. . . so I was never in SPN because I kinda hate the show and on top of that it was adjacent to the really ugly burn up of a friendship, but I did have plenty of friends who were and any description of it and "mellow" in terms of reader entitlement kinda makes my brain hurt, tbh? What I saw second-hand was the true inheritor of the worst parts of HP fandom in its prime.
So yeah I think significant role here is played by different experiences. XD <3
Re the binary: Oh it's already breaking down even in the case of original writing, much to the dismay of some professional authors (I have been salty about Tobias Buckell sneering about NaNo participants as "tourists" to writing for years now and I will be salty until I die or he issues a specific apology) who really liked being Super Special because they had Printed Copies of their Books.
Because that's what created it, bluntly: the fact that printing technology was huge, difficult to use and super expensive, binding technology only moreso, and so you had a harsh difference with no real gradation between people who could print and widely distribute (those formally published by a publisher) and those who could not.
It didn't exist before that, and it's currently breaking down more and more given epublishing and self-publishing and so on, and a certain kind of author is very upset by that and also can kiss my ass.
So yeah I think it's entirely possible, and I think it's more possible the more people point at the binary and go "this is bullshit." Bluntly.
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So yeah I think significant role here is played by different experiences. XD <3
Re the binary: Oh it's already breaking down even in the case of original writing, much to the dismay of some professional authors (I have been salty about Tobias Buckell sneering about NaNo participants as "tourists" to writing for years now and I will be salty until I die or he issues a specific apology) who really liked being Super Special because they had Printed Copies of their Books.
Because that's what created it, bluntly: the fact that printing technology was huge, difficult to use and super expensive, binding technology only moreso, and so you had a harsh difference with no real gradation between people who could print and widely distribute (those formally published by a publisher) and those who could not.
It didn't exist before that, and it's currently breaking down more and more given epublishing and self-publishing and so on, and a certain kind of author is very upset by that and also can kiss my ass.
So yeah I think it's entirely possible, and I think it's more possible the more people point at the binary and go "this is bullshit." Bluntly.