Also, it's been reported that it was a literary agent that reached out to Ali Hazelwood, author of The Love Hypothesis, with a proposal to have her fanfic published with the serial numbers filled, which shatters that narrative that it's all on the hubris of bad het porn writers to think themselves worthy of publication, especially since there have been always a market for cheap sappy romance novels since publishing exists (where y'all asleep when Nicholas Sparks was leading the best seller lists on the 2000s or what) and I don't see where's the shame in someone looking at their coffee shop au with side porn and thinking "I could make some bucks out of it, you know". On average, the writing is not worse than what we are used to have in this genre.
The original post is such a funny cope lmao. The trying to find an angle in which becoming a published writer is somehow a cringe thing and the completely made up fact that people who write Actual Good Fics For Actual Good Ships are too busy having real dignified jobs like working on the government [citation needed] to pursue a lowly literary career are such a wild combination of reaching. Deep down they're not mad because the fanfiction-to-publishing pipeline is destroying real literature (real literature is fine and well, you just have to leave the devil's sacrament, I mean, the ya section of barnes&noble every once in a while and try to visit the adult lit aisle sometimes), it's because, as a mutual of mine has put it, dunking on reylo has become such an instant clout button on the internet that them terminally online kids have lost sight that no one in the Offline World gives a fuck if the star wars ship is problematique and every new reylo fanfiction that gets published and makes numbers is another burst in their bubble that reylo is a niche ship for freaks that Normal People despise for its toxicity. because actual Normal People who don't spend 24/7 on twitblr don't give a fuck as to not even have an opinion on it.
(also Thea Guanzon, author of serial filled numbers reylo fanfic turned into novel The Hurricane Wars, is an author of color from a third world country, Philipines, who said she'd never have a chance of making into the american published fiction scene prior to the fanfic-to-publishing phenomenon. as a latina from the global south who also aims to become a published author in the english speaking world this makes me so happy for her and so hopeful that I might have an entryway I'd otherwise not have to make it happen, but american whitey gerardpilled here is too busy whining about how the democratization of publishing is allowing "bad" authors to make it instead of what it could means for marginalized authors who otherwise would only see shut doors on their faces)
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