A word about fanfiction.

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A word about fanfiction.

Post by archonix » Thu Nov 15, 2012 9:14 am

Courtesy of http://onlyalittlelion.tumblr.com/, which is oh so full of Lannisters.
tywinning asked you:
2012-08-09 03:37
As a professor, may I ask you what you think about fanfiction?

I think fanfiction is literature and literature, for the most part, is fanfiction, and that anyone that dismisses it simply on the grounds that it’s derivative knows fuck-all about literature and needs to get the hell off my lawn.
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