mouse ★

saw someone say they feel bad and awkward ‘contributing nothing’ to fandom (“no fics, no drawings, no theories, just gluttony”) and to anyone who feels inferiority over this i gotta say us creators doing things for free love nothing more than your unbridled spiralling greed in our notifications aka genuinely be more unapologetically gluttonous 24/7 there is nothing wrong with enjoying something insatiably because us creators feel empty and despairing without a passionate audience and feral surroundings so please and thank you and we love you

Yeah, because fandom writers etc don’t get paid, the people who read etc aren’t “customers”, but equal participants. The adage “if you’re not paying, you’re the product” does not apply in a financial sense. It’s a symbiotic relationship, in that both writers (etc) and commenters are of equal importance. If you write comments, you ABSOLUTELY contribute to fandom, and you do so in an amazing, encouraging, inclusive way.