I guess I’m old by internet standards, so allow me to offer the best piece of advice I was given about navigating online spaces as a wee child:
People are going to post things you don’t like, and there’s nothing you can do about it.
The world doesn’t revolve around you, and you can’t just magically make everything on the internet cater to your needs specifically. Block people, avoid sites, and never trust anyone you haven’t talked to personally.
Safe to say, it’s advice that I’ve kept with me a lot in the past 15 years I’ve been able to use computers.
💘 Romance writers’ work is worthwhile and meaningful.
💘 Smut and erotica writers’ work is worthwhile and meaningful.
💘 Romance, smut and erotica writers are not lesser writers. Their work is not less meaningful or less valid than any other genre or form of artistic expression.
💘 Art is still art when the emotion it is intended to evoke is romance, longing, titillation, or arousal.
💘 Romance, smut, and erotica writing have merit and worth for their own sake, without having to have something ‘deep’ to say outside of themselves.
💘 Sex and romance are part of the spectrum of human experience and worth exploring in fiction and art for their own sake.
shoutout to people with genders other than male and female that prefer not to be called nonbinary. shoutout to genderqueer, gender non conforming, neutrois, maverique, aporagender, androgyne, xenogender, kenochoric, solarian, lunarian, stellarian, spacialian, genderpunk, genderfuck, abinary people, anyone else who has a distinct identity, and people who just like to be called trans and prefer to be referred to that way, ily
