totchipanda

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As a fanfic writer, I would have to say that in general, I love fanfic. It is, however, difficult at times to slog through piles of dreck (just like published fiction...) to find the gems.

My favourite book to hate on is a published historical "romance" (not in the traditional romance sense lol) in which the main character's eyes were described as everything from caramel to chocolate, and her breasts as "translucent globes" (I wish I was making this up; I finished reading it because I didn't hate it enough to stop). Two of my favourite fanfics were "several years later" scenarios that had so much attention to detail and careful analysis of the source work that I reread them every few months, and enjoy them just as much today as I did when I first read them.

Ultimately, fanfic is for fun. You can write your My Immortal, and I can choose not to read it. Just like published fiction, except for free!