roachpatrol:

saofish:

i’m still laughing about that last reblog tho seriously because like

when i was a lil 15-16 yo fanfic writer i have a vivid recollection of reading this one kagsessh pregnancy fic that was just so realistic and the author was talking about her own pregnancy experience relating to the fic and i remember being like, “thank god for adults writing fanfiction, nothing by ppl my age is quite the same” and being REALLY JAZZED to be an ADULT someday so i could write better fanfic 

yeah i remember being really frustrated by my lack of experience when i was a younger writer and wanted to write adults! like i could synthesize what i’d already read, and use my imagination, but i wasn’t really ever sure i was getting it right. now i’ve actually done a bunch of stuff i wanted to know about, like sex and swordfighting, and it is super useful to be able to draw on my own store of personal knowledge when i’m writing. and it’s wonderful to see the work of other adults whose lives have been really different from mine, and can hold forth at length about rock climbing, or forensic accounting, or building a sailboat, or whatever. 

kids writing fanfic is great! good for them! but god bless grownups and the extremely interesting skillsets they bring to their stories.