I also officially started a bookmark folder for all the awful fanfics I stumble across. This is how I shield myself.

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thank you all for your input. it turns out the websites are fine, it’s the lake house internet that sucks.

and I casually was just like, yeah, I mean, that was only a couple years ago, and then she stopped and was like, “but this will be your fifth time?” and then I had to stop and realize that the first year I went was 2007 and then I understood that I. am. so. old.