I'm starting to get very sad and tired about the way people treat writers versus artists. Like I'm sure being an artist has its own issues, but on the whole it really is that writers are expected to write for often greedy and demanding readers for nothing, nothing emotionally or socially or financially or any of the other avenues that seem much simpler for artists.
If someone seeks commission for writing they are not simply informed about laws/TOS (which would be correct to do) but demonized to the nth degree.
Artists do these "hey X likes gets a new pic" and if authors do anything like that, the world goes nuts. I've seen the dogpiles in otherwise fan-writer safe places.
And I'm not one to complain about my engagement, but it just seems like we are expected to post content even when readers don't even express that they want it. And then when people are negative and hateful about your ships, it's even worse. Because having all that hate without a counterbalance of positivity, it's discouraging. That is a reality, and authors aren't being entitled for pointing it out to you that it's discouraging, and you really should be engaging with the work you like.
