Tag: julia’s adventures with fanfiction

i’ve just finished reading a great fanfic set in an universe where necromancy happens and is about this guy who works for the united states government Necromancy Enforcement Agency and has to work on a case where a bunch of harvard students brought robespierre, danton, marat, saint-just and desmoulins back from the dead

it’s p cute and gave me fuzzy feelings

someone left a rude-ass comment on my hxh fanfic like “i was so excited for the next chapter, and then……….” like listen here puta i’ve been spending like 12 hours a day at school studying my ass off to get into medical school AND trying to maintain the meaningful relationships i’ve forged throughout the years despite the stress i’ve been experiencing, do you THINK fanfiction would be a priority when my future is at stake

digivolvin:

pining is 100000% the most important aspect of pre-relationship fic for me. good-natured whole-hearted pining filled with lovelorn gazing and chest aching and fluttering touches, that’s my top priority. i was put on this earth to watch characters suffer over the profundity of their love for another person. unrequited love is why god made me. characters finding out that their feelings are reciprocated after long months/years of suffering is why the universe was assembled from nothingness. amen.

But fanfiction as we conceive of it today isn’t quite the same as Rhys tilting the focus of Jane Eyre to the “madwoman in the attic.” Modern fanfic practices are communal, with roots in mid-20th century sci-fi magazines. They’ve grown up through paper zines* and collating parties* to message boards and digital archives, fanfiction.net and LiveJournal,* Archive of Our Own (AO3)* and Tumblr and Wattpad. There are broad conventions that link the millions of people reading and writing fanfiction today (the vast majority of whom are wholly uncompensated for their hours of labor, enormous fanfic-to-traditional publishing deals like 50 Shades of Grey and After aside). Transformative fans share a language — tropes and kink memes* and rec lists and OTPs* — and in any given corner of fandom, stories talk to one another in fascinating ways.

From the Internet to the Ivy League: Fanfiction in the Classroom

*paper zines

*collating parties

*Livejournal

*AO3

*kink meme

*OTP

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The thing about reading fanfic (and original slash fic) is that you get used to that particular writing/reading culture after a while. You get used to the frank discussions of sexuality and kink, the close attention to diversity and social justice issues in the text, the unrestrained creativity when it comes to plot. The most amazing, creative, engaging stories I’ve ever read have almost all been fanfiction, and I think part of that is because there’s no limitations placed on the authors. They’re writing purely out of joy and love for the world and its characters, with no concerns about selling the finished product. The only limit is their imagination.

Next to that, most mainstream fiction starts tasting like Wonder Bread, you know?

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I have the hardest time reading published fiction now – even that which I’ve loved in the past. It feels so flat.

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i feel kinda bad bc i open my ao3 account every day and there’s always 1 or 2 new views on my hxh fanfic but i haven’t updated it in over a month………. and i honestly don’t know when i’ll find the time to write a new chapter. i have classes in the mornings 6 days a week and then i stay at school in the afternoon to study so when i get home i’m super tired and just want to dick around on the internet for a couple of hours before going to bed. the circumstances are not quite propitious for writing