Fan fiction is what literature might look like if it were reinvented from scratch after a nuclear apocalypse by a band of brilliant pop-culture junkies trapped in a sealed bunker. They don’t do it for money. That’s not what it’s about. The writers write it and put it up online just for the satisfaction. They’re fans, but they’re not silent, couchbound consumers of media. The culture talks to them, and they talk back to the culture in its own language.

The Boy Who Lived Forever | Time Magazine (via dapper-hobbit)

This is why I really hate the stigma around reading fanfiction. I know so many literature snobs who like, judge you if you get caught liking fanfiction. Oh word, sorry that I happen to be reading something that can potentially be just as good as whatever you’re reading and just isn’t published and consists of characters that already exist, I must be *so uncool*.

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