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At some point "fanfic can be as good as professional writing" became "fanfic should be as good as professional writing" and that's caused major damage to fandom spaces.

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I know that plenty of other people have said this and another random person saying it won't mean anything. But the newbies to fanfics need to learn fanfic etiquette. Yes! You can bind your favorite books so you have a physical copy. No! You cannot then sell that physical copy. Yes! Even if you're the one who wrote it. We are toeing a fine legal line. We got here through actual legal fights that were fought for us to e able to write our fun little stories for each other and ourselves. (I've added a link to an article talking about lawsuits and such) https://foleyhoag.com/news-and-insights/blogs/making-your-mark-blog/2016/october/10-copyright-cases-every-fan-fiction-writer-should-know-about/ With TikTok hyping up fanfiction and making it more mainstream, we're kind of forgetting that fanfictions works best when it's a little bit in the shadows. It keeps us from getting called out by authors that don't like it (Ex. Anne Rice) I know capitalism makes everyone think they constantly have to be making money, but you are allowed to enjoy things that don't have any monetary gain. Please, bind fics at home instead of going to those professional sites. Please stop buying and selling fics before you ruin it for the rest of us. Those of us who have been reading for years find a lot of joy in our dumb little fics and would riot if you all got them banned because you can't help yourself when it comes to money.

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This shit goes for OCs too

Guess what!!

Cross multi universe is fine

You wanna put shrek in sherlock go ahead

Think the lego dudes can mame the smurfs better go ahwad

Want to do a propwr dc and marvel thing great! Dont stop there add in star trek, star wars and x-files!!

Saw and killing eve with a dash of winx club ans monster high

WE ARE FAN CREATORS WE DO THIS FOR OURSELF AND EACHOTHER DONT FUCKING GATE KEEP CONTENT,

DO NOT GATEKEEP INVOLVMENT

DO NOT GATEKEEP EXPERIENCE

DO NOT GATEKEEP THOUGHTS OF THINGS THAT INSPIRE YOU ABOUT A FILM OR TV SHOW JUST BECAUSE THEY ARENT FROM THE SOURCE

DO NOT GATEKEEP CREATION!!!!!

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This honestly seems like something I'd do.

A thousand percent

I just reada really good fic but halfway through I realized "oh shit this is really familiar.... didn't I write something like this once?" And as I kept reading I kept predicting what happened next and the further I went the more convinced I was that they'd ripped off my story-

like, copied the ENTIRE plot and re-written it, just better than I had? The characters were more fleshed-out than mine were, and the POV was more interesting, and the pace made more sense- but it was MY STORY?

So close to the end I was like "holy shit.. do I message them? Ask if my story inspired theirs? Should I be angry? Flattered?" Cause their tags and description didn't mention me AT ALL, which, sure, it's fanfiction to begin with, but if you're using my work than at least credit me as inspo, right? Just to be courteous?

But I get to the end of the final chapter, and it's not finished, and I'm kind of disappointed cause I never finished my story and I was really immersed in their version now and had been looking forwards to seeing how they tied up my loose ends- so I scroll to the bottom to leave a comment, and.

It's MY URL.

IT WAS MY STORY THE WHOLE TIME.

THE ONE *I WROTE*.

In *2013*.

And FORGOT ABOUT

BECAUSE I WAS SO INSECURE ABOUT MY SLOPPY, SHALLOW, AMETEUR WRITING

And I'm just sitting here now staring into space thinking about every shitty story I've ever written now like

IT WAS ALL GOOD?

IT WAS GOOD THIS WHOLE DAMN TIME??

I'M A GOOD WRITER?????

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I was listening to my playlist high last night while reading Merthur fics and Show Yourself from frozen 2 (caleb hyles cover) came on

I literally had to put down the foc because I had to focus on the music BECAUSE I HAD A VISION now 24 hrs later, I am suddenly reminded of it but only bits and pieces

I want to write a lil oneshot about Merlin learning about being magic Incarnate but like...in a way like the show yourself scene

That's...all I can remember ಥ_ಥ

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GUYS I JUST SAW THIS ON TWITTER AND I AM DYING

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Reblogging for ideas and starting points for research for my fic.

(South) Indian Harry Potter Headcanons:

Harry knew he was Indian (mostly because the Dursley’s used to say racist shit to him) but he didn’t know where in India the potters were from until he went to Hogwarts. He finds out from the Patils, who were close with the potters because desis stick together.

The Patils are from the north and use Hindi to speak to each other. Neither of them knows Telugu/Tamil/Marathi/Malayalam/insert Southern language of choice here (I personally headcanon Telugu because it’s the only Indian language I speak and because there’s a huge diaspora of telugumandi in the west, but feel free to choose whatever you’d like). So Harry has to rediscover his heritage language on his own.

He also studies Sanskrit, and it opens up a HUGE world of spells that they don’t teach at Hogwarts (because of course Indian wizards don’t do spells in Latin). He and the Patils know a bunch of spells that nobody else does.

Harry’s pleat game is ON POINT. It makes sense, since he had to do all the chores at the Dursley’s and that includes perfectly folded and ironed laundry with the edges aligned neatly, or else he would risk being punished. But the result is that if you want your saree drape to pass the inspection of even the most judgemental auntie, you go to Harry to help with your pleats.

Even when they’ve graduated and all have their own homes, it’s a pretty regular sight for the Patil twins to come through Harry’s floo, half dressed, to have Harry pleat their sarees or their lehenga dupatta for them.

Harry LOVES spices. The dursleys only liked bland food, but Harry has always liked flavorful foods, and has no problem with (hot) spicy food either. He uses lots of spices in his own cooking now. His food is very flavorful, but when he’s cooking for himself, it’s too spicy for all his friends (even the Patils). So nobody can eat his leftovers unless he was specifically cooking with other people in mind. Ron learned this the first time he rummaged through Harry’s fridge after a night of drinking. Now Harry labels all his food as to whether or not it’s “Harry spicy”.

James LOVED to buy Lily sarees. He’d order them with custom, wizard-themed designs from weaving villages in south India. The women who made them assumed he was just very imaginative, so he wasn’t violating the statute of secrecy since saree patterns are often vibrant and unique. Harry finds some of them in the old potter manor, and they still smell like the perfumes and scented oils his mother would wear when James took her to the local temple for Hindu holidays.

Indian witches often store extra magic in or enchant pieces of their copious jewelry with spells that can keep them safe if they’re ever in a situation where they don’t have their wands. stuff like, each bangle can function as an emergency portkey that can take you to different safe locations if you say the activation word, or ones that create an instant magical shield when you tap them. Harry finds some of his mothers gajulu, gives them to his female friends.

He ties Rhaki on Ron and Neville, and all the weasley boys. Ron was the first person he ever tied it on, because Ron was the first person who he ever bonded with, and his closest brother.

Harry always cooks idli sambar or dosa for his friends for breakfast the next morning after a night of drinking together, and it’s the perfect hangover food because it definitely brings you back to full alertness/knocks the last bit of post-hangover grogginess right out of your system.

Harry’s parselmouth abilities are valued in his native culture because of the sacredness of snakes in Hinduism, and it comes to be something he’s really proud of (personally I think the ‘parselmouth connected to the horcrux’ thing is dumb, so I’ve always imagined Harry was just naturally a parselmouth).

As the number of Indian immigrants/expats continues to grow after they graduate, Harry helps some of his students (he’s the DADA teacher) start the Hogwarts “South Asian Student Union”.

He always has snacks out for his students when they come to visit his office hours, and they’re all Indian snacks and sweets. His personal favorite is kaju barfi, but he always has a good variety of both sweet and spicy treats, especially for stressed out owl and newts students.

He collaborates with Hermione, who works in the ministry, to make it mandatory for Hogwarts students to a “foreign magical language” course so they can broaden both their minds and their spell repertoires. Padma Patil becomes the “Sanskrit Spells” teacher, and Seamus teaches “Irish Gaelic”. (It took him a little longer to get his course started, since it turns out that at least 40% of Gaelic spells are just increasingly complicated and violent ways to repel the English).

Hermione and Harry also work together to make sure there are employees in the international magical cooperation department who specialize in post-colonial relations, because the magical world also has its issues with that colonialist mindset towards countries that were formerly part of the empire.

Just south Indian Harry embracing his heritage, learning about what was ripped from him, and using it to enact meaningful change in a multicultural magical society.

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Anyone else ever lose track of your original plot and idea so much that your OC gets kinda shoved to the side? Like...they're still pivotal in a way, but not enough to fully flesh them out in the way I want to.

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If any of y’all didn’t know, there’s a free online library, aka

https://openlibrary.org/

and I found like, twelve ebooks I’ve been wanting to read on there, and blasted through like three of them during the course of a boring-ass shift.

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SPREADSHEET OF PALESTINIAN ESCAPE FUNDS‼️TIME SENSITIVE

Operation Olive Branch is a continuously updating spreadsheet of Palestinian escape funds where progress towards their goals is being tracked. As of right now, there are over 100 funds listed there.

Any amount of money can make a difference. With their recent decision to bomb Rafah, the only remaining “safe” territory in Gaza, Israel has forced Palestinians into a corner by giving them nowhere else to go. The international community has given Israel the ability to act with impunity - it is long past the point in time to rely on those in power to hold Israel to any standard of compassion.

Today, I want you to look at this document, choose a fund, contribute to it, and share it. The people in Rafah are living on borrowed time. Free Palestine.

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If you haven't read some of these. You definitely should. My favorite is definitely the God of Arepo. Such a beautiful story

Love how tumblr has its own folk stories. Yeah the God of Arepo we’ve all heard the story and we all still cry about it. Yeah that one about the woman locked up for centuries finally getting free. That one about the witch who would marry anyone who could get her house key from her cat and it’s revealed she IS the cat after the narrator befriends the cat.

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Can I just say, the way TV shows work now is so disheartening. I just read an article about another queer show being cancelled after one season and it's just really sad. There's no more of just shows coming out on TV, or other services , being not so popular at first but then at like season 3 they get immensely popular or maybe they don't but they're still loved by a group of people even if it isn't the biggest crowd. There are so many shows that you definitely have heard of that were not the most popular when the first season came out, for example the office didn't peak till like the fifth season, breaking bad gained popularity just before the fourth season, and game of thrones peaked at about season five. I haven't watched any of those but they are some of the most popular TV shows I can think of and so imagine if they had been cancelled after one season?? just because they hadn't quite reached a zillion views yet.

I was watching this lovely show called night sky on amazon prime, It was a refreshing and original Sci fi show choosing to follow two older protagonists rather than a young couple. And I thought that was awesome and I really was enjoying this show, till it ended on a cliff hanger and then I found out there was never going to be a second season.

No more hidden gems, no more chances for shows to build up a plot and an audience over time just one season and if it doesn't get stranger things big then it's over, doesn't matter how much story was planned out or how much is left unsaid. Sometimes they get more than one season but often they still never get to finish their story.

So many shows potential for representation and great stories are thrown down the drain when the big boss decides it isn't making them enough money. Because that's just it, it's always about money. Because if it's not making the multimillionaire streaming services richer then what's the point?

Ok rant over.

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MHA as things people have actually said.

My friend keeps track of weird out of context things she hears people say. This is my hero characters (Mainly Class1A and staff) As things from that list. Kaminari: *Laying on the ground after dropping weights on his foot* Kaminari: My arms at the end of my arms gave out. Kirishima: Your...what? Kaminari: You know *wiggles fingers* these ones. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Aoyama: I just really like street cheese. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Bakugo: *Explaining his backstory and why he 'hates' Izuku* Sero: You don't have to justify it, you can just be an awful person. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Izuku: *drawing a sketch for his hero notes* Izuku: Look, I'm artis....autis...autistic. Izuku: I mean artistic. Bakugo: No you had it right the first time.

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"Read Banned Books" a new full page cartoon essay published in The New York Times Arts & Leisure section today.

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The best thing about being a writer is I can just give a character all my trauma. Then give them all the therapy that I don't have. Heal, my child, as I cannot.