The truest note I have ever found at the end of a fic.

Hey if the creators can ignore canon when they feel like it, so can we.

tag yourself i’m chaotic au

how dare there not be a fic for this very specific au i have in my head

#how dare i have to be the one to write it

#HOW DARE I NOT KNOW HOW TO WRITE IT

Same goes for ‘wanna read fic’

It honestly blows my mind when I see adult writers and journalists talking about how fanfiction is “ruining fiction” because “kids are investing all their time and talent into something that doesn’t matter instead of applying their skills to creating something original that they could actually make money off of.” 

Like, imagine if people had that attitude toward other things - it’d be completely ridiculous:

“I can’t believe my sixth grader would rather use the basketball hoop to play Knockout instead of organizing competitive games and striving to join the NBA. What a lazy, unmotivated kid.”

“YouTube videos? Just making free videos on the internet for anyone to see whenever they want? Why don’t you just produce a movie? A whole fucking movie. You’re in high school, you can figure it out.”

“Are you really so uncreative that the only songs you can play on the piano are ones other people wrote? The only real piano players are the ones who write their own music, I’m just saying. People like you are the reason originality is dead.”

SOMETIMES PEOPLE DO THINGS BECAUSE THEY’RE FUN! MAKING THINGS AND SHARING THEM WITH OTHER PEOPLE IS FUCKING FUN! NOT EVERYTHING IS ABOUT MAKING MONEY!!!

Also writing fan fiction is great practice for writing original stories, plots, editing, time management, grammar, sentence structure, etc. so don’t hate those who are practicing something.

Oh, and also: people can do whatever the fuck they want; art is certainly no exception to that. If you are trying to define what is and isn’t “worthy”, you need to sit the fuck down and take a look at your own issues.

I’m going to add that the idea that if you don’t make money out of something it’s not worthy of your time is probably one of the majorly flawed thinking we can thank our society for...

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a moment of silence for all the fanfiction lost to the ravages of time, unsalvageable even by the wayback machine, condemned to its final resting place in the deactivated archives of fansites for now-syndicated television shows

#in the name of geocities angelfire and freewebs amen

rest in bytes my dear lemons and limes

“That’s Not My Diagnosis” : 

Mental illness - what a marvelous term. Almost anyone could be deemed “mentally ill” for one reason or another. And if they were still socially functional despite their “illness”? Well, that could be fixed.

Fear was disease more potent than any he had used or invented before. It trapped the mind and stressed the body, and it could cause a whole host of left over problems even after it was gone. The memory of intense fear was like a relapse, creating uncontrollable impressions and reactions that could be dulled but not forgotten, controlled but never completely suppressed.

And it spread beautifully.

He laughed as he became Scarecrow. “Fear is the mind killer,” indeed. - Four Horsemen: Pestilence 

do you ever read a fic that is so much better than the actual canon that you get angry

there are just some things you can’t accept your favorite character doing in fanfics 

Does anyone know how to block specific pairings on ao3? Like if I’m searching for x/y ship, how can I keep ship z/y from showing up too

I know there was a greasemonkey script a while back, so something you need to install. Not sure where to find it and I’m not even sure if it works as I never tried it, but google should return something. try looking for something like “AO3 savior” or similiar.

hey there

so Charlotte Bronte read Emma by Jane Austen and was really interested in this minor character named Jane Fairfax who was poor and would have been a governess had she not married well and then Bronte wrote her own novel exploring the plight of the poor governess who married this guy named Edward Fairfax Rochester in a novel called Jane Eyre and my point is don’t let anyone tell you shit about fanfiction.

Scott McCall/Stiles Stilinski fics rec

just because I’ve wanted to list my fav fics in this pairing in order to find them easily later on, totally biased list based on my tastes HERE.

dfgkeh, oh mY GOSH, OP?? as someone who clicked over looking for new Skittles fics to read and totally didn’t expect to see something she wrote show up there (much less one of the fics with autistic!Scott), just. oh my gosh, thank you so so much for the rec, it made me smile so much when I saw it last night and dfgkerh, thank you thank you thank you <3

I love your writing and autistic Scott is an interesting twist plus this text was just gorgeous ♥

As requested MANY MANY TIMES the Thorki on Ice AU you wanted with diva Loki and his most affectionate fan, Thor. I don’t know who first started this thing but thank you, you ruined my life.

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