Your Post About Fanfiction Making It Out To Be The Only Source Of Free Literature Is Insane. Go To A

your post about fanfiction making it out to be the only source of free literature is insane. go to a library

Your inability to comprehend what you're reading is insane. So here it is simplified:

Fanfiction is writing. Writing is good. Free writing is even better. Fanfiction is not worth less than "professional" writing. If you'd pay for a book you can pay for fanfiction. Fanfiction = literature. 0 difference between book and fanfiction. If you say fanfiction isn't "real writing" you are stupid.

Also, libraries are sorely underfunded, underappreciated and also misunderstood in terms of the vast range of what they can offer. I love libraries. Support your local library please and thank you.

the answer to the possible issue of glorification and "romanticization" of taboo topics in fiction is not to censor and harass.

It's to advocate for the targeted demographics to have access to proper resources and education regarding those topics.

-signed me, who benefited greatly from the discussions, discourse and resources surrounding relationships and kink in reaction to Twilight and Fifty Shades of Grey.

Just love it when assholes think they get to act like the least conscientious people whilst calling everyone else immoral and evil

Yes you also should have to tag for triggers even if you are complaining about a ship you don't like!

There's a constant contradiction between antis and following their own rules. The one thing that can be said about the proshipper side is we are ultimately more respectful of maintaining the safety of online spaces in regards to tagging, being overt about triggers, shutting down malicious or harmful behavior in private spaces, ect.

That anon telling you to go to a library made me chuckle. My mom read "Lolita" at a public library when she was 12. It's why she's a pediatric forensic psychiatrist now. The idea of libraries as having less problematic content than fic is silly. But also, the idea of libraries being easily accessible is wild to me. I live in a rural area and it's a 30 minute drive to my local underfunded, understaffed library, which largely gets books from people donating their used books periodically. Due to poor funding, it's not accessible for nearly as many hours as anyone would like. Fanfic is free and accessible quickly at all hours. "Go to a library!" Where? When? Both of the other towns nearest me have shut down their public libraries. The one I have access to has to keep cutting hours.

If they really valued libraries, anon should go out and try harder to get people to utilize the libraries around them so they survive and continue to get funding. Degrading fanfic doesn't make libraries better off. It just makes people go, "Oh, so libraries are full of assholes like this guy."

And the wildest thing is, due to severe trauma from having one of the most toxic relationships of my life due to fandom, I don't even like fanfic right now. But even my highly-biased, emotionally-clouded ass can clearly see the flaws in this "fic bad, library good" argument. And when someone who's messed up and has and issues with the medium of literature in question still sees it more clearly than you... anon, maybe this is a sign you've got some biases to work through.

The best part, though? I was introduced to fanfic by librarians who liked my fanfics (though I didn't know what they were called) about Monster High characters meeting monsters from other franchises and becoming one big found family. The guardians of "real literature", for whatever absurd definition of that we're using today, have always been in favor of "fake literature", because they know that actually, both are lit.

I have nothing to add to this. 10/10 perfect points.

(Except that just like you, my closest library is almost a full hour away in any direction and the one that used to be five minutes away got closed down to "make room for profit-oriented business" which never happened, and now a perfectly usable space for a library is sitting and rotting.)

Oh look. I turned off anon and suddenly the 25 hate mail notifications stopped coming. By golly, I wonder what happened there! Surely it couldn't be because you won't actually tell me to kill myself without the protective shield of anonymity? Surely not. Your internet must've gone down, that's all.

Gonna apologize in advance my brain is fried from work so if this is semi-incomprehensible myyyyy b.

Ty for your reasonable takes. As someone whose degree is in literature, the logic i see around modern antis is…repulsive honestly. I *had* to read stuff like lolita which i mean…most misunderstood piece of literature out there tbh. Personally, i don’t like incest ships or minor ships but yknow i act like a reasonable human and don’t seek them out. Keep on keepin on my dude

Modern antis are just mini-cultists and wanna-be revolutionists who think they're taking action by dogpiling people over fictional content instead of actually having the courage to take action in real life.

The amount of antis who can't have an actual discussion about something proves just how many are only around to virtue signal and find an outlet for all the hate within them. I always know when I've made a reasonable point because they suddenly stop replying or start resorting to name calling, threats and snarky little non-responses.

I'm gonna keep doing this, don't worry.

Also amen on the work thing, eat something carby, drink some water and get some good rest!