Mostly because the whole Patreon thing is literally a legal loophole - in most cases you're not selling your fanfiction, but you're giving a bonus (early access, or extra stuff, or citing the donators in your author notes... this kind of thing) in exchange for a donation - basically separating the "money trail" from the fanfiction itself!

I could literally set up a Patreon, and as long as there is no copyrighted content inside the Patreon rewards I would be golden. If, say, my "perks" are one shots involving only my original characters and things like "for X tier you get to have a minor character designed by you cameo in the main story" the only thing I'd have to worry about is how to file Patreon revenue in my taxes!

For someone who grew up with the "I'm not getting any money out of this so don't sue me" disclaimer being everywhere, and havign used it myself, this is unbelievable.

When (some) fanfic writers are using Patreon or other platforms to make money off their writing (didn't Amazon start a publish-your-fanfic thing a while back? That was weird), "I'm not making money off this" isn't just a boilerplate disclaimer defence: it can become either "this isn't some of my monetised fic (so I'm not putting in the effort)" or "I'm not one of those people who monetise this (so you should be grateful you get anything at all)".

I don't have evidence - I mostly see it in the form of people complaining about it (as with so many things). But with Lily confirming that people are using Patreon for this, and Yuki asking for it in the first place, I'm happy to accept the insight of people more in-touch than me.

hS

Scource: I tried. And nearly burnt myself out on it. Then again, I did have both a very picky editor and was trying to follow the advice of a even pickier guy who makes writing courses but turned out he was quite the elitist "you have to do things exactly as I say, anything else is wrong and horrible and I'll chew you out on it" kind of guy. He even objected on the use of third person.

I ended up both throwing out that novel attempt (basically Blank Sprite turned into an original) and that guy's course after I had quite a quarrel on it over one of the examples he used for the importance of checklists, about a guy who ended up in trouble because he forgot to manually check the fuel level of his boat since its fuel indicator was unreliable.

I dared point out that checking the fuel level manually was a short term solution, and that it made more sense to get the fuel indicator fixed so the issue simply couldn't happen again and the checklist would be . I got accused of missing the point of the example, to which I had to rebutt that my point still applied to writing-related checklists as the example itself could be paragonable to "check for missed spaces since I have an unreliable space bar on my keyboard" which could be striken off the checklist by buying a new keyboard. That was my point - if the checklist was shorter, maybe the guy would've found it to be less of a chore and he would've actually done it.

I got then accused that the way I was writing down the matter proved that I didn't believe in checklists. Dude, I work in the aeronautical sector. Checklists are my bread and butter - and that's exactly why they should be streamlined when possible. You can't check the tightness of each single bolt before each single flight, for example - the checklist would take days.