lauraannegilman:

marithlizard:

janetmayfire:

marithlizard:

mariana-oconnor:

kyraneko:

marisatomay:

author: sorry I’m jumping on this bandwagon and writing a fic with the same premise as all these other fics

me, has read 500 fics like this one and is prepared to read 500 more: please never apologize for giving the people (me) what they (also me) want

WELL I WOULD READ FIVE HUNDRED FICS

AND I WOULD READ FIVE HUNDRED MORE

JUST TO READ ONE THOUSAND FICS WITH THE SAME

PREMISE AS THE ONES BEFORE

DADA DADA (DADA DADA)

DADA DADA (DADA DADA)

DADADUNdedeledeDUNdedeledeDUN

When I’m reading, well, you know I’m gonna be

I’m gonna be the one who’s reading your AU.

And when I’m finished, well, you know I’m gonna find

I’m gonna find another fic like that one too.

If you write soulmates, well, you know I’m gonna read

I’m gonna read that soulmate fic, that’s what I’ll do.

Then I’ll go back, I’ll go back to AO3

And I will search for soulmate fic the whole night through.

And can you, can you imagine fifty people a day, I said FIFTY PEOPLE A DAY readin’ this post, spontaneously bursting into song, singin’ about fanfic to the tune of the Proclaimers and scrollin’ on.  And friends, they may think it’s a movement.  And that’s what it is, the AO3′s Restaurant Anti-Embarrassment Fanfic Pride movement, and all you gotta do to join is sing it the next time it comes around on your dashboard. With feeling.  (apologies to Arlo Guthrie) 

I was going to post a comment about how, as a fanfic author, I feel embarrassed if I can’t come up with some plotline a bit more original than the same old shit that everybody else posts about when I read @marithlizard ‘s comment above.  And I giggled.  Because it’s way past the point where they won’t take either of them.  No matter how many photos there are with circles and arrows and paragraphs on the back explaining what each one was and how they’re to be used as evidence against us.  😀

Cause Obie came to the realization that it was a typical case of fanworks trope justice, and the fans weren’t gonna look at the twenty-seven 8×10″ color glossy entries on TVTropes with circles and arrows connecting each one explaining how the stories are all essentially the same, to be used as evidence against us. The fans were gonna read and love them all anyway. 

To steal from @obsessionisaperfume:

I love everyone in this bar.

This is AWESOME!!