a fresh perspective

Just a brief check-in today, to repost something I found on Tumblr. This was written by someone who is a professor of literature. Here's what they 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. )