gayhenrycreel:

blackheartbiohazards:

✍️ The goal of creating fiction is not always to craft a story that is comfortable or fun for the reader.

✍️ Likewise, not all readers will find the same subject matter and topics comforting or fun.

✍️ It is always okay to create fiction that others find upsetting, disturbing, grotesque, pointless, cruel, disgusting, etc.

✍️ It is always okay to enjoy or be comforted by fiction that others find upsetting, disturbing, grotesque, pointless, cruel, disgusting, etc.

i dont read to be happy and secure in my worldview. i read to be challenged in ways i didn’t even consider. i want stories that expore the experience of being alive, especially ways we find uncomfortable