pagerunner-j:

Fandom: where if you draw the COVER for a tawdry romance novel referenced in someone else’s story, the creators will fall all over it, put it on a notebook – blank, of course – and put it up for sale…

…but if you _write_ a tawdry romance novel, all you’ll get is uncomfortable jokes made about it, and you’re expected to hide in a closet and never admit that you did it.

I’m kind of emotionally done.

Where fanartists get to work on professional gigs and be compensated and praised every week, and fanfiction writers get maybe a joke or two at their expense while writing jobs get handed to people in the extended family who haven’t watched more than 10% of the show and never written a comic before…