Fanfiction is the madwoman in mainstream culture’s attic, but the attic won’t contain it forever. Writing and reading fanfiction isn’t just something you do; it’s a way of thinking critically about the media you consume, of being aware of all the implicit assumptions that a canonical work carries with it, and of considering the possibility that those assumptions might not be the only way things have to be.

Anne Jamison, Fic: Why Fan Fiction is Taking Over the World.

(via meyerlansky)

iamnmbr3:

Steve: At this point I doubt anything could surprise me.

Nick Fury: 10 bucks says your wrong.

*Later*

Steve: Ok now there isn’t anything could surprise me.

Alexander Pierce *quietly, in the background*: 1 Buck says you’re wrong.

Literally the only three things you need to know about Jane Austen

scripturient-manipulator:

1. Her first major novel (Northanger Abbey) was written solely because she was so salty about how dramatic and cliche and formula Gothic novels were. You know what I mean. Every castle is foreboding. Every villain is awful but can’t bring himself to kill the heroine because she’s Too Pure. Every middle-aged female companion wants to do the heroine in. The heroine is Pure and Perfect and Is Good At Everything Young Women Should Be and recites quotes and/or the Bible whenever she’s in danger and that makes everything better. All butlers are evil. Jane Austen wrote a book specifically to go “THIS is how NORMAL people react to things!!!”

2. “She never changed her opinion about books or men”

3. “As a girl she wrote stories, including burlesques of popular romances” and you know what that means. Jane Austen started off writing smut fanfiction. If that’s not writing reassurement that you can be great no matter what you choose to write, I don’t know what is.

(Both quotes from the Penguin Classics version of Northanger Abbey)

wantamaximoff:

At the time, and still to this day, my approach was always, and still is, sort of one day at a time. I mean this is where I’m at, I’m enjoying doing this, and y’know if I ever comes a time where the fun is out of it, then I’ll do something else. So I was just having a good time learning and kind of like experiencing, and so I didn’t really think too much about the future. Again, I’m still, like I don’t know if that was a good thing or a bad thing, but here I am, so in a way it kind of worked for me and so I just, that’s my approach to it.