making a fanfic book like I Must Preserve This Smut For Future Generations
i say this jokingly of course, but the sentiment IS genuine, nothing but love and respect for our smut writers
and also, the way fanfic does smut is so interesting to me
it’s pretty much the only medium where you will get deep, nuanced examinations of themes like life and death, religion and societal structures, where people drawn complex psychological profiles, lay bare all their neuroses, insecurities, and unspoken needs through the medium of pornography
and there’s something so serious about it. I think humans have always loved smut and sex, and there’s something unique about fanfiction’s unashamed approach to it, about fanfic authors taking smut completely seriously as a tool in the storytelling toolbox just like anything else, sex as not something that is superfluous or forbidden or shameful, but something that is part of the vast array of human experience and deserves to be treated with the same seriousness and care as any other aspect of it
& idk how this will develop in the future with the rise of puritan sentiments in the wider culture, as more and more places on the internet ban or restrict explicit materials, if we stand at the precipice of a massive backslide
but I think that in 200 years, some literary scholar would be delighted to read today’s smutty fanfic precisely because it is amateur and unpolished, a pure, raw expression of the writer’s humanity unconcerned with marketability or mass appeal
so yeah. I’ll print this smut on acid-free paper and build the book as solidly as I know how because I think there is inherent value to hory art, and it is worthy of archiving & We Must Preserve This Smut For Future Generations