fandom snowflake challenge Day 14

[kaixo]

Day 14

In your own space, create your own challenge. Whatever your challenge is, and have fun with it! Leave a comment in this post saying you did it. Include a link to your post if you feel comfortable doing so.

For writers, I just want to challenge yourself to put a transformative statement on your work, tbh. Have a think if it's going to be yes, no, or maybe, then make a decision.

My friend is outchere looking for fics in a fandom to podfic. Out of 125 fics on her spreadsheet, none have transformative statements. Come on, writers, we need to do better.

Comments

Re: erm... it's not really about me or 'my work'

[kaixo]

"please put up a permission statement" and "please comment on fic more" interesting because they're both about encouraging a kind of dialogue but they're not statements I see alongside each other very much?

Yeah. The thing is, there are a lot of writers in my TL on tumblr who moan about the fact that the feedback culture is dead, people not leaving comments on their fics, etc, etc. So I'm like, "Do you have Blanket Permissions? Are you commenting on other's work?" Because you do have to give to get, be it saying that you're open to Blanket Permissions or you're going to get out of your navel and comment on other people's works.

It's also further compounded the fandom I'm in is changing a bit, and I think writers need to realise that they have to change too. It's not enough to post fic and wait for comments, because fandom is too fragmented for that. You have to get involved and socialise.

I think there is a thing in this where fic gets privileged over other types of fanworks and I think it's bizarre.

Yeah, same. On one hand, I get it, because I guess fanfic is where the ideas are, but the whole "Let me ask you permission of an idea from an intellectual property which isn't yours" is erm... yeah, awkward. As long as you don't dox me, and h/t me in terms of say, your remix, I'm good.