Strange thoughts about fic/art schizm

I am very loopy, still, so forgive me if this rambles. I haven't been feeling well since Tuesday morning.

So I've noticed (or at least I think I've noticed) that there is kind of a schizm between fanfiction writers and fanartists. No, I don't mean that there is some sort of civil war and the fanartists are launching erasers at the fanfiction authors or anything of the sort. I just mean that I've noticed that the writers tend to stick together, and the fanartists tend to stick together, though that isn't a strict rule, of course, because there are some people who do both, and there are collaborations, etc. It's just that I've seen cliques of writers, and cliques of authors. I've noticed this for awhile now. So I kind of wanted to do some thinking about why it's like this.

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