#indie authorship is much queerer

[oddlittlestories]

Look, I'm probably gonna delete this later

But I REALLY hate how tumblr treats professional authors, especially YA and new adult authors

"Oh, we're the anti-censorship website! Go read a horny book! Go read a banned book! No not that one, you're doing it wrong." /sarcasm (Seriously, ACOTAR was banned in Utah https://apnews.com/article/utah-school-book-ban-d7345be6a89cfa6cd2cb5ddd25fca700 and plenty of folks around here want to critique its sexual politics as unfeminist. Or those of horny monster books that are written by INDIE authors that actually have some things in common with books like ACOTAR. BTW, love that y'all hate big box publishing but also, indie writers who want to get horny with it are the devil. Because none of us around here ever like horny fics that get weird with it.)

"Oh, you should never write a book that's to-market! I don't write fanfic to market, only ridiculously rare rarepairs, hurt/no comfort only, with unsatisfying endings." /sarcasm (Most professional writers write to market in some way or another. But most fanfic authors do, too. You (generic) enjoy this as a reader, as long as its a market that's to your tastes.)

"No one ever does anything useful writing to market. There are no trends. POC writers don't use that as a tool to get their books published ever." /sarcasm (Listen to Deadline City to hear Zoraida Cordova and Dhonielle Clayton, two POC YA authors, discuss the tug of war with writing on trends, on markets, and getting published in general. https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/deadline-citys-podcast/ and before you go saying that's just an issue of capitalistic pressures—are you SURE. people write, in part, to meet an audience and change people's point of view. even on a site driven entirely by community, people feel pressure to write for more popular fandoms on ao3. so, again, are you SURE.)

but uh yeah no this site has no issue with censorship, supports indie authors getting funky with it just as much as indie artists, and has full respect for indie YA authors and genres they, themselves, don't personally like