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Message: <blockquote data-quote="VelvetViolet" data-source="post: 9672332" data-attributes="member: 6686357">That was back before they went evil, or at least when the evil was a lot easier to ignore than the dystopia we live in right now.Multiple things. I’m upset that various old IPs I liked were canceled and buried, or else driven into the ground and stripped of everything I liked in the first place. I’m upset that new IPs aren’t given a chance to flourish either, unless they get shoehorned into established IPs. All of this is the result of centralized monopolistic corporate ownership of artistic production. It’s killing art.I know that, believe me. Am I the only one who feels that way? I get the impression from all the angry fan discourse that this is how so many fans feel. They want the publisher to only produce content they personally like and at a consistent level of quality. I know that unrealistic, you know that unrealistic, but this angry fandom discourse keeps complaining about it. The way to fix this would be for the publisher to release the IP into public domain. That way the fans can make new works and make it to suit their tastes, without any pesky interference. What? That’s not feasible. None of the systems I like are supported by any publisher, and most aren’t legally available in PDF either. That’s why I’m unhappy. I wouldn’t be unhappy if that was an option. Exactly. Which is why those tightfisted corpos and creators who are being attacked by the fandom menace, or who have no intention of stewarding their IPs, should release those IPs into public domain so than anybody who cares can take a crack at them. So much of the fandom menace would just vanish if they could fork their own versions of these IPs that they could tailor to their tastes. So many dead canceled IPs could get a new lease on life. Indie creators trying to make original work would benefit from a plethora of new sources of inspiration becoming free to read and reference.</blockquote>

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