While Many People Think Fanfiction Is About Inserting Sex Into Texts (like Tolkiens) Where It Doesnt

“While many people think fanfiction is about inserting sex into texts (like Tolkien’s) where it doesn’t belong, Brancher sees it differently: “I was desperate to read about sex that included great friendship; I was repurposing Tolkien’s text in order to do that. It wasn’t that friendship needed to be sexualized, it was that erotica needed to be … friendship-ized.” Many fanfiction writers write about sex in conjunction with beloved texts and characters not because they think those texts are incomplete, but because they’re looking for stories where sex is profound and meaningful. This is part of what makes fan fiction different from pornography: unlike pornography, fanfic features characters we already care deeply about, and who tend to already have long-standing and complex relationships with each other. It’s a genre of sexual subjectification: the very opposite of objectification. It’s benefits with friendship.”

— Francesca Coppa, “Introduction to The Dwarf’s Tale,” The Fanfiction Reader (via francescacoppa)

Someone put it into words. I gotta sit down

Okay. Die ersten Depressionen sind überstanden.

Hier sind ein paar thüringer Aktionsbündnisse gegen Rechts, die sich über Unterstützung freuen:

Auf die Plätze Bündnis Erfurt

Aktionsbündnis Gera gegen Rechts

Uni gegen Rechts Jena

BgR Weimar

Hier ist eine Liste von Vereinen und anderen Organisationen, die sich in Thüringen für Menschenrechte und gegen Rechtsextremismus einsetzen (curtesy of Thüringer Antidiskriminierungsnetzwerk), dabei möchte ich hervorheben:

Flüchtlingsrat Thüringen (Beratung und Unterstützung geflüchteter Menschen)

MOBIT (mobile Beratung für Menschen, die sich gegen Rechtsextremismus engagieren)

ezra (Beratung und Hilfe für Opfer rechtsextremistischer, rassistischer und sonstwie diskriminierender Gewalt)

Vielfalt Leben - QueerWeg Verein Thüringen (selbsterklärend)

Thüringer Landesverbände der vernünftigen Parteien:

SPD

Grüne

Linke

Hier kann man an Mario Voigt schreiben, und ihm klarmachen, dass man kommt und ihn auffrisst sehr enttäuscht wäre, wenn er mit der AfD zusammenarbeitet.

Hier ist eine Petition, die Paypal dazu aufruft, die Konten der AfD zu sperren (an die thüringer AfD kann man schon nicht mehr über Paypal spenden).

Wer weitere Organisationen, Netzwerke, und ähnliches hinzufügen möchte, darf das gern tun.

Wir sind immer noch mehr.

this is just my opinion but i think any good media needs obsession behind it. it needs passion, the kind of passion that's no longer "gentle scented candle" and is now "oh shit the house caught on fire". it needs a creator that's biting the floorboards and gnawing the story off their skin. creators are supposed to be wild animals. they are supposed to want to tell a story with the ferocity of eating a good stone fruit while standing over the sink. the same protective, strange instinct as being 7 and making mud potions in pink teacups: you gotta get weird with it.

good media needs unhinged, googling-at-midnight kind of energy. it needs "what kind of seams are invented on this planet" energy and "im just gonna trust the audience to roll with me about this" energy. it needs one person (at least) screaming into the void with so much drive and energy that it forces the story to be real.

sometimes people are baffled when fanfic has some stunning jaw-dropping tattoo-it-on-you lines. and i'm like - well, i don't go here, but that makes sense to me. of fucking course people who have this amount of passion are going to create something good. they moved from a place of genuine love and enjoyment.

so yeah, duh! saturday cartoons have banger lines. random street art is sometimes the most precious heart-wrenching shit you've ever seen. someone singing on tiktok ends up creating your next favorite song. youtubers are giving us 5 hours of carefully researched content. all of this is the impossible equation to latestage capitalism. like, you can't force something to be good. AI cannot make it good. no amount of focus-group testing or market research. what makes a story worth listening to is that someone cares so much about telling it - through dance, art, music, whatever it takes - that they are just a little unhinged about it.

one time my friend told me he stayed up all night researching how many ways there are to peel an orange. he wrote me a poem that made me cry on public transportation. the love came through it like pith, you know? the words all came apart in my hands. it tasted like breakfast.

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