Things the Internet Taught Me

Okay, so, I can't remember what I was looking for at the time that brought me across this, but I recently stumbled across the fact that there's fanfiction on AO3 of the musical Hamilton. (Of course there is!)

Specifically, there seem to be a lot of modern day AUs/college AUs/high school AUs featuring the characters from Hamilton. So...fanfiction of Hamilton, which itself is essentially RPF of historical figures...

When I saw that, I thought, okay, I've pretty much seen everything now!

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Also, my colleague Awesome Librarian is now reading this intriguing book about the secret lives and wildly high intelligence of octopuses, one of the nonfiction books he recently purchased for our library (because he's awesome).

Just beforehand we'd also had a conversation about how Big Foot/Sasquatch porn is a thing, and in fact quite a surprisingly lucrative thing. So then he mused, "I wonder if there's octopus porn out there, too?"

And I said, "Actually..."

(I wanted to clarify to him that what I meant was that tentacle porn is a thing, not necessarily octopuses specifically, but there were students nearby-ish at the time, so we were having to have this conversation rather circumspectly.)

He said, "How do you know this??"

Well, frankly, because FANDOM.

Fandom's so weird, y'all! But I kind of love that it's caused me to know such very strange stuff. Seems to me, once you engage with fandom to any degree, you don't even have to go looking for the fact that, for example, there's an entire LJ devoted solely to porn featuring the Giant Squid from Harry Potter. (Yes, really!) Those facts just come and find you.

Now if you'll excuse me, I'm feeling a sudden need to find out whether anyone has yet written Harry Potter/Hamilton crossover fic...