Going to be one of those days.

[bladespark]

Woke up to a nasty message in my inbox. Somebody on sofurry was bitching at me about *daring* to use the site to try and sell stories by posting teaser/advertisement stories.

Yeah, how *dare* I follow the site's own rules and use its own handy tags for just that situation? Gasp!

I attempted to reply, got even more bitching back, and decided to block and delete the guy.

The real irony, though, is that I'm using sofurry as a test-bed for seeing if posting really large chunks, like 1/2 the story, is any good for getting people to buy the second half, so it's actually the one place right now where you can read the first steamy scene in Storm Cat totally for free.

You just can't win.

Although it really does kind of sadden me, the sheer vitriol some people have for the idea of making money at artistic endeavors. I'm not some corporate drone, pushing "buy this" so a rich suit can get their quarterly profits, I'm one person, who pours hours and hours into stuff that mostly people can enjoy for free, and who would like to be able to pay the bills, or buy a beer or whatever.

Comments

[conuly]

Geez, haven't they ever heard of "Don't like, don't read"?

[bladespark]

A lot of people haven't heard of that, it seems.

[raveninthewind]

Hang tight.

[bladespark]

Thanks. They had strawberry cider in stock at the store today, so my day is at least not a total disaster. :3

[angelwolfy]

that... is so dumb. i hate how devalued artist work is that people throw fits like that. we live in a society where advertisements are shoved everywhere and people dont get as mad about it when its laundry detergent or whatever but i guess a single artist wanting something in return for making shit with their time to entertain people is too much lmao i wish u all the best in ur endeavors

[silveradept]

I'm not entirely sure what leg they have to stand on, given that the site itself has tags for specifically that purpose. If they feel cheated that only a portion of the story is there, that doesn't look good on them, either.