This got translated in a lot of peoples' minds to "Pay me to write fanfic," which caused a HUGE kerfuffle, and she dropped out of fandom. We'd mostly fallen out of touch at that point, but it was quite weird.
Huh. I think I saw something similar, if not this exact thing, on gabrielleabelle's site re: Mark Watches, where he makes money from it and she found it uncomfortable and - IDK. I don't know Cousin Jean from Eve, but I've sometimes though, what if fans gave their money to fan writers they really liked instead of giving it to Joss re: the comics? Even if those two dollars were just a token of my enjoyment of them. And I know bloggers like Nathaniel Rogers who request donations on his blog The Film Experience - but he's posting something and maintaining a very entertaining and informative blogsite every day, so I gave a little once - I thought of it like a magazine subscription. But I guess in the realm of fandom that's still a pretty controversial notion?
Then again my sweetie said "Why don't you ask for donations for your writing?" and I was like, uh, no I don't have that much content I'm not that good....That idea flies right out the window when it comes to myself. *lol*
One of the really contentious subjects in fandom when seasons 5-7 were airing was that some fans like to draw an analogy between Buffyverse demons and Persecuted Minority Group Of Choice.
I can view the show through any variety of interpretations and say, ok, I see where that person is coming from - but not that one for some reason. And in theory, it's not too far off from the way I view the show, i.e. the lens of dysfunctional family dynamics (the methods of oppression and fucked-up-ness are basically the same but on a wider scale) but I still can't. I've had one or two of those discussions and it doesn't work for me. In a limited sense? Yes, here and there. But it feels like a stretch a lot of times.
When I watched S1-2 I definitely saw how they were using the dynamics of being "in the closet" with Buffy, and it was amusing but I didn't think they were saying anything about gay people; just that it was a convenient template, just as horror and high school movie tropes were convenient to borrow. But, I could be wrong.
they'd already had to re-shoot the alley beating because Joss thought fandom would never forgive Buffy if they kept the beaten-to-hamburger makeup from the first takes.
And Christ on crumpet, maybe if he'd listened to that little voice of reason just ONCE.... */end snark* lanoyee and I were ranting over the same thing re: LMPTM which doesn't get the same attention in fandom because it's not Spike getting bruised, but making up Robin Wood to look something like Everett Till, or all those photos of black men I've seen, who were beaten and lynched esp 1920's - 1950's? It's the same thing. Utterly stupid and unnecessary.
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Date: 2013-07-02 12:29 am (UTC)Huh. I think I saw something similar, if not this exact thing, on
Then again my sweetie said "Why don't you ask for donations for your writing?" and I was like, uh, no I don't have that much content I'm not that good....That idea flies right out the window when it comes to myself. *lol*
One of the really contentious subjects in fandom when seasons 5-7 were airing was that some fans like to draw an analogy between Buffyverse demons and Persecuted Minority Group Of Choice.
I can view the show through any variety of interpretations and say, ok, I see where that person is coming from - but not that one for some reason. And in theory, it's not too far off from the way I view the show, i.e. the lens of dysfunctional family dynamics (the methods of oppression and fucked-up-ness are basically the same but on a wider scale) but I still can't. I've had one or two of those discussions and it doesn't work for me. In a limited sense? Yes, here and there. But it feels like a stretch a lot of times.
When I watched S1-2 I definitely saw how they were using the dynamics of being "in the closet" with Buffy, and it was amusing but I didn't think they were saying anything about gay people; just that it was a convenient template, just as horror and high school movie tropes were convenient to borrow. But, I could be wrong.
they'd already had to re-shoot the alley beating because Joss thought fandom would never forgive Buffy if they kept the beaten-to-hamburger makeup from the first takes.
And Christ on crumpet, maybe if he'd listened to that little voice of reason just ONCE....
*/end snark*