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  • October 15th, 2012 12:04am

    taterpie:

    linaerys:

    I love these guys.

    I can’t even understand how an author wouldn’t understand the urge to write fanfic, create fanart. How do you even want to be an author without seeing characters and stories you like and wanting to create your own? Fanfiction is just a matter of degree.

    Have you never imagined yourself into a favorite world? Have you never imagined yourself meeting a favorite character? If you have, you’ve committed fanfiction in your head. Didn’t you used to play pretend? What is the difference between thinking it and telling it to a friend? Between telling it to a friend and writing it down?

    If you’re an author and you are against fanfiction, you are lying to yourself about why you even started writing fiction in the first place. None of us did this alone, all of us stand on the shoulders of giants. And sometimes we write fic about those giants.

    I love Henry Jenkins’ take. 

  • February 7th, 2012 6:29pm

    ladyofthelie:

    has anyone read these? tell me if i should 🙂

    The Drawing of the Three is the best, but definitely check out the first book in the series if you haven’t (The Gunslinger). Out of the Silent Planet is great, too! It’s the first of a trilogy (Perelandra and That Hideous Strength being the other two). Not sure about the Tolkien book. Could never really get into his stuff, but I’ve heard good things. 

  • January 26th, 2012 1:08pm

    Even in literature and art, no man who bothers about originality will ever be original: whereas if you simply try to tell the truth (without caring twopence how often it has been told before) you will, nine times out of ten, become original without ever having noticed it.

    — C.S. Lewis (via doubledaybooks)