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Catching Elephant is a theme by Andy Taylor
Title: untitled
Rating: NC17
Pairing: Dave Strider/Bro Strider (Stridercest)
Notes: For the kinkmeme from a very long time ago. Posted it anon there because I was nervous about Strider porn but finally polished it up and decided to post it here because fuck it, I wrote BroKat porn twice, it really can’t get any weirder than that.
Warnings: incest, rimming, Striders
Fandom: Homestuck
Pairing: Dirk/Hal
Warnings: Frotting, Sexual themes, NSFW
A/N: He is pretty much jacked into Dirk’s head.
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DirkHal roboporn.
By Brödinger’s Hat, age 23. (More drunk-posting, now featuring drunk-writing!)

Dave/John… kind of. Tricksters are just the best.
Probably a series. Definitely very fucked up.
tywinning asked you:As a professor, may I ask you what you think about fanfiction?
I think fanfiction is literature and literature, for the most part, is fanfiction, and that anyone that dismisses it simply on the grounds that it’s derivative knows fuck-all about literature and needs to get the hell off my lawn.
Most of the history of Western literature (and probably much of non-Western literature, but I can’t speak to that) is adapted or appropriated from something else. Homer wrote historyfic and Virgil wrote Homerfic and Dante wrote Virgilfic (where he makes himself a character and writes himself hanging out with Homer and Virgil and they’re like “OMG Dante you’re so cool.” He was the original Gary Stu). Milton wrote Bible fanfic, and everyone and their mom spent the Middle Ages writing King Arthur fanfic. In the sixteenth century you and another dude could translate the same Petrarchan sonnet and somehow have it count as two separate poems, and no one gave a fuck. Shakespeare doesn’t have a single original plot—although much of it would be more rightly termed RPF—and then John Fletcher and Mary Cowden Clarke and Gloria Naylor and Jane Smiley and Stephen Sondheim wrote Shakespeare fanfic. Guys like Pope and Dryden took old narratives and rewrote them to make fun of people they didn’t like, because the eighteenth century was basically high school. And Spenser! Don’t even get me started on Spenser.
Here’s what fanfic authors/fans need to remember when anyone gives them shit: the idea that originality is somehow a good thing, an innately preferable thing, is a completely modern notion. Until about three hundred years ago, a good writer, by and large, was someone who could take a tried-and-true story and make it even more awesome. (If you want to sound fancy, the technical term is imitatio.) People were like, why would I wanna read something about some dude I’ve never heard of? There’s a new Sir Gawain story out, man! (As to when and how that changed, I tend to blame Daniel Defoe, or the Modernists, or reality television, depending on my mood.)
I also find fanfic fascinating because it takes all the barriers that keep people from professional authorship—barriers that have weakened over the centuries but are nevertheless still very real—and blows right past them. Producing literature, much less circulating it, was something that was well nigh impossible for the vast majority of people for most of human history. First you had to live in a culture where people thought it was acceptable for you to even want to be literate in the first place. And then you had to find someone who could teach you how to read and write (the two didn’t necessarily go together). And you needed sufficient leisure time to learn. And be able to afford books, or at least be friends with someone rich enough to own books who would lend them to you. Good writers are usually well-read and professional writing is a full-time job, so you needed a lot of books, and a lot of leisure time both for reading and writing. And then you had to be in a high enough social position that someone would take you seriously and want to read your work—to have access to circulation/publication in addition to education and leisure time. A very tiny percentage of the population fit those parameters (in England, which is the only place I can speak of with some authority, that meant from 500-1000 A.D.: monks; 1000-1500: aristocratic men and the very occasional aristocratic woman; 1500-1800: aristocratic men, some middle-class men, a few aristocratic women; 1800-on, some middle-class women as well).
What’s amazing is how many people who didn’t fit those parameters kept writing in spite of the constant message they got from society that no one cared about what they had to say, writing letters and diaries and stories and poems that often weren’t discovered until hundreds of years later. Humans have an urge to express themselves, to tell stories, and fanfic lets them. If you’ve got access to a computer and an hour or two to while away of an evening, you can create something that people will see and respond to instantly, with a built-in community of people who care about what you have to say.
I do write the occasional fic; I wish I had the time and mental energy to write more. I’ll admit I don’t read a lot of fic these days because most of it is not—and I know how snobbish this sounds—particularly well-written. That doesn’t mean it’s “not good”—there are a lot of reasons people read fic and not all of them have to do with wanting to read finely crafted prose. That’s why fic is awesome—it creates a place for all kinds of storytelling. But for me personally, now that my job entails reading about 1500 pages of undergraduate writing per year, when I have time to read for enjoyment I want it to be by someone who really knows what they’re doing. There’s tons of high-quality fic, of course, but I no longer have the time and patience to go searching for it that I had ten years ago.
But whether I’m reading it or not, I love that fanfiction exists. Because without people doing what fanfiction writers do, literature wouldn’t exist. (And then I’d be out of a job and, frankly, I don’t know how to do anything else.)
Silver: I would love to be the fic that everyone talks about, but you know? HONESTLY? I think I have a way better chance of being that fic in Frostiron than I do in Homestuck, just based on what I've seen, and just knowing that it's something I really want to do, so I'm gonna pour my heart into it.
Silver: And by virtue of it being something I love from the get-go it'll be brilliant.
Silver: But you know what, it's fanfiction. I should just do what I want to do and let other people enjoy it with me. Because the only place I should care about playing the market is in the REAL market.
Silver: With my real books.
“You dip your fingers through your ribs; you close them around it, and tug.
It emerges from your skin with a soft, whispering slide, like the noise of wings.”
listen to me.
listen to me.
This is the only fanfiction I’ve read that actually was worth reading and not just for the ship contained within and how beautiful the ship was; but because it also tells stories and weaves them together. It’s perfect on levels that I can’t begin to describe.
When I tell people how I want to write, it’s like this. V.E. takes prose and paints perfect pictures, of worlds and hope and loss and beauty and sorrow and need. When I say I cried, I mean there were tears running down my face and it was so hard not to skip to the end just to see where it goes and what’s happening because it’s one of those ‘fics where you need it to have a happy ending, you need it to, and it might not. It might not, but that’s okay, because the telling of the stories that make up this one are so gut-wrenchingly perfect that the trial is worth it even if the battle isn’t won.
It brought me to tears and gave me what I needed in the end.
Read. This. Fanfiction.
Rating: NC17
Pairing: Bro/Karkat Vantas
Notes: So this is something I started a few days ago and have been half-heartedly working on when I have free time. Since I got a general request for Brokat, I decided to finish it up when I got home and post it. The end is a little rushed because I’m tired and just wanted it done but here, have some porn out of the small batch of requests.I am of the opinion that Bro tells it how it is at all times, sex included. He is the world’s most straightforward man (when he’s not being a fucking mystery with his interests).
Bonus points if you can tell me what show Bro is watching.
Also I loved this request it made me laugh out loud and say “yes, yes we do need to write more Brokat.”
omfg
Rating: Teen
Pairing: Bro/Karkat Vantas
Notes: Short rambly BroKat cuddles and Bro musing on Karkat. Bro second person POV.
I have no idea why I like this pairing so much, it makes no sense in any way, shape, form, or fashion, but it is so, so, so cute. And Terminality makes all the beautiful cute things even cuter.