one of the best things about hanging out with people more normal than you is being able to recycle your lamest jokes and convince them you're the funniest person in the world. i just said to my coworkers "it will be a good day. i'll make sure of it. and if anyone tries to stop me i'll kill them ^_^" in my most cheerful cutesy customer service voice and you would've thought i was a sellout standup comedian the way they reacted.
I’m not a fanfiction rights warrior or anything but the discourse about how it’s actively making published literature worse is so stupid. if fanfiction is having a negative effect on the quality of published fiction, that impact is vastly outpaced by the economic reasons for why mass amounts of low quality garbage is being pumped into the fiction market. certain conventions of fanfiction (namely the use of trope and character tags) are being adopted by the industry not because fanfiction has some hegemonic influence on said industry but because those things are easily adaptable for search engine optimisation and marketing purposes. like what explanation sounds more plausible: fiction is being increasingly tailored to fit into various narrow category tags (“gay enemies to lovers slowburn coffee shop romance,” etc) because the consumer market has seen a rapid sea change in the past 5-10 years and now audiences all want to read what is essentially OC fanfiction that they also pay for, or because formulating books in that way makes keyword search optimisation on google and amazon way easier to market low-effort schlock to people? this is not a new phenomenon and blaming end-users for the state of the industry is basic cart-before-horse reasoning. you can dislike fanfiction and find the people obsessed with it annoying, but the relatively niche space those people occupy online is not structurally responsible for books being more shitty than usual lately
I don't know who needs to hear this, but even if something bad is romanticised, sexualized, or in some way made to seem good in fiction, people are still aware that it's bad!