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What is significant about fan fiction is that it often spins the kind of stories that showrunners wouldn’t think to tell, because fanficcers often come from a different demographic. The discomfort seems to be not that the shows are being reinterpreted by fans, but that they are being reinterpreted by the wrong sorts of fans – women, people of colour, queer kids, horny teenagers, people who are not professional writers, people who actually care about continuity (sorry). The proper way for cultural mythmaking to progress, it is implied, is for privileged men to recreate the works of privileged men from previous generations whilst everyone else listens quietly.

Sherlock and the Adventure of the Overzealous Fanbase by Laurie Penny (via linpatootie)
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Me: Nope, that kink is a hard line I won’t cross.
Me: [Sees that kink on my feed by an excellent writer]
Me: Sh…..it.
Me: [redraws boundaries]

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literatec:

Do you guys ever think about how lucky we are?

We get to read novels that other people will never know existed. We get to know authors before they hit the mainstream.

We get feedback from like-minded people who are 90% of the time gushing over how much they love our work.

We get to watch ourselves grow as writers, laugh and cry with our favorite characters in ways most people will never get to experience, and discover new writers who become our friends.

Guys.

Fan fiction RULES.

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But does it matter that two middle-aged men with very large platforms were sitting at a table pathologising teenage girls’ sexuality – and making a whole load of potentially harmful assumptions about a topic they know literally nothing about? Absolutely.

— elizabethminkel wrote in newstatesman article, “Why it doesn’t matter what Benedict Cumberbatch thinks of Sherlock fan fiction“ 

Finally, a mainstream media article that presents the human side of fandom, and talks about why it’s important to have alternative forms of media. 

I fangirl this woman so hard right now. 

(via wearitcounts)

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thetrekkiehasthephonebox:

anotherfallenchild:

Like 99% of the original fan fic tropes came from Star Trek I’m not even joking

  • fuck or die
  • alien sex pollen
  • evil alternate mirror au
  • time travel au
  • sped up ageing 
  • stuck in a frozen cave 
  • body heat sharing
  • alien drunk disease 
  • body swap
  • this man is my exact double

like there are so man more and I always see people being like ‘wtf where did the sex pollen trope even come from’ and the answer is Star Trek

The best part is?

All of this is canon.