I had someone in my fandom gift me a fic based on one of my works that was fine at the time of gifting and then a year later she edited - still gifted to me - into this unauthorized callout wank [complete with lying about me, and I have receipts proving it's lies] and it's _still_ in my Related Works, though I refuse to put a reciprocal link to it on my end; I also refused the "gift". The whole clusterfuck surrounding that and related stuff, which led to me getting a "kill yourself" comment complete with transphobic slurs from one of her fans just before Christmas two years ago, is why I don't allow anyone other than two people I've known for years and trust to borrow my characters or do any "inspired bys", I'm one of the very few people I know who doesn't do blanket permission, and I have comments disabled on most of my works. I allow translations and fanart, but that's the extent of it.
I too have been working on my mental health but no, feelings don't work on/off and that whole experience made me very skittish about interacting in fandom, and more strict about curating my space than most people on DW.
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Date: 2022-01-06 11:17 (UTC)I too have been working on my mental health but no, feelings don't work on/off and that whole experience made me very skittish about interacting in fandom, and more strict about curating my space than most people on DW.