keeping on keeping on

FOREWORD

"But fanfiction isn't real literature!"

Anyone who's said that has probably never realized that Shakespeare took fictitious characters and historical figures and made them his own -- Romeo and Juliet or Julius Caesar, anybody? Or Dante's Inferno, which takes his worst enemies and banishes them to his Circles of Hell?

Fanfiction has existed for a while, and has been revered in its own right. Only now is it really gaining popularity for what it is, and with it, a lot of flack. But truth be told, a lot of fanfiction out there is mind blowingly beautiful, having a sense of originality despite the notion of weaving pre-existing characters into scenarios of your own. It is literature, and it embodies how modern literature can be written by just about anybody if they really want to.

So we've decided to write fanfiction -- a one-shot, specifically...technically. Even if it is divided into parts. Perhaps it isn't Archive Of Our Own or Tumblr level just yet, but we've taken some characters we deeply care about and put them through a hell of a ride for the sake of art. In the 21st century, we learn to endure -- we want to make sure these characters have strong enough hearts and wills to do the same.