Not to be Debby Downer, here, but I think it’s time for a reality check here.

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Actually, fan fiction HAS been published (see earlier photo evidence).

I appreciate that you use the word fiction rather than the phrase fan fiction, but I’m not sure you shouldn’t include a majority of the alleged nonfiction as well.

Please remember to include a bibliography if you choose to move for the academic high ground. Without it, you are little more than a troll.

I blame Lit class. It teaches us that, if you’re happy with life, there’s something wrong with the picture. Somehow they took critical thinking and turned it into just flat out being critical. Then they go under the surface to look for more things to criticise. The proper Latin prefix for this would be hypo-, thus we…

I always thought AIDS was feared because it was REALLY BAD FOR YOU. Not quite typhoid or whooping cough but definitely up there.

I’d have more respect if she chose to write a book dedicated to it. Or even a short story. As is, it comes off as a publicity stunt taking advantage of people looking for that exactly that kind of representation... just like making Hermione black. And then apparently sidelining her.

“Color Blindness”, as you like to put it, will be a completely valid tactic as soon as we can get the rest of the world on board. Once everyone - including people of color and that other race everyone loves to hate - stops defining themselves by race, they will start defining it by competence. Those who lack…

I love the fact that Emma Watson was Hermione in the movies, the new lady - whose name I don’t currently know (I refuse to act well informed just because I have the Google search app) - played her in the play, and no one has considered making her Jewish or Muslim, despite then being known to have very bushy hair on…

What you’re talking about - world building - that sort of “thing-you-just-cannot-forget-or-get-past-about-the-original” is EXACTLY what fanfic is all about. Don’t believe me? Give me 24 hours and I’ll give you a list of the best stories for this.

I’m a fan fiction writer. I mostly dabble, and I have a hard time keeping a plot running, something that I believe a LOT of writers- bar the exceptional few - struggle with. Professional or amateur.

Yeah, seriously. Stop using white as an implied insult or qualification. It’s racist as all hell. Obama wouldn’t approve. He fought that kind of divisive language. Don’t spit on his legacy like that. You want to insult Trump, do it for something he chose to do, not his skin color.

You know, for all this talk about racism and sexism in the Trump administration, I’m amazed you have the hypocritical gall to simultaneously put together that last sentence:

Up until your post I was enjoying reading up on the advice floating around about what’s going on in the political world.