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🔹 Someone else’s fiction cannot cause you physical harm.
🔹If someone else’s fiction is causing you emotional or psychological harm, or distress, you can put it down and not read/watch it.
🔹Your emotional well-being is not the responsibility of fiction writers.
🔹Someone else’s fiction is not about your personal trauma.
🔹When reading or watching fiction, you always have the power. You can always stop. You are never reading fiction without your own consent.
🔹Fiction writers are not responsible for other people’s mental health.
🔹The content of a piece of fiction does not reflect on the morality of its author.
🔹Just because someone writes about bad things happening, doesn’t mean they want those things to happen.
🔹Don’t like? Don’t read.
- Yes that includes incest, underage, non consensual, and all flavors of fucked up you can imagine
- Yes, even the ones you find disgusting
- No, these things do not Have An Impact in the world in the way you’re making them up to have
- You’ll be allowed to talk about “normalization” of these things when and only when they become a majority in their representation. No, cannibal rapists do not have a systemic impact as long as every hallmark movie is not about them.
- Fucked up people will do fucked up things in real life. There’s no such thing as a thought crime and there’s no such thing as fiction crime
- Maybe kill the cop inside your head and start having thought fun. Imagine killing a guy. Wank to something weird. Good for your soul.
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