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i really do enjoy stories and character arcs that explore anger as a positive or at least curative force. that can allow room to say that, yes, too much anger and anger without direction can be hurtful and exhausting while still acknowledging that anger can be an important motivator.
there can be anger in justice. anger in healing. anger in grieving and bonding and forming a movement.
less stories with guilt surrounding anger and more stories asking āwhy shouldnāt i be angry?ā
use anger as a point of clarity and focus not irrationality
Funny how that works
I am so pleased at how many notes are some version of āI donāt fear the science, I fear the corporations who control itā because that is EXACTLY the attitude you should have. GMOs can save us. Monsanto will kill us.
what people fear about GMO- ātheyre gonna make frankencarrots that crave human flesh and cause diarrhea ā what GMO actually is- āwe made rice crop that is both drought resistant and flood resistant which will prevent about 20% of major famine disasters, also it now makes vitamin A because vitamin A deficiency in poverty stricken areas is a major killer of kids as most vitamin A rich foods dont grow thereā what people SHOULD be upset about- āi made all crops sterile so all farmers have to buy the seed from me in perpetuity and i will sue anyone who tries to go back to crops that produce their own seedā
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[Transcript of a Twitter thread by Seanan McGuire (@ seananmcguire)]
I started writing fiction, so far as anyone can tell based on excavation of my old papers (Mom kept everything), around the age of six. In these stories, I went off to Ponyland to play with the Ponies and hang out with Megan. Everyone loved me, naturally. I got to ride unicorns.
Most of the kids I knew were making up the same stories; I was precocious only in that I was already writing them down. The boy three houses over had a very close relationship with the Care Bears. His sister was the best mechanic the Transformers had ever known.
was most of it self-insert wish-fulfillment? well, yeah. FUCK, YEAH. We were kids. We were learning how to make up stories, and the best stories were the ones that had a place for us in their centers.Ā
As we got older, most of the boys I knew stopped tellingāor at least stopped sharingāthose stories. They had discovered that the majority of media centered boys exactly like them, which meant they could move from self-insertion to projection without a hiccup.
(Projection is also an important step in learning how to make believe. If you canāt BEĀ the main character, you can let them be your avatar, carrying your essence into the story. Hereās the thing, though: it takes time to learn toĀ ārideā avatars that you canāt recognize.)
Everyone who grows up on a diet of western media learns, on some level, to accept the default as their avatar, because we historically havenāt had much choice. Want to be the hero, instead of the love interest, the scrappy sidekick, or the villain? Embrace The Default.Ā
Bit by bit, the number of girls* who would admit to making up their own stories also dropped off. The rest of us, well. We learned thatĀ āI had an adventureā¦ā made people laugh at you. We started writing avatars.
(*Parts of this thread are very binary, because they are based on my childhood experiences, and I grew up, as many of us did, in a very gender binary world. I am fascinated to see how these experience with story change as we move into a more fluid and accepting world.)
Only writing avatars also got us laughed at, when people found out about it, got us accused of Mary Sue wish-fulfillment bullshit. We stopped making up original female characters. Many of us stopped making up characters at all.
If we used only existing characters as our avatars, we didnāt get laughed at as much. If we used only existing MALEĀ charactersācharacters we had all been trained to view as The Default, capable of anything, not just of being The Girlāwell.
Suddenly we could write ANYTHING WE WANTED. suddenly we were GODS OF THE FICTIONAL WORLD, and we could finally start telling the stories the shows and books didnāt want to give us.
I honestly think that the reason so many fanfic writers are women/girls is a toxic combination of social stigma (āew, fanfic is a GIRLYĀ thing, ew, itās all PORN, and most of it is GAY PORNā) and seeking a way to empathize with The Default.
So you have generationsāliteral, multiple GENERATIONSāof female authors growing up steeped in fanfic. Making our own stories from high school on, if not before. Trying to find our way to a schema of story that actually fits us.
(You also have generations of queer authors, trans authors, and gender-nonconforming authors, all going on their own journeys. My sexuality definitely influenced my attraction to fanfic, because finally, I wasnāt being judged for it.)
This means that you have, again, GENERATIONSĀ of female authors who have gone through the most rigorous writing school in existence, going pro and starting to publish.
Yes: THEĀ most rigorous. FIGHT ME.
Fanfic taught me pacing. Taught me dialog. Taught me scene, and structure, and what to do when a deadline attacks. Fanfic taught me to take critique, to be edited, to collaborate, to write to spec. FANFIC MADE ME.
An MFAĀ takes three years. my path from fanfic newbie to published author took me more than a decade.
Itās not a structured school. there arenāt classes, or finals; you donāt get a degree. How fast you learn is tied to how fast you listen, and you can stop whenever you find the place that makes you happy. *Going pro* is not the brass ring for every fanfic author.
But.
A not inconsiderable number of us started writing fanfic because we wanted to live the stories we loved, and then discovered that we loved telling stories. We wanted to do it always and forever and maybeā¦maybe we wanted to tell OUR OWN STORIES.
Maybe we wanted to CHANGE THE DEFAULT.
Can you imagine?
The audacity!
Graduates of a school that doesnāt cost money, with aĀ āstudent bodyā made of mostly women, CHANGING THE DEFAULT.
Because hereās where Iām going to pivot a little, and tell you a filthy, filthy secret: men write fanfic too. They just call itĀ āhomage,ā orĀ āpublic domain,ā orĀ ālicensed work,ā and get on with their bad selves.
FUZZY NATION? fanfic.
WICKED? Fanfic.
Every x-men comic written since Claremont stopped? Fanfic.
Your beloved HAMILTON? Real-person fanfic. Songfic, even.
When men write fanfic, there is a tendency for the media to report on it asĀ ātransformativeā andĀ ātransgressiveā and aĀ ānew take on a classic story.ā
When women do it, the same media goesĀ āhee hee hee she wrote about dicks.ā
am I blaming the men who tell the stories? Fuck, no. But when the conversation is always framed asĀ āHEĀ makes LITERATURE, SHEĀ writes TRASH,ā that is the schema people seize upon. that is the narrative we live.
The Default, now, is that a man who writes fanfic is uplifting and transforming, showing us the pearl within the oyster, whereas all the wants to show us is theĀ āpearlā in theĀ āoyster,ā in the Victorian sense.
AND THERE IS NOTHING WRONG WITH THE VICTORIAN SENSE. But this is just an updated version of theĀ āmen write erotica, women write pornographyā conversation thatās been going on since I was a wee small Seanan sneaking my stepdadās playboys
Women who admit they wrote (or still write) fanfic get shit upon, over and over again, because we keep saying, and allowing the media to say, that fanfic is trash, and that by extension, we who write it are garbage people.
It gets used as aĀ āgotcha.ā I have experienced it directly, the interviewer who drops their voice, leans in conspiratorially close, and asks if the rumors that I used to writeā¦those storiesā¦are true.
They always look so damn shocked when I respond with a cheerful,Ā āOh, yeah, my agent initially contacted me because she really enjoyed my BUFFYĀ THE VAMPIRE SLAYERĀ Faith/Buffy porn!ā
I am supposed to be ashamed of my past. I am supposed to repudiate the school where I learned to hold an audience; I am supposed to bury the bodies of all the girls who made me.
I refuse.
Fanfic is a natural human interaction with story. Children do it before they know its name. People who swear they would never do it all the time, retelling fairytales and Shakespearean dramas and family anecdotes in new lights and new settings. FANFIC WILL NEVER DIE.
We need to acknowledge that fact: we need to accept that fanfic is never going away and it would suck a sack of wasps through a funnel if it did, because we need it. We need to center old stories in new ways, to update The Default, and yeah, to see some vampire peen.
So if you know someone who wrinkles their nose at fanfic, or who would tell a former fanfic author that their original fiction is somehow worth less because of their roots, or who is just generally an impacted asshole with legs, remember:
They are wrong.
Fanfic is beautiful.
Writing fanfic teaches you important storytelling skills.
I have a funnel and access to wasps.
Thank you for coming to todayās episode of Seanan Gets Mad About Shit.
/End Transcript]
Iād argue that another reason why women gravitate toward fanfiction isnāt just that they feel the need to use existing characters as avatars rather than creating their own avatars, but also that women were pushed out of academia and instead found a way to engage in the same literary analysis, but instead of participating in existing tradition to do so, they built their own tradition.
Iāve said it before but I cannot recommend the essay Transformative Work: Midrash and Fanfiction by Rachel Barenblat enough. She unpacks how, in her opinion, fanfiction is just a form of analysis, comparing it to Jewish midrash. Itās such an interesting way to view the mentality of both fanfic writers and Jewish people.
In essence, she argues that fanfiction is written for the sake of deeper understanding of the text. After all, you can read something all day and never comprehend it, but in writing something, you pick apart the layers and have to analyze the nitty gritty questions like āwhy?ā and āhow?ā She says that this is similar to the Jewish tradition of writing oneās own midrash, which is done for similar purposes: to deepen understanding of the text.
(She also says that these things both further community connection, which makes sense especially in a COVID world. People who write fanfiction are looking for people like them.)
In my own words, it seems to me that Barenblat was arguing that fanfic is a form of analysis. After all, whatās the difference between a thesis statement that arguesĀ āIn X scenario, these characters would do Yā and a fanfic where the premise isĀ āThese characters are in X scenario and theyāre doing Yā? (I have other essays stored somewhere that argue similar things; Exit, pursued by a fan: Shakespeare, Fandom, and the Lure of the Alternate Universe and J.R.R. Tolkien, Fanfiction, and āThe Freedom of the Readerā both come to mind, but I canāt remember how exactly relevant both are to this particular conversation.)
So in context of the original thread, this would imply that thereās two separate but convergent evolutionary paths to why so many women (and queer people, Iād argue) were drawn to fanfic: not only were they pushed out of literary tradition, but they were pushed out of academic tradition. Some girls found that they couldnāt engage with storytelling without criticism, so they gravitated toward fanfic. And some girls found that they couldnāt engage with academic analysis of their favorite stories without criticism, so they gravitated toward fanfic.
(And of course, thereās a million quotes about how production and consumption are the same thing which are relevant here. I distinctly remember one that said āReading is like breathing in, and writing is like breathing out,ā which, after a google search, can be credited to Pam Allyn.)
Shakespeare and Dante wrote fanfiction.
So did Homer.

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