Rejnka wrote:EmilyNidhoggr wrote:ItsSongxing wrote:With this sort of practice, the only way to be sure is to google every single character and hope the Wiki is as thoroughly cited as the Type-Moon one, and nobody's going to bother doing that.
There is a simple solution- don't draw the characters at all.
There is nothing more degrading and pathetic than to make art of a corporate owned copyright protected character for free. All your hard work and care does is inflate the value, both material and spiritual, of a construct who is fundamentally an asset belonging to the enemy.
I would say that calling corporations "the enemy" is far more pathetic. If you're going to direct all your hatred towards someone who will never notice, at least direct it towards someone who deserves it. There are people commiting genocide at this very moment, and you're focusing on the people whose only crime is having too much money? I guess you can't be jealous of putting people in death camps.
You've read a comment on "corporations" as "people with too much money" and while they are often composed of such people, calling opposition to corporations as mere jealousy of their chief executives is reductive. The problem with big corporate entities is that they often garner so much wealth that they can often change the rules of wealth-earning (through lobbying or the simple exponential accumulation of capital) to deny other human individuals anything from a chance of upward mobility (such as the position of small business owners) to a dignified human existence (the normal of most working-class people) to a survivable situation at all (such as when corporate activities contaminate potable water sources or burn down forests or bulldoze populated slums). Corporate actors denying these things en masse for literally millions of people over decades of time is very much on the scale of, and usually symbiotic with, the atrocities perpetrated by political actors.
While there's a large scope to disagree with fanfiction and fanart of corporate works being more good than bad or vice versa, I don't think it's fundamentally flawed to say that the activity helps inflate the value of an asset controlled by the enemy.