honestly a certain kind of fandom discourse would go a lot better if we could all acknowledge that from both an ethical & artistic standpoint fanfiction is essentially neutral. it’s not inherently transgressive & important and neither it is inherently The Death Of Art. it’s just a type of writing that people can do.
That moment, hopefully more than one but especially the first one, when you’re reading a fanfic and a character says something they never ever said in canon, but you hear it crystal clear in their voice in your head, when it hits so spot on in word use and syntax and characterization that you feel like you heard them say it, like it could have come straight from their mouth in canon even though it didn’t, and you know this one’s gonna be good
I love and appreciate every single person in the notes that mentioned their favorite author who does this for them, and I hope they see you saying so and have a really nice night because of it
see i have no fear of someone looking over my shoulder while i’m reading fanfiction because if you can tell that i’m reading fanfiction then either you’ve been reading enough to figure out that it’s fanfiction, or you can recognize the ao3 website by sight. we BOTH lose.
see i have no fear of someone looking over my shoulder while i’m reading fanfiction because if you can tell that i’m reading fanfiction then either you’ve been reading enough to figure out that it’s fanfiction, or you can recognize the ao3 website by sight. we BOTH lose.
