re: money ruins fandom

In my experience*, the acceptability of fandom in the Global North has involved a disavowal and pushing-under-the-bus of non-transformative and for-profit piracy which characterises fannish experience in the Global South.

So it is fascinating to watch how the intersection of transformative and for-profit piracy works upon people.









* as both a fan from the Global South for the last decade and half, and a piracy researcher in the last three years.

Band of Brothers Icons

An old-school activity for an old-school fandom.

( Twenty-one icons under the cut )

As always, free for the taking.