my complaint isn’t actually against swearing it’s against contemporary fannish culture of using really loud words (“i HATE that this is over”; “this DESTROYED me”; “gorgeous”; “asfkhfsfdjjtsvsa”; etc) as proxy for actual engagement with a work (the louder the words, the fewer interesting remarks are present); swearing is just the cheapest way that people do this and also the most unnecessary (because swears do not ever encode meaning just volume)
my complaint isn’t actually against swearing it’s against contemporary fannish culture of using really loud words (“i HATE that this is over”; “this DESTROYED me”; “gorgeous”; “asfkhfsfdjjtsvsa”; etc) as proxy for actual engagement with a work (the louder the words, the fewer interesting remarks are present); swearing is just the cheapest way that people do this and also the most unnecessary (because swears do not ever encode meaning just volume)