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no fr what is wrong with him?????

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“The way it feels for me now, like, seeing you here, having had time apart…”

HARRY POTTER 20TH ANNIVERSARY — RETURN TO HOGWARTS (2022)

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mythology based art

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Teuta Matoshi | Spring/Summer 2021

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“The reason behind everything that disappears. The deity that makes everything vanish. It must be lonely to love things, that disappear the moment you touch them. Lonely enough not to ever want to love them. I think I finally understand, what it is that you’re running away from.”

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Deepika Padukone as Mastani, BAJIRAO MASTANI (2015)

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joy vs. suffering

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Trump has no case. He wants to bluff a settlement. Call his hand, do not negotiate with a terrorist.

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I think a lot of the debate over what constitutes “fanfic” just boils down to people wilfully refusing to engage with each other’s rhetorical shorthands.

Like, yes, from the perspective of fanfiction as a cultural institution, clearly Dante’s Inferno is not fanfic. It’s operating in a completely different context with respect to the relationship between the author and the text that doesn’t really have any contemporary equivalent.

However, when folks say “Dante’s Inferno is fanfic”, that’s not a statement that exists in a vacuum. Typically, it’s made in response to a class of popular criticisms of fandom culture that very specifically frame the absence of original creation as a driving authorial agenda as the heart of What’s Wrong With Fanfic™.

So what “Dante’s Inferno is fanfic” very often means is “the absence of original creation as a driving authorial agenda that’s being cited as the reason that fanfiction can’t be art is also found in many works that are considered great art“.

That’s a big, cumbersome pain in the ass to say, though, so it gets shorthanded into something that’s incomprehensible to anyone who isn’t already familiar with the criticisms it’s addressing.

Now, obviously the the argument that the presence of original creation as a driving authorial agenda is some sort of categorical litmus test for whether a work qualifies as real art is dumb as hell. So if “Dante’s Inferno is fanfic” sounds like a senseless thing to say, that’s mostly because it’s a response to an equally senseless criticism!

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jaehyun (200626)

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I AM IN THE RIGHT FANDOM!!

| Cr screenshots twt kookaineaddict_ & the OPs in the source

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CHRIS EVANS Men’s Journal // April 2019

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JOEY BATEY as JASKIER/DANDELION in THE WITCHER (2019- )

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Leverage 4x12 — “The Office Job”