Can't believe it's already Bad Fanfic Take day again. It's like Toyotathon for goofery, I never feel like enough time has passed for it to be here again and there seems to be nothing I can do to avoid knowing about it
Folks are rightfully pointing out the literary merit of fanfic & how important and valuable it is, NONE of them are wrong

I'd also add that it doesn't matter if your writing has "literary merit", it doesn't have to be IMPORTANT, it's enough to just want to do it and then do it
Write for yourself
Write for a community of like-minded weirdos
Write for airport dads
Write for horny cowboys
Write for book clubs
Write for prestige
Write for cash money

All of these have equal value! People who try to tell you whose opinion matters most are boring. Fuck em
Insecure people seem to have a lot of free time to set up fences around which genres they classify as important. I personally like to spend that time reading and writing but what do I know about it, I just write books about hippos and clones and shit
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