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anyway the thing about fanfic is that it's not essentially bad or good; it's essentially amateur. some people are absolutely out there writing award-worthy prose (some fic writers ARE award-winning writers IRL!), but that's not the point. the point is that we're all telling campfire stories. it's a community, and it's a way to spend some more time in the worlds and stories that we love.

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Sometimes I try to explain a Star Trek plot to my friends, like the Fuck Or Die episode or the one where some aliens abduct Kirk, Uhura, and Chekov and put shock collars on them and force them to be gladiators, and they say "haha that sounds like fanfiction." And while it makes sense that a modern audience would react that way, I think it's kind of getting it backwards. A lot of the tropes that we recognize as characteristic to fanfiction today developed in large part because of Star Trek. The zines the Kirk/Spock shippers were passing around at conventions in the 70s and 80s are the direct ancestors of Ao3. Star Trek isn't written like fanfiction, fanfiction is written like Star Trek.

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I don't think we talk enough about how being aspec is not always about being completely disconnected from love/relationships (in whatever form it may be), but often about having different perspectives on them than what is most commonly perpetuated in society.

Perspectives that I, biased as I am, find to be incredibly profound

Idk I just think that writing anti-amatonormative stories isn't just about writing stories without sex and romance, but also about HOW you write the sex and romance

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this is killing me he doesn't even gaf about the yuri behind him

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Man, the end of this five-year mission is kind of a bummer…

Original from @ featherleafern on twitter

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Bro I just nearly fucking died

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the apple of luck and miracles

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as a ds9 fan this tumblr ad title really confused me for a second

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Always the writer, never the reader.

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Garak was late to lunch that day because he was building a bomb to destroy his shop. He was eating Delavian chocolates while he made it. He saw an assassin and knew for whom the bell tolled, but he still ate his chocolates, and he still went to lunch, just a little late. Because he was making a bomb to blow himself up with.

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he's right behind me isn't he

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My Pinterest main page did the funniest thing ever for absolutely no reason and I had to recreate the feeling I got from it.

This is almost every TOS episode in a nutshell

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“What kind of biology”

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when the ao3 author is funny in the chapter notes and i get lowkey parasocial

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it’s giving bella and edward