big-blueboy-scout: adjit: I think we need to get more comfortable with the idea that sometimes shitty, racist, homophobic, bigoted people are still incredibly talented. I feel like every time I see a post addressing someone’s shitty behavior the post also[…]↓ 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.
myfandomrealitea: Do you even understand that if there were no ‘bad guys’ and ‘bad choices’ and ‘icky things’ in media literally 99.99% of the music, movies, TV shows, books, ect that we have right now would not exist? All those[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
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…
eversplode: punkitt-is-here: brother all art is fetish art to someone
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…
netherworldpost: Every time you want to make art but don’t due to external pressure some asshole with too much power already gets stronger. Conversely every time you want to make art and do (regardless of skill or reach) some asshole[…]↓ 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
thee-radio-host-is-a-kookaburra: what happened
neil-gaiman: giraffeter: I often see posts about curating your own online experience that make the point, “content creators aren’t your parents.” And, yes, that is absolutely true! And I try not to be like “as a parent,“ but as a[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
the-moon-loves-the-sea: I’m increasingly worried by all the people on my dash calling themselves insane for loving stories in the way humans have loved stories our whole history. “The brain rot is spreading” — you mean you were changed by art?[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
mera-xebella: Like look at this. This is fear. Derek was scared of Kate.
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…
attack-of-the-space-lesbians: nothing convinces me more that people no longer read books than coming back into this website and seeing 20 year olds clutching pearls at topics that have been explored in fiction for the entirety that humanity has told stories
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
sociallyanxiousdragon: Freak fandoms need to get used to freak fans existing again Curate your online experience all you want but you can’t watch the shota show and be mad underage ships exist and you can’t read the incest comic and[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
myfandomrealitea: “Why can’t the freaks on AO3 just go and make a site for all the gross stuff and leave AO3 alone.” Because AO3 is that site. Because AO3 was that site long before you decided AO3 was better than[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
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
heartapnea: this quote from hbomberguy’s plagiarism video really resonated with me: “creative people have trouble recognising their skills as skills, because eventually they feel like second nature. […] this stuff really is valuable. if it wasn’t, people wouldn’t be stealing[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
vaspider: elfgirlcraftworks: vaspider: ktempestbradford: whencartoonsruletheworld: whencartoonsruletheworld: whencartoonsruletheworld: don’t get me wrong i am VERY excited for the color purple musical film it’s gonna rock so hard but also. im gonna need the trailers to stop being like “look at this[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
blue-phoria: destroyalition: No words, just read! Another example of antis being zombie-brain stupid. NINETY% JESUS
unsolids-your-snake: uncle-mojave: unsolids-your-snake: uncle-mojave: yourtoradorasextendedwarranty: unsolids-your-snake: I adore when feminists say with their entire chest that women cannot consent to sex Feminists believe women are forever toddlers. Wait… what? Ye olde kink discourse Some radfem said that doing kinky things[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
birlinterrupted: ‘oh no people are making puppygirl stuff cringe’ . hate to tell you but all bdsm is cringe, thats what is so freeing about it. try to have a real experience without the panopticon of social evaluation internalized so[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
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.
cardentist: the nature of rape being a taboo topic that nobody wants to talk about is that people will tell you point blank to your face that people like you don’t experience trauma or violence of any kind, you will[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
nyctaeus: Ad Reinhardt, from ‘How to Look at Art, Arts & Architecture’ (1946)
💖 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…
golvio: fnord888: Child abuse is a big problem, so it’s important that we don’t let children communicate with adults except their parents and other official authority figures. Everyone knows the best way to prevent child abuse is to keep children[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
blue-hail: “Stop!! You can’t ship that!! It would be toxic!! :(“ *runsyouoverwithbusrunsyouoverwithbus runsyouoverwithbusrunsyouoverwithbus runsyouoverwithbusrunsyouoverwithbus runsyouoverwithbusrunsyouoverwithbus runsyouoverwithbusrunsyouoverwithbus runsyouoverwithbusrunsyouoverwithbus runsyouoverwithbusrunsyouoverwithbus runsyouoverwithbusrunsyouoverwithbus runsyouoverwithbusrunsyouoverwithbus runsyouoverwithbusrunsyouoverwithbus runsyouoverwithbusrunsyouoverwithbus runsyouoverwithbusrunsyouoverwithbus runsyouoverwithbusrunsyouoverwithbus runsyouoverwithbusrunsyouoverwithbus runsyouoverwithbusrunsyouoverwithbus runsyouoverwithbusrunsyouoverwithbus runsyouoverwithbusrunsyouoverwithbus runsyouoverwithbusrunsyouoverwithbus runsyouoverwithbusrunsyouoverwithbus runsyouoverwithbusrunsyouoverwithbus runsyouoverwithbusrunsyouoverwithbus runsyouoverwithbusrunsyouoverwithbus runsyouoverwithbusrunsyouoverwithbus runsyouoverwithbusrunsyouoverwithbus runsyouoverwithbusrunsyouoverwithbus runsyouoverwithbusrunsyouoverwithbus runsyouoverwithbusrunsyouoverwithbus runsyouoverwithbusrunsyouoverwithbus runsyouoverwithbusrunsyouoverwithbus[…]↓ 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…
hikari-ni-naritai: hikari-ni-naritai: Why is it necessary that a piece of art “condemns” or “normalizes” something. Is it not enough for art to say “here are some fucked up people in some fucked up situations for your enjoyment”? The art doesn’t[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
🔹 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.
coredrill: this is something i’ve talked about quite a bit with a friend, but i figured i’d share it here just because i think it’s an interesting and informative mindset to look at current media with… basically, i had the[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
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…
philippesaner: prokopetz: Like, I’m not gonna tell anyone where their personal boundaries ought to lie, but if you can’t deal with sibling incest, gothic horror is maybe not the right genre for you. Incest and cannibalism as signifiers of moral[…]↓ 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.
kawaii-pigeon: Sometimes i think id come across as condescending prick if anything i made got traction. Like, yeah, im not spoon feeding you morals. If you can read this online i expect you to have some level of reading comprehension?[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
💖 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…
godmodebeginswithlesbians: “we need less sanitized queer stories” yall keep saying fucking she-ra romanticizes abuse. you couldnt possibly handle less sanitized queer stories
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…
eatingcroutons: sassaffrassa: bomberqueen17: eatingcroutons: eatingcroutons: mostlyinthemorning: Okay fanfic writers, your mission, should you chose to accept it, is a filthy 100 word drabble, for any pairing, to be posted on Thursday, in time for American Thanksgiving. Ready, set, write! Fuck[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
legsdemandias: legsdemandias: legsdemandias: “listen i may hold the exact same opinion as that conservative politician about how dangerous is it for kids to access books, but it’s different because it’s what i don’t like, and yeah, what i don’t like[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
proshippy-fox: “if you’re going to depict bad things in fiction you have to make sure they’re condemned in the narrative!” is such an annoying take. I’m not even gonna point out the obvious flaw in the logic it’s just annoying[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
saucerfulofsins: izzyliker: izzyliker: izzyliker: i’m not like an incest shipper (although like yeah me and 10k other people shipped wincest in 2013) but the more i see people absolutely losing their minds over the concept of fictional incest the more[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
mclennonyaoi: mclennonyaoi: it is insane how people do just . not know what objective is. like if you are trying to argue there is some objective difference between “good art” and “bad art” and your first argument is that “well[…]↓ 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…
ingridverse: necroluminescent: It’s true and you should say it.
✏️ 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…
toonimal: You people keep making posts about being pro-kink and pro-weird nasty gay sex but then moments later you’re shaming fellow queers for ageplay or cnc or incest shipping and i’m sorry but it doesn’t fucking work like that. You[…]↓ 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…
“I like to write about it in fiction” does not mean “I desire it to happen in real life”, and never has. What you want to write about doesn’t necessarily mean anything about you, besides that you want to write[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
proshippy-fox: “if you’re going to depict bad things in fiction you have to make sure they’re condemned in the narrative!” is such an annoying take. I’m not even gonna point out the obvious flaw in the logic it’s just annoying[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
👉 Sometimes, what one audience interprets as horror, another audience interprets as romance. 👉 Sometimes, what one audience interprets as romance, another audience interprets as horror. 👉 As an writer, you have to accept that every audience brings their own[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
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 at[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
renthony: renthony: renthony: Your personal triggers and squicks do not get to determine what kind of art other people make. People make shit. It’s what we do. We make shit to explore, to inspire, to explain, to understand, but also[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
dead-pidove-do-not-eat: Why is it always “why does dark media help you cope?” And not “what justifications do you have to police what I do with fictional characters in my own home? And are they based on any sort of evidence?”
stesierra: 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[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
treesah: spandexbutterfly4lyfe: soft-october-night: I’m sorry who the fuck is out here claiming they read classic lit to learn how to have a relationship. Chronic shipping brain is truly embarrassing at a certain point The tweet is a reaction against all[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
fernwah-funzone: wait you understand that kinks are ok because they’re fantasies that make you happy right? you all get that you don’t need to have trauma for your kinks to be okay? right? like none of you think i witnessed[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
carbonatedeverclear: there are people on this website who consider themselves prison abolitionists and think that they believe in reformative justice and at the same time think that people should be put to death for drawing porn of Midoriya from boku[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
yeehawpim: happy whumptober I can’t personally stomach the extreme ends of whump anymore, but I’m glad that they existed and continue to existExamining why I became sad at certain fanfics helped me get around dissociating the second I tried to[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
💕 Don’t be afraid of putting your ‘self’ into your writing. 💕 Don’t be afraid of writing what you want. 💕 Guessing at what other people are looking for in a story is always a worse path than writing what[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
thisisallthehattersfault: Hi idk what anti needs to hear this but That’s Not How Boundaries Work Boundaries are something you set on yourself, for your own safety and comfort. A boundary can only ever be placed with regards to your physical[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
justproshiprants: I don’t get the complaint that problematic media can trigger someone? Like, yeah, I acknowledge plenty of the shit I write can be triggering or uncomfortable. But that’s why I tag it properly and don’t post it in minor[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
agro-carnist: agro-carnist: agro-carnist: This is what I’m talking about when I say the moral panic around kink and fantasy is a right wing position: The idea that someone’s fantasies or what art they like is an indicator they are a[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
renthony: renthony: Your personal triggers and squicks do not get to determine what kind of art other people make. People make shit. It’s what we do. We make shit to explore, to inspire, to explain, to understand, but also to[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…