(shoot even if i had heard the thing a thousand times before, i always love your take on it- you have a way of looking sideways at a thing like the chickadee i saw on the fence today and it's neat ~)
the specific examples OY VEY..... let out a literal audible groan of sympathy when i saw where it was headed yeahhh.
in some ways i think you're right with the low stakes fandom 'love of the blorbo' vibe but then it gets super vicious in the whole ... webcomics just-talented-to-have-a-series -> lucky/skilled enough to get popular and picked up by actual agents -> enough biz skills to be a mini publisher/anthology circle -> all the way up. the money's so slim (slim enough that free therapy and steady medication would honestly help a lot) and it's such a competative pie with people who Care Oh So Much and ohhhh lua the stories i could tell you about fallouts with romantic exes (who are now publishers) and creative partners of ten plus years turned stalkers.... it gets spicy let alone the personas that people are aiming *for*.
which are also different than what they might already be known/want, lol. but we could spend hours talking about this XD
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Date: 2024-10-12 12:15 am (UTC)(shoot even if i had heard the thing a thousand times before, i always love your take on it- you have a way of looking sideways at a thing like the chickadee i saw on the fence today and it's neat ~)
the specific examples OY VEY..... let out a literal audible groan of sympathy when i saw where it was headed yeahhh.
in some ways i think you're right with the low stakes fandom 'love of the blorbo' vibe but then it gets super vicious in the whole ... webcomics just-talented-to-have-a-series -> lucky/skilled enough to get popular and picked up by actual agents -> enough biz skills to be a mini publisher/anthology circle -> all the way up. the money's so slim (slim enough that free therapy and steady medication would honestly help a lot) and it's such a competative pie with people who Care Oh So Much and ohhhh lua the stories i could tell you about fallouts with romantic exes (who are now publishers) and creative partners of ten plus years turned stalkers.... it gets spicy let alone the personas that people are aiming *for*.
which are also different than what they might already be known/want, lol. but we could spend hours talking about this XD