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lywinis:

Announcing Kindle Worlds

“Get ready for Kindle Worlds, a place for you to publish fan fiction inspired by popular books, shows, movies, comics, music, and games. With Kindle Worlds, you can write new stories based on featured Worlds, engage an audience of readers, and earn royalties. Amazon Publishing has secured licenses from Warner Bros. Television Group’s Alloy Entertainment for Gossip Girl, Pretty Little Liars, and The Vampire Diaries, with licenses for more Worlds on the way. 

The Kindle Worlds Self-Service Submission Platform will launch soon and enable you to submit your original works for publication.”

This. Changes. Everything.

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OMG this is blowing my mind. I suppose it was just a matter of time before there were new ways to monetize fanfic… Wow.

rhiannon42: kingedmundsroyalmurder: ofgeography: honestys-easy: milenab: unlockaflockofwords: Yes, I know I reblogged it before; I’m reblogging it again. This image epitomises the delight I get from transformative works, and it’s a beautifully eloquent response to Robin Hobb’s misguided rant about fanfiction: “The intent of the author is ignored. A writer puts a great deal of thought into what goes into the story and what doesn’t. If a particular scene doesn’t happen ‘on stage’ before the reader’s eyes, there is probably a reason for it. If something is left nebulous, it is because the author intends for it to be nebulous. To use an analogy, we look at the Mona Lisa and wonder. Each of us draws his own conclusions about her elusive smile. We don’t draw eyebrows on her to make her look surprised, or put a balloon caption over her head. Yet much fan fiction does just that. Fan fiction closes up the space that I have engineered into the story, and the reader is told what he must think rather than being allowed to observe the characters and draw his own conclusions.”  Robin Hobb on fanfiction http://web.archive.org/web/20050630015105/http://www.robinhobb.com/rant.html And she’s wrong, she’s SO wrong. Granted, drawing a mustache onto the Mona Lisa would be a bad thing, a final thing, a change-the-source thing, but there are COUNTLESS images that mess with the Mona Lisa without ever actually damaging the source image, without ever preventing a viewer from engaging with the pristine source image and interpreting it as they see fit. The Mona Lisa remains inviolate, regardless of weed-smoking iterations or The Da Vinci Code, and the audience are free to interpret her as they will. Transformative works based upon her are examples of people sharing one possible interpretation, or addressing problems they perceive, or bringing a marxist/feminist/whateverist reading to the fore, or just making their friends giggle. This, though, this is so much better than anything I’ve seen that transforms the Mona Lisa. This takes that gorgeous, familiar image of Vermeer’s Girl With A Pearl Earring (an image that the book and movie of the same name have made familiar to people outwith Art History students [who might know it as the ‘Mona Lisa of the North’]) and reworks it with brilliant and elegant simplicity. Manet’s painting ‘Olympia’ does something similar with Titian’s ‘Venus of Urbino’ (which is itself a reworking of Giorgione’s ‘Sleeping Venus’); Georgione dresses up his objectifying & titillating high class porn as an image of a goddess, and has her eyes closed - she doesn’t know we’re ogling her. She’s helpless before our (male) voyeuristic gaze. Titian’s nude knows we’re ogling her, but she’s still putatively a goddess, and despite that she’s glancing coyly away as she consciously provokes the viewer, offering herself up to him. Manet’s nude, however, is unambiguously presented as a human and a prostitute, and she looks straight out at the viewer, her hand on her thigh making it clear that she alone chooses who gets access to her sex. The painting was received with shock and disgust and had to be protected from those who wanted to destroy it for its obscenity - not for showing naked flesh, but for making the naked woman into a subject, rather than an object. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Olympia_%28Manet%29 God, I’m rambling. Anyway, point being - transformative work, intratextual work, is most emphatically not a new thing, nor a creatively barren thing. It’s awesome. And this image here is delicious, because it takes that lovely painting, in which the model is mysterious, alluring, her parted lips gleaming and her eyes wide as she looks out at the viewer, objectified - and it drags it straight into the 21st century by adding the camera, making it into that recognisable MySpace pose, making her the CREATOR of the image not just the object. She is looking at herself, not at us, and this careful composition becomes an ephemeral snapshot, a fleeting moment in her day. This. Reblogging for all the commentary. There has been so much transformative work that has elevated the original, turned it on its head, made us all think, and yes, hangs in museums today. When the author of that quote thumbs her nose at fanfiction, she turns her head away from Warhol, from Ovid, from motherfucking Shakespeare.These are the creators who have transformed their world and placed their own indelible marks on society as we know it, with their “fanworks”. there is this idea in the world that the author is somehow infallible. that they can’t make mistakes when it comes to their text. and to a certain extent, yes, that’s true; what happens in the canon is canon and that is that. no amount of it being stupid or poorly thought-out or narratively problematic will make it not so. but the idea that this somehow translates into “everything the author does is perfect STOP TOUCHING THE THING I MADE” isn’t based on some kind of high-minded artiness. it’s territorial. and look, i get it. this is a thing that you made, that you put your heart in soul into, and i understand not wanting other people messing it up. you love those characters, you don’t want some dumbshit thirteen year old writing them in a poorly-imagined porno with that background character you secretly think is a little shit. but you know what? that’s too damn bad. because the very act of engineering the space … into the story, [where the reader is] allowed to observe the characters and draw his own conclusions is what fanfiction is for. what is it, exactly, that you think fanfiction is? it is the act of drawing conclusions. a fanfiction writer is the most active, engaged, hungry reader you’re ever going to get. so if you want someone who is going to sit back and drool mindlessly over how pretty your words are, yeah, you know what? fanfiction writers are not for you.  but if you want to talk about it, if you want people to actually engage with your art, have it affect them, then you’ve got to be willing to let your intent give up the ghost a little.  ps. i’ve said it once and i’ve said it again, shakespeare wrote fanfiction. he literally wrote ovid fanfiction. and what exactly do you think adapted movies are? what do you think “she’s the man” is? what do you think “the lion king” is? they’re AUs.  i can just see Walt Disney with his own blog being like, “oHMYGDO i just tripped and wrote a hamlet au except their lions wHAt am I DOING” and amanda bynes like, “i did a highschool soccer au for 12th night and i’m not even sorry about it” and way back in the late 1500s/early 1600s shakespeare wrote a letter to ann and he was like, “i just did a retelling of philomel but with a lady it’s AWESOME ps say hi to the kids for me xoxo billy.” spoiler alert: those things didn’t happen. but like. metaphorically they did. “Fan fiction closes up the space that I have engineered into the story, and the reader is told what he must think rather than being allowed to observe the characters and draw his own conclusions.” Fanfiction is the drawing of those conclusions. That’s the point. It just takes it a step further and writes them down as opposed to keeping them purely mental. Just because someone writes a fic about a missing scene doesn’t mean everyone else has to accept it. It just means that people are engaging with the material and with each other. And frankly, I cannot understand how that could in any way be considered a bad thing. Do you not want your readers to engage with your text? Do you not want them to get attached to the characters, to want to know as much about them as possible, to view them as real people? Do you not want them to connect with each other out of love for the text you have created? That seems like a profoundly selfish attitude and an insulting one at that. It’s always so disappointing when authors/creators take this stance towards fanfiction. They don’t get that the basic reason that we put forth all this effort is because we love whatever they’ve created. Sure, we might write fix-it fic or go off in totally unexpected directions, but you don’t spend this much time and energy and brainpower voluntarily on something you don’t love. I write hundreds of thousands of words in my damn free time (and sometimes when I should be working on other things, oops) because I love a world or a story or a group of characters that much. We’re not wrecking the original work. Nobody’s forcing anyone else to read fanfiction. We just love these stories so much that we’re not ready to let it go when it ends. ETA: I think shipping wars alone are proof that Hobb is so wrong, I mean if we all agreed on the same non-canon version of events there would not be nearly so much arguing about who’s banging who okay rhi stop rambling it’s early and this probably makes no sense Love this discussion (and the painting). Particularly pointing out that Hobbs’s invitation to readers to “draw his own conclusions” is really a call to arms to fanfic writers. Too bad she can’t see that they’re the same.
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rhiannon42:

kingedmundsroyalmurder:

ofgeography:

honestys-easy:

milenab:

unlockaflockofwords:

Yes, I know I reblogged it before; I’m reblogging it again.

This image epitomises the delight I get from transformative works, and it’s a beautifully eloquent response to Robin Hobb’s misguided rant about fanfiction:

“The intent of the author is ignored. A writer puts a great deal of thought into what goes into the story and what doesn’t. If a particular scene doesn’t happen ‘on stage’ before the reader’s eyes, there is probably a reason for it. If something is left nebulous, it is because the author intends for it to be nebulous. To use an analogy, we look at the Mona Lisa and wonder. Each of us draws his own conclusions about her elusive smile. We don’t draw eyebrows on her to make her look surprised, or put a balloon caption over her head. Yet much fan fiction does just that. Fan fiction closes up the space that I have engineered into the story, and the reader is told what he must think rather than being allowed to observe the characters and draw his own conclusions.”  Robin Hobb on fanfiction

http://web.archive.org/web/20050630015105/http://www.robinhobb.com/rant.html

And she’s wrong, she’s SO wrong. Granted, drawing a mustache onto the Mona Lisa would be a bad thing, a final thing, a change-the-source thing, but there are COUNTLESS images that mess with the Mona Lisa without ever actually damaging the source image, without ever preventing a viewer from engaging with the pristine source image and interpreting it as they see fit. The Mona Lisa remains inviolate, regardless of weed-smoking iterations or The Da Vinci Code, and the audience are free to interpret her as they will. Transformative works based upon her are examples of people sharing one possible interpretation, or addressing problems they perceive, or bringing a marxist/feminist/whateverist reading to the fore, or just making their friends giggle.

This, though, this is so much better than anything I’ve seen that transforms the Mona Lisa. This takes that gorgeous, familiar image of Vermeer’s Girl With A Pearl Earring (an image that the book and movie of the same name have made familiar to people outwith Art History students [who might know it as the ‘Mona Lisa of the North’]) and reworks it with brilliant and elegant simplicity.

Manet’s painting ‘Olympia’ does something similar with Titian’s ‘Venus of Urbino’ (which is itself a reworking of Giorgione’s ‘Sleeping Venus’); Georgione dresses up his objectifying & titillating high class porn as an image of a goddess, and has her eyes closed - she doesn’t know we’re ogling her. She’s helpless before our (male) voyeuristic gaze. Titian’s nude knows we’re ogling her, but she’s still putatively a goddess, and despite that she’s glancing coyly away as she consciously provokes the viewer, offering herself up to him. Manet’s nude, however, is unambiguously presented as a human and a prostitute, and she looks straight out at the viewer, her hand on her thigh making it clear that she alone chooses who gets access to her sex. The painting was received with shock and disgust and had to be protected from those who wanted to destroy it for its obscenity - not for showing naked flesh, but for making the naked woman into a subject, rather than an object.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Olympia_%28Manet%29

God, I’m rambling. Anyway, point being - transformative work, intratextual work, is most emphatically not a new thing, nor a creatively barren thing. It’s awesome. And this image here is delicious, because it takes that lovely painting, in which the model is mysterious, alluring, her parted lips gleaming and her eyes wide as she looks out at the viewer, objectified - and it drags it straight into the 21st century by adding the camera, making it into that recognisable MySpace pose, making her the CREATOR of the image not just the object. She is looking at herself, not at us, and this careful composition becomes an ephemeral snapshot, a fleeting moment in her day.

This.

Reblogging for all the commentary. There has been so much transformative work that has elevated the original, turned it on its head, made us all think, and yes, hangs in museums today. When the author of that quote thumbs her nose at fanfiction, she turns her head away from Warhol, from Ovid, from motherfucking Shakespeare.
These are the creators who have transformed their world and placed their own indelible marks on society as we know it, with their “fanworks”.

there is this idea in the world that the author is somehow infallible. that they can’t make mistakes when it comes to their text. and to a certain extent, yes, that’s true; what happens in the canon is canon and that is that. no amount of it being stupid or poorly thought-out or narratively problematic will make it not so.

but the idea that this somehow translates into “everything the author does is perfect STOP TOUCHING THE THING I MADE” isn’t based on some kind of high-minded artiness. it’s territorial.

and look, i get it. this is a thing that you made, that you put your heart in soul into, and i understand not wanting other people messing it up. you love those characters, you don’t want some dumbshit thirteen year old writing them in a poorly-imagined porno with that background character you secretly think is a little shit.

but you know what? that’s too damn bad.

because the very act of engineering

the space … into the story, [where the reader is] allowed to observe the characters and draw his own conclusions

is what fanfiction is for.


what is it, exactly, that you think fanfiction is? it is the act of drawing conclusions. a fanfiction writer is the most active, engaged, hungry reader you’re ever going to get. so if you want someone who is going to sit back and drool mindlessly over how pretty your words are, yeah, you know what? fanfiction writers are not for you. 

but if you want to talk about it, if you want people to actually engage with your art, have it affect them, then you’ve got to be willing to let your intent give up the ghost a little. 

ps. i’ve said it once and i’ve said it again, shakespeare wrote fanfiction. he literally wrote ovid fanfiction. and what exactly do you think adapted movies are? what do you think “she’s the man” is? what do you think “the lion king” is? they’re AUs. 

i can just see Walt Disney with his own blog being like, “oHMYGDO i just tripped and wrote a hamlet au except their lions wHAt am I DOING” and amanda bynes like, “i did a highschool soccer au for 12th night and i’m not even sorry about it” and way back in the late 1500s/early 1600s shakespeare wrote a letter to ann and he was like, “i just did a retelling of philomel but with a lady it’s AWESOME ps say hi to the kids for me xoxo billy.”

spoiler alert: those things didn’t happen. but like. metaphorically they did.

“Fan fiction closes up the space that I have engineered into the story, and the reader is told what he must think rather than being allowed to observe the characters and draw his own conclusions.”

Fanfiction is the drawing of those conclusions. That’s the point. It just takes it a step further and writes them down as opposed to keeping them purely mental. Just because someone writes a fic about a missing scene doesn’t mean everyone else has to accept it. It just means that people are engaging with the material and with each other. And frankly, I cannot understand how that could in any way be considered a bad thing. Do you not want your readers to engage with your text? Do you not want them to get attached to the characters, to want to know as much about them as possible, to view them as real people? Do you not want them to connect with each other out of love for the text you have created? That seems like a profoundly selfish attitude and an insulting one at that.

It’s always so disappointing when authors/creators take this stance towards fanfiction. They don’t get that the basic reason that we put forth all this effort is because we love whatever they’ve created. Sure, we might write fix-it fic or go off in totally unexpected directions, but you don’t spend this much time and energy and brainpower voluntarily on something you don’t love. I write hundreds of thousands of words in my damn free time (and sometimes when I should be working on other things, oops) because I love a world or a story or a group of characters that much.

We’re not wrecking the original work. Nobody’s forcing anyone else to read fanfiction. We just love these stories so much that we’re not ready to let it go when it ends.

ETA: I think shipping wars alone are proof that Hobb is so wrong, I mean if we all agreed on the same non-canon version of events there would not be nearly so much arguing about who’s banging who

okay rhi stop rambling it’s early and this probably makes no sense

Love this discussion (and the painting). Particularly pointing out that Hobbs’s invitation to readers to “draw his own conclusions” is really a call to arms to fanfic writers. Too bad she can’t see that they’re the same.

vieralynn: barbeauxbot: heretherebdragons: foxghost: dragonageconfessions: Confession:  I love fanfics but I wish there weren’t as many that break the lore. Alistair and Cousland can’t have a child, Fenris and Anders will never happen and Sebastian won’t simply break his vows. Its really hard to go through pages and pages before finding one that doesn’t ignore everything ‘just cause. Let’s talk about ENTITLEMENT for a second. I write for me, and I write for the people who enjoy my writing. I write the pairings I personally ship, or other people have flailed about so much I started to ship it and love it for their enthusiasm. Someone i know, i follow, i love, I admire - loves this, and therefore it must have some merit. Write something amazing with your not-so-popular ship. Draw some art. Show it love. I don’t see that here - I don’t see a person telling me OMG DKHGAJKSDHFSKDJFH i love this pairing so much *flail flail* for me to go hey, maybe there’s something I haven’t tried before that could be amazing. I see a person walking through the free-book aisle and complaining about there not being enough books perfectly catered to their particular version of rumour-mill dragon age canon. Think about that for a sec, and feel ashamed of yourself. P.S. Fenris + Danarius is totally canon. Go on. Read the crap out of that. Yes. Exactly what FoxGhost said. Also, FWIW David Gaider said that an Alistair/Cousland child IS possible:  “Well… just because it’s never happened doesn’t mean it never could, I suppose. There are always exceptions. So if you involve some mysterious Tevinter fertility charm… why not? Really I’m just talking about the fact that Grey Wardens never produce offspring together naturally. Unnaturally is an entirely different story.” (BSN link: http://social.bioware.com/forum/1/topic/47/index/455504%26lf%3D8#455902) Plus like. If you rival Sebastian there is a conversation about how he’ll have to produce an heir once he takes Starkhaven back. I know he’s not the brightest crayon but I’m pretty sure he knows where babies come from.  All of this and let us get back to talking about ENTITLEMENT one more time. Fanfiction is, by definition, transformative fiction.  Transformative fiction “takes extant and turns it into something with a new purpose, sensibility, or mode of expression.“  Why does transformative fiction matter? Plain and simple: commercial stories have increasingly become stories that can be mass marketed which means stories that has provide broad appeal and are often written by the dominant culture for the dominant culture. One thing that transformative fiction tries to do is provide a space for alternate voices to be heard. This includes voices who are not representative of the dominant culture. If you insist that all fanfiction needs to strictly hew to canon, please consider how you are silencing the voices of others who represent viewpoints that are not considered “marketable” in mass media. Secondly, transformative fiction creates a space for “what ifs?” and alternate events. If you insist all fanfiction needs to strictly hew to canon, please consider how you have closed the door to creativity. Finally, no fan, OP included, is capable of writing fiction that hews to canon because ONLY the creators themselves define the canon. Every fanfic story extending canon exists outside of canon. And, thus, this entire confession blows up in the face of logic. Reblogging for comments. Sort of seems to defeat the purpose of fanfiction if basically only the original writers are capable of writing it.
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vieralynn:

barbeauxbot:

heretherebdragons:

foxghost:

dragonageconfessions:

Confession:  I love fanfics but I wish there weren’t as many that break the lore. Alistair and Cousland can’t have a child, Fenris and Anders will never happen and Sebastian won’t simply break his vows. Its really hard to go through pages and pages before finding one that doesn’t ignore everything ‘just cause.

Let’s talk about ENTITLEMENT for a second.

I write for me, and I write for the people who enjoy my writing. I write the pairings I personally ship, or other people have flailed about so much I started to ship it and love it for their enthusiasm. Someone i know, i follow, i love, I admire - loves this, and therefore it must have some merit. Write something amazing with your not-so-popular ship. Draw some art. Show it love.

I don’t see that here - I don’t see a person telling me OMG DKHGAJKSDHFSKDJFH i love this pairing so much *flail flail* for me to go hey, maybe there’s something I haven’t tried before that could be amazing.

I see a person walking through the free-book aisle and complaining about there not being enough books perfectly catered to their particular version of rumour-mill dragon age canon. Think about that for a sec, and feel ashamed of yourself.

P.S. Fenris + Danarius is totally canon. Go on. Read the crap out of that.

Yes. Exactly what FoxGhost said.

Also, FWIW David Gaider said that an Alistair/Cousland child IS possible: 

“Well… just because it’s never happened doesn’t mean it never could, I suppose. There are always exceptions. So if you involve some mysterious Tevinter fertility charm… why not? Really I’m just talking about the fact that Grey Wardens never produce offspring together naturally. Unnaturally is an entirely different story.”

(BSN link: http://social.bioware.com/forum/1/topic/47/index/455504%26lf%3D8#455902)

Plus like. If you rival Sebastian there is a conversation about how he’ll have to produce an heir once he takes Starkhaven back. I know he’s not the brightest crayon but I’m pretty sure he knows where babies come from. 

All of this and let us get back to talking about ENTITLEMENT one more time.

Fanfiction is, by definition, transformative fiction. 

Transformative fiction “takes extant and turns it into something with a new purpose, sensibility, or mode of expression.“ 

Why does transformative fiction matter? Plain and simple: commercial stories have increasingly become stories that can be mass marketed which means stories that has provide broad appeal and are often written by the dominant culture for the dominant culture.

One thing that transformative fiction tries to do is provide a space for alternate voices to be heard. This includes voices who are not representative of the dominant culture. If you insist that all fanfiction needs to strictly hew to canon, please consider how you are silencing the voices of others who represent viewpoints that are not considered “marketable” in mass media.

Secondly, transformative fiction creates a space for “what ifs?” and alternate events. If you insist all fanfiction needs to strictly hew to canon, please consider how you have closed the door to creativity.

Finally, no fan, OP included, is capable of writing fiction that hews to canon because ONLY the creators themselves define the canon. Every fanfic story extending canon exists outside of canon. And, thus, this entire confession blows up in the face of logic.

Reblogging for comments. Sort of seems to defeat the purpose of fanfiction if basically only the original writers are capable of writing it.

Fan fiction is one of the great unsung popular literary movements of the past 50 years, but finding what you’re looking for online can involve sorting through mountains of inadequately-tagged and frequently dodgy text. Archive of Our Own makes it easy: it’s the most carefully curated, sanely organized, easily browsable and searchable nonprofit collection of fan fiction on the web, and it serves all fandoms equally, from The A-Team to Zachary Quinto and beyond.
Archive of Our Own makes TIME’s Best Websites of 2013 (via janoda)

Fandom Appreciation Week: Fanfic Writers

luckyjak:

Hey, you.

Yes, you.

Do you put words down on paper? Even if you don’t show them to anyone or post them anywhere? Or even if it’s just a drabble, or it doesn’t get any/many notes?

I want to take a moment to appreciate you.

Because you? Are doing something awesome.  Do you know how difficult it is to put words on paper? Or how much courage it takes to share what you’ve written?  It takes a lot, and man, I’m proud of you. 

You’ve written something.  And even if you think it’s “bad”, it’s still something, and you’ll only get better with time and practice.  You still created something.  Do you know how many people go throughout their lives and never create a single thing? A whole lot.  But not you. 

Pat yourself on the back.  Go eat an ice cream cone.  You’ve earned.

On Fanfiction

dgaider:

Do you ever read fan-fiction? Or does it make you feel as though your characters are ruined? — Anonymous

Fanfiction can be a touchy subject for some writers. Not so much for me, usually, but I can see why some might feel that way. We have a personal bond with the characters we create— we love them, we hate them, but ultimately they’re ours. Even in an environment like game development where you have to share creation (with artists and the whims of development, and occasionally with other writers) you still feel most strongly about the characters you personally create.

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Love this. Dragon Age was the first story to inspire me to consider writing fanfiction, or really to begin writing at all. And, I love doing it. Thanks, David and the other writers, for sharing these wonderful characters with us.

mundanerune: They would be divided according to fandom. Crossover fics would appear in all the fandoms they reference. The smut section would have red lighting (for red light districts, duh) and the fluff section would have bean bags and stuffed animals. The angst section would be between fluff and smut so you can cope as you choose. There would be divisions according to pairings. Fan art would decorate the walls. There would be special nights for readings. The computers could be used to write fic and reference the original canon. Each fandom section would be decorated according to the corresponding fandom. The staff would wear cosplays from various fandoms. Although, I don’t think we should have to pay to read. It’d just be like a library. You could come in and read, and not have to buy it. And if you wanted to buy the fanfic, the money would go to the writer.
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mundanerune: They would be divided according to fandom. Crossover fics would appear in all the fandoms they reference. The smut section would have red lighting (for red light districts, duh) and the fluff section would have bean bags and stuffed animals. The angst section would be between fluff and smut so you can cope as you choose. There would be divisions according to pairings. Fan art would decorate the walls. There would be special nights for readings. The computers could be used to write fic and reference the original canon. Each fandom section would be decorated according to the corresponding fandom. The staff would wear cosplays from various fandoms. Although, I don’t think we should have to pay to read. It’d just be like a library. You could come in and read, and not have to buy it. And if you wanted to buy the fanfic, the money would go to the writer.
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mundanerune: They would be divided according to fandom. Crossover fics would appear in all the fandoms they reference. The smut section would have red lighting (for red light districts, duh) and the fluff section would have bean bags and stuffed animals. The angst section would be between fluff and smut so you can cope as you choose. There would be divisions according to pairings. Fan art would decorate the walls. There would be special nights for readings. The computers could be used to write fic and reference the original canon. Each fandom section would be decorated according to the corresponding fandom. The staff would wear cosplays from various fandoms. Although, I don’t think we should have to pay to read. It’d just be like a library. You could come in and read, and not have to buy it. And if you wanted to buy the fanfic, the money would go to the writer.
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mundanerune:

They would be divided according to fandom. Crossover fics would appear in all the fandoms they reference. The smut section would have red lighting (for red light districts, duh) and the fluff section would have bean bags and stuffed animals. The angst section would be between fluff and smut so you can cope as you choose. There would be divisions according to pairings. Fan art would decorate the walls. There would be special nights for readings. The computers could be used to write fic and reference the original canon. Each fandom section would be decorated according to the corresponding fandom. The staff would wear cosplays from various fandoms.

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Although, I don’t think we should have to pay to read. It’d just be like a library. You could come in and read, and not have to buy it. And if you wanted to buy the fanfic, the money would go to the writer.

(Source: destielshipsjohnlock)

linaerys: I love these guys. I can’t even understand how an author wouldn’t understand the urge to write fanfic, create fanart. How do you even want to be an author without seeing characters and stories you like and wanting to create your own? Fanfiction is just a matter of degree. Have you never imagined yourself into a favorite world? Have you never imagined yourself meeting a favorite character? If you have, you’ve committed fanfiction in your head. Didn’t you used to play pretend? What is the difference between thinking it and telling it to a friend? Between telling it to a friend and writing it down? If you’re an author and you are against fanfiction, you are lying to yourself about why you even started writing fiction in the first place. None of us did this alone, all of us stand on the shoulders of giants. And sometimes we write fic about those giants.
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linaerys: I love these guys. I can’t even understand how an author wouldn’t understand the urge to write fanfic, create fanart. How do you even want to be an author without seeing characters and stories you like and wanting to create your own? Fanfiction is just a matter of degree. Have you never imagined yourself into a favorite world? Have you never imagined yourself meeting a favorite character? If you have, you’ve committed fanfiction in your head. Didn’t you used to play pretend? What is the difference between thinking it and telling it to a friend? Between telling it to a friend and writing it down? If you’re an author and you are against fanfiction, you are lying to yourself about why you even started writing fiction in the first place. None of us did this alone, all of us stand on the shoulders of giants. And sometimes we write fic about those giants.
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linaerys: I love these guys. I can’t even understand how an author wouldn’t understand the urge to write fanfic, create fanart. How do you even want to be an author without seeing characters and stories you like and wanting to create your own? Fanfiction is just a matter of degree. Have you never imagined yourself into a favorite world? Have you never imagined yourself meeting a favorite character? If you have, you’ve committed fanfiction in your head. Didn’t you used to play pretend? What is the difference between thinking it and telling it to a friend? Between telling it to a friend and writing it down? If you’re an author and you are against fanfiction, you are lying to yourself about why you even started writing fiction in the first place. None of us did this alone, all of us stand on the shoulders of giants. And sometimes we write fic about those giants.
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linaerys: I love these guys. I can’t even understand how an author wouldn’t understand the urge to write fanfic, create fanart. How do you even want to be an author without seeing characters and stories you like and wanting to create your own? Fanfiction is just a matter of degree. Have you never imagined yourself into a favorite world? Have you never imagined yourself meeting a favorite character? If you have, you’ve committed fanfiction in your head. Didn’t you used to play pretend? What is the difference between thinking it and telling it to a friend? Between telling it to a friend and writing it down? If you’re an author and you are against fanfiction, you are lying to yourself about why you even started writing fiction in the first place. None of us did this alone, all of us stand on the shoulders of giants. And sometimes we write fic about those giants.
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linaerys:

I love these guys.

I can’t even understand how an author wouldn’t understand the urge to write fanfic, create fanart. How do you even want to be an author without seeing characters and stories you like and wanting to create your own? Fanfiction is just a matter of degree.

Have you never imagined yourself into a favorite world? Have you never imagined yourself meeting a favorite character? If you have, you’ve committed fanfiction in your head. Didn’t you used to play pretend? What is the difference between thinking it and telling it to a friend? Between telling it to a friend and writing it down?

If you’re an author and you are against fanfiction, you are lying to yourself about why you even started writing fiction in the first place. None of us did this alone, all of us stand on the shoulders of giants. And sometimes we write fic about those giants.

(Source: rachelgamage)

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