Profit

The most controversial topic.

Should you profit from other people's work?

Are you really taking money that would have gone to the original work? As in, your fans would have brought them should you not show up?

Is it really bad to ask for money for something you invested your time in?

Aren't fanfic authors compensating by making the fanbase active and excited for more new works from the original source?

Either way, I think that we can both agree that profits from fanfics are a ship that already sailed a long time ago, and that cannot be stopped currently.

I can only pray that you be self-aware of these issues, and should you create a Patreon, be as moral as possible about it. Even if I know this is nothing but a dream.

Smut and R-18 are profitable, that's undeniable. But let's be civil about it, alright?

And to everyone reading this, let's not push smut R-18 to the top rankings of any website to detriment of the true works of fiction.

We are better than this.

… I hope so.