#Don't mind me I'm just getting weirdly emotional over humanity's power to create

[starakex]

I wonder if people making self-indulgent fanworks know how powerful they are. Someone out there in the 2000s wrote a self-insert fanfiction of them getting isekai'd to Hyrule and dating Link from Ocarina of Time while Bart Simpson was also here holding the secret fourth triforce piece and this person will live without the knowledge that their weird little fanfiction found on some derelict forum was my entry into online fandom. Kids roleplaying as Pokémon on dead fansites who didn't even know that in a few years they'd sink just as much time as I did pretending to be a Mudkip on the hit new game Pokémon Mystery Dungeon just because they wanted to share their obsession with other nerdy kids. Weekly fanart uploads of Koopaling OCs where you HAD to be there the week they'd been shared otherwise all you'd find was a Photobucket default picture due to bandwidth usage.

There's power in how passionate you can get about things. Put it out there even if you don't think anyone would even care. I didn't even like Bart Simpson and I was still following that shit