: Thursday, November 18, 2010
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alias_sqbr: The difference in attitudes to fanart and fanfic - Some major differences that jump out at me:a) A lot of successful artists openly draw fanart as fanart, but few successful writers will openly share their fanfic unless they call it a "postmodern pastiche" or something.b) It's considered more acceptable to show creators fanart of their work than fanfic. (b) There are many examples of fanartists being hired as commercial artists based on their fanart, but I don't know of anyone getting a writing gig directly via fanfic (though I wouldn't be entirely surprised, I know people have gone from fanfic to official spin off novels) c) Lots of fanartists openly sell fanart and do fanart commissions of copyrighted works, while selling fanfic is usually considered unethical and dangerous. (Opinions on the legality of both differ wildly, I'm not sure of any consensus in either case) -- hollow_echos: Laying the Line - In the establishment of these niches, you do get an interesting quandary, and that is what a comm organizer permits to be posted to a comm focusing on het, gen, or slash fics (yaoi/yuri for the anime folks. For non-anime folks, yaoi=male/male pairing, yuri=female/female). I actually wanted to get at least some idea of what types of policies were actually out there, so last night I did a few hours of combing through various fandom het, get, and slash communities. In all, I looked at the policies of 30 different communities, about equal parts het and slash and then just a handful of gen communities (I couldn’t find that many). In the analysis I’m about to lay out, many different types of fandoms are represented, from video games to popular TV shows, from bandom to anime series. So I basically started combing through all of these different communities looking for any patterns that I saw, and that’s what I’m bringing to you now. -