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…
Posts Tagged purity culture
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…
a-crumb-of-whump: a-crumb-of-whump: Liking minor whump does not make you a bad person. Liking lady whump does not make you a bad person. Enjoying whump with POC does not make you a bad person. Enjoying pedophilic/incestuous whump does not make you[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
🤝Glad to meet a fellow media-literate fan of RE. Honestly a friend suggested we ought to start a sub-tag specifically to get away from some of the BS in the main tag, and I am considering it. Maybe #darkresi ?[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
just-antithings: DNI Interracial??? So they’re a Nazi???
It really was the icing on the cake. Makes me wonder if they’re the anon going around for a month asking everyone if they think Wesker having a picture of an adult co-worker in his desk makes him a pervert.
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…
pro-sipper: Do antis know that their “reading about criminal activities makes you a criminal” rhetoric is walking hand in hand with right wing “seeing gay people on tv made my kid gay”? Do they care?
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…
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…
sapphire-weapon: people don’t fucking understand how twisted and hypocritical their mindset is about it. “reading or writing rape or incest fic means you condone it” okay well you’re saying that in RE fandom. RE, a series about characters who are[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
I hate to say this, anon, but part of the problem is twitter, tbh. Its just a toxic cesspool. we were on twitter for a few months specifically because most of marvel comics fandom happens there and we just couldn’t[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
fevers-and-emeto-oh-my: I hope they find something that makes them happy instead of just constantly being so angry. like genuinely, bc that’s just so unhealthy NOPE! they don’t SEE it it didn’t HAPPEN! that is SO funny omg i didn’t even[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
transmutationisms: really fucking irritating how many people think theyve invented blistering new social commentary by being like “what if a kink… forms because of trauma and social violence” without ever asking that same question about the sexual desires and practices[…]↓ 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…
fevers-and-emeto-oh-my: PSA to dead dove Resident Evil writers: APPARENTLY comment sections are NOT for compliments???? Oh my, they’re ACTUALLY for unwanted criticism about the very basis of your fic????? Because we’re all SO evil for……..writing fiction????? “it’s okay when the[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
stop saying “degenerate” (nazi word) when what you *mean* is “depraved” (extremely sexy word.)
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…
richmond-till-we-die: As I said before, I haven’t seen nor heard what exactly happened at the confessions account, so I want to be careful about judgement. But it’s very sad to hear people were made to remove their works from AO3[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Man some people *really* can’t handle the simple fact that “author chose not to warn” aka “may or may not contain peanuts” is a valid warning.
allthingswhumpyandangsty: about this post — thank you so much!! liking whump is not, and will never be, a red flag. how you enjoy fictional medias — whether it be in terms of fanfiction or shows or books or movies or[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
princesstokyomoon: al-selfships: this has to be the worst attempt at an insult I’ve seen so far my dads dead so…. necro shipping it is! thanks antis! Okay but let’s go ahead and unpack how toxic and conservative this is. They’re[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
stereowire: do i worry that after reading this blog someone is going to look at the brainwashed super assassin they’ve been keeping cryogenically frozen in a bank vault for the last several decades and go, “shit, we coulda been tapping[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
cryptidff: “Ugh I can see the character’s boobs and ass, obviously the creator’s barely disguised fetish” The creator might have a fetish for hands or teeth and you could literally never know because we don’t treat those body parts as[…]↓ 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…
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…
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…
roach-works: 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[…]↓ 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…
coiled-dragon: “We need more unapolagetically weird people!” You can’t even handle hyper sanitized Queer Romance For Kids without calling for death threats “We need more unapologetically weird people!” You can’t even handle furries with non-human genitalia without calling them animal[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
eldritchtouched: fuckofffanpol: fuckofffanpol: fuckofffanpol: fuckofffanpol: So I heard that more people have been mis-tagging their Ao3 fics “for reach” lately. Obviously, I decided to go see if I could preemptively mute some of them, but I got kind of sidetracked.[…]↓ 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…
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…
There’s not enough yuri/femslash/wlw fanfiction, blah blah blah everyone is morally obligated to write femslash.. If you want to see it– Fucking WRITE IT then!! AND don’t fucking complain and throw a shit fit and start a callout post when[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
catgirl-catboy: “Murder is okay to glorify because nobody is getting off on it.” You sweet summer child. Everything is somebodies kink, write that down. I’ve met many people that enjoy gore and murder in a sexual way (and most of[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Right? I can’t imagine looking at that picture and not thinking it looked like a sexual act or sexual metaphor. Honestly, maybe all this is so on my mind because recently we were thinking about, and looking for the imagery[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
thebejeweledwatercat: tlirsgender: tlirsgender: The performative niceys pastel blogger who knows all the right therapy words to say and the right micro-discourse opinions to have always turns out to be the actual devil it’s so scary. Some mf with like a[…]↓ 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…
orcbara: orcbara: i think it’s important for most people’s mental health to have a space where they can safely and unashamedly express being horny and i don’t mean milquetoast tongue-in-cheek “oh step on me mommy” jokes or whatever i mean[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
heyjudelaw: lizziemack: When I’m reading smut and the author breaks the flow of the story so that the characters can tell us that they have enthusiastic consent it feels exactly like when Dora the Explorer looks directly into the camera[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
I wanna be clear about this post. I do not expect (or want!) anyone to go around tagging my personal triggers on the shit they’re posting or reblogging. I’m just really mad that the people who DO want everyone to[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
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…
gamer-crow: notemily: mclennonyaoi: throwup-dust: mclennonyaoi: mclennonyaoi: mclennonyaoi: “it’s weird for queer minors to be friends with queer adults” oh my god. ohhh my god. intergenerational community support, especially in a community that is split so much age wise as the[…]↓ 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…
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
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…
really, how can you not eroticize violence, and horror, and decay, and destruction, and oblivion? It’s called the little death for a reason.
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…
🔸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…
🔸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…
steh-lar-uh-nuhs: deramin2: bemusedlybespectacled: transfaguette: it is crazy how “if this childrens show doesn’t kill their villain at the end it’s irredeemable media” became such a popular opinion here. like people were calling steven universe fascist apologia. and to be clear[…]↓ 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…
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…
To be honest with you, if you believe that we should judge a person’s morality based on anything other than their real actions in the real world, and their stated beliefs and stated intentions, then that’s your right. It’s also[…]↓ 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…
pojkflata: I am sorry but this tendency of hypervigilantly assuming every kinky person will violate you in some way if you happen to tick one of their boxes is beginning to approach “I don’t mind gay people as long as[…]↓ 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…
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…
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…
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…
all-de-fandoms: Lmfao as a religious trauma survivor and a product of Christian fundie indoctrination myself I am in full support of calling fandom wank “purity culture” and the use of the word “puriteen” as well actually. It perfectly encompasses what[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
If you can enjoy a character who is insane, violent, murderous, manipulative, and genocidal, but freak out at the idea that the same character might be sexually interested in adult but younger women, maybe you should a) reconsider why your[…]↓ 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…
auramgold: if your community couldn’t handle a trans girl with a diaper kink without collapsing into pedophile witchunting your community simply will not last. if your community cannot handle the clearest example of someone harming no one but herself without[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
hadeantaiga: Why, though? The characters aren’t real. They are not real people, and they literally cannot experience harm. You cannot harm a fictional character! I, the author, am a real person. I am obviously consenting, because I’m the one writing[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Constantly frustrated with the infantalization of women characters in fandom. That person is a fictional character who has been presented from the beginning of the narrative as an adult woman with a career in law enforcement. There is nothing creepy[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
himejoshikomaeda: i gotta know. do you guys see this shit? do you guys see how every time a transgender girl gains even a tiny bit of a following, she gets “called out” for supposedly supporting pedophilia based on the shakiest[…]↓ 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…
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…
niece-jemima: niece-jemima: niece-jemima: olderthannetfic: prismatic-bell: moddeydhoo: prismatic-bell: olderthannetfic: – Laugh in their faces when they try shit. Bullies like smelling blood in the water. They don’t like being told they’re stupid children whose opinions don’t count, whether that’s by you[…]↓ 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…
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…
🔹 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…
zagreus: hyenabogblog: starlightomatic: despazito: girlballs: girlballs: captain picker isgonna finger himself his wife is. 44 years old. The fucking that old man website when someone actually fucks that old man Is there any age a woman is considered an autonomous[…]↓ 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…
💖 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.
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…
💖 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…
littlefaeella: i know that a lot of people already know this, and that this may come across as condescending to those who do, but it has become increasingly clear to me that many people, particularly younger people, don’t understand this[…]↓ 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…