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Chandra here! Film studies grad working in radio in Seattle. Looking for a new path of creativity. Lover of photography, 90's music, coffee, & the Sounders FC! Dog mom, Supernatural & Walking Dead fan.
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“Fan fiction is what literature might look like if it were reinvented from scratch after a nuclear apocalypse by a band of brilliant pop-culture junkies trapped in a sealed bunker. They don’t do it for money. That’s not what it’s about. The writers write it and put it up online just for the satisfaction. They’re fans, but they’re not silent, couchbound consumers of media. The culture talks to them, and they talk back to the culture in its own language.”

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The Boy Who Lived Forever | Time Magazine (via gypsy-sunday)

This is probably the best, non-judgmental description of fan fiction I’ve ever heard of in main stream media. 

(via raeseddon)

I love this because it’s not just a nonjudgmental description of fanfic, it flips the script. There is so much reflexive shaming of people who write fanfic, but this points out that the world that people to demean fanfic are arguing for is a world where we are all exclusively passive observers of media. Under this framing we are not supposed to interact with stories other than to consume them, perhaps discuss them, and then discard.

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