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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& #39;ve looked for fics in german before and there& #39;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
like man i& #39;ve seen non-native english speakers asking for advice in CCs on, like, writing in english when it& #39;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& #39;t get to say that, since my language basically has a monopoly on fic traffic. it& #39;s a sort of non-starter. but, equally, i can imagine the struggle of trying to write fiction in a language that isn& #39;t your first. i would IMPLODE trying to write+
a story in german, even though i& #39;m fluent. so, like, selfishly, i& #39;m like "WRITE IN GERMAN!!!" because i feel like i can& #39;t. i guess what i& #39;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& #39;t
