So, when I was doing my thesis on whether or not fanfiction should be considered a legitimate genre of literature, my advising professor asked me for examples. I gave him the generic ones, of course – “Pride & Prejudice and Zombies” is a horror fanfic of “Pride & Prejudice”, “50 Shades of Grey” is an erotica fic of “Twilight" – and that seemed to make him understand what fanfiction is, but not how it’s useful. So I thought about it, and, after about a minute, I said, “Paradise Lost is basically a fanfiction of the Book of Genesis. And The Divine Comedy is an epic self-insertion fic for Catholic doctrine. So, basically, you were teaching us fanfiction last semester.” I had never before seen a grown man’s eyes widen with such fear, incomprehension, disgust, awe, and understanding.
#does that mean the renaissance was almost entirely fan art?
Yes. Yes it does. All ur classic favs had the Renaissance version of DeviantArt.
ok imagine (during relationship) john and sherlock coming home from a case and theyre both so tired they cant climb all the way up to their room so they try to sleep on the stairs again but mrs hudsons like. yall. are gonna be fucked up ok come sleep on my sofa at least. so they cuddle up among the needlepoint pillows and floral throws and sleep well into the day when they wake up to mrs hudson in the chair next to them watching game shows and telling them good morning; they snuggle under the blankets and watch the shows with her (and yell when the contestants miss the Obvious) for the rest of the afternoon (’:
