Apparently I'm feeling cranky tonight

Particularly about fandom's aversion to money. Oh noes, someone might want to pay an author for their work. HORRORS! Or a community leader for doing a good job. AGHAST!

Good Christ, imzy needs to make money somehow. They're going to skim off transactions to avoid having ads. Which means... there need to BE transactions.

Maybe it's not the worst thing in the world to hand someone a dollar for a thing you enjoyed and also help pay for the platform you enjoyed it on. Maybe that's not the end of the world, especially since you don't HAVE to and no one is twisting your arm.

But hey, no one bags on fanartists for selling their art all over the place, so I guess it's just writers that are out to ruin the Utopian Economy of Free Stuff that fandom expects to be given.