I can haz fanfiction in my academia

I am having THE BEST TIME talking about fanfiction in class. I'm auditing a non-law class. When I have the time.

Topics I brought up:

~The artificiality of "fanfiction" considering the history of reinterprative words including Shakespeare. (Someone else brought up the ridiculous number of Sherlock interpretations. I love this class.)
~Fanfiction as female dominated spaces and how moving to a commercialized economy (out of gift economy) may affect that.
~The existence of fanfiction posted on non-commentable platforms and the fact that there is a debate on AO3 to turn off the comment function.

And we talked about the way that a site is designed affects the type of discourse coming out of it. AND THEN. THEN WE TALKED ABOUT TUMBLR. AND THE WAY IT FAAAAIIIILLLSSSS AT DISCOURSE.

Comment of the day: "If you want to look for the polar opposite of [tumblr], it would be something like 4chan." (Where the usage of names is frowned upon in discussion as opposed to worshiping a main post in tumblr.)

4CHAN GUYS. THIS IS MY CLASS. ♥

I'm no locking this because the odds of anyone finding it are direction related to the people using LJ/DW. So...impossible.