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?

Taking off your vessel’s wedding ring = shaving ur pussy for a one direction concert. In terms of severely you are thinking with your dick and how thoroughly convinced you are that tonight is YOUR NIGHT. It doesn’t matter if he’s actually single or actually gay. You have the power of sheer single minded delusion on your side and he WILL lock eyes with you and be overcome and whisk you away to court and marry you

shiv: i need you to go put the thumbscrews on greg

tom: ok

tom to greg, later: i wish you were my wife also i want any excuse to touch your body

They were like "how do we make gundam appeal to the younger generation" and they really said "make it gay, with generational trauma, and give the MC anxiety."

I like to think that Max played into lestappengate to get his princess the Ferrari contract of his dreams.

Yen's a bit of a politician when she goes back to Aretuza. And of course, she has to stand out. So we tried to kind of design a dress that would stand out. And it's got beautiful material that in certain lights it reflects the color of her eyes.

'what does bj stand for?' 'anything you want' that was his pickup line at the san fran gay bars

sensei :D

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It's so funny that Michael said "I know what will make you trust me! I know how you die."

😂 for the ask game

Hiiii

Here's a snippet from my untitled "Jonathan's coworkers don't think Nancy's a real person" fic for Jancy Week

Jonathan's not really paying attention when he returns to the front of the bar. He's more focused on tidying up before the place is even more of a mess. He reminds himself to add rowdy drunks to his list of reasons he hates Halloween.  “Hey handsome, what are you supposed to be?” He almost doesn't trust his hearing, but then he realizes how stupid that is; he'd know her voice anywhere. He turns and sure enough there's Nancy in a tight little black dress, a bowtie and bunny ears with a wicked grin spread across her red lips. “Bunny” he stammer out stupidly and she smirks in a way that he knows she’s going to tease him about it for the rest of the weekend. Or possibly the rest of his life  “Well you’re doing a terrible job” she teases.

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it's not a lie to say that albert and franz are shoujo characters. the direction of gankutsuou is very dezakian and the soap-operaish melodrama is reminiscent of 70s shoujo manga set in 1800s boarding schools with intense homoerotic text/subtext. franz's tragedy follows the same formula of queer pulp fiction (popular in 70s shoujo manga). the epilogue even feels like kaze to ki no uta, in a way! anyway, my bold claim for today is that albert is not only just a shoujo mc, he's an honorary gothic heroine as well!

Earlier this evening, we discovered a pigeon in our kitchen at work.

My boss: Let's leave the room and just let it find its own way outside.

At the same time, the pigeon was repeatedly flying into every closed window but the open one...So didn't seem like this was gonna happen anytime soon and we needed that kitchen.

Me: We can get it outside, I've seen it done on TV.

And my boss probably imagined an educational program showing you what to do when a bird gets inside your house. But by "seen it done on TV", I mean that this exact scene popped into my head.

Me: oh that's a cool looking person. And they seem nice too. Better not be too clingy and avoid looking at them so they won't think I'm a weird creep

Them: I am going to EAT YOU with my eyes. I'm going to DEVOUR YOU with my autism stare until we form a deeply homoromantic friendship, this is not negotiable