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i love words..........sometimes i think its so special that i just get to arrange little shapes.........and they have meaning..............
being a native english speaker in fandom spaces is an absurd privilege.. i've looked for fics in german before and there's fully just like 6 german haikyuu fics in total on ao3.............the fact that my native language is the default one for Fandom Writers is such dumb luck
don't ask me why i'm thinking about this tonight i just Am....
like man i've seen non-native english speakers asking for advice in CCs on, like, writing in english when it's not your native language and a part of me wants to be like "wait just write in your native language!!! increase the linguistic diversity of fandom!!" but as an+
english native i feel like i don't get to say that, since my language basically has a monopoly on fic traffic. it's a sort of non-starter. but, equally, i can imagine the struggle of trying to write fiction in a language that isn't your first. i would IMPLODE trying to write+
a story in german, even though i'm fluent. so, like, selfishly, i'm like "WRITE IN GERMAN!!!" because i feel like i can't. i guess what i'm saying is that i think it would be neat to see ao3 full-to-the-brim with a dozen different languages, but i understand why it mostly isn't
