* You have ever gone to a movie with notebooks and pens for taking notes on the scenes.

* You can find slash elements anywhere

* You have ever written a PWP

…for a children’s cartoon. (NOT Anime)
* You’re over 30, and can honestly admit that you’re buying the Harry Potter books for yourself

* So you can write your OWN version of the ending.

* When someone says “lemon” or “lime,” you don’t think citrus fruit.

* You have ever SERIOUSLY contemplated what the hobbies of the Evil Overlord would be aside from the usual “World Domination.”

* And written a story with said Evil Overlord spending a quiet afternoon with his daffodils and a bridge game.

* You have gone through the Evil Overlord’s list and done a checklist of all the ones the one of your particular fandom forgot to screw up.
…So you can write a fic where they DO!
* You have ever been in a serious debate over which fandoms can cross over with which other fandoms.

* And pulled off one of the ones they said “wouldn’t work”

* The name “Mary Sue” causes you to wince

* And proceed to hide all the evidence of the one YOU wrote!

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