Me: Why is starting a fic so haaaard?
Also Me: Why is continuing a fic so haaaard?
Still Me: Why is ending a fic so haaaard?

Writers end up writing about their obsessions. Things that haunt them; things they can’t forget; stories they carry in their bodies waiting to be released.

Natalie Goldberg (via hellanne)

Fan fiction is a way of the culture repairing the damage done in a system where contemporary myths are owned by corporations instead of by the folk.

Henry Jenkins (Director of media studies at MIT)

YEEEEEESSS

(via troublesmysight)

So i got a comment on one of my Sherstrade fics today:

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Um.. of 270 fics, 136 are Johnlock….

crystalzelda:

everyone’s got that couple of fanfics that you just read over and over even though you practically know it by heart because it’s so perfect it’s like a favorite book and you just catch yourself clicking to a random chapter on it because it’s so good it’s comforting to reread it

cartopathy:

sherlockeleven:

Currently imagining Mark Gatiss, age 15, writing slash Johnlock porn in his room and thinking “I’m going to fix your shit ACD” 

Just imagine if he’d had tumblr.