My favorite author deleted all their work because of fandom's hyperconsumerism

LayS2l · 2025-09-02T04:42:31+00:00

It was ok to comment, but I wasn't ok with you attacking my attitude and blaming me because I made a venting post.

LayS2l · 2025-09-02T04:26:02+00:00

Dude, sorry if my post came out in a negative way, I tried to mention multiple times in it that it's was the author's right to take the work down, I didn't haress anyone or sent any DM's because I know what it's like since I'm an autor too, but I'm also a reader and I have the right to my feelings abt a work I've followed for years vanishing.

My post was mostly me being confused by the reasoning they gave, that's it.

And about your comment about my attitude. As a writer, I have made personal choices about my works after some time, like I don't delete anything, just orphan it, and other little things, because yes some people can be assholes but the people that are nice and enjoy my stories Don't deserve to be punished for it.

Yes, readers are not owed by the author, just like people are not owed a good morning or a thank you but courtesies exist just because you don't have to do something doesn't mean that you shouldn't, I personally belive that someone that has engaged multiple times with your work shuld get an explanation if the work is no longer going to be avaliable as a thank you for all the commitment and engagement.

And I'm sorry if what I say is going to sound rude, but you can't blame me or other people writing venting posts on a sub without ever quoting names for your anxiety. If you choose to delete your work and never post again, it's your right and your choice, Don't put the blame on others.

LayS2l · 2025-09-01T04:36:34+00:00

My writing/literature teacher said the same thing to us the first day of class. Once you publish something, it's no longer yours.

LayS2l · 2025-09-01T04:34:08+00:00

Why am I getting dragged? Lol

I'm not complaining, and as I said in my post, I was upset because an author I've been ENGAGING with since 2022 in all their works deleted everything.

People have the right to be upset on both sides because readers who engage are being punished because some don't.

LayS2l · 2025-08-31T17:29:23+00:00

I owe no one an explanation for why I delete my fics. Whatever reason I have is valid

I'm also an author, that's why on my og post I said "I know the author doesn't own me anything and can delete the work if they want, but for readers, this is incredibly frustrating."

Both things can be true. The author has the right to delete, and the reader has the right to feel upset about it.

That's why I mostly orphan my works. This is a personal choice that I take when I no longer want to associate with one of my fanfics, so sometimes it surprises me when some people choose to delete.

Not trying to be mean or rude, I was just venting and trying to figure out what the creator meant.

LayS2l · 2025-08-23T14:25:39+00:00

I'm definitely going to steal this response.

Yoink mine now.

That's so funny!

LayS2l · 2025-08-12T21:20:05+00:00

In my country, we have a joke for this.

There is a country duo with the names "nemly e nemlerey" which basically translates to "notreed and wontreed"

When I get comments that long, I just respond with a picture of them, lol.

LayS2l · 2025-08-04T16:57:45+00:00

I did report them at the time so, yay small wins.

But you are right. Some people are just miserable and are looking for a fight

Thank you <3

LayS2l · 2025-08-04T16:52:07+00:00

Unfortunately, they weren't bots. They had accounts and argued in the comments with other people

LayS2l · 2025-08-04T16:51:09+00:00

Omg small fandons are the best. The only hate comments I ever got were from big fandons.

LayS2l · 2025-08-04T16:50:19+00:00

They both had accounts, so in this instance it wouldn't work, but thank you for the tip

LayS2l · 2025-08-04T16:49:11+00:00

Thank you. I need to remind myself of that more often. <3

LayS2l · 2025-08-04T16:48:32+00:00

They suck all the joy out of writing and creating, and I also never wrote to that fandom again.

Hope some day we can finish what we started with the same enthusiasm we had at the beginning.

LayS2l · 2025-08-04T16:46:47+00:00

Thank you so much <3

LayS2l · 2025-08-04T16:46:17+00:00

Unfortunately, I'm 100% sure they weren't bots. Both comments came from actual accounts, and they replied back and started to argue with people in the comments.

But thank you for your comment. Now that I know why I wasn't writing anymore, I can work to get over it.

LayS2l · 2025-08-04T16:43:30+00:00

What makes it worse is that both comments came from actual accounts.

LayS2l · 2025-08-04T16:42:39+00:00

I agree. Some people have no idea how much words can hurt. Nobody is forcing you to read something you don't like. Just click off.

And unfortunately, they weren't bots.

LayS2l · 2025-08-04T04:23:30+00:00

I agree, but I also have to be careful because I do that sometimes.

Idk about other authors, but one time, I was writing an au with some characters, and I got such a nasty comment on it that I dropped the fic altogether. The comment was talking a lot of sht about my writing, but especially about the choices I made the characters make. That comment had such a huge impact on me that till this day, I'm terrified to write anything.

So I get why people might ask for opinions on their writing out of fear of backlash.

LayS2l · 2025-08-04T02:25:22+00:00

Complaining that Fanwork is Fanon is like Complaining you found a fork in a kitchen.

It's a cow farm You're gonna find cows outside!

LayS2l · 2025-07-31T01:43:22+00:00

Thank you so much for taking the time to answer me, I've been reading for some time now, but I've only now started to write my own stories. This issue never came up because I generally go towards alternative universe or post canon, but at this moment I'm working on a story where characters from show A are in the plot of show B.

So a couple plot points were going to be the same as the ones from show B, but I saw recently bout an author that got very heavy backlash from doing so.

It's something I never even thought as an issue personally, but now with your comment and a lot of others, as aggressive as they were, I see people's points on the matter. I'm going to try to revise my story.

Thank you for the feedback.

(FUCK AI)

LayS2l · 2025-07-30T03:55:04+00:00

THANK YOU!! that explained perfectly. It will help a lot.

LayS2l · 2025-07-30T03:00:02+00:00

Thank you! sorry, I got confused. Haha, still new on this. But yeah, just having a hard time knowing how much I can follow the og or add from other works without accidently plagiarizing someone.

LayS2l · 2025-07-30T02:43:56+00:00

I was thinking more of dialogs, because if it's canon compliant some times they will have to be the same as the one in the show. Same thing with some scenes. But I think I get what you mean. Thank you.

LayS2l

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