mxsickfuck: You’re allowed to hate content for whatever reason. You’re allowed to find it disgusting and immoral. I frankly could care less if you hate taboo content, you’re allowed to feel however you want to about it. What’s not acceptable[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
txttletale: txttletale: that last comment is so fucking revealing as to the actual priorities and worries of people who say ‘get therapy’ lmao “therapy isn’t about your happiness, it’s about making sure you act in a way that i’m comfortable[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Things that don’t matter when you’re writing a story: what will critics and detractors say about this? is this as marketable as I can possibly make this? Things that do matter when you’re writing a story: is this story meaningful[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
👉 Any kind of evil you can make a character commit or go through is no worse than torturing your NPCs in a game. 👉 Don’t assume that acts in fiction indicate the real life desires of the author or[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
sweaterkittensahoy: 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…
the pro-censorship crowd that loves gore and violence and hates anything to do with sex are so classically puritan. It’s hilarious when it’s not infuriating. Censorship protects the expression of those in power and suppresses the expression of those not[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
tell me Will, why do you imagine that adults creating fiction about underage characters necessitates exposing underage children to that fiction? Minors are already not supposed to look at sexual fictional content– why would they be looking at adult content[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
It’s a harder question admittedly. There’s definitely a different moral argument than playing with fictional characters. I don’t believe that people SHOULD necessarily be writing porn or graphic murder fantasies of regular people they know IRL and spreading them online[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Proship and anti are reductive words that let fandom mean girls bully artists and authors by obscuring their meaning behind niche terminology. I’m in favor of freedom of expression. I am in favor of art. I believe that banning topics[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
am-i-the-asshole-official: AITA? YTA NTA JAH NAH ESH INFO See Results What are these acronyms?
coiled-dragon: Freaks and perverts pls interact before I lose my sanity on this godforsaken Internet hell scape filled with puritans in horror fandom
folgers-offical: just-antithings: nope Also a good chunk of actors don’t care. I’ve seen professional wrestlers share fanfic about themselves on their Twitter and the most they say is like a lighthearted joke like “inaccurate I’d never eat a turkey sandwich”[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
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 erased.[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
It’s always okay to use the fiction you write or read to explore negative feelings, experiences, and topics. Stories don’t have to be uplifting or happy, characters don’t have to be virtuous or admirable or relatable. And it’s still okay[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
“I don’t want to read this” is totally valid. “This is disgusting to me” is totally valid. “I don’t want to read this because it is disgusting to me” is totally valid. “I don’t think anyone should be allowed to[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
profictionist: One thing (and trust me, theres more) i hate about antis is their hypocrisy towards different crimes “You can’t ship that! It’s illegal!!” Yeah and the guy who murders people is also illegal, but youre fine with shipping him[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
catgirl-catboy: There is no way to create content that 100% of people are able to avoid. You can either accommodate the antis by NOT tagging your shit, or typing like a Homestuck character, OR you can appropriately trigger tag your[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
birble-bobble: legsdemandias: legsdemandias: The other thing about uncomfortable, awful, terrible, ~romanticized~ fiction that gets lost in censorship conversations is the fact that in your regular non-academic life you don’t have to read it. “I’ve experienced x so I don’t want[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Let’s talk about how to think about the artistic merit inherent in smut and pornography. Smut and porn have the same amount of artistic merit and worthiness as every other kind of fiction, and can be interrogated in the same[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
✨ All fiction is art and has artistic merit. ✨ Yes, including the novel you hid in a drawer. ✨ Yes, including Marvel movies. ✨ Yes, including soap operas. ✨ Yes, including slasher flicks and torture porn. ✨ Yes, including[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
eroticcannibal: eroticcannibal: eroticcannibal: eroticcannibal: I simply do not understand how people can think writing about things that aren’t real is bad. Its not real. Its not a real thing why are you mad. “But its illegal in real life!” Stories[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
eroticcannibal: eroticcannibal: eroticcannibal: eroticcannibal: A take you could only come up with if you have never interacted with horror or horror fans at all in your life ever This person actually thinks that writing murder because you like to think[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
✍️ The goal of creating fiction is not always to craft a story that is comfortable or fun for the reader. ✍️ Likewise, not all readers will find the same subject matter and topics comforting or fun. ✍️ It is[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
When people– and especially young women– are attracted to “abusive” and “controlling” and “violent” male characters in fiction– The fantasy is not about being abused, or controlled. The fantasy is about a partner who is devoted to you, who takes[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
With NaNo approaching please remember: 💌 It’s okay to work hard to meet a wordcount. 💌 but it’s also okay to write at your own pace. 💌 Being able to write a lot in a short amount of time is[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Yeah absolutely. But on the other hand– the poll is 60%+ in favor of that person being the asshole. It’s a vocal minority who believe this outlandish prudery. context link
Oh if only they’d ‘get it’. ^_^;; context link
donthitanybody: Tomska going hard on Twitter again.
“Critical” does not automatically mean “negative.” Thinking critically about something is not the same as (colloquially) criticizing it. “Thinking critically” on a piece of media does not mean deciding that you know all the “bad” elements of it and that[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
fanonical: “homestuck? :/ doesn’t that have slurs in” yes darling i don’t decide what to read based on if it has naughty words in because i don’t have the concept of morality of a fundamentalist christian schoolchild.
💫 It’s okay to write fiction you would not want your grandmother to see. 💫 Different stories are for different audiences. 💫 You do not have to appeal to everyone. 💫 Don’t sacrifice the story you want to tell for[…]↓ 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…
My authorial intent is to tell a cool and exciting story. If my cool and exciting story makes you want to abandon your morals and commit evil acts, that’s your problem, not mine. EDIT: TERFS AND RADFEMS FUCK OFF GET[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
🔸I believe in freedom of fandom. 🔸Fandom is not about creating or enjoying only ‘moral’, ‘god-honoring’ or ‘marketable’ works. 🔸Fandom is about freedom of expression. 🔸It is okay to create or enjoy whatever fanworks you want. 🔸Fandom is not a[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
miranova23: just-antithings: 👆👆👆👆 “Artis gratis artis.” These people better not watch a single MGM-produced movie. “not all art has merit” is such a horrifying thing to say.
craycraybluejay: Seeing people freak out over high schooler age gaps makes me 😬 bc I personally have dated as the younger in an age gap a good while ago [before 18] and I was fine. I mean I wasn’t *fine*[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
disco-tea: I need unhinged romantics to get back into storytelling and start telling nuanced enemies to lovers stories and all the moral complexities that entails and ignore it when somebody inevitably clutches their pearls about not being presented a black[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
You don’t have to apologize, or perform authorial disgust, for dark, violent, sexual, cruel or problematic topics in the fiction you create. Fiction does not exist to teach an audience a moral lesson. You as an author are not required[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…