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The government is going to allow parents to search your internet and sue people for things that the parents do not like or completely shut down valuable resources

This can include resources for LGBTQIA+ people, resources for victims of abuse, sex education, abortion, historical resources and education for many minorites

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Did you know Disney sells lesbian flag pins? Bob Iger profits off the flag I designed for our community!

On another note, I can't afford to pay for my medication this month! Any help would be appreciated.

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That bothered me greatly, but I couldn’t put my feelings into words. And while over time, I came to understood why it bothered me -- they were dismissing fanfiction because they didn’t see it as being productive enough. They saw it as a “dead end” and felt it wasn’t worth people’s time or efforts because it couldn’t go any further. They thought people should turn their efforts into something that could potentially be “more productive.”

They saw fanfiction as a “waste” because there’s no result aside from the finished piece; so, therefore people should redirect their energies and efforts into something that gets them somewhere - like a career in writing or whatever.

But this whole post just put my thoughts and feelings into actual coherent words.

Fanfiction is a hobby; people do it because they enjoy it and it’s fun.

Don’t get me wrong, I think you can definitely improve upon your writing with writing fanfic, because writing is writing (though keep in mind it’s a different medium than books and or scripts), and maybe you do want your work to build up to something more (you do you), but that’s not everyone’s goal.

In fact, that’s not the majority of peoples’ goals when it comes to fanfiction.

We’re hobbyists.

It’s exactly like knitting or any other hobby.

This attitude reminds me of when people roll their eyes at someone else’s hobby, because they’re “wasting their time;” and they should something practical or useful like learn another language.

And it’s just...

Sometimes people do things for no other reason than to just do the thing. Life shouldn’t be an endless assembly line of productivity, where everything you do amounts to something that can be “commodified” (so to speak).

PS

Obviously, there’s nothing wrong with learning another language (that’s a great skill to have and can definitely be fun and a hobby too), I just used that as an example because it’s always the response I hear when someone is dismissing the work someone put into something the other person finds to be pointless and or useless.

that’s why since the internet first started, there have been startups focused on (and majorly funded by investors equally focused on) finding a way to monetize the thing (fandom, fanfic, fanart) that all these fools out here are just giving away for free.

“giving away for free” is anathema to capitalism, but it’s also skywriting calling all brogrammers that something’s being made in large amounts but non-monetized -- and if you were the first to figure out how to monetize, you’d be sitting on a goldmine.

so even with all the shattered remains of other startups’ corpses on the fields before the fandom city walls, they’ll keep coming, on the theory that those previous startups had gone about it wrong. but they’re different, they’ve got a different/new/better gimmick on their side.

Pygmy Falcon

Great Hornbill

Wallcreeper

and

Cedar Waxwing

Red Crowned Crane

Brahminy Kite

Green Tree Swallow (I mean seriously - those are metallic teal feathers against stark white. Damn.) 

Bali Mynah

And, last but certainly not least, the cutest fucking puffball on this planet earth:

Hooded Pitta (or as like to call them little olives)

Coua

Mot-Mot

the Golden Pheasant,

and the Oriental Dwarf Kingfisher.

HI IT’S ME AGAIN

You literally cannot play this game anymore.