Thank you, that's cool! (I generally try and keep my game dev and fannish identities separate, but it seems fairly safe to acknowledge it in the bottom of an old comment thread :))
And yeah I struggle with the same line between 'joining pile-ons because everyone else is" and "doing nothing".
Is Naomi Novik my peer? Is her fandom pseude?
Exactly! I mean moonvoice (my partner) isn't as successful as Naomi Novik, but is a published author and enough of a BNF that I'd actually heard of them through fandom before we met: one of their popular non-con fics was used as a text in a university course without their permission, which set off a fandom conversation about the difference between fic and published books for this sort of thing.
And like...one down-side of them being so popular and visible as a writer of controversial explicit fic is that they encounter a lot of antis. Being popular makes it harder for them to be run out of fandom, and would make it easier for them to send their friends to attack people if they wanted (which they don't) but it doesn't make being sent nasty messages not hurt. Seeing their experience has made me happier about being a MNF.
At the same time, being a BNF does come with power that people have used badly, and being a successful author even more. So...yeah.
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Thank you, that's cool! (I generally try and keep my game dev and fannish identities separate, but it seems fairly safe to acknowledge it in the bottom of an old comment thread :))
And yeah I struggle with the same line between 'joining pile-ons because everyone else is" and "doing nothing".
Is Naomi Novik my peer? Is her fandom pseude?
Exactly! I mean
And like...one down-side of them being so popular and visible as a writer of controversial explicit fic is that they encounter a lot of antis. Being popular makes it harder for them to be run out of fandom, and would make it easier for them to send their friends to attack people if they wanted (which they don't) but it doesn't make being sent nasty messages not hurt. Seeing their experience has made me happier about being a MNF.
At the same time, being a BNF does come with power that people have used badly, and being a successful author even more. So...yeah.