Legitimize me, please.

[anarchicq]

I found an interesting comment here regarding Academic fandom and stuff like that.
"And how will academics rescue us from this...by writing positive articles from within fandom? They already are

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[elfwreck]

Well, fanfiction is a hobby, like knitting, sewing, painting. Do you need these hobbies legitimized?

No, because nobody goes around saying "knitting is illegal; everyone knows that; you're just lucky that the clothing manufacturing companies can't be bothered to sue you for it."

I don't care if fanfic ever gets the level of literary respectability that haiku has. (Haiku... you know, the poetic form that can be randomly generated based on your recent entries.) I do want people to stop saying it's illegal, and to have its hundred-year-plus history respected as much as any other niche literary form.

[anarchicq]

No, but some people do go around saying fanfic is like...oh..I dunno, gay marriage.