Why Reading and Writing Fan-fiction Shouldn’t Be Embarrassing

The opinions expressed in this article are the writer’s own and do not reflect the views of Her Campus. As a dorky preteen during the 2010s, I was bound to be exposed to the large world of popular fanfiction sites, such as Wattpad , AO3 , and Quotev . I would endlessly scroll through users’ stories and write my own fascinating plotlines for my own original characters for hours. It was the most time-consuming hobby I had all throughout middle and high school and I still cherish those memories to this day. But, why? Aren’t those websites just for nerdy girls who just want to imagine that someone like Jon Snow or Draco Malfoy would find them attractive in another universe or creepy Bronies who create uncomfortable writing about animations? While those users are definitely around, I’ll have to argue that the majority of this online activity is more wholesome than the media would like to make it to be. The Hate Around Fanfiction Is Another Way To Shame Teen Girls For Their Interests If we glance back at the Beatlemania of the 1960s or the phenomenon of Directioners , teen girls have never been allowed to show their liking to a piece of media without being humiliated. While teenage boys could positively tape posters of scantily-clad images of Pamela Anderson and Renee Tenison to their bedrooms, the second a girl put up an average photo of Nick Carter on their wall, they are labeled […]

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