Seriously though, I think this is a good thing! While it’s an anime filler in every sense of the phrase, it still makes sense in the context of the plot and doesn’t take away from the story at all. It will also help in building up the next story arc and the little scene after that arc (the mall scene)
Somewhere along the way fanart become worth more than fanfic to fandom.
Artists have Patreon accounts where people pay real money to view their art early or to access special pictures like scraps or tutorials.
Whereas writers are expected to produce more and more, faster, for nothing in return. No one wants to see our “scraps” and writers who do provide Tips and Tricks often get crap for “policing” how people write.
And it falls into the prevailing notion that somehow writing is something easy, something anyone can do.
This isn’t an attack on fanartists. You deserve to receive some sort of compensation and accolades for your work. And so do fanauthors.
Writing fic is hard work. Yes, anyone can type out a story, same as anyone can pick up a pencil to draw, but what makes the difference, what makes a good piece is the experience and talent of an author. It’s all the stories no one saw, it’s all the writing books we’ve read, it’s the classes we have attended, all rolled into a package that works weeks, months, years to bring the fandom their fic. Yes we write for ourselves but we also write to contribute to fandom - just like artists do.
We’re just the same - artists and authors - and we deserve the same respect for our work.
Thank you so much, OP. And thank you to everyone who remembered us on Fic Writers Appreciation Day.
Let’s be clear, writing takes for-fucking-ever to do and it’s hard, lonely, strange, isolating, exhausting work. There is no art that is easy to make. NONE. All art is hard and deserves recognition if it has made you feel something or you enjoyed it.
Allll of this
As both an artist and writer, I have to say that I’ve been struggling and asked to write fanfic faster than I can produce, and I’ve been producing more art than fanfics because it is faster and easier to produce and more people come in. It drove me away from writing and honestly it does help when both sides are appreciated. As everyone else said, both take really long to create, and all should be deserved of recognition.
I can say writing is a lot more exhausting than drawing, but that’s my personal opinion.
^^^^^ this for days
I’m not saying artists have it easier, you guys legit blow my mind and I worship the ground you walk on But people pay for fan art while (most) people still don’t consider writing fan fiction to even be a skill. I’ve STOPPED telling people I write fan fiction because they just roll their eyes and ask if I write anything real.
Like, sorry if my 50k, heavily researched fan fiction with an original plot and excellent dialogue isn’t as “real” as the original six page story you wrote in tenth grade
A GODDAMN MEN. I’m so glad you wrote this OP. Something similar has been pinging around my brainspace for ages and ages and I couldn’t figure out how to say it. It’s like, here, take my soul and my heart and my ideas and my creativity and just *have it*, for nothing. Because I want to talk to you, because I want to connect with you, because we share the same fandom language. And somehow, in the last 3 years or so, Fan Authors have become the strange little hobbyists in the world of fandom, quality doesn’t matter, care doesn’t matter, research and talent and learning about writing doesn’t matter.
Which - if a writer writes a story and no one reads it, does it exist in the fandom? One wonders, and it makes it hard to continue screaming into the void if all you get back is the echo of your own voice, sometimes.
As a fic writer, I believe with all of my heart that fan
artists are wonderful, which is why I support a number of them through Patreon,
Ko-fi, and commissions. I reblog the work of fan artists because I love it and
I want it to spread, even if my contribution to the artists’ success is limited.
My pool of resources is perhaps a bit deeper than that of others, but almost
every writer I know is supportive of artists in their own way. Artists do fantastic work, and they deserve all the love!
At the same time, I can’t help but sometimes feel resentful
that many fan artists don’t go out of their way to support fic writers. It’s
understandable that they don’t reblog fic on their main blogs or sideblogs,
which many artists maintain as portfolios, but it’s troubling that they won’t like
the fic posts that appear in the tags they use on Tumblr. This may seem petty,
but it’s actually a big deal. Not only does this small show of support fill the hearts of writers with joy, but it also figures into the metrics of the Tumblr
platform itself, which will promote posts and keep them from disappearing from
the appropriate tags based on what other users have liked and reblogged them.
I recently read a great essay, Social Contract Theory
and Fandom Libertarianism, whose author argues that people with a “libertarian”
approach to fandom want “all the benefits of living in a society without
any sort of responsibility for their fellow community members.” I think
many fan artists want the “benefits of living in a society,” such as
positive feedback, encouragement, and the occasional monetary donation –
because of course they do – but they may not fully understand why it’s important to help support the community that
supports them. After all, they have thousands of followers, and their posts get
hundreds of notes, so the community is doing fine, right?
Unfortunately, as the number of notes on this discussion
indicates, there are a lot of fic writers (including myself) who are struggling
through a very dark and painful space here on Tumblr. The libertarian approach
to this is that that “everyone should just take care of themselves and
leave everyone else alone,” with artists doing their fannish thing while
writers do theirs. In theory, this should work fine. The problem is that the
current prevailing culture on Tumblr is skewed heavily in favor of artists, and
what this means in practice is that fewer and fewer people are writing
anything. Over the past three years, from the summer of 2014 until now, I’ve
watched the number of fic posts on several fandom tags I track dwindle down into
almost nothing, even as the fandoms themselves continue to be quite active.
“But I don’t have time to read people’s fic,” you
may be saying to yourself. “I’m more of a visual person,” you might
argue. I get that, and I also get that a lot of people on Tumblr aren’t native
English speakers. Still, it’s a kind and meaningful gesture to show support for
writers just by clicking the heart button on the fic posts in your fandoms. The cost is as
minimal as it gets, and this helps to foster a wider variety of talents on the
part of the many people whose contributions help keep fandom communities healthy
and thriving.
I’ve been really into fantasy travel posters for decorating recently and found a whole bunch of awesome Pokemon travel poster by different artists! Check them out:
English: It fits like a glove. Spanish: It fits like a ring on the finger. Italian: It fits like shoes painted on with a brush.
Finnish: It fits like a . FiST. iN. the EYe . (ง'̀-‘́)ง
Haha, apparently the Italian thing does not really mean that, but that was the only explanation for the phrase I could find that made any sense. Sorry about that. (if you know where it comes from/what it means please let me know)
So the Italian phrase simply means “It fits like it was painted on” (thanks @typhlosioff for clearing things up!) The meaning of calzare has changed from ‘to put on footwear’ to ‘fitting’ so that was the reason for the confusion (fun fact: the Finnish word for men’s long underpants ‘kalsarit’ comes from the same word stem). I tried to find the origin for the phrase but all the pages just told me that nobody really knows where it comes from.
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