Fanfiction is free. Just take the time out of your day to reflect on that, please. Books are not cheap these days, but you can read about your favorite fictional characters falling in love in hundreds of different ways, over and over again, without costing you a penny. You can read about your gay ships, a concept that 99% of published novels do not address. You can read about your gay, incest (ew, but some of you are into that shit), or hetero ships fucking as frequently as you want to. Isn't that a bit of a miracle in this modern age?
Reading is such a beautiful thing, have you ever thought about that? One person imagines a world, imagines characters, and then puts it on paper (or on the internet) where any random person can look at. That person will read it, absorb all of it in their own way, and their emotions will be flooded in their own way. A person is emotionally impacted by the words that someone else strung together. We cry, laugh, smile, and yell at the smallest moments that someone else created. They came up with that! And now you love it!
Books take you back in time, to wars and tragic events. Books also take you to the future, a world of complete mystery. Both kinds will shape your mind into imagining it for yourself. It's like an author imagines this world, and it is warped by your imagination in a slightly different way. Everyone pictures characters, settings/worlds, outfits, conversations, and movements differently in their head... but it all starts with concrete words that someone wrote. All thought branches from those pages into something so complex.
To me, that bond between an author and reader is... magical.
YOU ARE READING
Punching Bag on Pages
De TodoIt's my own personal ranting journal, punching bag, and even diary. I do this to release stress, to freely express my opinions, and to just... talk.
