RE: https:// flipboard.com/@ign/comic-book- news-7vhp5bdcz/-/a-luzUO6h

Submitted ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩ by ⁨factolvictor@dice.camp⁩ to ⁨bookstodon@fedigroups.social⁩

RE: https://flipboard.com/@ign/comic-book-news-7vhp5bdcz/-/a-luzUO6hoRSiE6rYfyFd3kw%3Aa%3A4274664-%2F0

I find the fandom’s pressure on George R.R. Martin to finish his saga quite problematic—and controversial. People forget that authors are human beings dealing with personal challenges. Ever since Lester del Rey, the Fantasy publishing industry has treated art purely as a commodity. We need to bring more empathy and humanity back into how we treat writers.

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Dahmonium@mastodon.social ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago
@factolvictor @bookstodon And maybe also stop idolizing other human beings so much as if they were gods or higher beings?
Yes, congrats with the achievement and no, not going to worship you because of it.
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sj_zero@social.fbxl.net@social.fbxl.net ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago
I don't know, I think it's a two-way street. Writers can write whatever they want however they want, but once they achieve an audience and that audience is supporting them, of course there is some reasonable expectation that you would continue with the thing. It isn't even about the money -- I was never paid a penny for developing fbxl magazine, but I had a few very vocal fans who were excited to read it when I did put it out, and their desire isn't commodification, it's the desire to have more of something that they have decided that they enjoy.

Especially when we are talking about an unfinished story, it isn't commodification in the fact that our minds are literally wired to want to see the ending of a story. Therefore, it's human nature.
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