Hard agree with today's teens needing their own spaces to goof around and be cringe! It's so important for them to be able to grow into their own people without total strangers or adults telling them their thoughts are cringe... like yes their thoughts ARE cringe (we've all been there!) but time will help them find that out on their own. As much as I like today's soc med it was very much not created with children in mind, urgh.

I like your thoughts on canon fic! The irony of me saying that I'm not overly fond of canon when my latest ficlet was literally canon lol. I suppose that for me, there's like a fine line between fun speculation and intruding in someone's life story? Like if some random idols had an unexpected interaction that could spawn a good canon fic, but stories focused around actual happenings (like tragedies, real relationships that ended, etc) feel like an invasion of privacy to me.

Of course this is all just personal preference and there are some really wonderful canon writers and fics I've read before! LOL I've never had to put this into words before so it's all scrambled in my brain