• RoabeArt [he/him]@hexbear.net
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    3 months ago

    Any time I talk about my hobbies, people tell me that I have too much free time on my hands, and/or that I should turn said hobbies into a job/business.

    It’s like people are so capitalism-brained that they can’t fathom the idea of someone having a passion for the sake of the passion itself, and not making a commodity out of it.

    • UlyssesT [he/him]@hexbear.net
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      3 months ago

      If I brought my novels to a publisher, I’d have to remove just about everything I wanted to say in them in favor of “nonpolitical” pretenses with a lot of extra pandering, and even then it’d be just for a chance at additional reach with a big cut of each sold book going to the very same corpos that had just sandblasted anything of value I wanted to say in my work.

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          3 months ago

          Well, I self published already, for better or for worse. If even those vaguely lefty publishers wanted to me to tweak an entire novel trilogy, that’d probably involve massive rewrites too. That makes me wonder what might be left.

          Would the vaguely lefty publishers want me to drop the revolutionary war entirely, or remove the pivotal (and namesake) mecha from it?

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      3 months ago

      “if you love what you do you’ll never work a day in your life” yeah well nobody will pay me to sit in bed drinking beer all day so get fucked