Megan West(erby) 6085

"It is not an automagical process on a level playing field, Mr. Coulton, Mr. Gaiman. You know this. It doesn’t take away from your art or your success to acknowledge that you are embedded in a system ginned up to send people just like you straight to the top. 'Make good stuff and make it easy for people to buy it' is so simplistic as to be grossly insulting. People have been making good art and trying to make it easy for people to buy it since the dawn of time, and it’s no accident that somehow, weirdly, it’s straight white folks, mostly men, who still keep ending up succeeding at it! Every single movement of independent music, art, and literature has foundered on the level of distribution (remember when Caroline went under? and every other zine distributor or independent record distribution company?). The internet is not going to magically solve this any more than desktop publishing or the postal service did, because it is embedded in the very same system."

maura:

FUCKING PREACH IT MIKKI. 

THIS.

(Source: neil-gaiman)

26 January 2012 ·

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