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People who think that weird, taboo, gross, kinky, trashy fiction is somehow only a thing in fanfiction confuse and sadden me in the narrowness of their media landscape.
99% of my lecterature class genius is bc of how much fanfic I read and bc im a fanfic writer
You can find “cringe” fanfic tropes in some of the greatest works of literature
The whole romanticism and angel woman movement is self shipping
Some of the leading writers who shaped the Italian language wrote self inserts or aus
Most of humanity’s lecterature is very centric of a few concepts bc that’s what the human mind is drawn to
Take hero and vigilantes aus and Greek epic poems, pretty much the same concept
The only outliers are the narratives for the aristocrats, and there’s so little of it That matters bc its not nearly as culturally significant
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