The tolkien rule works with fandom

Disclaimer: This blog is written at 4.33 in the morning. You know what kind of stuff that surfaces at that time. Read while holding your breath.

I write this out of three reasons. 1. It's in the middle of the night, and I can't sleep. Therefore, I rant. 2. According to Mythrilmoth, he recieved a shitstorm of hate on his story "cards against equestria girls". The discussion that followed sort of ended up in a feeling of "what have fimfiction become?" 3. There is this thing I will never understand. Some people over the years have left this place with pomp and circumstance saying "everything has changed" or "it was sooo much better back then".

3 is the most fundamental. I will never understand it. Was it less clop and porn back then? Probably not, since "Bechdels law" exists. Was the stories better? Well...I guess that depends, but, no, not really? I've read some top quality shit from 2014 that can be well compared to the stuff from 2012 so. So what is the damn point? People hating? Please. Haters gotta hate. That truth is as old as Lysistrate. So what, people, what is it that has changed so much that people actually complains about it?

What, then, is the Tolkien rule?

Well, it is basically the idea that everything was fine then, now it's bad, and the future is going to suck horse scrotum. I guess I could call it "the basic rule of fantasy" but since Lord of the rings started the damn thing I keep my old name for it.

And I'm also a bit pissed off because noone reads "Nocturne: the visitor"...