olivermoss | (Reply)

I get having a lot of feeling over this. It's complicated. It's good to talk about but it's also like looking into the void and I am not seeing signs that fandom exchanges and other things are addressing this. Maybe they are just waiting for the problems to start. The writing shit was clearly trained on AO3 data so next Fandom Tree I could just do the 100 word minimum for everyone... well, I wouldn't but people pulled weeeeird shit back in fandom stockings for attention.

DC and Marvel both have been re-using work of their own employees without credit or pay since the start. There have been huge pushes to get them to stop, especially since... Stan Lee is such a narcissist he pushed himself as the loving creator of Marvel while some of the people who did the actual work and created the characters died early because they couldn't afford medical care. Like, they already deep into the low tech version of this. This is why so many writers are willing to jump ship from them even for risky new indie companies. This is why Image created a huge brain drain at Marvel.

Self pub is already a mess, and this is going to make it worse. People are going to spam and hope. I can't navigate self pub already.

I de-HDR my photos. 90% of my editing is killing the detail in the shadows. More clarity and more detail is terrible looking. Making a shot super clear doesn't make it a good image, it just makes part of your brain think it's seeing really clearly, operating at 500%. That's the rush from both macro photography and hyper clear wide angle shots from vistas of plains and mountains.

Yeah, we need people with visual and other types of art literacy. Art is a conversation humanity is having with itself. Certain tools to help creators aren't bad, but plagiarism bots cross a line. Right now a lot of people are just going 'ha ha you said I had to work hard to make things and I don't, you are the sucker' And it's like... go away no one likes you.

We used to have a lot of small publishers, but most of them fell apart. I hope now that there is clearly a market, we might get some small publishers again. I'd love to see that. People will pay a LOT for convenience, and that is what editors do, ideally, slog through the garbage to give curated experiences.