That viral post that's going around about how people who write "book quality" mlm fic are too "normal" to publish and have real jobs so only "weird" people publish their "shitty" fanfic is so completely out of touch with reality and I am giving a massive side eye to everyone reblogging it.
Not only is it completely, easily verifiably untrue (you cannot enter any professional writing space without tripping over a dozen grizzled scifi writers who got their start by filing off the serial numbers and publishing their Star Trek fanfic even going back decades ago??? it's a whole thing?? plus how can you look at the mlm category on Amazon right now and say with a straight face that people aren't publishing shitty Spirk and Stucky fanfic??? Oh, honey...) it's also the perfect example of this kind of sneering elitism that true artists would never sully themselves by seeking profit, they do it only for the purity of the thing that always somehow leads back to, "no one should be paid to make art, actually."
The only reason you're seeing more published fanfic right now has nothing to do with the idealistic purity of your hypothetical government employee written smut of the past vs the debased scribbles of those awful straights of today and everything to do with the fact that a) self-publishing has created a voracious readership that wants a ton of content so it's become a viable, flexible income stream for many, especially disabled people b) anyone can publish now with self-publishing tools so there are less gatekeepers and c) lockdown got a lot of people into fandom and therefore writing who never tried it before.
And if you really think there's no "shitty" published mlm and no "book-quality" m/f writing out there that started as fanfic, then you are clearly not a reader so why are you even talking about this?
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GUYS I JUST FOUND OUT SOMETHING
I don't know if you already noticed it before, but I need to share some tears here otherwise I'm gonna drown in a new ocean, so take some tissues if you think you'll need them.
I discovered a thing while I was looking for screencaps to make a new blended edit about the last race in the first cars movie, and I looked on through the 4K pictures that are also wider than the original frame that is basically the one from the dvds (so 16:9)...
The moment I'm talking about is the one that comes right after the scene i made a gifset just the post before. I noticed this cute little thing: when Tex calls Lightning and he turns to talk to him, you couldn't basically see the other characters first in the 16:9, but now you can and LOOK
While Flo, Ramone and Fillmore look at Tex as well as Lightning, Doc doesn't give a damn and still looks at his boy with such a proud face I JUST CAN'T YOU GUYS HELP ME. It's barely a second of the movie but I'm literally melting over this.
I tried to made a gif but I couldn't find a better quality for the wider frame, sorry! Here it is
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Recently read Shadowpact. Initially read just for Laura Fell, but I really liked this team. DC Universe only has the first 16 issues, so I’ll have to dig around for the last nine issues (I believe it’s 25 issues long?). Laura is so adorable?? Like she’s so sweet and easy to get along with… without the whole supervillain corrupted heart magic thing, that is. Her characterization in Robin is kinda… ya know. But if I ignore that and focus on Shadowpact, she’s easily one of my favorites.
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i was watching some 2016 tlsp videos for research right. hadn't done that in a while. needless to say it took approximately 0.5 seconds after they came on stage for an unprecedented wave of grief to hit me like a truck
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I am the HAPPIEST PERSON in the world right now🥹🥰🧡🩷
I will live here forever, never moving on
Credits: Mint Magazine Thailand on Twitter, gifs made by me -A🐰💜
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This man really did make Snidely, of all characters, hot as hell. And I love him for that.
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No but hear me out. Because good omens and ofmd are fulfilling basically everything that they need to, I’m LOVING aus.
I’ve never liked alternative universe or headcanons that were too far out of the canon compliant because i needed the basics to be fully accomplished first. I needed fiction to fix and complete what canon didn’t so I read mostly canon compliant, but that need was never getting filled because canon still wasn’t fixed, no matter what.
Now? Oh baby I’m having the time of my life. For the first time in my life I get what you all saw in flower/coffee shop au long ago. IT’S EXHILARATING. I feel like this is too much power, I’m never gonna stop.
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