She types the address without thinking. She knows where she is going. She's not sure why she does this anymore. At the end of the day, to drown herself in this artificial plasticine world no longer has meaning.
And as she clicks through absolute wrong and absolute right, words blur together until nothing stands out. She's seen it all. Over and over again. The same themes cover the front page today. As they have every day.
Smooth words slip through her head. In one eye, out the other. Or so it seems when she can't even remember the last word that she read. It was surely an unremarkable word. A dead word.
She sorts through all the dead words. She needs life. She searches for a rush, warmth, something that will dance through her head all night and will block the other thoughts out until morning. She wants to slip into the heads of the characters that she knows so well and live through the words that she loves.
This may be rather pretentious of me, as I'm not an exceptional writer myself, but I simply would like to put this out there: I love fanfiction. But every time I go to the Death Note page I just feel kind of disgusted. I want to read something original. But all I see is "Ask *random Death Note character*" or "_ is magically transported to the Death Note world."
I read fanfiction because I want to explore the possibilities of the characters of fandoms that I like. I want to read real writing that has meaning to me. I don't want to see any of the overdone premises anymore. Because, quite frankly, they're getting old. I don't enjoy going on anymore. I still go on it because I have hope that I will see something that is actually worth reading. Sometimes I do, often I don't.
I don't mean this as a flame, I don't want to offend any specific person, and I'm sure that what I have to say will have little or no affect on how people write their fanfiction. Simply consider that an original, well written piece of fanfiction is more fun to read and to write than a derivative.