Whenever I see someone making an argument for banning or restricting fiction about some real aspect of the human experience, like sexuality, rape, csa, abuse, etc– all I see is the pro-censorship crowd as the Marge “it’s true but you[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
People who are not legal adults, both children and teens, have sex and sexual, and pseudo-sexual experiences one another. That’s a real fact of the real world, whether someone thinks its good, or moral or not. It is a fact[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
b3ne4iento: Why are people trying to defend r@pe, incest, and all that fucked up shit people been writing under the Leon tag? Why are y’all getting mad when people call you out on your disgusting writing? It’s so weird that[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
darci-tbh: everytime I see antis call themselves punk I lose hope in the internet again I don’t know how to say this but policing people’s right to create and consume any fiction they want AND advocating for the corporal punishment[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
runs-red: Being anti-ship or anti-fiction is just inherently and sometimes blatantly anti-kink. “Romanticising/sexualising abuse”, “using my trauma as a fetish tool”, and literally any variation of “you use trauma as a kink so you think it’s great” has been said[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
chaumas-deactivated20240115: this is mean but I just have no sympathy or respect for people who are like “once when I was a child I read a book and it was scawwy… therefore censorship is good and we should make it[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Hey anon, thanks for checking in. Here’s a list of people who shouldn’t post on wattpad: ✳️ People who don’t want their writing’s visibility to their audience determined by the algorithm. ✳️ People who don’t want the website they’re on[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
❣️All fiction writing is serious writing. ❣️Alternately, no fiction writing is serious writing. ❣️Don’t let people shame you for what you want to write, or tell you you should be writing something else. ❣️You are not ‘wasting’ your talent by[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
askinfresh: hadeantaiga: nope-the-weeb: hadeantaiga: I really think everyone needs to truly internalize this: Fictional characters are objects. They are not people. You cannot “objectify” them, because they have no personhood to be deprived of. They have no humanity to be[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Oh okay, I found out why the resident evil tag was trending, and it was because the purity wank crew were harassing some RE dead dove style ‘x reader’ writers. So that sucks. I will not be linking to any[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
First off– I don’t think that any material that is presented to its audience as a work of fiction can be considered hate speech. Hate speech is harassment, insults, threats, “jokes”, anecdotes, speeches, calls to action (whether subtle or overt),[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
askinfresh: hadeantaiga: nope-the-weeb: hadeantaiga: I really think everyone needs to truly internalize this: Fictional characters are objects. They are not people. You cannot “objectify” them, because they have no personhood to be deprived of. They have no humanity to be[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Yeah that shit is wild. Guess that’s why they call this the “can’t read” “piss on the poor” website. context link
ceasarslegion: ceasarslegion: ceasarslegion: Censorship will be different when i do it guys this time im targeting the evil pedos and incest apologists and problematic media not the gays. Sorting what people are allowed to write by standards of strict morality[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
🖤 Whether or not a taboo, unpleasant, or illegal subject in a piece of fiction has been ‘romanticized’ or ‘glorified’ is an entirely subjective opinion based on a personal reading of the text. 🖤 You cannot assume that an author[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
sronti: hyperboreus: hyperboreus: sapokanikan: tophthegoph: einsatzgroping-deactivated20220: The Tolkien society is mad that someone used an image they have a copyright on because they bought the physical copy and God fuck the Tolkien society so hard. Holy shit they made a[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
snakeoilpictures: The amount of pro-shippers that came onto that last post just means they actively search and follow the ‘anti-ship’ tag considering I never tagged it as pro-ship or anything searchable regarding pro-ship. Incorrect!!! I’ve been trying to avoid your[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
ailoveuu: “As long as it’s not-” no. All ships are valid. So long as the person shipping it knows it’s fiction, there’s no real harm being done.
randimason: Writer Neil Gaiman Honored at The Art of Elysium’s 2024 Heaven Gala ALT @neil-gaiman receiving the the Visionary Award at The Art of Elysium’s 2024 Heaven Gala, January 6, 2024
🔹 Fictional characters are not real people. 🔹 Fictional characters do not need to be protected from authors. 🔹There is no moral difference between writing about good things happening to a character and bad things happening to a character. 🔹Fictional[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
sals-sonic: If you’re not okay with the existence of art that challenges you someway, you’re not a “lover of the arts”, especially not a transgressive and avant-guarde one at that. The issue isn’t disliking it, no one is in the[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
lumpsbumpsandwhumps: : “Lady Whump” and Censorship. This was originally a reply to @straight-to-the-pain’s lovely post, but I felt like what I wanted to say should be its own thing. As a disclaimer, I want to say that triggers surrounding lady[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
dysphoria-things: dysphoria-things: people on here really will post shit like “i’m anti censorship, i think people can create whatever content they want without someone censoring them. except THESE TOPICS, which deserve censorship because theyre bad and youre bad if you[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
vaspider: commasameleon: vaspider: apteryxdrake: witchbabywigg: boldlygoingthefucktobed: fierceawakening: deanhugchester: legsdemandias: legsdemandias: I absolutely will die on this hill, access to fiction that makes your skin crawl and open discussion about it is the best way to keep that skin crawling fiction[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
They discovered a neat hack. It lets them accuse people of a crime so bad that reasonable people are reluctant to try to defend the accused. It also allows them to imagine the most extreme punishments on the accused. Also,[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
cosmileech: proficgen: being an anti must be so stressful like, imagine shipping two characters and then the creator reveals they’re actually related? Like what do you do??? stop shipping them??? fr????? What if it turns out that the other character[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
myfandomrealitea: We’re entering this strange era of fannish existence where we are simultaneously trying to censor everything into oblivion and also be as invasive as we possibly can to celebrities and people of interest. Like god forbid someone writes smut[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
phantasyhalation: ALT you can’t do shit online anymore huh
mywitchcultblr: “Romantizing ascendant astarion is dangerous because it might lead to people actually condoning abuse” bullshit that I keep seeing is the same as “teenagers playing GTA is a concern because it might lead to violent behavior” that republican keep[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
💖 It’s totally okay to avoid fiction with subject matter that makes you uncomfortable, disgusted, or upset. 💖 It’s never okay to try to force other people to avoid fiction with subject matter that makes you uncomfortable, disgusted, or upset.
“but we HAVE to be authoritarian about” 😭😭😭😭
As a rule of thumb: ➡️ When the post does not have a large reach, or wide audience, and is unlikely to be seen by many people– do not engage. ➡️ When the post has a large reach, a wide[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Antis operate on the idea that “X is bad because my set of rules says its bad” instead of “X is bad because it causes harm.” They legitimately are not operating under the same decision making framework as you and[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
ailoveuu: “As long as it’s not-” no. All ships are valid. So long as the person shipping it knows it’s fiction, there’s no real harm being done.
whitehairedanimeboyfriend:
💖 It is always okay to write or enjoy fiction that is inspired by or based on other fiction that moves you. 💖 It is always okay to write or enjoy fiction just because you want to spend time with[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
People– the people who are doing this unwittingly, rather than those doing it on purpose– need to realize that this is what normalization ACTUALLY is. By throwing around accusations constantly, they are numbing people and training them to expect a[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
transfaguette: what is strange about the way people talk about media on here is theres an assumption that there is a correct way for a story to be written, and if a story doesn’t adhere to it, then it is[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Ya’ll need to learn the difference between: A) an argument that you should respond to in order to show onlookers that the argument is wrong, and that the arguer’s stance is not universally agreed upon. and B) an argument you[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
It’s suuuuuch a yikes lol. Honestly you’d think seeing 30k people who agree with my original post would give them pause, but I guess not? context link
lazaruspiss: People know that the whole “don’t portray [harmful action] because viewers might recreate it” thing is a rule for children’s shows right? It’s supposed to be shit like “don’t show peppa pig playing with fire so we don’t get[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
pro-bopass: brightlotusmoon: glorioustidalwavedefendor: roach-works: dduane: torturedpoetemotions: worstloki: elfwreck: lesdeuxcygnes: elfwreck: olderthannetfic: thesaltofcarthage: thorkidumpster: shinelikethunder: chibisquirt: pixxyofice: badwolf-timeandspace: Okay, so, I get it. Its a great site! You can post things there without worry that someone who claims that media seeing[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
liz-marcs: prospectkiss: fierceawakening: olderthannetfic: moon6shadow-main: whetstonefires: sassbandit3000: nanshe-of-nina: baratheon: naamahdarling: centaurianthropology: olderthannetfic: maleccrazedauthor: bonibaru: naamahdarling: sulphur-crested-cocktease: shidgephobe: wrotemyown: araceil: denaceleste: nwcostumer: wrangletangle: beatrice-otter: tomato-greens: joestrummin: i didnt realise ao3 was started in response to lj deleting account relating to p//edophi|ia[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
proshipwatermelonwriter: Book bans are bad no matter what, actually.
red–thedragon: red–thedragon: red–thedragon: motherfuckers be like “i’m an anarchist and believe in abolishing the prison state and want to support restorative justice” and then talk about how they want to murder anyone who does a thoughtcrime about fanfiction #also ‘liking[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
bewareofdeaddove: Once you start harassing people over their tastes in fiction, you’ve gone too far. You should not be sending anon hate. You should not be telling people to kill themselves. You should not be contacting people’s family members, job,[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
🔹 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[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Deleting stupid as shit hatemail from authoritarians who insist that censorship of art is good and just absolutely makes my day. Improves my Internet experience x100.
pro-fiction-jellicle: Writing porn just for the sake of porn is super valid actually. Smut and PWPs aren’t a fandom problem that needs to be solved. They belong here. They’re basically the backbone of fandom. Stop with your scarily casual purification[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
shabbytigers: hyprbeam: nyancrimew: nyancrimew: most literate tumblr user least fascist tumblr user Rule of thumb: if you see someone talking about moral degeneration or societal degeneracy, they’re a rabid dog and you should stay the fuck away from them regardless[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
spacelazarwolf: “the fantasy genre turns ppl into royalists bc it makes them argue abt who should be king or queen!!!! but no one should be king or queen bc monarchy bad!!!!!!!!” idk abt u but i take for granted when[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
nyancrimew: nyancrimew: most literate tumblr user least fascist tumblr user
sam-glade: lazylittledragon: made a sticker for anyone to slap onto their work if they need to [IMAGE ID: brown text in all caps on a gradient background, yellow to orange: warning, this piece of media requires reading comprehension as well[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
bookgeekgrrl: horrorshow: siken saw his words being twisted and he’s having none of it god bless #you’re in a car with a beautiful boy #and the boy is actually a famous poet who casually and really succinctly explained why problematic[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
thatbitch151: Coming to the violent realization that pro-shippers are not in fact what I thought they were, and that I am in fact a proshipper. I thought it meant like supporting “problematic” ships to the point that you thought they[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
katyspersonal: yukinojou: bixels: mysteriouslypleasantcat: bixels: Baffled. I mean the guy made a film about how awesome the guy who created the zero fighter was and how japan should take pride in that despite the fighter being used as a tool[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
the-foxes-system: If you’re not mature enough to understand that fiction is not reality, then maybe you’re not mature enough to be interacting with media that touches upon dark topics This is heavily directed
mrpsychokiller: “im sorry to tell you but this is unfortunately fetish art 🙁 ” youre a coward and a fool. tell me what about eroticism makes it lose value as a piece of art. tell me in what way is[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
tiny-space-robot: this just in: the ship you hate is valid regardless of your opinion and still has a right to exist
blue-phoria: destroyalition: No words, just read! Another example of antis being zombie-brain stupid. NINETY% JESUS
numboars: zooophagous: Welcome to art group! We are an inclusive online space for all artists. We are here to learn and grow and most of all support one another! Here are the rules -no nudity ever including bare nipples. No[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
animentality: kicking a hornets nest.
creepymutelilbugger: sea-salted-wolverine: Tumblr purity culture thinks this is how AO3 works outta the way gayboy im boutta read Murder Magazine
fandomsandfeminism: melonsap: mioxenoblade: sunbummonkey: mioxenoblade: dancing-jestress: mioxenoblade: Captions shouldn’t be censored. If the video says fuck or cum or cunt the captions should say the fucking word. Unless it’s a slur! No one needs to see that. If they say[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
notgreatthanks: sweetdreamspootypie: animentality: The other day I saw a YouTuber I follow make a text post that said almost verbatim “sometimes I when I watch a thought provoking movie, I find I think about it for several days afterwards.” the[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
andrewgravez: “men shouldn’t write f/f” “women shouldn’t write m/m” hey come closer. closer. listen to me. people. can write. whatever. the fuck. they want.
💖 Write fiction without being ashamed of the story you want to tell. 💖 Create characters without feeling embarrassed about the traits you want to give them. 💖 Craft stories without being nervous what other people will think of them.[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
✨ Writing slowly does not make your a bad writer. ✨ Needing to do a lot of editing on your writing does not make you a bad writer. ✨ People expressing dislike of the themes and ideas in your writing[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
sals-sonic: Reminder that you don’t need anyone’s permission to ship anything. You don’t need to check with the fandom or the creator if it’s ok to pair two characters together. You’re here to have fun, not to appease to others.[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
toxicshipsincorporated: I really think folks were deeply deeply failed by their educators when none of them told them that their discomfort and dislike or disturbance is not a good reason for a piece of fiction to be wiped from existence.
mywitchcultblr: olderthannetfic: – The horseshoe theory moment where people are so desperate to look progressive but ironically ending up circling back to conservatism will never be not funny…
🔹 It’s okay to create or engage with fiction about whatever topic, theme, or idea that you want to. 🔹It’s okay to create or engage with any fiction you want to for any reason. 🔹It’s okay to enjoy any fiction[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
‼️ Fiction cannot cause physical harm to someone. ‼️ The only person who should have the power to decide if a piece of fiction is harming you emotionally or psychologically is you. ‼️ Any fiction you feel like you are[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
If you don’t intuitively understand why being an authoritarian or undertaking authoritarian actions, even when for a good cause, is bad– I cannot explain it to you.
renthony: renthony: In the aftermath of my big post about censorship, multiple people have left comments that boil down to, “it’s okay to show heavy topics in fiction as long as they’re portrayed as bad.” Let’s take a quick look[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
It’s due to the global rise of conservatism and the panopticon security police state. Kill the cop inside your head.
No no no, don’t you know? Reading and writing fiction with scary topics in it turns you evil through the scary mind controlling power of fiction! You know, like reading Harry Potter caused people to become witches and get possessed,[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
❣️ The fiction you write is valuable and important. ❣️ No one else can write the story you came up with the same way that you would. ❣️ No story idea is totally original, it’s okay to tell a story[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
The hypocritical and tangled web of deciding “what’s appropriate for children” is one of the many reasons it’s ideologically abhorrent to me to restrict what children are allowed to read. context link
I think it would be wonderful if all parents were like that. That’s very much the right approach. Well, aside from dropping the book on your head. 😉 context link
lizardsfromspace: lizardsfromspace: Will always be frustrated at how many people said “there shouldn’t be fiction about the pandemic! Movies made during the Depression didn’t acknowledge the Depression, after all!” even though They very much did The lack of political films…was[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
See the thing is that children reading literal porn is already illegal. (in the US.) You don’t need to normalize giving parents the control to restrict their children’s access to reading material to keep kids safe from porn if that’s[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Because when someone believes that a parent should be able to control their child’s reading material, that means: 👉 they can restrict them from ever seeing material that shows queer or trans characters or depicts being queer or trans in[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
oh holy fucking shit that person who added the “parents should be able to tell their children what not to read” to my post is even worse than I could have imagined.
💖 Writing requires rest. 💖 You cannot be actively writing all the time. 💖 Do not feel bad about needing to take time from your writing to rest. 💖 Rest is an important part of the creative process. 💖 Rest[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Just a heads up for those who like to moralize about what is “legal” or “illegal” in fictional stories– – the American speak of the house is currently talking seriously about trying to repeal the laws that make gay sex[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
ooh! We have this all the time, luckily for fanfic specifically there is a great solution. You take the one scene, or couple of scenes, in your idea that’s the most intense and interesting, and you make a one shot[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
txttletale: txttletale: i really hate seeing works that deal with homophobia or abuse or whatever else be talked about even by their proponents as though they have, through exceptional quality or messaging, earned a permission slip to bypass an otherwise[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
❣️ Don’t be afraid of being earnest in your writing. ❣️ Don’t be afraid of putting your desires and fears in your story. ❣️ Don’t be afraid of writing the story that you want to read. ❣️ Don’t be afraid[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
See, here’s the thing. ➡️ When you have a community term that your community originally defined as “supporter of freedom of expression in fiction and artwork”– ➡️ but your enemies insist means “active child abuser”– ➡️ and the term is[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
⭐ There’s no such thing as failure when you’re writing as long as you’re actually getting words on the page. ⭐ Writing that has to be edited or deleted later still gives you practice and makes you a better writer.[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
🤯 Don’t write stories that you think are boring. 🤯 Leave boring parts out of the story you’re writing. 🤯 If you think the ‘boring parts’ absolutely must be there, then find a way to make them as short and[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
✏️ Sit down, put the words on the page. ✏️ Sit down, put the words on the page. ✏️ They don’t have to be good words. ✏️ They don’t have to be many words. ✏️ They don’t have to be[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Your first draft is like the “alpha” version of a video game. ⭐ It doesn’t have to be perfect– it doesn’t have to be good. ⭐ It’s not a finished product– no one is going to be judging your finished[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
⭐ Challenge yourself: to write what you want to write, rather than what you think other people want to read. ⭐ Challenge yourself: to write at a pace that works for you, rather than one that will burn you out.[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…