A03 being down has made me realise no one knows anything about copyright law. Yes they can sue you & cease & desist you. For the love of god people
every clip i see of it is one of the characters being like “guys… i’m *gay*” and then sabrina carpenter and the teacher are like “no, you’re just… confused :) be yourself”
Which is WHY us old people keep begging the younger generations of fans to stop talking to actors and writers and musicians about fanfiction.
It's not because we don't think the hobby is worthwhile, we just don't want them opening their community up to legal action
back in 2013 when i was on tumblr, there was this rule about not speaking about tumblr or fanfiction irl or with "normies". it might have been cringe, but i looking back i think they had a point
The reason I say this is because TO ME the mark of a really good fanfic is one that cannot actually be reskinned as an original story. The writing and characterization are usually so good that you can see it easily fitting within the canon of the source material.
People who didn't read the books don't understand the pure psychological trauma of this scene
In the actual novel, ZERO people die and they literally just stand in a snowy field and talk it out peacefully for 100 pages.
When Carlisle got decapitated in 2012, every book reader in that theater thought the directors went rogue and destroyed the entire franchise only for Alice to pull her hand back and go "psych, it was a vision"
It must feel so liberating after a lifetime of what I can only imagine was immense pressure to maintain beauty to now have a personal brand almost entirely based around being as creatively grotesque as possible