Julius Caesar wore jorts

fancifulplaguerat main <3 || ps. my name is not actually Lisa this is a convoluted reference

[gayday-inactive]

do u have a vibrator in ur pants or is ur penis just so scared

[demilypyro]

I could really go for a burger right now…

[soup-lord69]

Check your shower

[demilypyro]

You’ve tricked me for the last time

[penny-anna]

one argument you often see about fanfiction is that it's like 'training wheels' writing? like 'oh it's fine to do that while you're still learning, it's easier than coming up with your own ideas'. and I have to say I have just never agreed with that.

[penny-anna]

in my experience it's actually pretty common for newbie fanfiction writers to gravitate towards coming up with OCs rather than writing about the canon characters (hence the infamous Mary Sue); this suggests that many people find that 'easier' than attempting to write about pre-existing characters.

I would say that recreating the characterisation, mood and general vibes of an existing work of fiction is in fact a skill in and of itself that's acquired via practice. A common compliment delivered to fanfiction writers is how well they have captured the spirit of the original work. Inexperienced fanfiction writers fail to do this.

When creating an original character you can, ultimately, say anything about them and now it's canon bcos you created them and you said so. conversely, well, if you are covering a well known song and start playing the wrong notes people will notice immediately.

In addition: a lot of fanfiction, IMO, is in actuality a form of metafictional literary analysis. a story where two characters sit down and talk about their feelings about a canonical event? literary analysis, which is of course a skill. Sometimes fanfiction is bad bcos the writer is not good at interpreting texts.

finally I have made this point before but you never really see anyone suggesting that fictional works based on existing public domain texts are on 'easy mode'. is it 'easier' to write something based on a copyrighted work than a public domain work? Of course it isn't.

[m-caelius-rufus]

[riotgrrrlgerardway]

computer. die young by kesha. loud enough to kill

[itmeansalot]

[mdq]

[pansexualkiba]

jstor derulo

[caleod]

30-6-26

[mishkakagehishka]

That is not what i googled

[girlnephew]

like the idea of unnaturally aged cheese. making my gouda old using dread magics forbidden by the college of sorcery

[abalidoth]

this cheese was aged by sending it to the beach that makes you old

[picsthatmakeyougohmm]

hmmm

[deaths-accountant]

If you can free it, you become king of the Netherlands

[segamascott]

[dusttt]

To the bold ff.net user in 2013 who tried to write Moby-Dick from the whale’s perspective, please get back here you were cooking

[miliabyntite]

[lady-of-vitreous-sight]

the sinister fetishist would like to touch your left hand inappropriately

[dogpuppy]

[anintelligentoctopus]

I'm gonna be honest 'cowboys were a sort of itinerant warrior class common in meiji-era texas' always annoys me a bit because it's a funny post but also No They Weren't. They were an itinerant pastoralist class common in Meiji-era Texas. And indeed the wider western region of post-Risorgimento America