Supporting Authors?

Hey guys!! I just wanted to start a thread, and conversation about how we support authors as a community, how we do it individually, monetarily, and how those methods affect and shape our community! Please reply and comment your ideas <3 Thanks for stopping by!

So, I wanted to spark a conversation about this (Not a debate, please guys. Civility) because some of my favorite series have been dropped and picked up, been debated on, shared and privated, etc! This is not to call any certain ones out, of course not! I do want to share, however, how and why I wanted to start this conversation :)

Hidoku Shinaide was dropped by nnnscans very recently. It broke my heart, TREMENDOUSLY, and I was very conflicted over their reasoning. They wanted to support sensei in their work and to stop producing sensei's work for free, when it is a licensed product. Meaning, they are steering away and using sensei's content in ways that diminish the support sensei could be getting.

I was very conflicted because I knew the rationality of it, I supported it! But ultimately, I realized I was really bummed because it was no longer free and at the tip of my fingertips. (Not sure if this is similar to you guys' and your favorites, but if so please share). And realizing this, it got me thinking about how I treated creators, their works, falling into consumerism, and all the stolen content we're consuming. It made me want to start holding myself accountable, start a conversation about how we can better support our creators and at the same time still consume these beautiful content! <3

I definitely will never be able to afford the MASSES I've already read. And I am sorry I could never give the creators the support they would have gained from this. However, I TRULY want to start holding myself accountable for undermining their hard work. And maybe if enough of us begin to hold ourselves accountable, we can better support our creators AND boost our community in ways we've never realized we needed!

Can we find ways to support them in even little amounts? Can we find ways to guide traction back to them? Can we engage in conversations of holding ourselves and each other accountable for how we are affecting this community? I honestly hope we can, and maybe our actions can change our community positively step by step <3

I can't wait to hear from you guys. Thank you to anyone who read this far <3 I've just become so disheartened and quite 'alone' in what seems to be a long uphill path.

tldr: My favorite series was dropped and I realized I was mainly upset over the idea of no longer getting it for free. It disheartened me to realize how easily I fell into the normalization of free content. And now, I really want to start holding myself accountable. Maybe, some of you will join me? :) Hope to hear from you guys <3

[Oof, long post. Thanks to those for sticking it out (￣∇￣")]