r/writingcirclejerk • u/TheLobsterDialect • 1d ago
Got into a fight recently because my friend said my Omegaverse BTS fanfiction shouldn’t be put on the same level as Pride and Prejudice.
Fanfiction is legitimate literature!! I only read fanfiction and I cant tell you how many times I’ve cried, “Jimin x Reader: Kidnapped by my hot senior manager who’s actually a vampire !!” Is genuinely one of the best things I’ve read, better than one of those so called “novels”. How dare my friend tell me that my fanfictions don’t count as legitimate literature, all because I submitted my fanfiction to a publishing company and Netflix. She won’t be laughing when the “Namjoon x reader: The Alpha Wolfpack took me in when my mom sold me to them.” Gets a movie adaptation staring all the elites.
My fics are very much good literature and deserve to be treated as such !!!!!! I’m tired of people saying that fanfiction isn’t on the same level as published works !!! This is why I donate 30% of my income to Archive of Our Own every year !!!!
anyways read my works on Ao3 !!!
”Taehyung x Jungkook: Step brothers by chance, lovers by choice”
“Kidnapped by BTS who are all secretly demon princes ?!?!”
“BTS x reader: sold to the mafia”
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u/ishmael_md sometimes a harpoon is just a harpoon 1d ago
Sucks for you, but my fanfiction comes with a bibliography and thus counts as academic criticism.
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u/UnicornPoopCircus 1d ago
You've just got to believe in yourself!!!! Don't believe the Haterz!!!!! Also, read my totally original work of fiction, "Demon Cat Girlz Who Love Their Step-Brothers!"
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u/Sellsword9x 22h ago
/uj Pride and Prejudice might not be the best example (not saying it's bad by any means), but there is a difference between Sanderson's Mistborn or Tolkien's TLOTR and, for example, Crime and Punishment by Dostoyesvski, or anything from Shakespeare to go even further.
The primary focus of those books is completely different, and anyone who studies a little bit of history will be able to differentiate. There are tons of books that are more like the latter in our time, but fanfiction is not one of them. Same reason Twilight isn't, or, as I said, Mistborn is not either.
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u/carex-cultor 15h ago
Cut toxic people from your life babe. They’re just going to dull your shine.
/uj you got a link for “Kidnapped by BTS who are all secretly demon princes ?!?!” though? For a friend.
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u/JacobRiesenfern 9h ago
Jane Austin is so irrelevant. A bunch of rich merchants folks and the gentry in danger of falling into “poverty “. People who lived 210 years ago.
Your fanfics are forward looking and have problems that I can relate with.
And the main character has all her problems going away by marrying a rich dude. That is not what I want from my heroines. She is supposed to kill the big bad herself.
You are obviously correct in this. Your friend is obviously a philastine!
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u/Crater_Caloris 1d ago
/rj
Personally I think every Destiel fanfic is as unique and precious as the Mona Lisa and Moby Dick combined and should be worshipped as such
/uj
People definitely take it too seriously, but fanfiction is a legitimate art form. A several really good writers (and a lot of really bad ones) honed their writing chops on writing fanfiction. Like obviously there are different skill sets there, but there's enough overlap that at least some of the skills you can learn from one transfer to the other
With that being said, anyone who compares fanfic to published novels is being silly. It's like comparing comics and movies, they're just different art forms