just saw someone reviewing the erin hunter books like, ‘they should publish the whole series at once, i don’t want to wait a whole year to read it’. like babe i hate to break it to you but,,,, go touch some grass and think about your relationship with consumerism okay, because it’s gotten really weird on you
I’ve heard these kinds of sentiments in regards to novels, as well as readers outright refusing to read fantasy series debuts because “they fear committing to something unfinished” (like refusing to read an incomplete fanfic on AO3…) in case the author dies, or isn’t able/doesn’t complete the work. The GRRM effect, if you will.
Regardless of how people feel towards the authors personally, I will continue to bleat, til the day I die, artists do not owe an audience anything. They are not in debt to you. They don’t owe their works to their readers, no exceptions, there is no “earned/lost trust” or “unspoken contracts.” Capitalism has got people treating artists and entertainers as though they should hop on their bicycles like a chained bear, the moment the audience cracks its whip.
There’s also this fun aspect of capitalism where your favorite (usually marginalized) author doesn’t get another book contract or have the rest of the series picked up or have the money to keep investing their time in that project because you refused to buy the thing until it was finished.
Not only do creators not owe their audience anything, but those who really truly want to give these things to their audience are directly prevented from doing so by this exact mentality!
As author of such series - YES PLEASE DON’T WAIT. I know SO many friends who’ve had their series cancelled WHILE they were in the middle of writing the next book specifically because the numbers on the first book(s) weren’t “good enough™”, or who were told that the series would end with the next book so had to jam three book’s worth of plot and character development into one.
I wrote and published a kids book, and it’s been so weird how everyone says that they’re looking forward to the next one. Like, this one was so much work already and will probably break even with costs after a decade if I’m lucky.
I get that it’s a kind thing to say in theory, but man it’s been weird how common that sentiment is for a book in a genre defined by its consumers re-reading the same books again and again.
Does anyone have that pic of the furries crying watching 9/11 from a distance? Poorly drawn
Here’s a collection and it’s NONE of these;
P1
P2
P3
Literally I’m losing my mind how can I not find it please help
I’m almost willing to pay someone to find it
It’s not this one but it’s kind of close in layout but they’re IN New York watching it happen and I think you can see the sea at the bottom of the image
Here’s a bad layout depiction drawn with my finger while I stand naked outside the shower bc I can’t shower till I figure this out
