Our fandom forbearers did NOT suffer through Anne Rice, strikethrough, and other bullshit for fucking ACOTAR and Harry Potter fans to fucking ruin it for all of us by selling fanfiction. I am not losing novel length yaoi epics because some of you don’t know how to act in fannish spaces and yes I do blame the booktokification of fanfic but I also blame those of you that treat fandom like content to consume and not a community to engage with.
Seriously people, learn fandom etiquette. It exists, it exists for extremely good reasons, and it’s been decades in the making.
You know the saying, ‘OSHA regulations are written in blood’? Yeah, that applies to fandom etiquette. We didn’t make this shit up to lord it over newcomers, these rules evolved as a form of fucking self-defense and by god we’ll die on this hill.
So stop putting other people’s fanfictions on KINDLE UNLIMITED!!!
In case you’re unaware: that can (and will) get the writer and publisher a Cease & Desist and very possibly a lawsuit. Which they will lose.
Fanfic must be free or else it is breaking copyright — even advertising on a fanfic website is risky.
You do not own the copyright. You do not own the characters. You do not make money off copyrights that are not your own.
Who TF is putting fanfic on Kindle Unlimited??
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