#resist the monitization of fandom

[sporkandpringles]

Continued here because I don’t want to clog up someone else’s post too much, but basically, what I was trying to say in my reply to this post is that I think we have this mistaken idea that “good stories” are something that exist in a vacuum and can be divorced from character and setting while still keeping the good parts. As if the “perfect plot” is something that exists completely devoid of context. But I just don’t think that’s true.

Truly great stories, fanfic or not, aren’t cut-and-paste. They wouldn’t work with any other characters or any other setting. The characters and setting are integral parts of what make the story good.

And authors, yes even fanfic authors, who are good at their craft know this. So only the mediocre ones go that route. The greats wouldn’t dream of trying to take their fanfic masterpieces and cut a bunch of holes in them and try to repackage them as marketable because that would destroy them.

So the shittiness of fanfics made into books is not because only fans of pairings you don’t like choose the fanfic->book pipeline, or because only het romance with tropes you happen to not like get adapted. As I mentioned in the reply, there are slash authors who write different tropes who have gone this route, too. It’s because re-writing a book without its characters and setting (if they were even there to begin with) creates a shitty product.

So, if you’re hoping your favorite slash author will take time away from their demanding job to turn their lovingly crafted hobby magnum opus into a generic mass market paperback, it isn’t going to happen. Not because the good fanfic authors are “too normal” to think about publishing their works, (not a fan of the implications of that statement, in this house we love and support freaks). But because the paltry amount of money they might (most fanfic adaptations are not wildly successful) make from bastardizing their baby is not even remotely worth it.

They would rather stay true to their original vision, even if it makes them $0. And I think we ought to have more respect for that.

[ao3feed-bakudeku]

by ReesieReese

Title: ❝ι'м иσт gαу, ωє σиℓу кιѕѕє∂❞ °•°•°•°•°•° By: Reesie Reese °•°•°•°•°•° Katsuki was an idiot. A Big Dense Idiot. Especially when it came to love. But when it came to competition, he could never resist the offer to compete. So when he was both entered into his own personal competition that was monitered by Mina herself.. could they really back down the chance to get even closer with Izuku than he each imagined?

Or... Five Times Izuku Messes With Katsuki And Katsuki Becomes Confused and One Time He Doesn't. °•°•°•°•°•° Contains: •Sexual Jokes •BoyXBoy (Yaoi) •Out Of Character characters •Smut/Sex (I do not own the characters. Just the plot.)

Words: 5385, Chapters: 6/6, Language: English

Fandoms: 僕のヒーローアカデミア | Boku no Hero Academia | My Hero Academia

Rating: Teen And Up Audiences

Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply

Categories: M/M

Characters: Midoriya Izuku, Bakugou Katsuki, Kirishima Eijirou, Kaminari Denki, Iida Tenya, Todoroki Shouto, Uraraka Ochako, Ashido Mina

Relationships: Bakugou Katsuki/Midoriya Izuku, Midoriya Izuku/Everyone

Additional Tags: Implied Sexual Content, Sexual Humor, Sexual Tension, Sassy Midoriya Izuku, Cute Midoriya Izuku, Midoriya Izuku is a Dork, Mutual Pining, Pining Bakugou Katsuki, POV Third Person, POV Bakugou Katsuki, POV Midoriya Izuku, Bakugou Katsuki Swears A Lot, Bakugou Katsuki is Bad at Feelings, Tsundere Bakugou Katsuki, Third Year Class 1-A (My Hero Academia), 5+1 Things