This! This so much, ajkkjfdjdfjdsfjlsdg you are delightful to me, Rike-of-awesome, and now I must tackle-glomp. Because there is so much negativity in the marketization/commodification of work, and there is so much positivity in this space, and I think it really does all come down to the understanding that all of it, every single fannish thing we do, is taking a bit of ourselves and expressing it to others through our own means.
Oh, how very tempting it is to nerd things now about self-selection and community and shared semiotic spaces, or like to nerdsplain the expressive value of fanworks and identity performance, but really all of that rolls up to this: I'm here because there is one place in the whole world where I feel like I can express myself creatively and be understood or possibly appreciated. And I don't think I'm the only one who feels that way.
So my two cents in response to your fabulousness is that every single thing that gets posted to a fannish community functions as a gift. Shitting all over that to appease external metrics of "quality" or whatever--which is entirely subjective, as you've said--is the exact opposite of what makes fandom amazing to me.
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Date: 2012-01-31 10:05 pm (UTC)Oh, how very tempting it is to nerd things now about self-selection and community and shared semiotic spaces, or like to nerdsplain the expressive value of fanworks and identity performance, but really all of that rolls up to this: I'm here because there is one place in the whole world where I feel like I can express myself creatively and be understood or possibly appreciated. And I don't think I'm the only one who feels that way.
So my two cents in response to your fabulousness is that every single thing that gets posted to a fannish community functions as a gift. Shitting all over that to appease external metrics of "quality" or whatever--which is entirely subjective, as you've said--is the exact opposite of what makes fandom amazing to me.