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“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 gypsy-sunday)

This is probably the best, non-judgmental description of fan fiction I’ve ever heard of in main stream media. 

(via raeseddon)

I actually think that this is an extremely high compliment because it’s so true. We aren’t just sitting around on the couch, our brains just turning to mush as we zone out on the television. We are having intelligent and intellectual conversations about these fandoms. We are writing and creating and thinking. We are taking the messages to heart and living by them. We’re writing analysis after analysis on what we thought worked and what didn’t. We have our own language and it is a beautiful one, and in the end, we are what makes half of these industries because these films and shows and books would be nothing without the people who obsess over them and keep their legacy alive.