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AO3 Celebrates 17 Million Fanworks
AO3 now has over 17 million fanworks on the site! Come celebrate with us at https://otw-news.org/2p9bk5jk
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AO3 Celebrates 17 Million Fanworks
AO3 now has over 17 million fanworks on the site! Come celebrate with us at https://otw-news.org/2p9bk5jk
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where is your rage ?
Interesting to see the shift in attitudes towards fanmade merch. Fanmade merch has always operated in a grey area of legality and fans understand and respect that.
There has been a massive push recently for “legitimate” merch and putting it on a platform and saying that you are a “real fan” for only buying “legal” merch.
EDIT: When I say “legitimate” merch I mean merch that has been licensed by the creators or made by the creators themselves. ie officially licensed collabs and official merch stores.
I’ve seen people say that they refuse to buy from artist alleys because they refuse to support “illegal” artists. I’ve seen people say they are going to report fan artists and fan fic writers etc because what they are doing is TECHNICALLY illegal.
It’s no surprise that in this age of hyper capitalism and corporate bootlicking, people are turning their backs on the backbone of fandom in order to appease a capitalist society.
Support fanworks, support artists and writers, support creativity.
Fanworks have always operated in a legal grey area and this push to ban and regulate it in order to appease corporations is a direct result of late stage capitalism.
This one has been a wip for so long bruh </3 still kinda hate it but whatever
The scribbly scribbly on the side is supposed to be the map he had btw
my darlings. i want to read your writing. your thoughts. your feelings. your creativity. your horniness. your characterization. your style. your voice. your point of view. your quirks.
and i want your imperfection! your typos! your spelling errors! your grammar mistakes! your misused/misplaced words! your clunky phrasing! your awkward metaphors! ALL OF IT!
and i don't care how long it takes. i don't care how long i have to wait between the time you first mention the concept and the time you debut the work itself. i don't care how long i have to wait between chapters. whether it's weeks, month, years, or DECADES! i will wait. joyfully.
the value of your work is that you made it. i want to read what you wrote because i trust you and i love you and fandom is about community, not consumption.
you don't need AI to check your work. you don't need AI to correct spelling and grammar. you don't need AI to edit your work. you don't need AI to make it sound more polished. you don't need AI to make it more flowery. you don't need AI to fill in the parts that are hard for you to write. you don't need AI to write more, or write faster.
You. Are. Good. Enough.
Even if you make mistakes. Even if it takes you forever. You're good enough!
The worst thing you make will always be better than the nicest-sounding, most technically perfect thing made (even partially) by AI. only human-made things are art. AI cannot make anything new. AI can just regurgitate something that has already been made by a human.
don't fall prey to the pressure to produce a large volume of writing, that looks and sounds professional, in a short period of time. that's not the goal. the goal is to enjoy making something!
i want to read something that you had fun writing! i want to read something that you wrote for pure love of the game. something born of your passion for the source material. that's what fandom is.
if you surrender or delegate ANY part of the process to AI, that defeats the entire purpose of fanworks. don't give up the joy, the fun, the challenge, the triumph of creating something. make something out of love. share it out of love. we will read it out of love.
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Happy pride month!
Yeah but why HASN'T someone written an unofficial DS9 musical? We're a talented bunch off assholes, someone out there has what it takes!
CAN YOU IMAGINE: 8 part Dax harmonies. desperately yearning garashir ballads. Bajoran chorals, with recitativa duels between Kira and Winn. theme mergings with Ziyal. Sisko's wildly rich voice talking about his grief->anger->long-suffering everything. jake and nog with a herpity derpity doo pickpocketing duet. some sort of sexually charged pink panther variation with quark and odo. little devotion ballad for miles and keiko. weyoun ACTUALLY calling damar his bitch. dukat trying to sing over everyone else all. the. time.
vic fontaine's program broke, he is not invited.
EDIT: I am offering to make 1 animatic per DS9 THE MUSICAL themed original composition. Piece must include vocals and at least one musical instrument (band camp counts!)