> I definitely do not want to read a super long Harry Potter fanfic
This hits the nail on the head for me.
I mostly enjoyed the books as a kid, but didn’t really maintain being a Harry Potter “fan” into adulthood. Out of the dozen or so “hardcore” millennial nerds that I know really well, there’s exactly one person that I think would attempt to read something like that, and based on the reviews I’ve read, I would bet that she would struggle to finish it, if at all.
There is a somewhat interestingly vocal group of internet adults that insist that the default mode for nerds in their 30s is to be Harry Potter super fans, some of whom lapse. Like we were all raised Catholic and some stray.
I was a big fan of Animorphs at that age too, but you won’t see me going around reading or writing Hork-Bajir/Andalite fanfic. Because I enjoyed it as a kid and then went on to read other books.
This hits the nail on the head for me.
I mostly enjoyed the books as a kid, but didn’t really maintain being a Harry Potter “fan” into adulthood. Out of the dozen or so “hardcore” millennial nerds that I know really well, there’s exactly one person that I think would attempt to read something like that, and based on the reviews I’ve read, I would bet that she would struggle to finish it, if at all.
There is a somewhat interestingly vocal group of internet adults that insist that the default mode for nerds in their 30s is to be Harry Potter super fans, some of whom lapse. Like we were all raised Catholic and some stray.
I was a big fan of Animorphs at that age too, but you won’t see me going around reading or writing Hork-Bajir/Andalite fanfic. Because I enjoyed it as a kid and then went on to read other books.