[ SECRET POST #2732 ]

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⌈ Secret Post #2732 ⌋

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Comments

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[(Anonymous)]

"Fandom doesn't shame undesirables enough" is one of my least favorite complaints.

Reading fanfiction in greater quantity, or even instead of published fiction, is not a deficit in anything. It can be a perfectly informed choice. The idea that everyone would be better off if they read the right sort of books - what you consider the right sort of books - is classist and inherently flawed.

Some people in fandom do have little education, and no desire to put themselves through more schooling. They belong here. They have as much of a right to this space as you or I.

Some people are making a political statement about their disgust with the many failings of commercial narratives, and are through shelling out money for entertainment that doesn't represent or entertain them. As long as this crowd doesn't get sanctimonious about their reading choices, I'm glad to be around them, too.

As for me, I felt compelled to respond to your broadside because I'm privileged in ways that get my voice heard in this conversation. Classical literature was what I read for fun throughout most of my life, so it's not a question of fanfiction stealing time that might otherwise go to reading Homer, Shakespeare, and so on. Even having enjoyed the authors that other people automatically respect you for having read, the so-called best that Western literature has to offer, I mostly read fanfiction. And I will defend its its originality, its necessity, and its worth as literature anywhere.