“I watched him from a distance as his fingers magically worked their way through the strings and the frets on his guitar, mesmerizing the audience before him by the wonderful music he was mindlessly creating. The girls around me screamed with ecstatic joy and jumped on every beat of the drum. I looked at them. They had no idea. That one of the musicians playing before us that night was already the love of my life. No, they had no idea as the boy with the guitar and unruly black hair looked and smiled at me, amidst the darkness surrounding us and the loud roar of the crowd. No, they had no idea as he began to sing the lyrics of the song – the song that he wrote for the love he had for me. No, they had no idea at all.”
The funny and good thing about being able to write fanfic is being able to write a fanfic of your own. Fanfiction is a type of fictional work inspired by a movie, book, etc., wherein a famous celebrity or a character is linked to a fan or to another celebrity/character favored or linked by the fans through the medium of a story. It’s basically about romance and drama, but fanfics, for me, are underrated.
I started writing when I was clinically depressed a couple of years ago and, believe me, it helped. I didn’t know how it helped me before, but somehow, in some mysterious psychological ways, it gave me a satisfied feeling for whatever it was I was craving.
For example, I know we, girls, especially hardcore fangirls, (or some boys too, perhaps) have celebrity crushes. I mean, who doesn’t? But unless we’re that lucky fangirl who had the chance to date that Disney male hottie or that fortunate stalker who married the man she stalked, we can never picture ourselves how it would feel to be in a relationship with the celebrity we fantasize about, or being just in the same room as them. It’s uncontrollable (the hormones, I mean).
Last time, while I was watching a movie, I found myself so obsessed on the chemistry of the characters to a point that I completely decided that they should date in real life. I have no right. I know that. No one has any power to make two individuals fall in love with each other and procreate beautiful children. But in the literature’s perspective, anyone can – with a bit of imagination through words and twist and turns.
But that’s the amazing thing about fanfics. Even just in books or on ebook or through the internet, you find yourself imagining (the exact word I was looking for is LIVING) the life we want to live in, which is with the celebrity we fantasize about.
The only downside about fanfics (set aside the agony caused by the inconsistent ability of the writer to timely update his/her story) is that, no matter how many words, let it be thousands, or chapters we write or read, there will come a day when it still seems so unreal (even when it’s actually not real) and we find ourselves wondering “When can this thing happen to us? Or are we going to be hopeless fangirls still dreaming even on our deathbeds?” It sounds too complicated when you overthink about it, I know.
I have also stumbled myself on a story about wanting to be a certain celebrity’s sister or brother. But I didn’t read it because I already have a brother. It’s really odd what you find on internet nowadays.
I have also stumbled on a news about a particular someone being too mean to his fans. And I was like “That’s not what I read about him. I thought he was a nice person.”. It took me then to realize that I was spending a lot of my time on Wattpad. Too much time.
Sometimes, I think that fanfics can be a little treacherous. That maybe we’re just in love with the idea of them (celebrities). Yet, the real them is not really as likeable or pleasant as what we thought they would be. We only see what we want to see and, maybe, that’s why celebrities feel so insulted or disgusted whenever paps (paparazzi) make deceiving captions on photos taken from them. I guess, if I were in the celebrity’s shoes, I would find it really awkward to read a fanfic of myself linked to someone I don’t even know in the slightest.
To conclude this pointless thing about fanfics, yeah, it’s a lifesaver for someone who wants to escape this world full of heartaches and loneliness (fakes a cough to those who are single). I also think that writing fanfics can be a solid foundation if you’re heading towards the literary path, since there’s no other better way than to fall more in love with the characters of your story.
By the way, I just wrote that first paragraph for the sake of this blog. I have written fanfics on Wattpad but it’s really not my place to share them to you (hahaha).
Over and out.
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