coockie8: I’m sorry but saying “don’t write dark or taboo fiction or at least keep it private because it might trigger someone or someone might get off to it.” is exactly like saying “don’t talk about the abuse you suffered[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
xxlovelynovaxx: colubrina: colubrina: for the love of god, write all the self-indulgent scenes you want. be utterly shameless about including every last fantasy. i know everyone likes to share quotes and quips about how miserably hard writing is, but please[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
mxsickfuck: I mean yeah it definitely wouldn’t have even become a thing if we all could just learn to leave each other alone Honestly I have just flat stopped using the terms “proship” or “anti”. People who are in support[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
holysmotez: whogivesa-ship: evilwriter37: grumpy-old-fandommom: bettsfic: glorify, romanticize, fetishize. these are words i see thrown around constantly in relation to fanfiction, without regard to their actual meaning or context, for the purpose of censoring taboo content. by taboo, i mean stories[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
If only we had learned the right lessons. Unfortunately now we have a bunch of fandom “Jack Thompson"s running around.
when the pro-censorship crowd insists loudly that their glorified violence is *totally fine* because they think “nobody is fetishizing or getting off to it” I am just like– Are they willfully ignoring all the media that eroticizes and fetishizes violence?[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
littlemelonberry: you’re not a bad person if you want to make some kind of art inspired by someone else’s vent piece. you aren’t a bad person if someone else’s art, regardless of that art’s origin, moves you to create. even[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
🔸Sexual content in fiction should not be treated as worse or more terrible to write or to read about than violent content in fiction. 🔸Normalizing, trivializing and even glorifying violence in fictional content– while othering, and villainizing sexual content– is[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
just-antithings: every damn time The normalization of violence and the villainization of sex.
larkandkatydid: roach-pizza: tzikeh: larkandkatydid: larkandkatydid: larkandkatydid: There is genuinely no such thing as an inappropriate book for a child. People in the tags who read Clan of the Cave Bear or Flowers in the Attic, but did you fucking die?[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
petal-girl: i have reblogged this like 10 times and am tempted to print off some copies and stick them on my wall/in my sketchpad/on my art teacher’s face
🔸It’s okay to imagine any fictional scenario. Imagining something bad doesn’t make you a bad person or mean you want it to happen. 🔸It’s okay to write any fictional story. Writing a fictional story about bad things does not make[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
mayskalih: Just a daily reminder that fiction is not a moral compass guide. It can be, but doesn’t have to every single time. Fiction doesn’t mean ‘I want this to happen to me or anyone else in real life’. Fiction[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
myfandomrealitea: If you tell victims they need to be ashamed of how they cope with or heal from their trauma and that they need to be hidden and silent about it because you disagree with it or it makes you[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
proshippers-against-censorship: necroproship: cosmileech: Antis will literally call u a pedo with no context, further watering down the word until it means nothing. Your literally normalizing pedophilia more then we are by calling everyone you don’t like it. Now when I[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
vaspider: silvergryphonart: fourmsandasilentq: ndragoon: pixeljade: gwydionmisha: West Virginia Republicans want to ban transgender people from public spaces, call them ‘obscene’ We warned you this is where this is going. I cannot stress enough that this is NOT exaggeration they are[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
I had to ignore that youtube video for *months*, every time the algorithm brought it up on my page. A person cannot be groomed by a piece of fiction. Grooming is an intentional act that is perpetrated on purpose by[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
thestrangestthing89: Instead of Boycott Stranger Things, I want a campaign to get this show to raise the rating to R and take it out of the teen show category on Netflix. Give this show back to the OG fans –[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
I decided this needed its own post, so– Here’s some context for “"The content of a piece of fiction does not reflect on the morality of its author.” and “Your personal interpretation of the content of a piece of fiction[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
⭐ Fiction writers are allowed to put elements in their work that make their audience uncomfortable. ⭐ Fiction writers are allowed to put elements in their work that are tasteless or crass. ⭐ Fiction writers are allowed to put sexual[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
myfandomrealitea: In case it wasn’t clear: Yes. Even as a proshipper, I firmly believe every single person creating content that has the potential to be unpleasant, triggering or upsetting should be responsible for making sure it can’t be seen as[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
myfandomrealitea: The problem with trying to irrevocably tie what we create to who we are is that it then completely voids the freedom of being able to create things. Fiction is not meant to be our reality. Its meant for[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
urunclesonic: urunclesonic: looking at “cringe sonic ocs” and it reminds me that people usually stop calling it cringe only if and when the art is supposedly good. like ive seen several suddenly get banger updated art a decade later and[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
anistarrose: wintercorrybriea: [Image description: a (bluesky?) post from colinbroadmoor @/saikohistory reading: “The concept of the ‘mass audience’ has had a largely deletrious influence on art. Creat art for at most 30 sickos at a time.” End description.]
yaoist: “you have a responsibility to consider how your writing would affect other people” literally 50% of writing is manipulating the audience by setting tone and mood and drawing them in to fuck with their emotions. writers do NOTHING but[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
vivi-ships: Do y’all remember when this was a normal thing to see all over the place? Because I do. I remember seeing and posting this image everywhere when I was like 12-15.
pro-bopass: xxblackheartbiohazardsxx: lovesthecure: xxblackheartbiohazardsxx: Writing prompt: What do you think was the commenter’s original perception of this post? How did that perception change with the added context of ‘proship’? Consider this user’s thought process and what preconceptions you think might[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Honestly– HONESTLY– that’s the best way I personally find to vent my rage. It’s as healthy as you can get, and harms no one real. Go for it, pal.
Anon, I am so sorry that that happened to you. The amount of harassment and public hate that creators face these days is unhinged and untenable. I wish I had real advice for you, but all I can say is[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
supersoftly: ryuutchi: 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[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
myfandomrealitea: thecacklingcreep: myfandomrealitea: log6: it would be a little easier if the people who were “coping with childhood sexual abuse” by making content that is perfectly described as “child pornography” seemed a little less gleeful about it. But what do[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
pro-bopass: proshippy-fox: A Japanese user found out about the “proship/anti” stuff and said this in response. I recommend reading the whole thing, but here are some screenshots. ALT ALT ALT Basic gist is that antis are causing trouble for overseas[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
tiny-space-robot: I´ve lately seen many young peeps in fandom spaces, worrying about openly shipping their ships because of what antis might do so let me tell you something: antis are huge losers who are gonna find something to hate you[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
pro-sipper: “Problematic Rape Story is disgusting and wrong because it normalizes/romanticizes/fetishizes real life crime! But Problematic Murder Story is okay because obviously everyone knows murder is wrong and the murderers are always portrayed as bad and no one is glamorizing[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
I appreciate the enormous list of radfem blogs to block. “sources” that claim that BDSM and kink are harmful are overwhelmingly drawn from the same well of christofascisct conservative “research” that republicans use to justify all their restrictions on your[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
I could successfully use my fiction writing skills to eroticize, romanticize and glorify a ham sandwich. I don’t know why people think you have to approve of topic as a person in order to eroticize (etc) it in fiction. “You[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
drchucktingle: THANK YOU BUCKAROO that is exactly why i did not want to have a separate pen name or even a name variation like C TINGLE. erotica is art, queer art is valid, and fantastical fun ideas are not automatically[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
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…
myfandomrealitea: The day that you understand that fanfiction has no literary/value difference to published literature and writing is the day you will understand exactly why readers and authors need a symbiotic relationship in fanfiction media just as much as the[…]↓ 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…
xenasaur-archive: xenasaur-archive: xenasaur-archive: kittenadventurous: xenasaur-archive: btw. being kink positive means ALL kinks even the ones you think are “immoral” or whatever the fuck. “but what about-” especially that one. no sex act between consenting adults is immoral actually. kill the[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
myfandomrealitea: You can support something’s right to exist and still personally find it weird/offputting/not understand it. So many people act like to be respectful or supportive of something you have to throw your whole soul into enjoying or understanding it,[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
💞 If you keep at it, you will finish writing your story. 💞 You don’t have to write a lot at a time to finish your story. 💞 You don’t have to make sure everything is perfect, or even good[…]↓ 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…
fallen-and-holy: i know everyone’s already said ‘cringe culture is dead’ etc but PLEASE i am BEGGING you if you want to do something but think ‘oh its weird/embarrassing’- do the thing!! Be yourself!!! wear a tail or kandi or anime[…]↓ 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
kvothes: kvothes: poetry and musical theater get similar accusations leveled at them in terms of not being realistic, i.e. “no one fucking talks like that” or “people don’t randomly burst into song in real life” and sometimes i just want[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
alliluyevas: alliluyevas: “i hate love triangles” “i hate cheating” “stop writing about love triangles and cheating” people write about love triangles and cheating because complex emotions and romantic conflict are deeply compelling themes. get good. what if instead of writing[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
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…
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…
yearningheart: what forms of art, activism, and literature can speak authentically today?
wiisagi-maiingan: the-gnomish-bastard: wiisagi-maiingan: Again, I strongly encourage people to do research on how the Nazi party explicitly attacked modern art as being pointless and a threat to “Western civilization” as a way to discredit Jewish artists and any artist who[…]↓ 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.
clearancecreedwatersurvival: Okay I’m feeling kind of ranty about this still so I want to take this opportunity to talk about narrative therapy, kink, and fanfiction. Narrative therapy is a form of therapy that allows people to process trauma through the[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
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…
hazel2468: godmodebeginswithlesbians: shadowkat678: godmodebeginswithlesbians: godmodebeginswithlesbians: godmodebeginswithlesbians: godmodebeginswithlesbians: godmodebeginswithlesbians: “we need less sanitized queer stories” yall keep saying fucking she-ra romanticizes abuse. you couldnt possibly handle less sanitized queer stories “we need less sanitized queer stories” youre the one saying 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…
leupagus: leupagus: leupagus: leupagus: It’s really fucked up when you treat characters like people and people like characters. No seriously it’s REALLY fucked up when you treat characters as if they were real live people while you treat people like[…]↓ 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…
echofromtheabyss: fierceawakening: sugarbeta: boltstuck: derinthescarletpescatarian: derinthescarletpescatarian: Some people are like “The classic sci-fi novel Don’t Create the Torment Nexus is Problematic because it features the Torment Nexus” “No but see the only reason to write about the Torment Nexus is[…]↓ 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.
gayhoediaz: “it sounds like you’re justifying their actions-“ i am. they’re a fictional character. i’m okay with anything they do all the time. hope this helps.
“but we HAVE to be authoritarian about” 😭😭😭😭
roguemonsterfucker: The beautiful thing about fantasy is… It’s fantasy. It doesn’t have to have any basis in reality and there are no rules. You want your were-bears to have knots? Fucking go for it! Whether real bears have knots doesn’t[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
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…
anticensorshipsideblog: there are some arguments that antis make where I just want to see what would happen if they sent it into a college class how much their teacher would wilt at their bad arguments and lack of understanding of[…]↓ 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…
Absolutely. It’s a braindead take with no notes. As usual. I know better than to extend the reach and potential influence of a post I disagree with– and nobody else is rushing to agree with either– by sharing a link[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
🟢 You are still a writer even when you haven’t written in a while. 🟢 You are still a writer even when you feel like you aren’t writing enough. 🟢 You are still a writer when you feel like your[…]↓ 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…