The Vast Majority Of Fanworks Are Bad, And That's Fine, Actually. They Are Bad For The Same Reason That

the vast majority of fanworks are bad, and that's fine, actually. they are bad for the same reason that the average number of legs for a human person to have is less than two: statistics. like with all endeavours and especially creative ones, most people who write fanfiction or draw art of their favourite characters are bad at it. if you line up all the crochet projects in the world, most of them will be, well, bad. some are bad because they're the first thing a person ever made, or the second or third or tenth, and this kind of thing takes practice. others are bad because the person who made them is just not very good at it. maybe they just learned how to make granny squares and they're perfectly happy to never expand or improve on that. most people who dance or bake or garden or braid hair are not amazing at it! and you'd never go to your kid's dance recital or eat your friend's homemade carrot cake and expect the same experience as you'd have at a professional ballet performance or award-winning bakery. And that's if we assume there is an objective measure of Good Art, which there isn't! Some art is just "bad" because you don't like it!

I think though that specifically with fanfiction, we sometimes forget that when we read a book or watch a movie, dozens of people have looked at it and given feedback and made changes and done quality control before the final product reaches our shelves or screens, and that's not counting the original writer's learning process and past experience. A published book is not anyone's first crochet project, even if it is their debut novel. But with fanfiction, the barrier to entry is so low (on purpose! this is a good thing!) that we do get to see a lot of wonky granny squares, and on sites like AO3 they're sitting on the same shelf as the hand-made silk lace wedding dress and you can't always tell just by looking at it which is which. The consequence of this is that we encounter fic that we think is unpolished, has bad punctuation, is out of character, and we are tempted to think "well, this is awful! how dare this person put this wonky granny square on the same shelf as the lace wedding dress!" But that's not how fandom is supposed to work! That wonky granny square is somebody who is really excited about this TV show they just watched and they are reaching out into the void to share their excitement with you. To scoff at them for not making a lace wedding dress is really, really rude. Even if they did make a lace wedding dress, maybe it's just really not your style, or you think they should have used a different pattern, and it's still their wedding dress. You don't have to wear the dress and you don't have to read the fic.

We all know that there is some fanfic out there that is incredible. I think it's important to talk about that! But the vast majority of people who post their writing online are just sharing their little hobby projects that they make for fun and I also think it's important to remember that.

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ok so i’m in the week before opening for my OFFBROADWAY PROFESSIONAL SHOW. cray cray. but litterally have no time to do anything as i am a dancer and singer so i’m at all rehersals 😭😭😭 it’s honestly such a dream but i also have no time to do anything else. like 7am-10pm i am at rehersals. we have frequent breaks but it’s 15 mins (or 1hr for lunch & dinner) and i am EXHAUSTED at the end. i’m used to going to bed at like 830 so this is a big change!! litterally on a break rn and posting haha. just wanted to yap ik it’s not my usual content lmao

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10 months ago

I SHIFTED!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

this is so crazy

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1 year ago

It's the fact that shifting is so easy but we overcomplicate it

I think that's why I'm not shifting. So I'ma just start going to sleep with the intention because guess what? that's all you need!

You got this. You can and will shift.

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10 months ago

i got shows, cats, & trauma wrong 😋

I made a quizz!

Use this link and post your results! It's bad I know just do it!

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10 months ago

Hiii congrats !! How did you shift ? How was it ? Where did you shift to ?

ok it’s a bit of a long story but i will tell!

i shift to camp half blood :)

so the night before i had a really close experience, like i could hear the sounds of camp and my triggers for how i know when i fully shifted, but when i opened my eyes i could still like feel my cr body at the same time? like i was at chb but i couldn’t move my body there, i could only move it at my cr. it was really weird, and i freaked out and went back to my cr fully. so the next night i was determined to do it again but move my body. so i listened to my subliminal and affirmed, and when i went to sleep, i shifted!!!! i could still feel my cr body, but i affirmed i was switching my control fully to my dr, and it workedddddd! once i had realized i could actually shift, it really helped me actually believe it was real, and i was much more confident in my control over my conscious and my body. but yeah!! it was such a cool experience and i’ve gone back a bunch of times.

once you shift, you open a gateway to all these other things that are possible, like manifesting, loa, etc. control over your reality is so easy once you do something believed to be ‘impossible’ by so many people! i’ve always had my doubts about stuff like this, but it’s so real! you just have to truly believe you can! ❤️

anyways my first shift i stayed for about a week, just chilling and talking with people. i became friends with silena, connor, travis, drew, and some hermes kids named juliette and parker. we formed sort of a friend group. drew is nice i promise, just a bitch to people she doesn’t like haha. it was so fun and i love everything about chb! i scripted a month in before percy arrives, so i didn’t have to deal with that right away and could settle in. i befriended annabeth and she’s kind of like a little sister, she’s so cute. luke is nice but he’s been acting weird (😬) and percy is set to arrive the next time i shift. i’m so excited! i scripted that 4 is the lucky quest number instead of 3 so i could go on the quest haha.

kbye!

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9 months ago

why are all the rp accs having kids rn 😭😭😭

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10 months ago

when you’re on your period you’re like am I just on my period or am I feeling all the loneliness and pain I’ve been feeling since i turned 12

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