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* is confused* Care to elaborate?
Briefly, sure. Itâs okay to commission fanartists. Itâs legal and itâs itâs heavily encouraged in fandom. People pay for fanart. Youâll always have the asshats who feel entitled to it for free, but people are generally willing to pay for art of their favorite characters and in fact in droves encourage fanartists to up their prices because, and I quote, âtheir craft is worth more than they are charging.â
Meanwhile you have fanwriters. Writers canât even ask for COMMENTS as compensation without people yelling at them to tell them they should write because they enjoy writing. Stop being such an attention whore! Write because youâre passionate about the craft! Stop begging for attention--itâs embarrassing! The idea of a fan-writer accepting commissions is somehow ludicrous (even if it werenât toeing the line of being illegal) and embarrassing in fandom in a way itâs NEVER been for artists.Â
Like trust me, I get that there is a BIG difference between writers and artists; writers are limited heavily by fandom whereas artists can draw a character from a fandom theyâre not part of if they have a reference to work with. Still, the important takeaway here is this:
Artists in fandom are expected to take commissions when their craft gets high-quality enough and theyâre expected to charge fair prices to account for time spent on their work.
Writers in fandom are expected to produce content for free and it doesnât matter how good you are. If you even think about making a post to try and take emergency commissions for yourself, you wonât get reblogs--youâll get messages, and not from concerned people who are afraid youâre toeing the line of legality by taking fanfic commissions, either. No, theyâll be telling you to stop trying to get paid for your hobby.
Because especially in fandom visual art is a skill and a career, and writing is something that everyone can do if they just sit down at a computer and open Microsoft Word.
