OTW Fannews: Loving the Fangirl

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Black Girl Nerds posted about loving fanfiction, and by extension, its most prolific creators. "I read your work on the bus, in between classes, during lunch breaks, before bed. Your writing has gotten me through boring lectures, eternities spent in waiting rooms, long car rides, and just plain bad days where all I wanted to do was curl up in bed and forget how absolutely terrible the world can be.

It was your words that I first discovered before many of the WOC-authored published works I’d come to love. It was you who first helped me learn that genre fiction didn’t have to represent yet another place where Black people didn’t belong, that there could be a place on any planet, any world, any reality, for girls like me."

How many reasons can you come up with to love fangirls? There’s certainly more of it going around: http://bit.ly/1YL3LH5