directorshellhead:

bittyjack:

bittyjack:

the divine comedy is fanfiction

okay look i half said this to be funny but i actually hate when “”journalists”” think they know shit about fanworks. everything in modern narrative is fanfiction. the lion king is just safari au of hamlet, every single beat novel is just tom sawyer and huckleberry finn in angsty ~college au~ setting, there is nothing original under the sun, nothing sacred in the kingdom of god
literally when will @mainstream media stop thinking they are the pinnacle of literary criticism because they like to put down transformative works? stop making fun of queer escapism and start trying to be creative. we all know you wrote a second year english paper about dante’s inferno and his self insert bible fanfic so can you please go away forever

#it especially amuses me when comics creators scorn fan input and criticism#like shut up your work is literally glorified fanfiction#you don’t even get credit for creating most of these characters#and even if you DID create a character#you did so in a medium that REQUIRES other creators to take on that character later#current comic canon is literally fanfic written by dudes so calm down when dissing the ANNOYING ENTITLED FANS OF YOUR WORK#like oh bite me#y'all are REALLY FUCKING BAD FANFIC WRITERS#A N Y O N E ON TUMBLR WOULD WRITE BETTER COMICS THAN MOST OF THOSE GUYS  (tags via thedirectorstark)