Today in “the sentiment is a good one but under the circumstances the punctuation could potentially cause confusion”: just to clarify, the story in question does not, repeat, does not involve a romantic relationship between Sherlock Holmes and HP Lovecraft.
well not with THAT attitude it doesn’t
I’m curious!
I’m 43 and I just started.
53. So I’ve been doing this on and off for 40 years!
Yep!
43 and I only started when I was 41. I don’t intend to stop. Ever.
I turned my nose up hard at fanfic in my teens and early-mid twenties. Needed to cross beyond 30 before I appreciated and understood the value of it.
I started writing it when I was 13, but only just mustered up the courage to share it with others.
Guys, it’s fun. 🙂
Started when I was thirteen still going ten years later.
I started when I was 34
I also started at 34 and don’t plan on stopping.
While many people think fanfiction is about inserting sex into texts (like Tolkien’s) where it doesn’t belong, Brancher sees it differently: “I was desperate to read about sex that included great friendship; I was repurposing Tolkien’s text in order to do that. It wasn’t that friendship needed to be sexualized, it was that erotica needed to be … friendship-ized.” Many fanfiction writers write about sex in conjunction with beloved texts and characters not because they think those texts are incomplete, but because they’re looking for stories where sex is profound and meaningful. This is part of what makes fan fiction different from pornography: unlike pornography, fanfic features characters we already care deeply about, and who tend to already have long-standing and complex relationships with each other. It’s a genre of sexual subjectification: the very opposite of objectification. It’s benefits with friendship.
Beltainefaerie's Flights of Fancy 