paIeseptember
i've been thinking a lot about the kind of writing culture this site fosters or i suppose forstered in me specifically about 2/3 years ago (or further) when it was still in some sort of heyday, specifically when the original character books got popular with the specific soup of having tumblr quotes attached and moodboards made and webs weaved to support whatever plot was inspired but mostly ripped off whatever tv show recently came out or got popular again. i guess as i try to do more and more original writing or even bounce back to fanfiction once in a blue moon it dawns on me how, and i don't really want to say damaging, but stunted this place often made me, not by anyone's fault or anything --- but it just always makes me come back to the question of what exactly is taking inspiration from other things, how far can you exactly go with that; weaving other authors' writing into paragraphs, the way richard siken quotes are so imbedded into quote-on-quote themes of stories that have no real substance besides some words snagged off pinterest. i think i was writing deeper work on here when i wrote fanfiction for a video game and everyone died at the end. there was no tumblr pinterest board in a long winded aesthetic intro but at least i managed to write it past 10 chapters
paIeseptember
maybe others will relate or maybe not and i'll get tomatoes thrown at me in the town square but i've long stopped checking my notifications on this website so say whatever you want to
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