#this time about literature

[nyxneon]

I like fanvids and edits on tiktok but whenever I get videos about books...dear god, it's like getting slapped in the face. (This is about Stephen King's Carrie.)

So, yesterday I happened to see a video where a girl was complaining about how Stephen King described Carrie, in particular her body and how she got her first period. However, the whole thing was very... vague. What i got was that "he was creepy and disgusting and he should have never been allowed to write about underage girls". (Does this remind you of anything???? Because this does remind me of some specific fandom discourse... but I digress) so I went to the comment section, and 99% of the comments were actually about THAT infamous IT scene. So, yeah, it wasn't very enlightening as to what the fuck was wrong with King's depiction of Carrie...

So, let me ramble a bit about this.

I first read Carrie (in the italian translation) when I was about...14/15 I think. (So, about 23 years ago, for reference.) Bought a cheap paperback at the supermarket (yes). And I read it and re-read it. I think I know some bits by heart. I loved it. And why? Let me tell you.

First of all, as a teen who felt awkward and fucking ugly, I saw a lot of myself in Carrie. The descriptions of her body, which apparently creeped out those people in the tiktok video, felt right to me. It conveyed disgust and curiosity and the potential for pleasure. Idk if you get what I mean...

(Also, btw, all the people grossed out on tiktok forget that Carrie is actually at least 16 in the story so...i mean, she's not a baby. Also the story is set in the 70s if I remember correctly, and you don't need to have a history degree to know that at the time people...well, were doing a lot of "grown up stuff" around 16/17. That's just how...it was. But apparently gen z have no sense of history whatsoever.... sorry.)

Moreover, people were getting offended (so I gathered) because King was "kinda disgusting and creepy" because he wrote about Carrie getting her first period like that. *major sigh here*

Look, i got my first period when I was 11. And it was fucking traumatic for me. Basically, i've been having periods longer than the people in the video and comments have been alive. Periods are nasty, uncomfortable and a pain in the ass. They're gross... they suck. King described the whole thing in a way that felt...real. (and also symbolic in a way, but this is for another time.)

A man can't write about it? Why? No, don't answer... i'm afraid i know the reasoning behind this brand of idiocy.

I gathered that they complained about the sexual undertones. Have those people ever been teenagers? Teens have sex on their minds quite a lot. I was like that and I was also pretty annoying and weird about it.

And lots of the comments were about how King was high on coke most of the time back when he wrote his most famous stuff and I was... baffled. Lots of artists have created great stuff while being high as fucking kites... y'all are clearly not so open-minded and accepting of drugs as you claim to be if you're dismissing King's writing because he was on drugs.

Also, one last thing that made me laugh:

Someone in the comments wrote that "King is considered high art while twilight is considered crap". My sibling in Christ, I can assure you that Stephen King is definitely not considered high art anywhere. He's a genre writer and genre writers are basically never considered high art. Like, at all.

#not to be a worse asshole than usual #nyxneon's personal ramblings #this time about literature

[panthermouthh]

What could go wrong

#Victor Frankenstein #Frankenstein #the creature #frankenstein 1931 #gothic art #gothic literature #mary shelley #gothic lit #not sure if I really like this but since finishing the book again I have even More stuff I want to do #but that’ll take time and planning #so here ya go <33 #I’m gonna check out that musical people keep talking about in the tags lol #text from the original 1931 movie #my art

[welcometogrouchland]

I understand that literature nerd Jason Todd is kind of overblown in fanon compared to it's actual presence in canon (a few issues during his pre (and post?)crisis Robin tenure that highlight it) BUT consider that I think it's hilarious if the unhinged gun toting criminal has strong opinions on poetry

#ramblings of a lunatic #dc comics #Jason Todd #batfamily #it's just a fun quirk! it's a fun lil detail and I simply cannot slight ppl for enjoying and incorporating it into works #like obviously jason isn't the only one. I'm a big believer in the batfam having over lapping interests they refuse to bond over #i know dick canonically used the robin hood stories (which are pretty flowery in their language far as i can tell) as inspo for Robin #and i know babs was a librarian and even tho her area of nerddom is characterized as more computery she probably knows quite a lot- #-about literature as well #duke is a hobbyist writer i believe? i saw a fan mention that- which if so is great and I hope he's also a nerd #(i mean he is canonically. i remember him being a puzzle nerd in his introduction. but i mean specifically a lit nerd) #damian called Shakespeare boring but also took acting classes so i think he's more of a theatre kid. #Tim's a dropout and i don't think he's ever shown distinct interest in english lit and i can't remember for Steph? #I'm ngl my brain hyperfocused on musician Steph i forget some of her other interests I'm sorry (minus softball and gymnastics!) #and then Cass had her whole (non linear but it's whatevs) arc about literacy and learning to read #went from struggling to read in batgirl 00 to memorizing Shakespeare in 'tec and is now an avid read in batgirls! #she's shown reading edgar allen poe but we don't know if it's his short stories or his poems #point to all of the above being: i know Jason's not the only lit nerd in the batfam #but also i do need him to be writing poetry in his spare time and reading and reviewing it #jason at the next dead robins society meeting: evening folks today I'll be assigning all of us poems based on laika the space dog #damian and steph who have been kidnapped and brought to jasons warehouse to hangout: LET US GO BITCH #speaking of^ random poem i think jason would like: space dog by alan shapiro #wake up one morning in an unfamiliar more mature body with a profound sense of abandonment. the last four lines. mmm tasty

[notbecauseofvictories]

did you guys know that the woman who coined the term “final girl” is actually a scholar of Icelandic medieval poetry? I don’t know why this particular fact is standing out to me so strongly but just imagine, being an expert in 70s and 80s slasher films and writing a seminal work on gender and the horror audience...

and then going home and thinking about the Njála for the rest of the evening.

#carol j please explain to me how you went from medieval literature scholar to writing about how teenage boys identify with victimized women #I don't think there's anything wrong with it or that there aren't comparisons to be made between the two #but just. how. #anyway I'm reading men women and chainsaws and having a very good time! #from the bookshelf

[you-can-be-what-you-want-to-be]

So I’ve noticed something about popular games (and ones I like) in the past decade….

#the stanley parable #portal #undertale #doki doki literature club #don’t mind me just finished Stanley and portal back to back and am going insane #forgot about doki for a minute and almost used oxen free but that one is very popular/doesn’t fit #but I love it #anyway is there anything sexier than fourth wall breaks #silent protagonist #and time loops? #a narritive that is just that? a story about stories in stories? #i think not!

[thunderboltfire]

I have a lot of complicated feelings when it comes to what Neflix has done with the Witcher, but my probably least favourite is the line of argumentation that originated during shitstorms related to the first and second season that I was unlucky to witness.

It boils down to "Netflix's reinterpretation and vision is valid, because the Witcher books are not written to be slavic. The overwhelming Slavic aestetic is CDPR's interpretation, and the setting in the original books is universally European, as there are references to Arthurian mythos and celtic languages" And I'm not sure where this argument originated and whether it's parroting Sapkowski's own words or a common stance of people who haven't considered the underlying themes of the books series. Because while it's true that there are a lot of western european influences in the Witcher, it's still Central/Eastern European to the bone, and at its core, the lack of understanding of this topic is what makes the Netflix series inauthentic in my eyes.

The slavicness of the Witcher goes deeper than the aestetics, mannerisms, vodka and sour cucumbers. Deeper than Zoltan wrapping his sword with leopard pelt, like he was a hussar. Deeper than the Redanian queen Hedvig and her white eagle on the red field.

What Witcher is actually about? It's a story about destiny, sure. It's a sword-and-sorcery style, antiheroic deconstruction of a fairy tale, too, and it's a weird mix of many culture's influences.

But it's also a story about mundane evil and mundane good. If You think about most dark, gritty problems the world of Witcher faces, it's xenophobia and discrimination, insularism and superstition. Deep-seated fear of the unknown, the powerlessness of common people in the face of danger, war, poverty and hunger. It's what makes people spit over their left shoulder when they see a witcher, it's what makes them distrust their neighbor, clinging to anything they deem safe and known. It's their misfortune and pent-up anger that make them seek scapegoats and be mindlessly, mundanely cruel to the ones weaker than themselves.

There are of course evil wizards, complicated conspiracies and crowned heads, yes. But much of the destruction and depravity is rooted in everyday mundane cycle of violence and misery. The worst monsters in the series are not those killed with a silver sword, but with steel. it's hard to explain but it's the same sort of motiveless, mundane evil that still persist in our poorer regions, born out of generations-long poverty and misery. The behaviour of peasants in Witcher, and the distrust towards authority including kings and monarchs didn't come from nowhere.

On the other hand, among those same, desperately poor people, there is always someone who will share their meal with a traveller, who will risk their safety pulling a wounded stranger off the road into safety. Inconditional kindness among inconditional hate. Most of Geralt's friends try to be decent people in the horrible world. This sort of contrasting mentalities in the recently war-ridden world is intimately familiar to Eastern and Cetral Europe.

But it doesn't end here. Nilfgaard is also a uniquely Central/Eastern European threat. It's a combination of the Third Reich in its aestetics and its sense of superiority and the Stalinist USSR with its personality cult, vast territory and huge army, and as such it's instantly recognisable by anybody whose country was unlucky enough to be caught in-between those two forces. Nilfgaard implements total war and looks upon the northerners with contempt, conscripts the conquered people forcibly, denying them the right of their own identity. It may seem familiar and relevant to many opressed people, but it's in its essence the processing of the trauma of the WW2 and subsequent occupation.

My favourite case are the nonhumans, because their treatment is in a sense a reminder of our worst traits and the worst sins in our history - the regional antisemitism and/or xenophobia, violence, local pogroms. But at the very same time, the dilemma of Scoia'Tael, their impossible choice between maintaining their identity, a small semblance of freedom and their survival, them hiding in the forests, even the fact that they are generally deemed bandits, it all touches the very traumatic parts of specifically Polish history, such as January Uprising, Warsaw Uprising, Ghetto Uprising, the underground resistance in WW2 and the subsequent complicated problem of the Cursed Soldiers all at once. They are the 'other' to the general population, but their underlying struggle is also intimately known to us.

The slavic monsters are an aestetic choice, yes, but I think they are also a reflection of our local, private sins. These are our own, insular boogeymen, fears made flesh. They reproduce due to horrors of the war or they are an unprovoked misfortune that descends from nowhere and whose appearance amplifies the local injustices.

I'm not talking about many, many tiny references that exist in the books, these are just the most blatant examples that come to mind. Anyway, the thing is, whether Sapkowski has intended it or not, Witcher is slavic and it's Polish because it contains social commentary. Many aspects of its worldbuilding reflect our traumas and our national sins. It's not exclusively Polish in its influences and philosophical motifs of course, but it's obvious it doesn't exist in a vacuum.

And it seems to me that the inherently Eastern European aspects of Witcher are what was immediately rewritten in the series. It seems to me that the subtler underlying conflicts were reshaped to be centered around servitude, class and gender disparity, and Nilfgaard is more of a fanatic terrorist state than an imposing, totalitarian empire. A lot of complexity seems to be abandoned in lieu of usual high-fantasy wordbuilding. It's especially weird to me because it was completely unnecessary. The Witcher books didn't need to be adjusted to speak about relevant problems - they already did it! The problem of acceptance and discrimination is a very prevalent theme throughout the story! They are many strong female characters too, and they are well written. Honestly I don't know if I should find it insulting towards their viewers that they thought it won't be understood as it was and has to be somehow reshaped to fit the american perpective, because the current problems are very much discussed in there and Sapkowski is not subtle in showing that genocide and discrimination is evil. Heck, anyone who has read the ending knows how tragic it makes the whole story.

It also seems quite disrespectful, because they've basically taken a well-established piece of our domestic literature and popular culture and decided that the social commentary in it is not relevant. It is as if all it referenced was just not important enough and they decided to use it as an opportunity to talk about the problems they consider important. And don't get me wrong, I'm not forcing anyone to write about Central European problems and traumas, I'm just confused that they've taken the piece of art already containing such a perspective on the popular and relevant problem and they just... disregarded it, because it wasn't their exact perspective on said problem.

And I think this homogenisation, maybe even from a certain point of view you could say it's worldview sanitisation is a problem, because it's really ironic, isn't it? To talk about inclusivity in a story which among other problems is about being different, and in the same time to get rid of motifs, themes and references because they are foreign? Because if something presents a different perspective it suddenly is less desirable?

There was a lot of talking about the showrunners travelling to Poland to understand the Witcher's slavic spirit and how to convey it. I don't think they really meant it beyond the most superficial, paper-thin facade.

#The witcher #Sorry if its convoluted I just got reminded of something and it made me a little angry #and as I had this conversation a lot of times I've decided to put it into written text #sorry about being bitter #but these are some of my favourite books and I'm still upset when I get reminded how badly they were treated in the recent adaptation #I'm not saying you should never change anything #But it's good to have enough background to understand why some things are the way they are in the original #and to understand what the source material is about #we don't talk about particular character's looks or something (altough I feel they could care more about it too) #but central themes tropes and motifs #long post #it may seem like I'm talking from a high horse here #people are welcome to interpret literature however they want #Nobody has a monopol on themes #I just think that in this particular case the cultural context influences the worldbuilding #and if changed it doesn't have the same impact anymore #meta

[oldshrewsburyian]

For better or for worse, my literary tastes were shaped by spending most of my adolescence reading swashbucklers (and Sherlock Holmes.) I am blaming this for the fact that my jaw actually dropped when Jaime Lannister, asked about his relationship to Brienne of Tarth -- Qyburn is clearly professionally and personally primed to appreciate relevant emotional history/Hot Goss -- chooses to define her as his protector. Sir. Literally anything else would have been more normal. Anything else. He's not wrong! But also. My god.

#goodbye i am off to mentally write an essay about gender and the tropes of chivalric literature #a medievalist does got #i have to assume that brienne's internal reaction to this man's entire deal is 90% just ????? at all times #he's arrogant he's annoying he's filthy and feverish and telling her to think about waterfalls #telling her that she's psychologically stronger than anything their captors choose to dish out #asked if he can walk on his own: 'sure! hey brienne give me your arm' #and she does! presumably with the ????? at full strength #i continue to love brienne the MOST #jaime has nothing even remotely resembling a moral compass (this is a problem for him) but he sure is increasingly interesting #jaime x brienne #apparently

[thebirdandhersong]

MY DEARS did I tell you I'm presenting a paper at my department's annual conference!!!!!!

#ive had many a mini-crisis about this because i feel like such an imposter #but at the same time im very excited because i LOVE talking about literature and so im like well i don't need to care about how #the other students look at and judge me im there to share joy

[theashpit]

ORGA'S VICTORY.

An alternate end for the movie Godzilla 2000! I personally always wanted to see Orga fully consume and copy godzilla, and was honestly pretty bummed and angry when once again godzilla won. Its just not what i cared about <3

so i decided to give myself a win and use my artist ability to make it end how I WANTED IT TO.

and with this comic i also come baring a small story, (readmore)

Out of the flames the enormous alien monstrosity came, and its hard shell once again began shifting and pulsating. Healing what damage the king of monsters had done, as if it was nothing. So much had been done but so little had worked, and in this moment Godzilla found himself tired…

Just what the beast wanted, a run down tired opponent. Easier to swallow.

Orga; in its hulking horror, came to a halt just before Godzilla. It rumbled out a low roar as it seemed to open its bottom jaw wider than normal. Godzilla responded in kind with a roar, however, what followed was Orga’s upper jaw snapping upward revealing a gaping maw that extended farther than anything anyone onlooking had seen. Only Godzilla however could see the unfolding frills that would become clear to be the alien’s true mouth. Once unfurled, it stretched it across the whole of its mouth. Whatever it was planning did not matter, Godzilla had faced many foes before and this was nothing different.

Charging in, the mighty king had plunged himself into the creature's maw. Orga stretched its jaw around its prey, hooking its barbs into godzilla’s scales, they punctured deep like barbs. Clawing and yanking him deeper and deeper, all the while Orga’s worm-like maw within forced itself over Godzilla’s head. A function he had not considered, and its tight hot flesh made it hard for him to breathe. Orga’s whole being had been put into consuming godzilla, its hands clamped on tight and its arms raised the king up into the air. Deeper and deeper the barbs pulled him down and the throat extended and squeezed its way around his head and neck.

Godzilla’s plates began to glow their signature bright red, this was the moment he was waiting for… deep enough into the gut where the blast would surely kill orga. Charging up his attack, orga continued to devour him. Paying no mind to its attackers plan, as if it itself was already prepared. Godzilla did not stop however and blasted a full powered atomic burst into the creature's gut. 

The walls around godzilla sparkled as it hit, but it did not destroy orga. No, instead it had super heated the fleshy walls and created a suffocating heat. Godzilla began to struggle more but Orga had not stopped devouring him. It had gotten to his bigger back spines and negated their difficult shapes by simply using sheer force to snap them off. The king of monsters howled in pain as the alien used all the force in its jaw to break and force godzilla's body down into its gut. 

Orga’s body began to grow, changing beyond its prototypical form into something more concrete… something more familiar. Ecstasy filled the alien’s mind and body as it gorged itself on its prey. His power coursing through its skin and morphing it into the ultimate life form. Its stomach let out an angry gurgle as it desperately yearned to have its food. One loud enough anyone around would have surely heard… and once it had. Nothing could stop the beast from inhaling the rest of its meal.

Now broken, Godzilla's back plates slid effortlessly down the worm-like tube that was sending the would-be king of monsters down to his end. The tail was nothing more than a desert, a welcomed effortless slurp downward. And with each passing moment Orga’s body became less and less alien, more familiar… more like a king. The plates everyone so usually recognized grew and shaped Orga’s back, the shell deformed and created a much more reptilian spine. 

And with a quick flick of the head, down went the rest of the king. And with it a massive pudge plopped to the ground into orga’s tummy. It churned and whirred as it pressed and pushed godzilla melting him away like nothing. The super heated walls made the digestion quicker than normal, coupled with the added DNA ripping godzilla’s struggling was swiftly stopped as the pudge went limp and sloshy. Bubbling away his flesh, as now everyone bore witness to the new king of monsters.

Orga stood tall, dwarfing most everything. This was the end of days, humanity would have no way to fight back.

#fanart #v0re #v0re art #godzilla #orga #monsters #kaiju #art #my art #artists on tumblr #kaiju art #gojira #toho #design #long post #cw: v0re #tw: v0re #literature #fanfiction #i guess i need to tag fanfiction im KJSNDFKJWNEF #Anyway hi i talked about this like a million years ago this is aiden from the past #wooooo time travel

[isdalinarhot]

me signing up for my science fiction and fantasy class last fall: lmaooo imagine if i got to write an essay about my cosmere hot takes for this class. of course this could never happen because the cosmere is Books For Reading For Fun and not Books For Reading For School

the syllabus: during week 10 we will be reading hugo award winning novella The Emperor's Soul by Brandon Sanderson

me:

#I ALWAYS FORGET THAT THE EMPERORS SOUL IS LIKE. LEGITIMATE CAPITAL L LITERATURE #BECAUSE FUCKING SHAI WAS IN THE LOST METAL. A BOOK THAT IS CERTAINLY NOT CAPITAL L LITERATURE #oh my god. the professor can be normal about this book but i cant #like. i can. i can write a normal analysis of the themes within like an english student should #but im gonna be sitting there the whole time like. they dont know shai becomes an agent of fantasy jesus #they dont know about marashai femslash february. they have no fucking idea. #luke.txt #SHE LIVES IN THE SAME UNIVERSE AS DALINAR AND I HAVE TO READ ABOUT HER IN ENGLISH CLASS

[rosepompadour]

I felt strange at first in knee socks and loafers instead of racy red heels and parachute skirts and an aura of Chanel, with books under my arm instead of a frenchy parasol, and girls everywhere instead of men . . . but it is good for me, and this is really the most honest part of myself, I think. Inside me the love for extravagant and impulsive gesture is still there, [so] when I get a creditable thesis done, I feel I’ll deserve a champagne blast to celebrate. I'll put on my Scarlett O’Hara shoes and we’ll be eccentric together!

Sylvia Plath in a letter to Gordon Lameyer; September 24, 1954

#war flashbacks of me writing my thesis on anna and the new wave girlies #'if i can get out one coherent sentence about delphine seyrig in the next twenty minutes I WILL DESERVE A CHAMPAGNE BLAST.' #was definitely drunk by the time that thing was finished #sylvia plath #literature

[sickfreaksirkay]

Sir Kay, Seneschal of King Arthur's Court, Harold J. Herman / Illustration from the Mabinogion / The Quest for Olwen, trans. Gwyn Thomas and Kevin Crossley-Holland / The Story of Merlin, trans. Rupert T. Pickens / Illustration from The Quest for Olwen, Margaret Jones / Wace's Roman de Brut, trans. Eugene Mason / The Mabinogion, trans. Lady Charlotte Guest

a collection of sir kay and sir bedivere: companions/lovers/worse, for @queer-ragnelle's may day parade

#fellas is it gay to forever be linked to your companion throughout texts and time #them being the first of arthur's knights ohhh im so emo about them.... arthuriana's most eternal couple #you guys should read that article i linked if ur interested in how kay changes over time btw!! it's really good #bedivere #sir bedivere #kay #sir kay #culhwch and olwen #vulgate cycle #mabinogion #arthuriana #arthurian legend #arthurian literature #medieval literature #knights of the round table #kay x bedivere #bedikay #i think ive seen people using that tag? #may day parade #I know this isn’t art so maybe it doesn’t count but the formatting alone should count as an art this was nightmarish to create #kay tag

[mando-abs]

Guys, I’ve read the Wild Robot

And let me tell you, if I hadn’t recently taken a Children’s Literature class in college, I would’ve said this was the best middle-grade book I’ve read since elementary/middle school. I almost read this book in one night (I was sleepy 😴) like I couldn’t put it down.

The heart behind this book is astounding and it never shies away from showing complex and difficult concepts. You will fall in love with Roz and her gosling son along with all of the other animal on the island.

If you’ve got younger ones, I highly recommend reading this to them or having a little book club moment with them. However, be prepared for whatever hard questions may come your way (i.e. circle of life and climate issues). You know your child and how much they can handle/understand. If you’re like me and much older, it’s a quick read and a great way to finish off a long day. It’s a part of a trilogy and you bet I’m patiently waiting for my hold on a copy at the library.

If the movie is anything like the book (which, given a rewatch of the trailer, it’s looking like so), we are in for a special treat.

#the wild robot #children’s literature #pedro pascal #did I get the book on the off chance pedro might have been casted - yes #but from what I learned in my kid lit class is that middle grade fiction in much more nuanced than ya lit today #ya lit has better potential of being good bc it has more room to work with #however ya tends to lean on tropes more heavily than middle grade #middle grade is much more focused on learning topics and issues than playing with them #making them more tightly knit #also with the decline of media literacy I think this book is a wonderful counterattack #it’s not shattering by any means but def a big step in the right direction #especially for those who have a harder time getting interested in books #and once again I’m so pleased with how carefully curated Pedro’s projects are amidst his growing stardom #he truly cares about the message and thought provoking-ness of his work #and it makes this writer/literature nerd so proud #(yes I know there’s no true messages behind his recent gladiator and marvel roles other than it sounded like fun to him but I support that #- too… the man must have his fun purely for fun’s sake)

[plutorine]

jesus fucking christ man i dont know how im going to recover from this

#EVERY TIME one of the brothers tell alyosha about their love for him i feel like im gonna tear up #and this is coming from ivan too 😭 #what the HELL dostoevsky !!! #gonna fucking cry #the brothers karamazov #fyodor dostoevsky #russian literature

[a-whole-tempest-in-a-teacup]

(it is enough. it is more than enough.)

Anne of Green Gables, L.M. Montgomery | Mademoiselle Gachet in her garden at Auvers-sur-Oise, Vincent van Gogh (1890) | 'Toad' - Mary Oliver | About Time (2013) | 'No Choir' - Florence + the Machine | Comic by eOndine | The Amber Spyglass, Philip Pullman | Superstore 'All Sales Final' (2021) | 'The View Between Villages' - Noah Kahan | Meadow with Poplars, Claude Monet (1875) | 'The Orange' - Wendy Cope

#anne of green gables #l m montgomery #vincent van gogh #mary oliver #about time #florence + the machine #the amber spyglass #his dark materials #philip pullman #noah kahan #claude monet #the orange #wendy cope #web weave #web weaving #hopecore #light academia #quotes #literature #art #painting #mine #words #the living of it all #I have been meaning to post this for about a million years #james i hope it lives up to the hype BUH #slightly different vibes from my last web weave lmao

[bongo-clash]

AU where ghosts attain the right to exist after a pro-ghost propaganda censorship law means that Paulina’s 200k Phantom x Reader strangers-to-lovers slowburn gets deleted and Casper High get so collectively mad about it that they literally riot in the streets. Danny is saved from corrupt government forces by the power of weird prose about his ghost-eyes and Y/N’s inability to just hold his damn hand. It’s like if My Immortal permanently altered the course of human rights activism. 

When it first gets deleted Tucker calls Danny at like 6am yelling about how it’s gone- and on the one hand, the GIW having the power to enact laws like that is kind of terrifying. But on the other hand, it’s So Funny that the first thing they did with that ability was get rid of some teenage girl’s Phantom fanfiction. (“I mean, if you think about it, that’s as ‘pro-ghost’ as you get.”)

#Like 2 months later Lancer sets an essay on historically controversial media #And at least a third of the students turn in something about Paulina’s fic #One of them is Paulina #He can’t even argue it. They all get As. #Every time they talk about transformative works in class Someone has to mention it and Lancer will never know peace again #“I always wanted to watch in real time as a piece of literature changed the course of history but not like this." #“Not like this.” #(he reads it out of curiosity Once and she could maybe use an editor but the green light symbolism is clever reference) #(it also means he's setting Gatsby for their next text) #danny phantom #danny fenton #paulina sanchez #dp au #danny phantom au #danny phantom headcanon #dp headcanons #dp hc #Bongo's Aus!!!