Tag: OMG

I adore the way fan fiction writers engage with and critique source texts, by manipulating them and breaking their rules. Some of it is straight-up homage, but a lot of [fan fiction] is really aggressive towards the source text. One tends to think of it as written by total fanboys and fangirls as a kind of worshipful act, but a lot of times you’ll read these stories and it’ll be like ‘What if Star Trek had an openly gay character on the bridge?’ And of course the point is that they don’t, and they wouldn’t, because they don’t have the balls, or they are beholden to their advertisers, or whatever. There’s a powerful critique, almost punk-like anger, being expressed there—which I find fascinating and interesting and cool.

Lev Grossman 
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Why do straight, white, cis guys tend not to write fanfic? Because they don’t need to.

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One time in high school a teacher called me a ‘she’

jeremyraycisscum:

so I said, “I’m actually a boy, Miss.”

Then one of my classmates slams his hands on the desks and shouts, “YOU’RE NO BOY!”

I turned around to him.

he said, “YOU’RE A MAN.”

I turned back around sheepishly smiling while all my male classmates cheered and shouted, my teacher simply smiled, apologized, and the lesson continued.

I’m thankful for that moment in my life, it gives me hope for the future.

That more trans people will be supported, and visible.