In my heart of hearts, I like to believe 50% of fandom discourses would disappear if folk just... stepped out of their comfort zones, broadened their horizons, tried out more than one brand of storytelling?

Case in point, remember when Lily Orchard posted a laundry list of “writing tips” steeped less in any knowledge or experience of writing, genre, structure, form, etc, than it was just a screed about petty fandom gripes?

With dashes of shipping culture, TVTropes-as-writing-bible, all that?

It was about as reductive, redundant and nonsensical as you’d expect from someone whose only media consumption is children’s cartoons, Star Wars, the MCU and Disney movies.

When Hazbin Hotel is the edgiest thing you’ve ever seen, artistically, you need to get out more.