I wish I'd seen that drama beforehand, I wouldn't have bothered signing up! I already was hesitant, but it would have sealed the deal, lol.
I saw someone say a lot of people will end up with fandoms they don't want to write for and I agree. When they were emailed me and told me to pick a prompt, I was just like...nah, I'm good. I didn't pick 10 fandoms for a reason, lol. I don't want to go into something knowing I would just let someone down. I'm sure there will be more pinch hits in the future, lol.
They had another stipulation where it said six weeks was enough to familiarise yourself with a canon and write the story and I was like...this is the one exchange where more time is necessary, surely?
True. I saw one on Reddit yesterday where someone was upset that people were shipping a lesbian character with a guy and calling it erasure and I was just like...'why waste time worrying about this of all things?'. Or the time in the Supernatural fandom when some fans consulted a RL child psychologist over how John Winchester treated Dean. Sometimes I wish these people would internet elsewhere sometimes so the rest of us can just keep it chill and do fandom in peace, lol.
The Batman thing was pretty funny. I get DC's POV - they have to keep these characters somewhat PG because they have plastic figurines to sell to kids. It is what it is. Maybe they could venture into more adult action figures? Something tells me the fans can (and already) do a better job of it themselves, though.
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I wish I'd seen that drama beforehand, I wouldn't have bothered signing up! I already was hesitant, but it would have sealed the deal, lol.
I saw someone say a lot of people will end up with fandoms they don't want to write for and I agree. When they were emailed me and told me to pick a prompt, I was just like...nah, I'm good. I didn't pick 10 fandoms for a reason, lol. I don't want to go into something knowing I would just let someone down. I'm sure there will be more pinch hits in the future, lol.
They had another stipulation where it said six weeks was enough to familiarise yourself with a canon and write the story and I was like...this is the one exchange where more time is necessary, surely?
True. I saw one on Reddit yesterday where someone was upset that people were shipping a lesbian character with a guy and calling it erasure and I was just like...'why waste time worrying about this of all things?'. Or the time in the Supernatural fandom when some fans consulted a RL child psychologist over how John Winchester treated Dean. Sometimes I wish these people would internet elsewhere sometimes so the rest of us can just keep it chill and do fandom in peace, lol.
The Batman thing was pretty funny. I get DC's POV - they have to keep these characters somewhat PG because they have plastic figurines to sell to kids. It is what it is. Maybe they could venture into more adult action figures? Something tells me the fans can (and already) do a better job of it themselves, though.