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I always read these secrets like "You're not special! I am!"

Yup.

What they said.

I read the "You're not special! I am!" in Fred Weasley's voice.

There's no "the" in Wuthering Heights.

e: wait, technically there is one in the word Wuthering. My mistake.

Edited 2013-06-19 23:25 (UTC)

idgaf about whatever fandom this is, but I agree it's really fucking annoying when people announce they READ BOOKS!!! as though they're expecting a fucking congressional medal of honor for it

There seems to be quite the pinto dropoff this time around.

As the FFnet maxim goes: "Don't like, don't read."

Hey, just because you're obviously bitter about your bad decisions doesn't mean other people are.

dunno if it's an internet thing but I never get this compulsion to tell everyone what subject you did (or are still doing) for your undergrad degree as if that made you some kind of expert in whatever it is.

...It's only fic? I'm just here for the friendship/flirting~~/porn~~; if people want to wax poetic about books that's okay.

(Hasn't Zach brought up Chris being an english major several times in interviews and things? And I know Chris has mentioned it before. The two have vocabulary battles for Christ's sake! It shouldn't surprise you that some of the fans are incredibly passionate about the topic.)

Gif because Zach's face.

That is a great GIF!

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elaminator - 2013-06-20 04:12 (UTC) - Expand

(Anonymous) - 2013-06-20 04:20 (UTC) - Expand

elaminator - 2013-06-20 04:43 (UTC) - Expand

this gif is pretty fantastic omg

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jaydestarlight - 2013-06-20 19:32 (UTC) - Expand

Ahhhh, F!S misses you

You do realise that something like fanfiction is going to appeal to people who enjoy reading, right? I imagine there's a disproportionately large amount of English majors. And you're only seeing the ones that make a racket about it. If someone doesn't mention their major, how would you ever know?

idk , this reads like someone going to an art gallery and being annoyed with all the people going on about how great art is.

I thought it was more like you were going to an art gallery, and a few of the other patrons insist on repeatedly telling you that they also studied art themselves.

alexi_lupin - 2013-06-20 03:22 (UTC) - Expand

[Picture is Zachary Quinto and Chris Pine standing together and wearing suits.]

I've been re-reading old Pinto fics and one thing stood out to me as especially irritating:

The authors' veneration of the FANON Chris's love for books and the fact that he has a degree in English. Seriously, people, projecting much?

If you read books, you read books. You aren't a special exceptionally smart snowflake who deserves a cookie.

If you are an English Major, for the love of God, don't start every LJ comment with As an English Major or The English Major in me wants to...

So you extended your childhood love for old novels into your late adolescence and got a degree out of it. Wow, you have really stretched yourself there. You should be given special authority on everything. You know some people actually study things that make them employable and read books in their free time?

(And before you accuse me of being mean to paragons of literacy who read The Wuthering Heights twice - I am an English Major.)

[Transcription notes:

Pinto = Pormanteau of Pine and Quinto

LJ = LiveJournal

I didn't realize an English degree made you unemployable. Does that mean I don't have to go to work? Damn, I kind of like being a Project Manager.

You do realize that there is more than a Literature concentration in English departments, right?

Bad news: I was an English major and got a writing job right out of college.

Let's not forget that reading fiction novels was considered trash reading for a really, really long time. There was a divide between people who read for knowledge and people who read for enjoyment. Guess which one the majority of fandom fits into? (Hint: If you don't enjoy textbooks and total analytics of classic novels, you're not in the 'good' one.)

Sounds like internalized bibliophobia to me.

I am legit shocked there aren't more comments that just say AS AN ENGLISH MAJOR/THE ENGLISH MAJOR IN ME.

I DON'T KNOW WHAT YOU'RE DOING RIGHT NOW, BUT I DEF DON'T HAVE AN ENGLISH MAJOR IN ME AT THE MOMENT.

...That escalated quickly.