year. At all.