Your take on Ashley's character is one of the most cynical, jaundiced things I've read about this show yet. She's the teenaged child of an alcoholic who died in a cloud of shame and ignominy, whose mother has withdrawn into complete denial, whose just been evicted from her family home, and you think she's "stupid and…

You read the part where no one involved in this labor of love is getting paid for it, right? Where it says that the money raised just cover the expenses of producing a hardcover book?

I wish I understood this perspective even a little bit. As you say, no one is making a profit here, they're simply covering production costs. For someone within fandom who presumably "gets it," I don't understand how or why this crosses a line. What exactly is so incredibly shame-inducing about people producing a…