#‘beth was it not part of the Point of your redacted era to finally have good fanfiction?’ yes ok and now i’m sick of good fanfiction

[livvyofthelake]

you know what i miss. and this will sound deranged. i miss bbc merlin fanfiction… yes yes it was consistently bad the whole time. but there was an art to it all… there was a comfort in that consistent badness… it was like a game… a dance even… which random character will morgana be paired off with this time? what stupid ass career will this modern au give arthur? there was a familiarity of the badness ok it was good only once in a blue moon and even then it was good only “for merlin fanfiction” or good but contingent on multiple factors… and we still kept reading it because we had to it was like homework or court mandated community service you literally had to keep reading it. that was the horrors… god i miss it