“It [The Lord of the Rings] is finished, if still partly unrevised, and is, I suppose, in a condition which a reader could read, if he did not wilt at the sight of it…now I look at it, the magnitude of the disaster is apparent to me. My work has escaped from my control, and I have produced a monster: an immensely long, complex, rather bitter, and very terrifying romance, quite unfit for children (if fit for anybody); and it is not really a sequel to The Hobbit, but to The Silmarillion.”
— J.R.R. Tolkien to Sir Stanley Unwin, 24 February 1950. Reprinted in The Fall of Gondolin (via thebookwormunderground)
What writer hasn’t finished their first draft and thought, “the magnitude of the disaster is apparent to me”?
Monster fucker this, monster fucker that. What if I want a monster RELATIONSHIP huh?! Monster HAND HOLDING, monster INTIMATE CONVERSATIONS, monster COMFORTABLE SILENCE??
I’m at my dog sitting job in a pretty old countryside farm and the lady who does the cleaning up here told me this morning that there are old tunnels (now closed up) running from the house to the church (1km) and I did not want to know that
Imagine what could come from there? Ghouls, ghosts, vampires?
javier grillo-marxuach (@OKBJGM) Tweeted: i wrote an indiana jones/downton abbey crossover fanfic and i am proud of it. if anyone wants to accuse me of being a “bad writer” they are welcome to come to my house and shine either one of my emmys. https://okbjgm.tumblr.com/post/420080415…
Juan Carlos Fernandez (@obijuanca) Tweeted: @OKBJGM Now I wish I had written my MAD MEN/COLD CASE crossover where they determine Don Draper’s fall from an office skyscraper window wasn’t a suicide.
John Rogers (@jonrog1) Tweeted: @obijuanca @OKBJGM The spec I was working on, just before I swung over to features, was an X-FILES/BUFFY crossover where Mulder and Scully go to Sunnydale. Not for the vampires. For the UFO’s. Which are kidnapping vampires.
John Rogers (@jonrog1) Tweeted: @obijuanca @OKBJGM My point being – if we were writing specs, which we all were, writing “fan fic” was literally the price of admission to being a TV writer for two decades.
K.D. Byers (@katiedbyers) Tweeted: @jonrog1 @obijuanca @OKBJGM ::raises hand:: you can just call it fanfic and there’s no space in the word
John Rogers (@jonrog1) Tweeted: @katiedbyers @obijuanca @OKBJGM We’re old, that’s how we spelled it IN THE BEFORE TIMES.
All i am seeing here is that a Scooby Doo/Leverage crossover is on the cards
why is this literally the funniest tos pic ive ever seen
amanda: staring into her glass pensively
bones: looks like hes witnessing something he should not be witnessing
sarek: looking off to the side in disgust like hes complaining to jim about something but he doesnt want to be outright rude to anyone that might be in hearing range
kirk: just sadness. so disappointed. no good emotions
i am afraid of people who reblog things with no tags. not even any identifiers like the show it’s from or anything. just silence. what are you thinking?? hello??
