kittypadding-deactivated2018012 asked:

You sure you want to be popping up on my front page? Tumblr telling me to ask your a question? Well here's a question. Why are you so shitty? You're fucking awful. I guarantee my fanfiction is way better than yours solely because of the fact that you show your disgusting face. I have a face too. Big whoop. Really special, right? I don't flaunt mine around. If I'm flaunting around anything, it's obviously my skills with fanfiction and art. Hell, I doubt you even make fanfiction. Fuck off.

ryannorth answered:

Haha this was my favourite of the “WHO ARE YOU, YOU SUCK” messages you get when EVERYONE ON TUMBLR is invited to ask you a question!  But I wanna give you a real answer even if you just wanted to sass a stranger (and his… face?) on the internet.  Let’s talk about fan fiction!  

Fan fiction happens when someone says “I like a thing and I’m gonna do something with that thing” - writing your own story, drawing your own comic, whatever - even though that thing is not a thing you created.  And it’s a great way to write!  You get to do character work: and more importantly, your character work can be WRONG, since everyone knows who the characters are SUPPOSED to be, so you have to get good at it fast.

I think fan fiction often gets looked down on by people (though not by you; yours is the first “pfft, who are you?  I bet you don’t even write FAN FICTION” message I’ve ever seen, and that’s amazing).  And fanfic getting a bad rap is too bad, because writing is writing, and fanfic doesn’t change that.

You could also make the argument that doing a licensed comic (like I’ve done with the Adventure Time comics) is writing fan fiction, since you’re playing with characters that aren’t yours and which you didn’t create.  I think there’s some important differences: you have an editor, you have corporate stakeholders that have ideas of what they want this thing to look like, you have access to behind-the-scenes information the general public doesn’t know about yet, and you enjoy at least a quasi-canonicity status - but if you were to point at a licensed comic I wrote and say “that’s fan fiction” I wouldn’t say “NUH-UH”, mainly because I don’t see “fan fiction” as an dirty word.

Heck, carrying that reasoning along you could say every Batman writer is just writing fan fiction - since it’s all based on the work of previous Batman writers, right?  You can take it even further and look at literary inspirations and say “wow, The Lion King is just furry Hamlet fanfic”.  And sure, go nuts!  I’m not sure what that gains you, but I can at least see where you’re coming from.

Anyway!  This is all to say, I CAN make fan fiction - there’s some Star Trek TNG stories I wrote as a teenager that thankfully are LONG LOST - and I wish you the best of luck with your *checks your blog* …drawings of Undertale characters wearing giant diapers.

[itswalky]

oh man that tumblr

from now on when some rando is a dick to strangers on the internet, i’ll just assume they jerk on the regular to photos of dora the explorer pooping her diapers and has chosen a terrible means to compensate for a life gone horribly wrong

[beckyhop]

I don’t care much about this person’s fetishes so much as the idea that they think they’re superior for not showing their face. What kind of measure of quality is that?

[itswalky]

I wouldn’t show my face either if that were my blog!  Of all the parts of that Ask, it is the one part that makes absolute, iron-clad sense!  I mean, if we’re going to have to choose one thing to have our heads clear on, we could do worse than “if you have a tumblr full of diaper Pokeymans sexily shitting themselves, don’t put your own real face on it!”

One perfectly shrewd decision, I tell you.