I'm starting to reach a weird point in my life where I'm sometimes wistful that I don't have a preteen fankid around to mold. (I just A) never engaged with the male gender enough to reach the preliminary stages of creating one and B) would have liked to skip directly from birth to school-age because diapers and toddlers and full-time oversight of a small person never really appealed as a lifestyle choice. Also, I can barely afford to cover my own expenses and pets, never mind adding an extra dependent person to my budget.)

Also, Dylan O'Brien is so very, very pretty, and I suppose Derek has his good points for those who like that sort of thing. (He's hitting a few superficial points of resemblance with John Shepperd, only with added muscles and occasional color-change eyes.) I'm kind of glad I'm only peripherally aware of what's going on in the fandom shipwars, though. (Also, I've heard just enough about some of the casting changes having to do with actors moving on to other shows between seasons that I'm not sure how many of the onshow deaths and abrupt character disappearances to actually blame on the showrunner fridging females and POCs while giving white males a pass. I do blame the showrunner for creating a character who was so obviously a female version of Derek to try to divert the Sterek ship into a canonical het ship, though.)