{"id":93757,"date":"2016-07-06T11:33:37","date_gmt":"2016-07-06T11:33:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/2016\/07\/06\/matt-the-blind-cinnamon-roll-tjmystic-so-2\/"},"modified":"2016-07-06T11:33:37","modified_gmt":"2016-07-06T11:33:37","slug":"matt-the-blind-cinnamon-roll-tjmystic-so-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/2016\/07\/06\/matt-the-blind-cinnamon-roll-tjmystic-so-2\/","title":{"rendered":""},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"tumblr_blog\" href=\"http:\/\/matt-the-blind-cinnamon-roll.tumblr.com\/post\/141875041867\" target=\"_blank\">matt-the-blind-cinnamon-roll<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p><a class=\"tumblr_blog\" href=\"http:\/\/tjmystic.tumblr.com\/post\/141003600885\" target=\"_blank\">tjmystic<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>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. \u00a0I gave him the generic ones, of course &#8211;\u00a0\u201cPride &amp; Prejudice and Zombies\u201d is a horror fanfic of\u00a0\u201cPride &amp; Prejudice\u201d,\u00a0\u201c50 Shades of Grey\u201d is an erotica fic of\u00a0\u201cTwilight&quot; &#8211; and that seemed to make him understand what fanfiction <i>is<\/i>, but not how it\u2019s useful. \u00a0So I thought about it, and, after about a minute, I said,\u00a0\u201c<i>Paradise Lost <\/i>is basically a fanfiction of the Book of Genesis. \u00a0And <i>The Divine Comedy <\/i>is an epic self-insertion fic for Catholic doctrine. \u00a0So, basically, you were teaching us fanfiction last semester.\u201d \u00a0I had never before seen a grown man\u2019s eyes widen with such fear, incomprehension, disgust, awe, and understanding.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.tumblr.com\/tagged\/does-that-mean-the-renaissance-was-almost-entirely-fan-art%3F\" target=\"_blank\">#does that mean the renaissance was almost entirely fan art?<\/a><\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<p>Yes. Yes it does. All ur classic favs had the Renaissance version of DeviantArt.\u00a0<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>matt-the-blind-cinnamon-roll: tjmystic: 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. \u00a0I gave him the generic ones, of course &#8211;\u00a0\u201cPride &amp; Prejudice and Zombies\u201d is a horror fanfic of\u00a0\u201cPride &amp; Prejudice\u201d,\u00a0\u201c50 Shades of Grey\u201d is an erotica &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/2016\/07\/06\/matt-the-blind-cinnamon-roll-tjmystic-so-2\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[247,11812,11811,4],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/93757"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=93757"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/93757\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=93757"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=93757"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=93757"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}