..... As a social worker and someone who spends most of her time working on psychological studies in fanfic, I take exception to that. I'm well aware that not all fanfic is stupid and fluffy. I do take exception to that sort of thing being called 'fanfiction'. Fanfiction rather implies that one is a 'fan' creating 'fiction'. Call it an introspective piece, but not fanfic. I'm sure that for every 'study' done like you suggest, there's a dozen more that are 'fluffy and stupid'.

I suppose it's easy to consider it a literary form when the shootings are just images on a TV screen. When you see the consequences of those things every day, then it's not a casual thing, nor is it something to just write 'fanfic' about. Not when there are people still hurting from it. It's out of respect for them, if nothing else, that these sorts of things shouldn't be written.