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dykekakashi · 1 year

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if a crazy person walked up to me and gave me funding to conduct a study on whatever i want i probably would say i am going to interview (some) smut fanfiction authors to make an argument about the yearning for sexual life (esp among queer people) that is not governed by market relations, smthn smthn symptomatic of neoliberal era/capitalist realism. it sounds unhinged but i do think like three minutes on ao3 would let me turn up a few examples of what i mean, and it is inherently different to like .... p*rn and other er*tica that isn't necessarily free and/or domains where people are compensated for this sort of labor, since fanfic authors necessarily write for free (and it's not really labor per se, thinking abt this in a strictly marxist sense as labor creating value, not popular ideas abt "labor" as just doing anything that requires effort lol)

#i know this sounds nuts which is why i specifically singled out a crazy person who would give me funding for this #but unironically i really would like to interview people who write smut fanfic as well as people who consume it #maybe the prospect of graduating is becoming too real but i am coming up with interview questions in my head already :lll #also smthn very interesting to me about the anonymity of it since authors are not necessarily public figures but they #do gain legitimacy in their community in certain ways #i already have my first reference oxana timofeeva's we have never had sex

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