ArgentSheWolf

roach-works:

coping-via-clint-eastwood:

roach-works:

something about the discourse on if fanfiction is Good or not has bugged me for years and i think i finally put my finger on why: even if reading and writing fanfiction is bad for women– because let’s not pretend all these judgements don’t hinge on whether or not women are having fun in the wrong way–it’s a voluntary activity that people enjoy doing, and that should be that.

fanfic degrades your morals– cool so does football. look at the way football players and football fans behave. when’s the last time supernatural fans set pittsburgh on fire, or tore up a strip club, or assaulted flight attendants? fuck, it would be cool if fanfic was on the level of literally any national sport.

fanfic lures you into sexual activity you might not otherwise have engaged in– so does dancing and drinking and especially drinking and dancing, activities women are also warned against but have enjoyed anyway for thousands of fucking years.

fanfic is a waste of time when you could be reading or writing Literature– almost no one does that anyway! like, if this is your beef you’re not allowed to turn on the TV until you finish Wuthering Heights. meanwhile the rest of us are going to do things that are easy and fun, because humans like doing things that are easy and fun.

fanfic is masturbatory– masturbation is actually healthy and good for you if you care to partake in it. it reduces stress, improves your mood, and acquaints you with your body’s likes and dislikes. isn’t it suspicious that this is something women are also not supposed to be doing?

IN CONCLUSION i don’t care if fanfiction is good for you and neither should you. i don’t care about the latest thinkpiece that argues that fanfiction is intelligent, sophisticated, analytical, healing, creative, revolutionary.

i care that hundreds of thousands of women like it.

because that’s enough.

Ok but, fanfiction IS literature. Even if it’s not held with as great esteem, they are still creative written works that authors put their heart and soul into.

no.

the vast majority of fanfic is crap.

90% of it is amateur work done for free by people who are usually young and unskilled and often writing simply for fun. because they’re horny or angry or sad or excited or curious. most human self-expression and creative work is shallow, unskilled, and unoriginal– and unique and valuable in and of itself, anyway. like, most humans aren’t professionals who pour decades of skill, experience, and pent-up finely-honed love and rage and longing into their work. most humans do things badly. because those things are worth doing badly.

if fanfiction is only Worthwhile because it is Good, if it’s only Good because it’s Worthwhile, then most of it isn’t. most of it is badly written, spelled, plotted, characterized, and formatted. to argue that fanfiction is the same thing as literature is an absurd way to immediately lose that argument, because it’s not. fanfiction is folk art, from everyone, by everyone, for everyone. literature is a commercial product produced mostly by technically skilled writers and it’s mediated entirely by financially-motivated distributors.

but ‘fanfiction is literature’ is  a pointless argument in the first place. you sing. you dance. you cook. you tell stories. these are human things to do. are you good at them? are you so good at them that you elevate the entire field and provide the sole justification for engaging in such an endeavor? no. you don’t have to.

fanfic is good and worthwhile because people like to read it and write it. it doesn’t have to have heart and soul. it doesn’t have to be literature. it just has to be human.

(via bibliophile-rhino-nerd)

cryptidcrone:

the-apocryphal-one:

janekfan:

raimagnolia:

frostyemma:

domicileensnared:

jetru:

saltwaffle:

full offense but none of you would have ever survived fanfiction.net in 2009

remember when writers had to be all like:
“omg omg lemon starts HERE”

y’all are lucky that ao3 has tags and filters you can set

Sometimes shit was marked “lemon” and it’d just be them making out, and sometimes they’d just start pissing on each other

No rules, no laws, you took your life into your hands opening fics

A/N: this contains SLASH, that means TWO MEN, if that makes you uncomfy, DON’T READ!

A/N: please don’t sue me, o anime overlords, I’m not making any money off of this! I’m just a broke student! I don’t have any money!

A/N: I totally wrote this while high off 10 Red Bulls wheeeeeee!!!!!

A/N: COMMENT if you want me to continue the next chappy!!!

No, no, no

remember when there’d be interactions with the author and the characters?

InuYasha: I don’t get why I have to be here for this

A/N: Because it was in your contract!!1!1 *revs chainsaw*

god those were lawless times. 

…I’m fucking SWEATING

this is literally giving me flashbacks

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avannak:

demonicvulcan:

person: but it’s canon

me: yes, but it’s very badly written, so we ignore it

#or treat it as a salad bar#I’ll have some of those and some of that#but none of that

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xekstrin:

xekstrin:

My boyfriend, again blending together fanfiction tropes: So what if when you finally find your soulmate, that’s when you discover if you’re alpha or omega, right?

Me, hands shaking as I frantically search for pen & paper: KEEP TALKING

Me: Seems hellish

Boyfriend: So does being an ant person

Me: Again, baby, they’re not ants

Boyfriend: YES THEY ARE. They communicate via pheromones— LIKE ANTS.

Me: So back to the soulmate thing….

Boyfriend: You could trick them into following orders and thinking they’re dead by spraying them with a spritz bottle. I think they need a queen.

Me: So back to the soulmate thing…. Seems hellish!

Boyfriend: Not really. If being around the other person is what triggers the changes, if you want to go back to normal… all you need to do is leave.

Me, writing: (You found your soulmate. It’s changing you in scary ways. All you need to do is leave… how difficult would it be to leave? What pressures exist to stay?)

Boyfriend: So these ant-people—

Me: OMEGAVERSE IS NOT ANTS!!!!!!

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huntress1013:

NASA released the clearest pictures yet of our neighbours in the solar system

Oh and of course us

Honourable mention

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beardedmrbean:

She’s trying to contribute like the good kitty she is

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