Wait, what?

so i know it’s always going to be the awkward/romantic situation of couples spooning during the “forced to share a bed” moment in fanfiction, but i kinda want the awkwardness of one of them being someone who kicks or pushes in their sleep and having to deal with that

adropofred:

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god i love in fics when like the text is well-spaced, paragraphs are used wisely and it’s generally nice to read

then BAM SMUT SCENE THE AUTHOR SUDDENLY CAN’T USE PARAGRAPHS BECAUSE YOU KNOW THEY’RE TYPING BOWED DOWN AS FAST AS THEY CAN WITH THEIR CATHOLIC GRANDMOTHER IN THE NEXT ROOM AND A FOUR-YEAR-OLD PLAYING IN THE BACK ALL OF THIS WHILE THEY’RE IN SCHOOL

let’S PLAY “WHERE IS THE PORN”

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Note: this post was originally made in 2010 in response to Diana Gabaldon’s epic rant about fanfiction. The original version is still being updated. I’m reposting it to Tumblr by request, but if you have any additions, please feel free to drop a comment at LJ so they can be added to the masterpost!

Dear Author of the Week,

You think fanfic is a personal affront to the many hours you’ve spent carefully crafting your characters. You think fanfic is “immoral and illegal.” You think fanfiction is just plagiarism. You think fanfiction is cheating. You think fanfic is for people who are too stupid/lazy/unimaginative to write stories of their own. You think there are exceptions for people who write published derivative works as part of a brand or franchise, because they’re clearly only doing it because they have to. You’re personally traumatized by the idea that someone else could look at your characters and decide that you did it wrong and they need to fix it/add original characters to your universe/send your characters to the moon/Japan/their hometown. You think all fanfic is basically porn. You’re revolted by the very idea that fic writers think what they do is legitimate.

We get it. 

Congratulations! You’ve just summarily dismissed as criminal, immoral, and unimaginative each of the following Pulitzer Prize-winning writers and works:

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trenchcoathorror:

claudiagray:

I truly understand not wanting to/being able to read fanfic about your own original stories; sometimes you just need to keep your own vision clear, and that’s that. But I honestly don’t get authors who object to fan fiction even existing. One author, whom I won’t name here, said fanfic writers were “stealing a readership another author built,” which makes total sense, because obviously once you have read fanfic for a book you don’t like the book any longer and have been stolen away, right? Hmmph. 

IMHO, authors who hate the idea of fanfic of their work don’t want readers. They want buyers. They want passive consumers, not people with their own reactions/emotions/curiosity about the characters and story. 

Me, I say go for it. ‘Ship the “wrong” people. Root for the villain. Write AUs where they’re all professional jockeys. If you love my characters enough to wonder what else could happen in their lives, I’m honored. that’s just about the biggest compliment imaginable.

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, via nooowestayandgetcaught)

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I figured this would come eventually when I started writing fanfiction again. I’m not too happy with the ending, but I don’t really know what to do with it. I’ve got more ideas with this verse too, so this won’t be the end of it.

Pairings are still up in the air at this point too. I ship everything and that will probably become obvious as things progress in this fic.

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I don’t know. I just wanted some holiday fluff with these two. I also wanted to have Conner use his random G-Gnome knowledge for something.

So happy holidays to everyone!

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I’m just going to start this by hiding right now.

The first time I write real smut and it’s sorta het. That’s unexpected. Oh god this is really bad. I’m probably going to pretend I never wrote it after this.

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Okay so Mika and I decided to do a fun little thing and write a fic about the same concept to just compare ourselves. So I chose one of the most cliche plots used in fanfiction. And I didn’t even add any smut. I must be a failure as a fanfiction writer.

Mika’s version is here.

Anyway this is the longest story I’ve written in a while. I hope I managed to stay in character. Enjoy!

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Well I finished it and it kind of sucks. I had an idea I thought was cool, but it wasn’t that easy to actually write it down. I’m mostly posting this because I already told Mika about it and I figured she’d like to see it. I hope you like it.

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