Do you ever really think about fan art, fanfiction, and other fan creations of existing media?
How itās not something theyāre doing necessarily for a career, or to sell for money? Itās just something theyāre doing because they have so much enthusiasm for the original subject matter that they dedicate hours or days to these works of art or pieces of writing?
And how those works of art are sometimes these fucking beautiful sketches or paintings that are on par with what people outside fandom life would callĀ āreal art,ā or the fanfiction can be as moving as a novel?
But itās never acknowledged asĀ āreal artā because itās based on existing media, even though itās just as good, takes just as much work and talent, and has just as much time dedicated to it?
Do you ever look at, say, a painting a fan made of their favorite character, and realize itās better than most paintings youāve seen, and youāre just in awe of it? Or read a fanfic and feel more moved by it than you have any novel you were made to read in high school?
And then think about how thankless it is, because itāsĀ ānot real art,ā and dismissed as petty, uncreative, and meaningless, even though it means. so. much.???
Anyway I just wanna say thank you fan creators, yāall are fucking amazing
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