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[timepiececlock]

How do you describe fanfiction to someone whose never heard of it before, and make it sound cool?

Every time I explain it I feel embarrassed, like I'm admitting that I still sleep with a teddybear or something childish like that.

But it's not a childish topic to me-- it's my hobby! And I take it seriously.

So how do you tell someone about it, without sounding stupid or crazy?

I want actual examples of dialogue suggestions, here. Tell me what to say.

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[octopedingenue]

"You know how Will Shakespeare 'borrowed' the plots of all his plays except 'A Midsummer Night's Dream' and 'The Tempest'? And then Tom Stoppard felt like a few of Will's lesser-known characters needed a voice? And Sir Walter Raleigh felt that Christopher Marlowe's nymph needed one, too? It's just like that, only with more sex."