Guys please reblog so I can find my moots and followed people again :((
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Thanks so much for letting me know. 🙂
It just seems to me as if it would be a betrayal of where I came from, in terms of my own history as a writer, to deny the essential usefulness of fanfic as a gateway. But it seems equally wrong to attempt to deny its absolute validity as a source of pleasure whether someone’s considering a writing career or not.
Thoth knows there are people of the Everything Must Be Monetized To Be Valid stripe who will ever-so-condescendingly allow that fanfic might just be okay if it “gets you somewhere” in the professional sense. This, to put it as gently as possible, is poorly-reasoned profiteering elitist capitalist crap, and it makes me want to walk around kicking things.
In any case: I’m glad my position on this works for you. 🙂 So thanks again.
We got kicked out of a pathologic discord for sharing art of two sibling characters that somebody decided “looked shippy” and whipped up a witch hunt.
So , I feel you anon.
It sucks when intolerant people make spaces narrower and narrower.
I hope you can find a fandom community that makes you feel good and lifts you up instead of being so petty.
Up until some time in the 80s “straights” referred on anyone who did not participate in some form of reviled counterculture.
“straight edge” or “straight laced”
WASPS in suits and ties who went to church every Sunday and only had good missionary sex with the opposite sex for the means of procreation.
People who didn’t do drugs, or have gay sex, or listen to rock and roll.
Peoplew who weren’t hippies.
People who weren’t beatniks.
You know, man, the straights. (Imagine I am a beatnik in a beret snapping my fingers while I say this.)
I’ll pull up some examples of this usage later!
But yeah once upon a time if you referred dismissively to “the straights” people assumed you took drugs at weird parties and had sex with strangers. Not that you were explicitly homosexual.
You can see how it arrived at meaning ‘not gay people’ though. Especially in the 80s when all the straights started doing cocaine at business meetings, and the AIDS crisis etc.
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