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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.
i feel like the phrase “does not reflect the morality of its author” should be corrected to “does not *always* reflect the morality of the author” since it does reflect it in some fiction. otherwise THIS IS SUPER IMPORTANT WHEN IT COMES TO ENGAGING WITH FICTION OF ANY KIND
No. Its gotta be “does not reflect the morality of its author”.
Because you DO NOT KNOW. and You CANNOT ASSUME.
When you start assuming you know the morality of an author purely from the content of their fiction and nothing else, you are in serious danger of making a mistaken judgement.
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