#tbh rambling like crazy i been thinking about this for like 12h now

[wickedlittleoz]

an artist i follow got an ask about whether it was alright to use their art as covers for fanfic bookbinding and i'm. sorry i must have missed this discourse but since when are people outright printing out other people's work and binding them into books? do you contact and get author's permission (sure as fuck hope so)? and how do we writers feel about that, because i certainly feel very uncomfortable with that idea. i mean not to spoil the artistic expression of bookbinding because it's beautiful work that i most certainly could not do, but. you can access them stories any time you want on the websites where they were originally posted. why print them? again i mean i get the pleasure of holding & reading physical books, i much prefer that too, but like. get some books i guess? sorry i come from a place of honesty and tbh surprise and confusion about this whole thing. someone tell me how we're feeling about this. someone explain to me why it's being done. i just wanna understand

#wicked little talks #wicked little rambles #tbh rambling like crazy i been thinking about this for like 12h now #& i bet i sound like an asshole but it's not my intention #i respect the work but why use other people's work is what i don't understand #hopefully they have permission but i'm terrified by the idea of being contacted by someone who found something of mine #on someone else's shelf while i'm sitting at home in my pajamas painfully unaware #anyway might delete later