You are always free to talk about your writing as much as, and at the level of depth that, you want to. But you never, ever owe anyone an explanation for why you write the fiction that you do, or[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
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obianakin: some of you really aren’t gonna like this, but a creator’s wishes should never dictate what fan content is produced for a piece of media. in the past, authors like anne rice have tried to limit the production of[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
TL;DR: people are afraid of attempting interaction, because they are worried they will receive negative interaction in return. A culture has been fostered where many tumblr users, especially in young fandom, expect and rightly assume that they will be critiqued[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
aberrant-angel: every time there’s a post on here that’s like “leave weird people alone, let people be freaks” there’s always a bunch of people in the notes going “i agree but do you mean the Good Freaks or Bad Freaks[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Controlling and restricting the things people are allowed to write or read about in fiction is authoritarian. Restricting the way, manner and style people are allowed to write about things in fiction is authoritarian. Censorship is always bad. Always.
glitterandsalt: kloonissmall: daglout: copiasforeskin: puppygirl-hornyposting2: Oklahoma proposal would make watching porn a felony, ban sexting outside marriage Why is it always this state Source that’s not New York Post: This Lawmaker Wants to Jail People for Watching Porn oh and[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
“You shouldn’t write that because readers might think that it was okay to do in real life.” A person with secure morals will never be convinced to do harm by a mere piece of fiction. “Okay but mentally ill people[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
2dmenenthusiast: Please for the love of fuck get these tiktok people off Tumblr I’m tired of defending dark content
kaelio: “Anne Rice didn’t make it clear enough that this was Bad and Wrong to do” she was busy fighting the Popeyes chicken guy, YOU fucking figure it out
runs-red: CNC and rape fantasies, sadism and abusive fantasies are pretty common and are, you know, kinks. Honestly, don’t bother calling yourself pro-kink if you’re going to shame people for reading fiction on these topics.
necroproship: justproshiprants: I really don’t get the, “But a kid could see this and think it’s okay!” Because it comes with so many infuriating assumptions. Why is a kid looking at something that explicitly isn’t for them? Why is the[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
You don’t have to interact with a piece of fiction that you know will be upsetting to you. If you interact with a piece of fiction despite knowing it might be upsetting for you, don’t fucking blame the author about[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
♥️ It’s okay to write or read about sex and romance. ♥️ It’s okay to write or read about sex without romance. ♥️ It’s okay to write or read about romance without sex. ♥️ It’s okay to write or read[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
neil-gaiman: carriesthewind: dduane: neil-gaiman: Hugo Award Follow Up: I think it’s fair to say that the astonishing thing is how enthusiastically the American, Canadian (and British?) people involved in the Hugos took to censorship. I’m proud of the whistleblower, and[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
c8h7n3o2: People on here will preach about being progressive and then do a 180 as soon as a consenting couple uses the word “daddy” in the bedroom.
transfemmesam: people will be like “you can’t ship incest that’s disgusting and morally reprehensible >:(” and then never shut up about sexual cannibalism and toxic yuri and murder as a form of love. do they not see the double standard?[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Why do you believe that people have such fragile morals they will be corrupted by a piece of fiction? Are your morals that fragile? Why do you believe that reading fiction about harm will cause the people who read it[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
✏️ There is no reason to assume that an author’s intention with dark elements and evil characters is to sway their audience into believing that those things are good. ✏️ There is no reason to assume that every dark element[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Yes, exactly. They have the cause and effect backwards. There are not sexist people in real life because they saw sexist themes in fiction. There are sexist themes in fiction because there are sexist people in real life creating fiction.[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
“proship” is an ideology that means “ship and let ship”. It is the opposite of “antiship” which means “against shipping.” Normal fans sometimes use the term to refer to themselves, to make it clear that they do not harass other[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
paradoxtrollplanet: A general frustration I have with the assumption fiction, especially erotica, reflects the authors morals is that it relies on a very literal interpretation of a text. A movie monster isn’t just a scary creature and an obsessive stalker[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
naryrising: future-crab: It’s been said before, it will be said again, but it’s still worth saying: the fact that art centering on straight romance is allowed to just be bad, but art with queer romance in it always has to[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Anon. It’s not “just something” pro-censorship fans spread to make people look bad. It’s yet another element of pro-censorship fandom culture that’s tied to its conservative authoritarian nature. It’s racism. It’s xenophobia and racism. 👉 “The Japanese are all perverts”[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Anon, thank you so much for this message because thinking of how to answer it, it finally dawned on me in a bolt of inspiration. I finally can put into words why pro-censorship fans will be fans of a piece[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
gremlingottoosilly: Me when I am promoting harm (I’ve been chosen as official ambassador of non-con fiction and I will get the revenue later)
someone said: “I don’t want to live in a world where people write nasty fiction about (insert horrible thing here, such as murder, rape, csa, etc)…” ☝️ Understandable, but we all live together in a world where all of these[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
willgrahamscock: willgrahamscock: No I can’t stand the people on there, every time I log on there’s an argument about who tops and who bottoms in every ship, like what’s the point are you going to come into my room and[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
kyougan: i honestly dont care about people being ‘free to write whatever they want’ if something bothers me i’m gonna talk about it. the massive flood of incest, rape and pedophilia fics ive seen under the leon tag is genuinely[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
sinclairsolutions: obscenicon-deactivated20231123: word-for-today: max1461: Disgust has absolutely no ethical weight. If you are basing your ethical positions on the emotion of disgust you should stop, it is entirely unjustified and leads to a huge amount of harm. Word for today:[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
prokopetz: Setting the ethical dimension of topic-based censorship on social media aside for the moment, the practical problem with “Tumblr shouldn’t allow posts about X” is that there is no possible world in which every Tumblr post about X is[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
sals-sonic: Reminder that it’s okay to headcanon whatever sexuality, gender, or romantic attraction for any character. Yes, even if it goes against canon. It’s fine to headcanon them as gay, bi, pan, trans, non binary, ace, aro, aplatonic, and even[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Yup. Pro-censorship fans hold fandom to a completely different standard than they do the official media that they engage with– a hypocritical one. Pro-censorship fans are perfectly happy to indulge in dark media with the topics they claim to be[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
I wish I knew why the pro-censorship crowd is drawn to things they seem to detest, because horror media seems to be equally inhabited by a) the most depraved (/pos), uninhibited people who align themselves with the monsters and freaks,[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
First of all– the binary “for horror” vs “for romance” idea is completely fake. Just take a look at the slasher villain fandom. You can put elements in for horror all you want and people will still be turned on[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Pro-censorship, pro-harassment “fans” who go around cyberbullying women and queer writers over so-called “problematic” ships are the reincarnations of victorian era quacks who believed that reading novels would destroy a lady’s morals. They’re conservatives who consider women ‘weak willed’ and[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
I am so glad that they are inspiring to you, and I’m so glad that you’ve gotten the courage to write again! People–especially authority figures– who squash the creativity of others are inexcusable in my mind. We had a similar[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
🖤 Your story idea is not too weird to write or share. 🖤 Your story idea is not too self-indulgent to write or share. 🖤 Your story idea is not too embarrassing to write or share. 🖤 Your story idea[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
bananonbinary: bananonbinary: i dont want to take away from the cursed tumblrness of that post but sincerely its such a pet peeve when people are like “this person wrote [pretty normal fiction that i think is weird]” as some sort[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
the-tao-of-fandom: the-tao-of-fandom: sometimes when i see people online throwing a wobbler about the supposed Problematic Media Consumption of strangers i remember my old coworker Lorraine who would frequently psychoanalyze people based on the music they listened to. To their face.[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Oh the answer to that is actually simple. They don’t reblog things because they’re (justifiably) terrified that one of their followers will find something problematic about the art or the artist, and accuse them of being a horrible person for[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
orizuruzero: stop telling the your local freaks that they can’t use the main fandom tag, the main tag is there for EVERYONE and for EVERY kind of content. simply block people if you don’t like their specific content.
zal-cryptid: How my creative process works sometimes. Search your soul. You know it to be true.
Absolutely true, anon! In fandom, with recent fanworks, it is often possible to reach out to the author and ask them if certain material is in their fiction. Sadly, with older fanfic, and with printed media the author might not[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
princecharmingtobe: enigmaticagentalice: reapersun: konkoa: This has been a PSA. I’m trying not to reblog posts on this blog but I feel that this is important to post here. on a related note: And for the people asking “Well if you don’t[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
⭐ It is common, courteous and good practice in fandom circles to use content warnings for things that you know are major, common potential triggers. ⭐ Not all fiction warns for potential triggering content. Most published fiction does not warn[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
kaiasky: anarqueeen: kaiasky: anarqueeen: Tumblr just put a fcuking harry potter post on my feed as a “recommendation based on your likes” Why not recommend me smallpox next. Or arthritis maybe. Settings -> Account Settings -> Content you see ->[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
💖 Write the fiction that you want to write. 💖 Write any fiction that you want to write. 💖 Don’t let other people discourage you from writing the fiction that you want to write. 💖 You are never a bad[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
prokopetz: prokopetz: People like to talk about “wholesome” art like it’s the antithesis of sexually explicit media, but to be frank, some of the most genuinely wholesome and emotionally upliftng art I’ve ever seen has been art where somebody has[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
They simply do not. They believe everything should be accessible to them personally. They prioritize their own demands for comfort as an audience over the artistic choices of the creator. They lack self control to put down and stop engaging[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
youreonyourownkid13: write weird shit. Write indulgent au fanfiction and self insert fics. Write creepy horror scenes and random character crossover dialogue. Write in a different genre. Write that sex scene that you know won’t make the cut. Write about sentient[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
✨ There is nothing wrong with writing or enjoying the type of fiction that appeals to you. ✨ There is nothing wrong with writing or enjoying mary sues, obvious author self inserts, or overpowered protagonists. ✨ There is nothing wrong[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
olderthannetfic: – Heh. Yeah, for real. If it’s tagged ‘shota’, I assume that’s because you’re well aware that it’s a nonsense fictional kink and not actually about real kids. Maybe they’re just afraid of haters, but this behavior will make[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
first of all– Also afaik what they did was not harassment giving harassment necessitates it happen over a long reoccurring period of time. That’s untrue. A single incident can absolutely constitute harassment. I suppose one could also call it emotional[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
mxsickfuck: It is so painfully ironic. I genuinely have no idea how they just fucking idea how they are THIS clueless. I don’t know how to break it to them that in the world we live in torturing people to[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
xiranjayzhao: xiranjayzhao: Guess who got disqualified from the Hugo Awards for unclear, most possibly political reasons!! Award admin Dave McCarty’s response to people asking why: But this email is apparently just bouncing everything back so here’s the full list of[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
ceasarslegion: ceasarslegion: Starting to think that perhaps the reason you constantly see “WHAT ABOUT PEDOPHILES?? YOU THINK KIDDIE PORN IS RIGHT??? YOU THINK THAT CHILDREN BEING RAPED IS LESS IMPORTANT THAN MEDIA????” on every single post that says “censorship is[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
shakespearefreak: I asked my therapist last week if she thought being proship was wrong. She didn’t know what “proship” and “anti-ship” meant, so I explained. I also told her that I kind of wanted it to be wrong, because it[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
liberalsarecool: Fascists ban books. They can’t ban ideas.
I’m gonna say it. It’s unhinged to assume that someone’s taste in fiction equates to what they believe is moral or good, or is something they want to see or experience in real life. That is a bonkers assumption to[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Hey friend, I hope I can clear this up for you. “Proship” is a piece of fandom terminology that means that a person in not in favor of censoring the content of fanfiction, and is not in favor of harassing[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
I agree with you in spirit. The problem is that you actually absolutely *can* make disgust the basis of your morality system– and doing so will powerfully fuck up your mental health, your perception of reality, and your relationship with[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
💖 You don’t have to justify the types of romantic relationships that you write or enjoy in fiction. 💖 To restate the above– you do not have to justify your ‘ships’. 💖 The types of romantic relationships you write or[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
illwynd: raimagnolia: rebellum: am-i-the-asshole-official: AITA? YTA NTA JAH NAH ESH INFO See Results What are these acronyms? I am surprises at the amount of YTAs on here omfg Look at it this way, everyone. Imagine you walk into a DVD[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
sals-sonic: “You have to be mindful when it comes to your art and who could potentially consume it!” I can’t control who sees my art. That’s a fact. By putting it out on the Internet millions of people could see[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
plague-of-insomnia: dduane: In Major Win, Appeals Court Upholds Block on Texas Book Rating Law For those who think those of us harping against censorship are “terminally online” because it’s not relevant to real life, this is a description of the[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
My friend, the fiction didn’t harm you. Your mental illness harmed you. Random writers on the internet are not responsible for managing your mental illness for you. You are responsible for managing your mental illness. I knew while reading that[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
autistichalsin: PSA that has been given 100 times already but needs to be said again: The reason you, gen Z queers, need to be kink positive isn’t because you support those kinks. It is okay to be disgusted by them,[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Technically TECHNICALLY speaking, your attitude counts as “proship”– which means “other people can write what they want and I’ll avoid what I don’t like.” It’s people who identify as antis who use the term “proship” to mean “revels in the[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
They think of themselves as good little nice sweethearts who help people and they don’t want to think about how their views are the views of repressive, pro-censorship authoritarians.
fuckofffanpol: am-i-the-asshole-official: WIBTA? YTA NTA JAH NAH ESH INFO See Results What are these acronyms? Yeah, actually, if you go into a fandom claiming that you’re the only one doing it ~right~, you will definitely piss people off. And your[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
cognitohazard: hannahp0calypse: hannahp0calypse: i think the thing about like, the typical Cishet Anime Dude Horny is that its incredibly shallow. and so when that type of horny gets applied to something it sort of… raises whatever it touches to the[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Wild that the fandom pro-censorship crowd harps on such mundane things like age-gaps and consensual incest when I can run into things like the image below just out in the wild with no warning. cut because I am not going[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
➡️ Content warnings on fiction are a courtesy. ➡️ Not every medium of fiction and storytelling has or is expected to have content warnings or extensive tagging. ➡️ Print novels do not traditionally warn for content in any way. ➡️[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
neil-gaiman: Nobody knows why. They also disqualified Sandman Episode 6 (The Sound of her Wings) without giving a reason. Here’s an article. Personally, I feel that the Hugo Awards committee should apologise, and that the upcoming Glasgow Worldcon should publicly[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
for the most part “this story about teenagers in high school should be about adults instead” just translates to “My personal comfort zone won’t let me enjoy a story without feeling socially guilty that I’m emotionally connecting with characters that[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
jonahmagnus: jonahmagnus: “I cant draw” then do it bad who gives a fuck….. Partake in the joy of creation just for the fun of it. Just for a laff.
I am Bitching once again that the fandom pro-censorship crowd cries and screams and wails that everyone has to respect their triggers forever and no one should be allowed to post anything that even mildly makes them uncomfortable– –meanwhile here[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
rian-yagi-vibes: crazilily: despazito: Some of the palworld rig comparisons absolutely look sus but if something like this won a plagiarism lawsuit it would actually set a horrible legal precedent for artists please learn what plagiarism means and think very carefully[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
wellthebardsdead: : whatsnewalycat: Made this for u 💝 Don’t hide this in the tags @voluptatiscausa Wrapping a nice and compact trauma processing pill in a sheet of slutty slutty cheese.
We talk a lot about the decline of comment culture in fandom spaces these days, and I recently saw a post that reminded me of my prevailing theory about why that started. I can’t speak for everyone, but I know[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
missmitchieg: wenellyb: lady-writes: princeofsparkles: netfliximab: real people being partially closeted or ambiguous about their own sexuality while making Gay Art is not queerbaiting Real people figuring out they’re queer through the process of making gay art is not queerbaiting either[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
octopuscato: nederys: kmclaude: tenaflyviper: Who said it: A tumblr “anti-shipper”, or a conservative, Republican, Christian extremist? “By writing fanfiction and drawing fan art of ____, you are condoning it in society.” “You are actively condoning ____. If you encourage[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
chthonic-pain: chthonic-pain: chthonic-pain: chthonic-pain: porn isn’t evil or misogynistic you just grew up culturally christian and are scared of sex like yeah it can be a brutal industry and i don’t want to minimize the issue of people being filmed[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
olderthannetfic: olderthannetfic: – Anyone who complains that CNTW exists should get the fuck off of AO3. At the very least, they can stop fucking clicking on CNTW works. “you know that even books with adult themes in book stores have[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
craycraybluejay: I also heavily resent the ever-present implication in mainstream media that at all touches on trauma that we cannot have any sympathy for Bad Victims. That it’s evil to write a sympathetic Bad Victim. Hell, that it’s bad to[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Some realizations that I had about outlining that helped me write: 💫 You don’t actually have to outline the entire story from start to finish. 💫 You can ‘outline’ just by noting down thoughts, elements, scenes or ideas that stand[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
tmmyhug: yes! i do like [problematic thing]! and unfortunately i am under no obligation to defend my interests to strangers on the internet. good day and thank you for your time
postplus-protest: Every single person who reads this, I want you to create art. Write, draw, knit, sew, build, sing, compose, etc. I don’t care about your skill level, I don’t care if you think you can. I want you to[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
neil-gaiman: elfwreck: jayblanc: Chinese Censorship of the 2023 Hugo Award Nominations Back before the 2023 Hugo Nominations were conducted, I noted that the Chengdu Worldcon Hugo committee had inserted a worrying clause indicating that local government officials could invalidate nominations[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
sunnysatori: sunnysatori: dw, that wasn’t about you! it was about a different ask i got (i think your original ask actually got eaten by tumblr bc i can’t find it in my inbox…very functional website we have here :/) anyways,[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Not every idea an author has ever had is related to their bad opinions, so? 🤷 It’s important to acknowledge that good art isn’t only made by the ideologically pure. But as for where you draw the line– I can[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
if pro-censorship fans were in the habit of going into bookstores or libraries, or hell–the amazon kindle marketplace– and looking at the content that’s available there, they would perhaps for a moment at least give pause to wonder if they[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
catgirl-catboy: catgirl-catboy: Because I saw a HOMESTUCK fan triggered by the sexualization of minors. (the very same homestuck where 13 year old aliens are required to fuck by the government, and killed if they aren’t) I’m going to say this[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
illiteratebf: me after realizing thoughtcrime isnt real and fiction is a sandbox to do whatever you want in
myfandomrealitea: Antis who proudly proclaim they’re going to become a therapist so they can shut down and manipulate and unethically target all the ‘nasty proshippers’ make me laugh because they’re going to get two months into any sort of qualifying[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
clownfessionsofficial: ninjakittenarmy: clownfessionsofficial: “DNI if you ship ILLEGAL ships!!!!!” Tell me you suck cop dick without telling me you suck cop dick They’re talking about incest and pedophilia. If thats what they mean, they should say that instead of using[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…