Since that den of comic book pirates scans_daily got nuked, I've been musing about this very thing. People keep suggesting "perhaps if you only did what you were allowed/used content that was permitted".
It feels like being tamed.
I remember looking into corporate fansite acknowledgement back in the day. It was stingy. Didn't offer the stuff I was interested in covering. Banned obscenity--a ban I felt extended to slash. If I couldn't write the Professor X/Cyclops adult male/underage boy fic I felt needed to be out there to confront the shadow I saw in the official text...
Times change, the corporate material is reflecting our own tastes in places. But I feel there will always be a place for creating what the author doesn't agree with. And that place will probably never be under control because the control doesn't agree with it's existence.
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It feels like being tamed.
I remember looking into corporate fansite acknowledgement back in the day. It was stingy. Didn't offer the stuff I was interested in covering. Banned obscenity--a ban I felt extended to slash. If I couldn't write the Professor X/Cyclops adult male/underage boy fic I felt needed to be out there to confront the shadow I saw in the official text...
Times change, the corporate material is reflecting our own tastes in places. But I feel there will always be a place for creating what the author doesn't agree with. And that place will probably never be under control because the control doesn't agree with it's existence.