Where Every Scroll is a New Adventure
Bruh described me in a nutshell
It's always
"When will fanfic writers update their stories?"
And never
"Does this fanfic writer have adequate enrichment to engage in writing behaviours?"
Fanfiction writers (Scriptor fictus) are intelligent animals who need plenty of enrichment as well as encouragement! If they're stuck in poor conditions (e.g. have studies, work, have to actually write to have something written) then they require the proper enrichment to engage in more healthy behaviours, like writing. Remember, due to poor breeding and socialisation, over half of all fanfic writers suffer from low self confidence and executive dysfunction so take care of them!
This is so painfully accurate it hurts
Glad to know I'm not alone
I have read fanfiction that permanently altered the course of my life. Fanfictions that had quotes in them I still cite out loud from time to time like I would Shakespeare. Fanfictions so raw and intense in prose that day and night blurred together from how much I was focused in reading the story. Fanfictions that left me speechless for days on end. Fanfictions that I'd wished I knew how to bind for so as to forever have them as a book in my personal home-library.
Hoseok (Hobi)
Fourth member to be recruited into BTS coven
Raps with Yoongi
A literal ray of sunshine
Changes colour of EVERYTHING he can…
Has so much fun in Yoongi’s lab
Like.
Yoongi has a laboratory that he and Joonie built.
Everyone goes into it
Hobi loves the lab bit...there he experiments endlessly with the chemistry and science
If he’s not there
He’s probably watching romantic movies with the makanes
A sprite (asian)
When caught for 7 days. They bring good luck (going over limit causes permanent BAD luck)
The BTS coven just keep him in a super big cage
It’s not even a cage, it’s like a mini mansion located inside the BTS coven mansion.
The maknaes move the TV nearer to the cage just for that week so they can have movie nights
Super interested in mundane things
Loves Harry Potter
Likes his accessories
There’s usually an explosion per day coming out of his “Sunshine Lab”
In which Hobi usually emerges drenched in colour
Jin immediately dumps a bucket of water on him and tells him to “go dry” in the sun
Hobi is working on a “Sope” (his and Suga’s ship name) that the members can use…
Occasionally changes the water colour in the bathroom so that the members shower in green, red, purple or blue water..there are a plethora of colours of course
Sometimes he will just change the lighting in the house itself so members (especially Yoongi) wake up to rainbows dancing across the room
“JUNG HOSEOK WHAT DID YOU DO TO MY ROOM?!”
Yeah that’s probably Yoongi…
Hobi will also put some cute lil fairy lights in his lab...don’t ask me how they don’t get damaged
Also slips little chocolate bars under Yoongi’s door when he’s working late to show him someone cares
SPAMS hardcore
Fascinated with mundane technology
“Wait so only one type of phone can bend...even then it’s not able to bend except in the middle? Wicked!”
I mean, after being used to Tae’s super high tech that he installed in BTS coven, it’s no wonder they marvel at mundane tec
Sweet tooth and softie for Jin’s cakes, brownies etc
Smile is so beautiful like it legit a heart
HIP HOP DANCE
Seok(Jin)
Ok. Cooking is FANTASTIC
The best at domestic care
Also like a nurse..super caring and sweet
The duality though...he’ll be so sweet and caring but then…
Piss him off (break a pot or some precious cooking utensil) and boi he’ll curse your mouth with chilli peppers
Jin is famed for his superb meals but DID YOU KNOW Jin is AMAZING at baking
Desserts are mouthwatering…
Ice cream… not so much (the maknaes are pros at eating it before it’s done so…)
Is a kitchen witch
Is half vampire, don’t worry he won’t bite you lol
He just inherited those amazingly, frustratingly good looks and pale skin
Soft for the maknaes
Probably the only person in BTS coven or in the whole universe who will dare to yell at Yoongi
Super homely
The third member to join BTS coven
Was recruited by Joon
“Joon what’s this”, “Hyung this is Jin, he’s going to be part of our coven...also he’s not a ‘this’!” *major sighs from Yoongs*
But we all know he loves Jin ..even if it’s in his own cat way
Ok but Jin? Purple hair? Say no more. (Hobi will take care of it)
Jin is pretty chill about the whole hair changing thing
Kinda looks forward to the surprises so long as hobi doesn’t make it purple and yellow spots.
Room-mates with Yoongi when they were too broke to afford individual rooms
Somehow still found in Yoongi’s room all the time….
Cuddles! Loves cuddles
Empathy powers
Literally knows what’s up with EVERYONE in the coven
Don’t keep secrets from this one, he’ll know
Can manipulate emotions
“Jin DoNt yOu DaRe MaKe Me LaUgH aT YoUr RiDicUlOuS JoKeS”
Also uses his power to figure out if his members (not to hint at a certain kookie) have done their LAUNDRY
Also super nice and super wise
Give super good advice, also capable of infusing food with positive emotions which helps to comfort his coven members, especially after an argument or when there’s tension in the air
HEADCANONS
Namjoon
Wolf shapshifter
Super clumsy
Poor thing breaks EVERYTHING he touches.
Yoongi is the assigned fixer of everything he breaks
DIMPLESSSSS <3
Jin legit spends half an hour poking them….
Tae likes to try and put stuff in the dimples… *shrug
Hobi changed his hair colour to blue :’D
LOVES his books...don’t even get him started
MASSIVE library full of every single book you could think of
There’s even a guide to changing hair colour via light energy…
So THAT’S how Hobi knows about changing hair colour….
Loves potions..idk how he doesn’t break the cauldron
Made a special seasoning for Jin...Jin cried
Father of the maknaes
So kind...extremely gentle and nice
Has a very dominating leadership side of him
(don’t mess with him)
(his wolf form is at least twice the size of normal wolves…)
Is grey and white in wolf form with icy blue eyes..they are very piercing
Likes his hermit crab ...it’s called Clematis (his birth flower)
Clem is the hermit crab’s nickname :)
Ok but Joon would totally have a hoard of scarves
He would also adore Hagrid (refer to Taehyung’s headcanon)
Joon loves the fall weather and like to roam around in his wolf form and scare the maknaes
Snowball fights!
Calm and diplomatic, you can count on Joon to calm any other members down when they are angry (especially Yoongs)
Cuddles with all members!
Yoongi’s confidante and vise versa
Has a crystal dangly thingo that Hobi gave him
Super invested in Yoongi’s potion book
Legit got given a potions book for his bday by Yoongi
Decides to continue to steal Yoongi’s book anyway.
“JoOn I sWeAr If YoU sTeAl My BoOk OnE mOrE tImE”
Has mullet :)
SWEATERS THO (I lowkey think he would LOVE them :)
Also likes popcorn
Probs plays piano with Yoongi at times for fun
“Joon STOP pressing two keys at once I-”
It's up! Guys, I'm excited, Star Boy comes on the scene today. Read the story here: Link
Excerpt: Chapter Seven: The Duel
The Hamlet, a mossy place secluded by forest, where inhabitants made bread from pinecone flour, and kept more chickens than charts or charms, came into view. The moon cast it in sharp-edged shadows as Magnifico readied his staff, murmuring last incantations over it. Before leaving the castle, he’d imbued it with extra power from the night sky, using a spell from his only remaining book, the one he’d been reluctant to use because of its relation to dark sorcery.
“Desperate times call for desperate measures,” he told himself, though he’d immediately locked the book away again after referencing this spell. He thought mournfully of the rest of his destroyed resources, original manuscripts he’d compiled, containing centuries of study by other sorcerers. “Now I have no idea what a star might be capable of.” He caressed his staff’s fine point that could stab if needed. “The hour has come.”
The carriage silently rolled to a stop behind a towering oak thick as a dragon’s tail, just on the hollow’s edge. Magnifico looked to the driver and raised a finger to his lips, then motioned for him to drive away unseen, as he stepped out into the Hamlet, and the crunch of leaves, which set a carpet of gold beneath his boots, was concealed by ceaseless clucking as chickens talked in their sleep inside their roosts.
The hollow’s modest shielings, stone houses shaped like mushroom-caps, unadorned except by moss or the occasional clothes-line, stood huddled close together, intertwined with roots of trees for protection. The humble hollow did not look like the kind of place to hide a criminal. The king held his staff before him to light the way as he crept between the shieling huts and oaks tall as mountains. As he stepped over a root as thick as one of the castle's pillars, his foot landed on a pinecone, and he clasped a hand over his mouth when he nearly screamed. Just as he approached the centre of the cluster of homes, the staff began humming faintly, its sound growing in intensity.
As the king crept, the staff’s hum shifted in pitch, resonating with a particularly small shieling hut which he paused in front of. He noted a faint glow seeping through its rough, timbre framed windows, and the murmur of voices within. Even muffled by stone walls, self-satisfied pauses emanated, it was the girl showing off, he knew that. Without hesitation, Magnifico raised his staff, then forced the door open with a bang.
The conversation stopped abruptly as Asha’s gaze met his, the recognition in her eyes confirming what the staff already indicated. Its sharp end was pointed up at the star hovering inches below the aisins.
“What folly is this?”
“It isn’t folly at all! It’s simply glorious!” The star did a somersault in the air.
He was a flicker of ghostfire in the form of a young man. Clad in changing hues of white, topaz, and misty red, his clothes echoed the night sky. His bright eyes held glints of mischief, and moving with grace, his cape trailed sparks behind him as he flew in and out the aisins, twisted a picture frame, peeked into a drawer, then sent a stack of books tumbling from a shelf, as if dropping stones from the sky. The playful spirit who’d come down from the heavens laughed, each note twinkling like a warning sign.
The star continued doing flips in the air as he addressed the king. “You see, mighty king, with a crown shining bright, the stars in the heavens dance all through the night. They laugh at your trials, they chuckle with glee, as they dance in the moonlight, wild and free. They meddle for fun, oh, but fret not dear king, for your country will fall, but it’s a burdensome thing.”
Asha laughed, and though she had a hand over her mouth, she looked impressed. “Star Boy,” she said.
Magnifico’s eyes blazed as he raised his staff, and he unleashed a striking green beam that cut through the air. Star Boy, now idly twirling a ribbon of stardust around his finger, tried to dodge, but was struck directly in the heart, and like a mosquito swatted, fell to the ground with an expression of stunned surprise, his stardust trail dim and scattered.
From the floor he looked up at Magnifico, shaking off the remnants of the spell’s green glow. “All right, you’ve got me, you’ve proven your might, I underestimated you, and I’ve lost the fight.” He grinned, then added, “But watch your step king, as you tread. Anger the stars and you’ll find yourself dead.”
Magnifico’s staff crackled again, and he struck at Star Boy with a wave of green fire. The house’s beams groaned under the strain of magic, and shards of stone rained down.
Star Boy darted around, a streak of incomprehensible light, and he paused only to withdraw something from his pocket, a slim, pale stick he tossed down to Asha. “Take this wand, a gift from the heavens. You’re a fairy godmother now, my dear.”
“Aeeeeegh!” Asha let out an excited screech as she caught it.
The wand was swiftly knocked from her hand by a wave of Magnifico’s staff. “You are both banished from the realm for threatening my kingdom.” He raised it again, when Star Boy, hovering just out of reach, laughed as he conjured a torrent of fire, and flames lashed out from his palms, catching Magnifico’s cloak in a dance of light and heat.
Asha scurried forward to her wand, and brandished it as he stomped on the flames. With a quick flick, she sent a stream of light to blind the king. The spell struck his eyes in a burst of bright sparks, so he staggered back. He growled as he struggled to regain control.
Finish reading: Link
Hey, I was thinking that for our next rewrite, maybe we could do the Cursed Child... I remember being really disappointed when it came out, and the plot about the time turner and Cedric making no sense! And also wishing it was a regular novel instead of a play, and that it didn't turn all the characters into characters that didn't act like themselves...
Would this be something anyone would be interested in??
Chapter 3 of The Great Wish Movie Rewrite is up on AO3. Read here: Link
The rewrite explores Magnifico as the protagonist with Asha and Amaya as villains, and Star Boy comes into the story later.
In this chapter, Magnifico holds an interview and meets Asha for the first time.
Blurb: It was noon the following day, and Amaya had promised to return within the hour with the most promising candidate she’d been able to find. Magnifico waited in his Wish Chamber, a hidden chamber inside his observatory that stored every wish he’d been given, but never yet granted.
He reached out so one of the wishes alighted on his finger. The wisp flickered, leaving a trail like sparks of hope in its wake. The king admired the aspiration, and the sense of longing it radiated made his heart ache, like a tune somebody used to know, then forgot, and heard once again in the distance. He let the wish, light as dandelion fluff, ascend into the swirling cloud of others above him, where they danced in a radiant sky-revel, with stardust pirouettes and leaps.
Magnifico knew from poetry that wishes weren’t always what people should want, but rather, what they did want. They were mysterious flower buds that would unfold and unfold, and might never stop unfolding, until the world was overrun with the complications of them, unless someone did something to stop their consequences.
His people needed to trust his wisdom, for he’d spent the last eighteen years studying the complexities of fate, and now recognised when the time was not right for a wish to unfold. The most challenging aspect of being a sorcerer was dealing with the unanswered wishes, because his subjects could fervently ask for something, believing it to be good and necessary, yet it was not always what was truly best for them. But why their wishes remained unanswered was a mystery to them.
“I opened Pandora’s box by learning sorcery to grant wishes, but now I have a key, and can lock it up again when I need to,” the king told himself, though he was never at peace despite the fact. “But soon,” he leaned against a windowsill, “I will have someone to assist me, should anything go wrong. . .”
Amaya had told him the candidate's name, and assured him that this time, she had complete confidence in her abilities. What had she said the candidate’s name was again?
Gently, Magnifico traced the brass filigree of an old armillary sphere, its interlocking rings representing the orbits of celestial bodies. He studied its familiar patterns, remembering his own days as an apprentice, guided by his mentor's steady hand, and he listened to the faint, melodic hum of the wishes’ hopeful song. It filled him with peace.
A jarring shriek pierced through their tune. Magnifico spun so fast his sphere toppled off its perch on the table.
“Someone is in my tower.”
Despite the horrific noise, the king made his expression calm, though a sinking sense of dread filled him as he feared for each delicate piece of equipment in his observatory. “I suppose this is the best candidate Amaya could find,” he thought sarcastically. “I should never have allowed our meeting to take place here. What was Amaya thinking? Well, I’ve got to give them a chance. . .”
But as Magnifico emerged from his Wish Chamber, the picture was worse than the one his imagination had leant him. A young woman had stumbled in with the grace of a toddler, and attempted to make contact with his book of forbidden magic, evident from enchanted wasps encircling her, which he’d conjured as a safety precaution, to materialise if anyone but him touched the glass case protecting the manuscript.
The girl swatted her arms like a wild monkey, continuing to shriek as the enchanted wasps buzzed in a menacing symphony around her, and Magnifico felt a wave of pity, because she thought they could sting when they were only meant to confuse and to scare. He’d almost raised his voice to yell, but the girl was turning pink, clearly embarrassed, and Amaya had thought her worthy of coming here. There could still be virtue underneath, in spite of this careless accident. He mustered patience.
“No, no,” he laughed, making his presence known as he reentered his observatory. “Asha, is it? That book is forbidden.” Though he hurried forward, he maintained a calm composure. “Now hold still. I’ve got it.” As he raised his hands to summon the swarm, he tried to make light of her mistake. “You can’t have known, but I put, ahem, a spell on the glass guarding this book. It is actually very, very dangerous.”
“Dangerous? Then why would you have it?” Asha, still waving her arms, sounded as if she was going to cry. “I only wanted to touch the etchings around the glass because they were pretty.”
She was so worked up she slipped, and almost kicked King Magnifico in the face just as he’d gathered all the wasps into his hands. Before they could force their way from his grasp, he called up all the magic he could, and shot them back at the case, which they melted into, becoming nothing but ornate carvings once again.
Magnifico sighed as he shut the case, then he rubbed his hands off on his robes. “A king must be prepared for everything. I hope there will never be a time this book needs to be used. Are you all right?”
“No,” said Asha, in what sounded like a whine.
Magnifico was going to overlook this, but then Asha ploughed on in a show-offish sort of ramble, “I mean yes. And I understand if you think I’m, like, totally weird and you want me to leave right now and never show my face again.”
“That would certainly be for the best,” thought Magnifico, but Amaya’s words made him curious whether Asha actually had some mysterious talent not obvious at first sight. “Let’s not over react,” he said instead. “You’re here; you’ve certainly got my attention.” He turned, and wriggled his fingers so a quill leapt into the air, ready to take notes on a bit of parchment he’d laid out on a desk.
“So go ahead; tell me why you think you should be my apprentice.” He waited with hope in his heart.
“Well,” said Asha, in the tone of someone telling a joke to their friends, “I care too much.” Then she paused, as if waiting for a laugh.
“Ookay,” said Magnifico, as hope packed its bags and took a one way trip from his heart. He waited for her to say something else, anything to imply she had some selfless intention, but she just continued staring, as if waiting for a reaction.
“That’s interesting,” said Magnifico finally.
“It’s my weakness,” she burst out, and looked so pleased with herself Magnifico thought she was going to laugh at her own incompetence.
“I see.”
“Figured I might as well get through all the bad stuff right up front,” she ruined her own joke by blabbering on too long. She was clearly used to being surrounded by a group of friends who laughed at everything she said, and was trying quite hard to be quirky.
“Fair enough.” Magnifico already couldn’t wait to send her away. This was not the way someone with common sense acted before the king. It reminded him far too much of eighteen years earlier, when no one had shown him any respect. But he would get through the rest of the interview for Amaya’s sake. He breathed out. “And your strengths? Do you have any?”
“Glad you asked, I have many.” Asha brushed her box braids behind her ear, then pulled a vellum book from her pocket. “I’m a hard worker, and I help well, and I’m young and malleable, and I like to draw.”
Magnifico grasped for something in all these cliches. “You like to draw?” he latched onto the most useful of these irrelevant skills. “And how long have you had this ability?”
At this, the first glimpse of sincerity appeared in Asha’s eyes, and she opened her book to detailed life gestures she’d sketched of goats and lambs. “A long time.” She flipped through more pages of life-like scribbles. “It’s something my father taught me,” she told the king with a proud smile.
When Asha said this, a distant, half forgotten memory stirred inside Magnifico, and he peered closer at the young woman's annoying face.
“I think I remember your father.”
“You do?”
“He was a philosopher, was he not? Had great magic running through his blood. Always warning people about the consequences of getting whatever your heart desires.”
Asha’s eyes glazed over at the last part, but she eagerly started talking about herself again. “Oh yeah. We used to climb that tree by the high ridge in the Hamlet, where I’m from, to look at the stars, and he said they were there to guide us.”
“Your father said a lot more than soft soap like that. He was a very wise man. Did you learn much about his philosophies?”
“Not really. After he got struck by lightning, he wasn’t able to take me out at night as much anymore. I used to want to make a wish that he would get better. But the electric shock left him with lots of burns, and his heart finally stopped one day.”
“I’m sorry. How old were you when he passed away?”
“I was twelve years old.”
Magnifico finally glimpsed something recognisable in Asha, so he attempted to dig a bit deeper.
“It’s not fair, is it?” he asked, taking a gamble as he searched her face for that sincerity again. “When I was young, I too suffered great loss.” He wasn't sure Asha would pay attention as the subject changed to something other than herself, but he went on, determined to finish, because whether she listened at this moment would decide everything.
“Years ago, my entire family was killed by selfish, greedy thieves, and our lands were reduced to ashes,” he told her. “The devastation was beyond imagining. The streets, once bustling with life, were strewn with the bodies of those I once loved. Though the village I’d roamed was silent, I could still hear sobbing of ghosts, of my mother and my father, my brothers and sisters, and my friends. Not a day passes without the haunting thought: if only I had known sorcery then. . .” The king shuddered as the faces of his lost kin grew clear in his memories. He looked hard into Asha’s eyes. "It is for this reason, Asha, that the very foundation of this kingdom is built upon the belief that no one should ever experience the agony of watching their dreams crumble before their eyes. I vowed to create a haven where everyone would be safe, where the horrors of my past would never befall another.”
Magnifico paused to see whether she was listening.
Asha had finally stopped rocking back and forth, and looked contemplative. When the king stopped talking, she blinked. “You’re right,” she managed. “No one should live their life feeling the pain of that loss everyday.”
The king nodded. “Yes. Exactly. And that is why I do what I do.”
Asha’s voice was serious when she replied, “And that’s why I want to work for you.”
Perhaps it was his imagination, or his own good heart deceiving him, but at that moment, Magnifico was overwhelmed, and his heart melted a little. “Come with me,” he said, and led Asha toward the tower’s back wall, where he raised an arm so the stones shifted and slid apart, and his Wish Chamber revealed itself.
“Wow,” said Asha as blue light poured over her, and the domed chamber shone upon her in all its heavenly glory.
“You’re one of the few I’ve ever invited in here.” Magnifico led her inside with sweeping strides. “But if I am to trust you, I need you to understand just how important the wishes of Rosas are.” He glanced at his guest, and was pleased to see her expression was properly impressed, her eyes wide, and her mouth shut. “You can feel them, can’t you?”
“I can,” she whispered. “They’re, uh, everything.”
“That’s exactly it. These wishes are everything.” Magnifico paused to let her take in the brilliance of them.
“I didn’t expect them to feel so alive.” Asha reached out toward the tangible essence of someone’s deepest aspiration: a woman cradling a violin in her arms inside the orb. She shivered as the woman created the beautiful music of someone who’d put in countless hours of practice, each pluck of a string evoking a yearning that transcended the material world around them.
Magnifico laughed a deep laugh at Asha’s first impression. “They fill you with so much longing, don’t they? But that one would do no good to grant. Ambition untempered by effort stifles the growth of character. Denying someone the trials and triumphs of their journey robs them of the refinement of their soul. To grow in virtue is to become something more beautiful than even the most vibrant vibrations of violin strings.”
Finish reading: Link
Wicked reimagines The Wizard of Oz, portraying the Wicked Witch as good. Well, this is a rewrite of Wicked, exploring her as truly wicked.
Focuses on Glinda and Elphaba's dynamic, without dwelling as much on the political animal plot.
Basically I wanted to see what the story would be like if Elphaba was actually a bad or mean character like Snape or Bellatrix instead of a misunderstood misfit, and Glinda had a good, less shallow personality.
Excerpt:
The headmistress smiled broadly as the girls came forward. Glinda curtseyed to her new roommate, but Elphaba kept her eyes on the ground. Glinda caught the faintest flicker of them darting to her hat.
Finally, the girl spoke in a deep, low grumble:
"No," she said, eyes invisible behind thickset glasses that seemed almost purposefully styled to be ugly and a ripped up traveling hat pulled low, "I'm not seasick, I didn't eat grass, and yes, I've always been green."
Glinda stopped herself from stepping back in surprise. "Oh! I wasn't going to say anything about your being green. This is Oz after all, everyone has unique traits. I… I like it, actually, it reminds me of the Emerald City!"
Elphaba's pointed nose crinkled, and she let out a sharp laugh, as if sharing an inward joke with herself. "It reminds you of the Emerald City! Everyone in Oz has unique traits! Of course you'd say those things." She repeated the words in a disdainful tone as if saying them this way explained why they were bad.
Elphaba folded her arms as if it was unreasonable for somebody not to immediately know what to say to someone with bright green skin who had introduced themself by bringing it up.
"I wish I had gotten placed with a roommate who was actually sensible," the green girl huffed, and trudged to the stairs with a straight back and swish of her long plain dress.
Glinda's cheeks flushed and she lowered her hat, before following behind, her own frilly dress billowing as she walked. She'd wanted to wear something fun and charming on her first day, but now felt in stark contrast with more dull, mature standards.
She wasn't sure what kind of roommate she'd just ended up with, but being stuck with someone so prim, proper, and hostile for a whole semester filled her with dread. Maybe she could find a way to switch rooms with someone else later.
But right now the Main Hall was empty—even Madame Morrible had left. Right now everyone else was up in their own rooms, paired with girls they'd known they'd wanted to be with from the first second. Right now, nobody else wanted Glinda.
Right now, Glinda was stuck.
***
The Wish Rewrite got a little delayed because the other person on this account who was working on it is waiting for a break to finish it. However, the whole thing is almost done and will be a high quality finished story posted on a schedule like the Lorax Rewrite. In the meantime, I wrote this in a couple days. Only the one chapter exists, so it's unknown if I'll finish the whole story or not at this point.
gay beatles slash fanfiction has existed since beatlemania, unsurprisingly. so here's some stuff on that topic
"The most visible rock based BandFic community during this era is The Beatles. On August 18, 1960, The Beatles started playing under that name for the first time at an event in Hamburg, Germany. (Whelan) It would be four more long years before the band would make their American debut, an event that occurred on February 7, 1964 when they arrived in New York City for their first American tour. (Whelan) According to Barbara Ehrenreich, Elizabeth Hess, and Gloria Jacobs in their essay "Beatlemania: Girls Just Want to Have Fun," this event marked "the first mass outburst of the sixties to feature women – in this case girls, who would not reach full adulthood until the seventies and the emergence of a genuinely political movement for women’s liberation." This group, composed primarily of middle class, white teenagers, would form one of the core groups in the nascent bandfic community. In their adulation of the band, they would create many of their own fan related products including stories, zines and art. The fannish oral tradition that is alive today is implicit in the existence and circulation of fictional stories about band members during the early years of the band's history. Because the audience was young and not connected into a professional or underground movement, much of the material created by this group of fan girls never was published. The production, in most cases, likely consisted of one to five copies of a story being circulated only among the fan’s immediate peer group. The emergence of The Beatles, their popularity and their fans dedication to creating fan works was helped because of the era in which they appeared. The Beatles were at the forefront for many white, middle class teenage girls in helping them redefine their own definition of sexuality and their own definitions of what it meant to be female. (Ehrenreich) This was taking place in an era where there was that increased debate on subjects like "birth, a woman's obligation to society, and conception, bringing with it all of the bitterness and acrimony that have long surrounded these issues, beginning with perhaps the most obvious one of them all -- Sexism." (Rowland) Legal gender differences between men and women were beginning to fall. (Rowland) For young, white, middle class female Beatles fans, writing stories about the band was an opportunity to challenge their parents, to revel in the new ideas regarding male sexuality, to explore their own and more. They could write about marrying Ringo or having children with Paul McCartney. They could write about being noticed by the George Harrison at a concert and all that followed afterward. Most fans knew that none of those scenarios were likely to happen. Some deeply resented the idea of a member of the band becoming involved with any woman because it destroyed their own fantasies. They did not want to see that happen. It is highly probable, that given this and the fact that they were writing fictional stories featuring the Beatles, that some of the Beatles were written as homosexual if only as a way to ensure that the object of the fan's lust, since they could not be hers, would never belong to another female fan. The idea of writing male on male pairings to cut out other female fans is one that would reappear again and again during the next forty years as new bands were discovered and attracted new groups of young female fans." (X)
"Math is not mathing, age is not aging, summer is not summerring"
Fucking FANFICTIONS ARE NOT FANFICTIONING!!!!!!
What the fuck is going on in fanfics these past few years??? Did quarantine make people extra horny with fewer steps??
"Locked inside a room" and "there is only one bed" is supposed to be awkward and cute not a horny rabbits reunion.
Naeve camino de manera sigilosa por los pasillos iluminados por velas, entre sus brazos una pequeña bola de pelos se asomaba aunque sus ojos lastimados no le permitían ver mucho estaba tan agotado que no podía defenderse. Lo último que quería la joven era lastimarlo. Entró a su habitación en silencio esperando que nadie estuviera adentro.
La bolita de pelos hizo un pequeño maullido.
—Shh, prometo limpiarte y curarte, solo espera un poco—susurro Naeve hacia el bollo que cargaba.
—¿Con quién hablas?—una voz hizo que la joven se congelara, su esposo, la persona que menos quería ver en esta situación.
—Estaba hablando sola—respondió Naeve sin darse la vuelta, e intentó distraer al pelinegro—¿Cómo te fue hoy? ¿Hiciste algo interesante?
Kylo se dirigio hacia el sofá de la habitación, los pasos pausados hicieron que quisiera salir corriendo. Estaba segura que si su esposo descubria que había traido un pequeño animalito, sucio y lastimado lo mandaría directo con los curanderos y ella nunca lo volvería a ver.
—Solo estuve entrenando, fue un día muy caluroso y los chicos estaban muy vagos, realmente me agotan cuando toma esa actitud—contó Kylo sacándose las botas—Por cierto, ¿que tienes en los brazos?
Naeve se dio la vuelta y con una sonrisa.
—¿Esto? Es una manta. Justo estaba por mandarla a lavar—explicó mostrando una punta, su habitación era una zona insegura para el gato, por lo que decidió que lo mejor era dejar al minino en el baño de invitados y de paso ir a buscar los elementos necesarios para limpiarlo y curarlo.
—Naeve, ¿que está bajo la manta?
Kylo detuvo a la joven, agarrándola por la muñeca quien bufo.
—¿No puedes al menos fingir que no te das cuenta de algo?
Kylo se paró y cruzó los brazos.
—No, no puedo fingir cuando se que algo está mal y menos si se trata de ti—Naeve frunció el ceño—¿Es un animal? ¿Te ha lastimado?
Kylo intentó tocar el bollo temblando en sus brazos pero Naeve se alejó.
—No hay nada mal conmigo, tampoco estoy lastimada—camino hacia el baño privado y cerró la puerta con su pie, sin embargo el pelinegro ni siquiera dejó que la puerta golpeara e interrumpio en el baño. Apoyo el bollo en el piso y desenvolvio las mantas, el mínino estaba temblando y también sus ojos llorosos lastimados estaban cristalizados. A Naeve se le rompió el corazón.
—Amor, si está lastimado es mejor que lo lleves…
—Kylo, si pretendes que devuelva este gato sin estar antes sano, te recomiendo salir de la habitación antes de que me enoje en serio—por los siguientes minuto solo se escucho el agua que corría en la bañera, los quejido del gatito que con un paño húmedo Naeve intentaba limpiar y los consuelos de la joven.
—Ya, ya. No te preocupes, pequeñín. Te cuidare.
Cuando el baño terminó, la bola de pelos estaba maullando y tratando de subirse a los brazos de la joven, quien no dudó en abrazarlo dándole besitos en la cabecita. El pelaje del animal estaba limpio y las heridas que tenía no eran tan profundas como pensó. Ya era de noche cuando salió del baño, Kylo estaba en el sofá leyendo algunos papeles y levantó la mirada cuando noto la presencia de Naeve. Sin embargo esta ni siquiera le correspondió, y agarró uno de sus pijamas de verano doblandolo y poniéndolo bajo su brazo, justo al pequeño minino quien cuando noto la tela tan exquisita decidió que seria el juguete perfecto para morder.
—Naeve…
—Dormire en la habitación de invitados, si necesitas algo…
—Naeve, no es necesario—habló Kylo dejando los papeles a un lado—El gato… puede dormir aquí.
La joven se detuvo.
—¿En serio?—el pelinegro asintió—Bien…
Sinceramente Kylo pensaba deshacerse del gato apenas estuviera en condiciones de ser adoptado; no quería animales, nunca había tenido deseos de ello. Pero Naeve se veía tan linda cuidando de esa bola de pelos que se arrepintio de sus pensamientos.
Fue asi, como Naeve y Kylo, tuvieron a su primera mascota juntos.
I’m at that point in life where I just don’t care and I shamelessly traumatize my friends by telling them about the fics I read about, destroying their image of me instantly.
The horror on their face is gold tho, so it’s all worth it.
Mom: You’re always on your phone!
Me: I’m telling you I’m reading!
Mom: Well why can’t you read a book?
Me: Because what I want to read is not a published story! I can only find it on the internet
Mom: Okay then what is it?
Me: *wondering how I’m supposed to explain fanfictions* Hum- You wouldn’t understand-
Mom: What do you mean??
Me: It’s- Er- It’s like stories??? About… other stories?????
Mom: *confusion*
Fanfictions taught me to never think that I am "not good" or "not pretty" enough for someone ever again.
I MEAN I legit have seen the most questionable creatures, cranks, animagus, werewolves, etc and their human partner will still be like "you're the most beautiful person I have ever seen in my life" AKAJAJAJJAJAJAJ
I have seen every human feature and imperfections possible; Freckles, moles, acne, scars, cuts, bruises, callouses, pockmarks, limps, blood, wounds, flesh, bones, black veins,and bites with their skin slightly tingling as their love interest plants kisses all over their bodies
"But I (have/am) a disease/mental illness/disability/traumatic past/suicidal thoughts/self harm scars/ the chosen one/on the run/..."
"I love you."
I have 190 tabs opened on my phone, and 187 of them are AO3 Fanfictions.
Please keep in mind that I’m not saying people who wrote these kind of fanfictions bad or a bad writer.
Fanfiction y/n is often described as a weak, crybaby, or a softie that can’t even stand up for herself. In some others, y/n is decribed as beautiful, flawless, goddess girl who steals everyone’s boyfriend. That’s pretty much stereotype.
Plus, y/n is supposed to be a proper character made for readers to see their POV on that story. People are supposed to relate to her. Proper characters are supposed to have their own personality. Which this part I don’t see in this y/n character.
Some people say that y/n is a “pick me” girl. Some say that she is “annoying” (I’m using the she/her pronouns because the majority of y/n characters are a girl). And y/n is AALLLWAYS in every romance stories. People said that she always falls in love with the badboy/prince?
Now here are my words:
I’ve talked about this y/n character with my bestfriend and it’s like this:
Y/n is a beautiful character that people should appreciate. Y/n is flawed, but she could be anything. She is not weak, she is not a crybaby, she doesn't need to fix boys, she doesn't need to be with boys at all. Y/n is herself. Y/n should be:
Kind Brave Selfless Caring Helpful Flawed Aloof Loony Cringy Smart Has high self respect Will stand up for her friends and family Talented Skilled Independent Street smart Book smart Beautiful in her way
Don’t forget:
Creative
Courageous
Supportive
Questionable
Humble
y/n can be like other girls. Because other girls are being theirselves.
Y/n could be anything. Y/n doesn't need to sing the "fight song" to stand up for herself. Y/n stands up for herself because she values herself. She values her friends, family.
She doesn't always need to be with boys. She doesn't owe boys anything. She could be anyone she wants.She doesn’t have to ruin ships.
Y/n is beautiful and people should stop stereotypicalizing her.
THANK YOU FOR READING
" Fanfictions aren't literatu—" PULLS THE TRIGGER
I’ve come across plenty of time travel fix-it fic’s, where Michael ends up in his younger selfs body. There’s really only one thing I feel like the fics are missing, which is Cotard's syndrome, also called walking corpse syndrome or Cotard's delusion, basically it’s a rare mental disorder where the affected person believes that parts of their body are missing, or that they are dying, dead, or don't exist. Michael, I have him having been dead for 37 years, so he’s been a walking corpse for longer then he’s been alive. So it wouldn’t be that odd for him to still think he’s dead.