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I made this for Twitter btw 😌

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My fallopian tubes are tingling

Artist: thatsallitchief on IG

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I feel like there's a solid group of fans (in all fandoms) who forget that there ARE differences between fanfiction and traditional publishing.

Transformative work is great about allowing you to explore secondary POVs and characters who aren't the focus of a text.

But traditionally published books are by their nature more constrained in their format. The physical nature of books + the publishing system means they only have so many pages. And those pages need to serve the central narrative of a story.

It can be fun to puzzle out 'man but what about the implications of x'? or 'oh, I feel like there's a connection between A and B, that's fun to think about!' or 'okay, but from Character M's point of view this is so tragic, even though they literally only exist in three scenes'. That's why transformative work is transformative, and for me, it's the fun part of fandom!

But what that doesn't mean is that the author is being mean or cowardly for not exploring those things in the source text. An author's focus has to be ultimately on the story THEY want to tell, and what makes that narrative or those themes work.

They do not have the luxury of including every digression your brain might have fun exploring, and it doesn't make them bad authors if their narrative focus isn't the one you would have personally chosen.

"But such and such character was robbed! They only appeared in x scenes and then-"

Okay, but did the scenes they were in serve their purpose? Did we get a sense of how they meaningfully impacted other characters, the plot, or the themes while still having a sense of personhood?

You can critique whether or not an author was successful in using their characters for story purposes or whether they successfully communicated their underlying message or whether the author unintentionally/intentionally included a bias that weakens their writing.

But an author not chosing to spotlight your particular minor character favorite does not make them a "coward" or bad at their craft.

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Sukugo Highschool AU

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worrying is like worshipping the problem

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dont @ me im summer chillin’ ⛱️

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venn diagrams

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I'M FOAMING AT THE MOUTH | via vhenan_virabelasan on insta

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The eepy King of Curses

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Very long Sukuna

I really have no idea what came over me to draw these but I had to do it, and now you have to suffer the consequences He heard Uraume unwrap food packages

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the bond between a girl and her room is stronger than the gravitational force of the earth

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ken sato, the beautiful man you are

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Reblog the 500,000 dollar written check from Seto Kaiba and money will come your way.