what the fuck are you talking about? where did “children cannot consent” even come from? (and if you’re talking about people writing underage shit as if they need consent from drawings, i’m not even going to pretend that’s a real argument)
the only one comparing kinky people to predators is you, anon
anyway, you do consent to reading fucked up fanfic by continuing to read it. close the book or press the back button on the tab. continuing of your own volition is the consent
here’s a couple of reasons why someone might post darkfic online instead of keeping it to themselves:
it’s a vent chapter — the work as a whole is not that dark, but the author was in a bad place when they wrote one of the chapters
some people who are not writers/artists read to cope
some people read or look at art to get off
it’s not hurting anyone, so i can do whatever the fuck i want. if you don’t like it, mind your own goddamn business
You can’t see into a writer’s mind, and you can’t know the intentions they had when writing something unless they state their intentions directly.
When you read something and you feel like it is glamorizing, glorifying, or promoting the material it portrays, that’s your own perception.
You are the one interpreting the material in a way that makes it seem appealing, when that might not be the intention of the author at all.
If you think something is glamorizing dark content; its because you’re the one who felt like that dark content was suddenly appealing.
i’ve literally seen antis insist an author’s darkfic was glorifying the topics even when the text itself and the author showed that it clearly wasn’t/ antis suck at telling when a story is glorifying its topics. i’ve even seen them praise canon source material that does glorify dark and sensitive topics. these people do ont have extra special intuition in regards to this stuff whatsoever. they just claim they do to make people not question their biased opinions.
