Barbie (2023) Dir. Greta Gerwig

Barbie (2023) ✦ Dir. Greta Gerwig

I see a lot of positivity posts for fanfiction, these days, but one thing that helps me to remember, sometimes, is that your fanfiction doesn't have to be good.

You're allowed to write fanfiction that is, objectively speaking, Bad Writing.

Fanfiction doesn't have to be good, it doesn't have to change anyone's life, it doesn't have to "fix" canon or do better than the source material that first inspired you.

Whether it's your first time writing, or if you're writing in a second language; whether you're young and still in school, or if you're older but writing was never your strongest subject; whether you've been going through a nasty bout of writer's block, or if it's just been a while since the last time you wrote anything creative just for fun -

It's okay to write fanfiction that just, like, straight-up sucks. Full of grammar and spelling mistakes, riddled with 1-dimensional tropes that have been done a thousand times before, with characters who only barely resemble their canon counterparts. Short fic with plots that meander nonsensically, or a bunch of one-shots that don't quite manage to have a plot at all. Weird sentence structure and paragraph breaks that, in retrospect, don't always make sense. Writing that tries too hard to be Funny or Serious or Good, but misses the mark by a mile.

Write them! Post them!

And when they don't get a lot of hits, when they only get a handful of kudos and a comment or two at best...

Keep writing new stories that make you happy. Write your favorite tropes to death, explore to exhaustion that one single aspect of your favorite character's canon traits that hooked onto something inside you and made you start writing in the first place, and let your plots be as silly or meandering or nonexistent as you want.

And if you keep writing even when your works are objectively kinda terrible, even when they aren't popular, when they don't get a lot of hits or kudos or comments?

I promise, you'll get better.

Zuko 🔥

I'm trying to draw more dynamic poses 🫠

Also, I just kinda winged it with the lighting 😅

i needed to read this today so im sharing it to all of you!!

Hope is something you give yourself. That is the meaning of inner strength.

just discoverd i can block people i find annoying