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

@laurelwen

first base is murdering you. second base is ressurecting you from the grave. third base is murdering you a second time

If you’re LGBT reblog and tag with your opinion on beer.

I think therapy would work better if therapists were allowed to top you or at least hit you and put you in bondage..

there is still time. there is still time. until your bones are in the fucking ground there is still time.

Does tumblr know about the animation union yaoi yet