The comeback

Bem, aos poucos vou me descobrindo novamente. É tão estranho. Ainda me perco pelo caminho e tropeço em saudades, mas hoje meu coração se abre para tudo aquilo que vivi e através disso construo pontes de lembranças - É o que me mantém em pé.

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Well, little by little I am rediscovering myself. It’s so strange. I still get lost along the way and stumble upon yearnings, but today my heart opens up to everything I’ve experienced and through that I build bridges of memories - That is what keeps me standing.
 

- It’s so difficult talking about something that doesn’t exist in English. Saudade is by far one of my favorite words in Portuguese.  

absentlyabbie:

one of my absolute favorite things about fanfiction is the the way it just “i will take this shamelessly self-indulgent/ridiculous as absolute crack concept and i will treat it seriously.”

because my god it lets you explore those really insane contrived ideas, or the ones that 14 year old you would have sighed about but been embarrassed by, but in a way that really examines it all, lets it have depth and nuance, lets you turn it over at every angle to find the surprises and the touching moments and the painful parts and the ways it both is and isn’t silly or exactly what you want it to be.

it takes all those ideas and just lets them have dignity.

fanfiction will let you write or read about two dudes accidentally raising a baby while running their coffee shop which one of them uses as a front for their assassin side gig all while they slowly fall in love, or about a woman who is just like you and so many like you, even in the embarrassing, not-cute-quirky ways, who survives an apocalypse and has to do so at the side of the actor she loved so much but would never have looked twice at her before the end of the world.

and it lets you do all that while plumbing the emotional, moral, philosophical depths, and the ways the dream holds up and where it wrinkles, how you can let realism in, but not in a way that ruins the fantasy, instead only enhancing it.

mainstream literature and published genre fiction has been doing a lot of this kind of thing for straight, white, cis men for a long, long time now, and it has strongly boxed out everyone else and fostered a culture that ridiculed anyone else for wanting to have that for themselves.

but fanfiction lets us all have that, and it doesn’t ask us to present it with a wince, with a shy mumble; it never asks us to be embarrassed by what we love or what we want.

just take it seriously, fanfiction offers. because you deserve to.

amargedom:

““You’ve gotta dance like there’s nobody watching, Love like you’ll never be hurt, Sing like there’s nobody listening, And live like it’s heaven on earth.””

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