“Think of all the Djuna Barneses we could have had if not for slashfic.” new funniest sentence
for everyone in the tags saying “she’s right” do you want to look me in the eye and say that the writer of your average heated rivalry mpreg fic would be writing experimental modernist lesbian fiction instead if not for ao3 dot org. do you truly believe this.
this is also just such a non-issue, walk into any university creative writing department and throw a rock and you will hit at least three grad students writing experimental post-modernist fiction (badly)
this kinda pretentious mindset is so bogus, just admit you don't consider pop romance to be a valid and worthwhile form of literature and ride your high horse into the sunset or whatever, meanwhile writers who are training their craft on ao3 will keep getting trad pub deals
Think of all the bakers that would exist if people didn't get into sourdough as a hobby.
