Tumblr crosspost (11 November 2020)

[anghraine]

‘Darker riches’ of English aside, a lot of the material I’m reading about is interesting (when I’m not tired). There was this section on an early Italian dramatist who was like “what if some tragedies … had happy endings? but were still Serious Art?” and “I made up the story for this play all on my own and that’s fine, it is actually okay to make up our own stories, too.”

Looking back from the perspective of a corporate, hyper-derivative, yet originality-obsessed culture, it’s like … Earth 2 at times.

Tagged: #the ways that fanfic both resembles ordinary early modern lit and doesn't is pretty unendingly fascinating to me #bc it's not the same but the contempt for /anything/ that uses pre-existing material apart from adaptations and ~subversions~ #is such a total inverse