#so interested

Then the tea starts to get goooood

 like is it strange of me to be taken off guard by pop culture representations of fangirl behavior as a fairly common characteristic, when it was once strictly limited to anonymous internet circles? characters like Tina from Bob’s Burgers or Kat from Euphoria, One Direction slash fic flashback and all. any standardization of women, particularly young girls, just being out-and-proud about writing sexual fic (or, in Tina’s case, i think even RPF “friendfiction”??) or shipping characters. 

obviously part of this is just the inevitable standardization of emerging cultural trends, and nerd girls have been around since time immemorial. but the VERY specific 2000-2010s nerd girl, and all her hypersexual content and focus on media consumption, always felt to me like a character none of us were supposed to see on a TV screen. A. is that just me, influenced by the lingering zilennial urge to keep internet practices anonymous? and B. are gen z teens seeing and normalizing this kind of fan culture among otherwise casual consumers? has fic officially hit mainstream? (i mean obviously, but as tiktokkers would say: do normies read fic???)

for sastiel, do you prefer: