There was a post a little while ago on metafandom about fanfic and wish-fulfillment and the things we keep in our basements. Somewhere in the comments to that post was a thread about fanfic and originality; it's not really worth looking up, marked as it was by bone-headed ignorance, but it did start me thinking about originality as an aesthetic preference, ( Read more... )

for upsy-daisy, Top 5 Classic, er, classics

I think I know what you meant here. I think.

( Virgil, Homer, Tacitus, Thucydides, Aeschylus )