Sometimes It's Allowed To Just Be Fun - Tumblr Posts

I keep seeing the idea that meta for certain fandoms can be too old/out of date/unoriginal because everything has already been said before a million times, but like

So what?

This is fandom, a hobby that people engage in on the internet for fun, not a classroom. You don't have to have the most fresh and original take on a character/plot line/ship/whatever in order to post your meta or headcanon or fun little "what if?" drabble. So your idea has already been done before in a thousand different iterations, many of which might be more well written then yours?

Who cares! Write it anyway! Maybe someone else who is new to fandom, someone who has never seen that idea from other people, because it's so "out of date" that all the previous iterations are long buried in the murky depths of the relevant tumblr tags, will see your post and find it fresh and new and exciting. Maybe someone who never saw the idea before because they used to be more interested in a different aspect of canon until their tastes changed as they got older will see your idea, and it will be new and interesting to them.

Or maybe no one will find it completely new and totally original, but they'll be able to point out other pieces of meta with a similar take and then you get the benefit of reading other people's writing on the same topic that might help you clarify your own thoughts and feelings on this thing you love.

Stories, meta, headcanons - they don't have to be new to be new to you.