#celestial throne

He's just a little* guy. If Willian has ten fans I am one of them. If Willian has one fan I am that one. If Willian has no fans my soul has been unmade by the Bringers of Darkness.

dsghkdskjhg i love thinkin about fakefic so i should have more to say but idk what to say that i haven’t already posted

i have a tag "doing fandom sideways" for things in this vein, which basically includes all thoughts about meta stories which imply other equally or especially  more valid versions of the story in question exist elsewhere even though they don’t, in fact, exist

and i kinda made my final paper for my fantasy literature class about that lmao because i will see any fun class and be like “time to make my personal hobbies into Academia”

i think about fakefic with ideas like wrapping the story around something that doesn’t exist, feeling the absence of the canon more than the presence of the fic, being forcibly alienated from context, reversing the usual creation order, making silences loud and meaningful, using fandom and fanfic tropes to cast meaning backwards.... i don’t know if those disjointed thoughts Make Sense to everyone else the way they make sense to me, but that’s what you’ll find in my “doing fandom sideways” tag

unfortunately i don’t have any fakefic to link you to, i’ve written some for a class project but it was a collaborative effort so i won’t be sharing it on tumblr. the book Carry On by Rainbow Rowell exists but you’ve already seen my thoughts on that not being the same as fakefic. i’m sure there are more books with that kind of concept out there now though, maybe people have recommendations?