I haven't used Facebook in years, but I still use Twitter because most lefties and furries I follow either haven't moved to Bsky/Mastodon, or have moved but are inactive.
I still have an account on Bsky though, but I don't use it that often.
After looking for info on Wikipedia I only found one brief mention of school shooter fandoms in the "Columbine effect" page:
Since the advent of online social media, a fandom for shooters Harris and Klebold has had a documented presence on social media sites, especially Tumblr.[86] Fans of Harris and Klebold refer to themselves as "Columbiners."[87] An article published in 2015 in the Journal of Transformative Works, a scholarly journal which focuses on the sociology of fandoms, noted that Columbiners were not fundamentally functionally different from more mainstream fandoms. Columbiners create fan art and fan fiction, and have a scholarly interest in the shooting.[73]
They examined the network structure and social and psychological aspects of YouTube communities centered around school shootings, finding that they form a small-world network characterized by high clustering and low density, i.e. loosely-tied subgroups of fans. They argue that this network structure promotes the dissemination of hate ideology and justifications for mass violence, and also has the potential for anti-social behavior, which is consistent with previous analyses proposed by scholars. They also note that the people in these fandoms often talk about depression and other mental health problems, and argue that providing consultation to these people could help them leave these communities and reduce the spread of hateful rhetoric - however they also argue that the current reporting system may be insufficient to deal with these groups.
Article 1 also gives some anecdotal evidence of how some of these people justify their fandom by minimizing its ties to violence:
Shotsofdylan, the same blog that posted the bit of Dylan/T.J. fanfiction above, wrote:
"People who actually think we support murderers and condone their actions are fucking idiots. If you bothered to talk to most of us, we don’t condone anything bad they ever did. And most of us are intelligent, forgiving, compassionate people who learned a lot about humanity and life through the murderers we’re interested in. Don’t talk shit about us before you get to know us. Thanks."
Image-to-image also helps a lot with SD. Even some roughly-drawn blobs can be the difference between the image almost matching what you had in mind vs. looking exactly how you intended.
Nothing too big or embarrassing, but for a while I thought "nepotism" just meant the same as "narcissism" when it's actually about favoritism towards one's family.
No matter how many of these "spiders are actually cute" posts I see I simply cannot be convinced that they're cute. Macro lenses don't make them look any less horrifying to me.
The good ending!