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?
i think that Grantaire being canonically attracted to men can hardly be disputed because he's very explicit in his attraction and love for Enjolras, to the point where i hardly ever see anyone deny this (even outside of the fandom i mean), but i do think that it's actually very very clear we're meant to interpret Enjolras as homosexual?
of course it has always been interesting to me how Victor Hugo chose to introduce Enjolras as a wild Antinous (emperor Hadrian's gay lover), only to tell us a few lines later tells us he wasn't aware that there was a being on earth called woman and like, yeah i guess that's pretty gay but there's still some space for debate. how on earth are we supposed to interpret the following sentence though
"Evadne's bare bosom would have moved him no more than Aristogeiton; to him, as to Harmodius, flowers were good only for hiding the sword"
so in his first introduction, like in the same fucking PARAGRAPH he's compared to not one, not two but THREE different gay men, and one of those comparisons is there to explicitly say that he wouldn't care if a woman showed her tits to him. it's an INSISTENT analogy that only gets stronger when we get to grantaire's part, with them being pretty much two sides of the same coin, getting compared to even MORE gay men
*decked out in my clown uniform to watch my silly little show about gay firefighters but turns out the firefighter actually kissed another man and now I'm the one who's overdressed
Gotta love that it’s somehow ALWAYS gay people whose relationship is “more” than sex (and thus never canon on screen), it’s always gay people who are said to be lesser if they are sexual. Meanwhile Nadja and Laszlo have sex all the fucking time. The fuck does he mean it would be less profound hello?!!!
problematic??? They literally murder people every episode what 💀
point is I love hilarious hypocrisy that means a presumably straight creator won’t have to go ahead and make the obvious pairing that has written itself and would make sense narratively happen.
I am so tired of this type of homophobia, I’m fucking SICK OF IT. You would never say that Nadja and Laszlo’s relationship is less profound or less meaningful, they are love and they have sex and it’s treated as normal.
Have you ever thought about throwing the Welcome Home cast in a Werewolf AU???
isn’t there an au of that that already exists-?
though I will say I actually have for a while thought of a concept much similar every now and then for the mob au-
Yknow how I cross the mob au with my “shiddy dating sim” au and made the “Yakuza au”?
It’s basically that, except instead of the “shiddy dating sim” it’s with the emo au- basically turning the combination of Mob and Emo into the “Twilight au” lmAOOO-
So basically everything is mostly the same- except everyone is like- gay cranked up to eleventy-? And there are the vampires and werewolves (only inside of da mob) smhh-
Wally, Home, Howdy, Frank and Julie are Vampires
Barnaby, Sally, Eddie and Poppy are Werewolves
(If you wanna add Dr stone and Robbie, Robbie is a werewolf and Dr Stone is a human. Also if there is a Y/N they would basically be Bella (human) but later can choose if they wanna be a glittery old dead fart or a doggie
another joke au to add to the list- will I do anything with it? Probably not LMAO, but it’s REALLY funny to think about
the only correct way to write proper high-stake sci-fi finale is to get 3 very gay men and ask them to improvise the most camp, slutty and intense game of catch (also helps if one is trouser-less)
look, they knew exactly what they were doing
the tension, oh gawd the tension
15's face kills me everytime
honestly show me a scene with a better sequence of events (bet you can't), I'll wait right here