Note: this post was originally made in 2010 in response to Diana Gabaldon’s epic rant about fanfiction. The original version is still being updated. I’m reposting it to Tumblr by request, but if you have any additions, please feel free to drop a comment at LJ so they can be added to the masterpost!
Dear Author of the Week,
You think fanfic is a personal affront to the many hours you’ve spent carefully crafting your characters. You think fanfic is “immoral and illegal.” You think fanfiction is just plagiarism. You think fanfiction is cheating. You think fanfic is for people who are too stupid/lazy/unimaginative to write stories of their own. You think there are exceptions for people who write published derivative works as part of a brand or franchise, because they’re clearly only doing it because they have to. You’re personally traumatized by the idea that someone else could look at your characters and decide that you did it wrong and they need to fix it/add original characters to your universe/send your characters to the moon/Japan/their hometown. You think all fanfic is basically porn. You’re revolted by the very idea that fic writers think what they do is legitimate.
We get it.
Congratulations! You’ve just summarily dismissed as criminal, immoral, and unimaginative each of the following Pulitzer Prize-winning writers and works:
....make those eyes at me....
"To see a world in a grain of sand,
And a heaven in a wild flower,
Hold infinity in the palm of your hand,
And eternity in an hour."
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"Just think of how many more books I could have sold if Harry had been a bit more creative with his wand."
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- J.K. Rowling (on 50 Shades of Grey)
(Source: thedoctorstimorousbeastie, via sheisbatwoman)
This raccoon never left the side of a cat who was dying of a tumor. The cat was comforted for the final hours of her life by her long time friend.
(Source: godbless-st-cyr)
“I think at this point in our world, we’ve got a really confused idea of the way gender and sexuality works. I think we’ve created this really superfluous sort of like binary in the way we think about gender. And I guess I identify as queer because I don’t identify with that. I think that makes us less whole as people. I don’t need to be assigned to what it is I can do or who I can love. And it seems like we keep drawing these battle lines which are completely unnecessary. So that’s what I basically mean. When I say I’m queer, I’m saying that I think human beings are amazing. And love is an honor and an opportunity. And a fragile thing. A fragile process in which there’s no room for doubt, or shame, or hatred.” — Ezra Miller
(Source: ttimeturner, via drjowilson)
P!nk joined No Doubt to sing Just A Girl at the iHeartRadio Festival
Wow. Wow. So epic. Oh my god. I’m speechless. Ahhhh fuckkk.
1, 2, 3
Not only you and me
Got one eighty degrees
And I’m caught in between
Countin’ 1, 2, 3
Peter, Paul, and Mary
Gettin’ down with 3P
Everybody loves countin’
Babe, pick a night
To come out and play
If it’s alright
What do you say?
Merrier the more
Triple fun that way
Twister on the floor
What do you say?
Are you in?
Livin’ in sin is the new thing, yeah
Are you in?
I am countin’
1, 2, 3
Not only you and me
Got one eighty degrees
And I’m caught in between
Countin’ 1, 2, 3
Peter, Paul, and Mary
Gettin’ down with 3P
Everybody loves countin’
Three is a charm
Two is not the same
I don’t see the harm
So are you game?
Let’s make a team
Make ‘em say my name
Lovin’ the extreme
Now are you game?
Are you in?
Livin’ in sin is the new thing, yeah
Are you in?
I am countin’
1, 2, 3
Not only you and me
Got one eighty degrees
And I’m caught in between
Countin’ 1, 2, 3
Peter, Paul, and Mary
Gettin’ down with 3P
Everybody loves countin’
What we do is innocent
Just for fun and nothing meant
If you don’t like the company
Let’s just do it, you and me
You and me, or three
Or four, on the floor
1, 2, 3
Not only you and me
Got one eighty degrees
And I’m caught in between
Countin’ 1, 2, 3
Peter, Paul, and Mary
Gettin’ down with 3P
Everybody loves countin’
In 3 years ;)
“You know what my favorite Superhero movie of the summer was? Magic Mike. I’m serious, my friend Channing Tatum was so great in that. And you know what my favorite part of Magic Mike was? This part…”
:DDDDDDDD
(Source: femburton, via wildlingfire)
