What Story Did You Want?

I have been having kind of a time recently (to everyone who commented on my stories this past week, THANK YOU, and I am SO SORRY I'm taking so long to reply -- I will, I promise!) and I was thinking about why I write fanfic. I was talking to a friend, and the conversation converged with my line of thought: ( spoilers for a 45-year-old movie, and a question )

Two Links

A TARDIS at MIT (such a plotbunny, this is).

Reading works by writers you hate by the wise author Michael Burstein. ETA: As ever, don't read the comments, or at least read judiciously. There are some bits of wisdom in amongst the "but no one's perfect so why should I give a damn?" self-justifications, but there are also comments that play "this badness isn't as bad as that badness" and so on.