Great fandom history at that link, and analysis of some specific dynamics in the Twilight fandom’s relationship to canon.
Fascinating read at the link…
Good god, until now I only really thought E.L was a shitty writer and possibly a moron. Turns out she’s a manipulative genius and probably evil.
SUPER interesting read in that link!
Basically, the reason you’re not making money out of your fandom writing is because you’re likely a decent human being.
rebloging again because legit I would advise pretty much EVERYBODY in any fandom to read this.
There are a lot of more manipulative fucks like EL James lurking out there and they’re not all confined to Twilight. I can think of a few suspects right off the top of my head, actually.
Yep, and Cassandra Clarie got her ‘break’ because her family is in the publishing industry. Replace the names in her first series with “Draco and Hermione” and most of it will make more sense.
Dat White Privilege.
More like Draco and Ginny. But I was a baby in the HP fandom when all the Cassie Claire shit was going down. I remember all this. And holy shit it was a while ago. I was like what, 10-13? I wonder if I still have the email/password to my old livejournal account…
Fuck Cassandra Clare and fuck E.L. James. I refuse to support either of their works.
I was in the Twilight fandom when this was going down (though unlike most of that fandom, I wrote vampires as, you know, vampires). This is why my FFnet account has the motto “Always Fanfiction; Never Test Kitchen” and I am still adamant that fanfics should not be rewritten (ie., names changed) to create ofic. Especially since what works in fanfic (the fact that you can assume your readers have a certain knowledge of your characters and their world, and so you shouldn’t waste time on that), utterly falls apart when you turn it into ofic, where none of that knowledge holds. And then what had originally been a strategic omission becomes just lazy and bad writing.
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