“In Defense of Fan Fiction”
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just wanted to let y’all know that after my ~10 years of reading fanfic i’ve realized something
with the most depressing/heartbreaking ships (that are or are not canon but most often not) it’s so much easier to read sexual fanfics because it keeps you from remembering what happened in the book/original source/whatever
like
it’s easier to read a sexy wolfstar because in a sexy fic they’re not going to die (unless it’s a really long chaptered fic and in that case i usually stop reading before the end because i know what canonically happens and it’s fucking sad)
so it keeps you from getting depressed
like i read an enjolras/grantaire and it was beautifully written but it was like G rated and then i remembered they died because it was so realistic and i got depressed and couldn’t enjoy the fic anymore gl;kdfsh
so don’t hate on smutty fics because they’re 100% necessary
so i was reading order of the phoenix
…and during the scene where Sirius and Molly are arguing (i love this scene) over whether Harry should be able to know more about what Voldemort’s been up to…
in the middle of page 88: “Lupin’s eyes were fixed on Sirius.”
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at the bottom of page 89: “‘Personally,’ said Lupin quietly, looking away from Sirius at last, as Mrs. Weasley turned quickly to him…”
Lupin, what what what are you doing. Sirius and Molly are having a ~serious argument~ and you’re just staring at Sirius? FOR A PAGE AND A HALFS WORTH OF TIME. Way to pay attention, gosh!
can we just discuss some things
- people are not “wasting their time” by writing fanfiction
- i mean they might be procrastinating
- but no matter what the writing is about it, it’s still writing
- in fanfiction, some people have okay story lines
- some people have shitty story lines
- some people have amazing story lines
- but no matter what it is, they still put effort into it
it annoys me to no end when people hear “fanfiction” and burst into laughter or roll their eyes or say it’s “the lowest form of entertainment”. like, yes, some of it is not meant to be taken seriously but that doesn’t mean that its readers don’t take it to heart. just because the author doesn’t own the universe doesn’t mean it’s not a LEGIT STORY. i’m not embarrassed to say that some of the stories i’ll remember and love for the rest of my life and that made me cry my eyes out and that i excitedly shared with others are fanfictions. i used to print them out and put them under my bed at age 9 because they were so good.
even if you don’t like the same ships i do, there’s no reason to diss them or fanfiction. it’s a hobby, an interest. just don’t read it if you don’t like it. i’m sure the fanfiction wouldn’t want your eyes ripping it apart anyway.
And this is my friend Carina as an elf. We’re LotR/Wolfstar kindred spirits.
shoebox project, chapter 23, read.
FAT TEARS OF HAPPINESS AND JOY AND EXPLOSION ARE EXPLODING IN MY EXPLOSION OF A CHEST.
O FABIAN. O REMUS. O SIRIUS. O KINGSLEY. O VOMIT.
last ramblings of a fanfiction fangirl of 2011
okay so let me start off by just warning you that this post will have slim to none punctuation or proper grammar or carefully worded sentences basically this is just word vomit so if you would like to read then i apologize in advance
so basically i started reading the shoebox project last week which is the world’s best remus/sirius & james/lily fic ever written. like literally, ever. and there are truly marvelous ones out there, this just blows them all out of the water. it is so close to the characters personalities and it makes me cry and laugh out loud and it makes me do the thing i love best: not be able to stop reading.
sometimes a book just does not catch my eye, or does not hold my attention or i find myself falling asleep or my mind is straying to other things. of the 17 chapters i’ve read of this fanfiction so far - and they’re not short chapters - that never happened once. never. NEVER. not even when people reblogged some of my tumblr posts with rude things or i was bothered by outside things. this fanfiction is more than a fanfiction. it’s COMFORT.
i’m one chapter over being halfway done, and it’s not anything in the storyline that is making me feel this way, but i was just downstairs shoving laundry in the washer and shoving the cake in the oven and i was like hold on i am depressing myself so fucking much by reading this like james and lily are adorable but they DIE and that’s what makes their relationship so much more real, that there are beautiful writers like this who put so much depth into the background of harry’s parents and you start to feel like they’re major characters of the actual series and you get so attached to them and life is beautiful and nothing hurts and then you realize oh wait they fucking die like remus dies sirius dies peter is a traitor and then dies like this is not real life and then you realize harry potter isn’t real life but it’s all so sad like james ordered lily to run for her life when voldemort showed up and my cries he spent all his hogwarts years just trying to win her affection and they had such a short relationship together and now that i’ve read this fanfiction and seen how, in the authors mind, he won her over with poetry suggestions from remus and just altogether growing the fuck up once the whole snape in the willow incident occurred, i am just flabbergasted and awestruck because this story will now stick in my head forever as actual fiction-fact and i will read the harry potter books and read snape’s worst memory and see the marauders taking their OWL’s along with harry only i will look at them so differently because i know I KNOW i have read the shoebox project and i know all about them and what they do and the pranks they play and how they were obsessed with gideon and fabian’s book and i haven’t even read the whole thing yet what is to come and my heart just breaks in two thinking of remus and tonks “sleeping under the starry sky” and like guys don’t deny your homosexual love for each other and then remus thought his best friend might have been guilty of murdering his other friend for TWELVE YEARS and just this fandom and series is so fucking beautiful that it produces things like this and just oh my god so much love and sorrow in my heart at once like let me die but no don’t because it’s about to be a new year and my hands hurt from typing this why does fanfiction make me feel this way and then there’s so many funny references to other fiction in this story like there’s a wuthering heights dream scene and i’m supposed to meet my senior english teacher over break soon and we saw that movie in her class and she’ll be like so how’ve you been and i’ll be like oh i’m good guess what i just read “what?” a 26 chapter wolfstar fanfiction that had a wuthering heights scene “wtf…..”
just i think i’m done but ugh my heart is just poring over with endless emotion
happy new year everyone!
the shoebox project is destroying my sleeping habits
it is 5 am
but wolfstar is too adorable to sleep
IT’S DONE. IT’S WRITTEN. IT’S COMPLETE. IT’S
A REMUS/SIRIUS FANFICTION FOR MY BEST FRIEND.
AWWWWYEAAAA
question! did you ever read a fanfiction in first person? did you enjoy it?
i’m thinking of it. hit me up.
now that i’ve seen the hobbit trailer, finished the art for the merch i wanted to accomplish today, and not showered, it’s time for wolfstar fanfiction for a friend’s christmas present.
let’s see how good i am at writing this. it’s been forever.
