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[–] RoabeArt@hexbear.net 17 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) (3 children)

Any time I talk about my hobbies, I get told that I have too much free time on my hands, and/or that I should turn said hobbies into a job/business.

It's like people are so capitalism-brained that they can't fathom someone having a passion for the sake of the passion itself, and not making a commodity out of it.

Also the phrase "you have too much free time on your hands" as a backhanded insult. People seem to abhor the idea of someone spending their time doing things for themselves instead of working. Or am I reading too much into that?

[–] shath@hexbear.net 9 points 3 months ago (1 children)

"if you love what you do you'll never work a day in your life" yeah well nobody will pay me to sit in bed drinking beer all day so get fucked

[–] robot_dog_with_gun@hexbear.net 9 points 3 months ago (1 children)

yeah well nobody will pay me to sit in bed drinking beer all day

just get popular as a "just chatting" dork on twitch. ez clap

[–] shath@hexbear.net 7 points 3 months ago

"just chatting" and it's just a stream of me falling asleep because the mornign beer was not a good idea

[–] UlyssesT@hexbear.net 3 points 3 months ago (1 children)

If I brought my novels to a publisher, I'd have to remove just about everything I wanted to say in them in favor of "nonpolitical" pretenses with a lot of extra pandering, and even then it'd be just for a chance at additional reach with a big cut of each sold book going to the very same corpos that had just sandblasted anything of value I wanted to say in my work.

[–] Barx@hexbear.net 6 points 3 months ago (2 children)

There are some vaguely lefty publishers that might bite but this will massively restrict your distribution.

[–] UlyssesT@hexbear.net 3 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Well, I self published already, for better or for worse. If even those vaguely lefty publishers wanted to me to tweak an entire novel trilogy, that'd probably involve massive rewrites too. That makes me wonder what might be left.

Would the vaguely lefty publishers want me to drop the revolutionary war entirely, or remove the pivotal (and namesake) mecha from it?

[–] Barx@hexbear.net 3 points 3 months ago

Oh nice that sounds like a sick book

[–] Skua@kbin.earth 1 points 3 months ago

Well it won't restrict it compared to not distributing at all, at least

[–] Miaou@jlai.lu 1 points 3 months ago

Making money doesn't necessarily equates to capitalism, especially if you're your own boss