If I ever tell you I’m going to sleep and then you see me posting or liking things online for about an hour immediately after that, I promise I wasn’t lying to you, I’m just bad at going to sleep and it is usually a long process that begins with disengaging from any sort of immediate contact with people (chats, for example) and ends when everything on my screen is blurry and I’m hallucinating plot points I haven’t written yet
(via tiiides)
[AGGRESSIVELY PROCRASTINATES FOR THREE HOURS ON SOMETHING THAT COULD HAVE BEEN FINISHED IN 30 MINUTES]
(via soul-sisterz)
Mildly-supported intuition as to what I think Amazon’s doing here. Short version: Acquire material for tie-in books they don’t have to adequately compensate for (as greyduck mentions in the comments—also possibly an idea farm for future TV episodes); prevent another Fifty Shades of Grey scenario where everyone makes out like a bandit except the original inspiration/rights holder; exploit a creative community without understanding how it works.
A comment I just added, as well: I see a majority of fandom writers (and readers?) not being on board, but the writers who do publish through Amazon appealing to non-fandom readers. Which may be all Amazon wants after all—a few potential tie-ins, not the entire conversion of fandom for profit. The real problem would come in if whoever decided to stop any fanfic that wasn’t published for profit through Amazon. That would be like herding cats (and then trying to issue them C&Ds), though.
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Clearly Amazon has never actually read any fanfiction, and does not understand its target demographic.
