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>how many of you read fanfiction?
I can't speak for everyone here. I, for one, read none. Well, aside from the beginnings of or really short pieces.
>Do you consider it real literature
Let's not get pretentious here. There's no such thing as "real literature". There's popular literature. There's well-written literature. There's "Oh, fuck, at last, a book that doesn't make me want to hang myself at how appallingly poorly written it is" literature. But, there's no "real" literature. It's all literature. It's just some poseurs love masturbating to the fantasy that women want to hump them and men want to be them because they've read all the real literature and want to poo-poo anything they themselves lack the basic skills to have written.
I'll concede that there is the "classics", but even that is a contentious idea, defined only by what literature "experts" have determined as being "good" from the swamp of historical pop' fiction. I warrant we have LOST more good fiction to scroll-rot and effective censorship by medieval taste than we have retained, yet we have the arrogance to declare this or that as the very best and most erudite history has to offer us? Puh-leeze.
>what's your ratio of fanfiction to published works that you consume?
Well, seeing as my reading of "real" books is shitfully poor for reasons, probably 50-50. Fan fiction's biggest problem is usually that it's written by hacks whose desperate longing to inject themselves into the story (or, more often, the film) they just read and "just, like, SO adore" causes them to have an overinflated sense of their own writing skill. Or, a lack of care-factor. But, it's gotta be said, some fan fiction, while not brilliant or even publisher-worthy, is actually half decent. But don't get me started on that fucking Mr Grey bullshit because I am likely to shove a toothpick in some bitch's eye.
