sarenhale: I hate how fandom rules made it so people don’t even dare to admit they don’t like a character anymore, but choose to make up shit about said character instead, like ‘she’s abusive/she’s a creep" and shit like that[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Hate how fandom purity culture has made character age discourse so overwhelming and loud that that those people will tell you it’s inappropriate to speculate on who characters who are canonically children might date in a fanfiction set it the[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Seeing all the people tag/reblog our post with some variant of “I’m too anxious to leave comments” is very validating about our thesis for why people have stopped interacting with fandom. I think this comment sums it up nicely. And[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
hadeantaiga: incendiarybomb: 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…
❣️ “Shipping” characters means that you are interested in the idea of what it would be like if characters were involved in a romantic or sexual relationship with each other. ❣️ Shipping something does not mean that you think that[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
fandomeldersintheirthirties: Antis care about children so much they made generation of children, teens and young adults paranoid about moral purity over cartoons. Because that’s healthy and good for them! 🙂
actually, no one last gripe and then I’m off– It’s really telling how we get hate mail on tumblr from people who don’t read our writing but *assume* that we write something filthy nasty that they disapprove of and hate.[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Morally bad ships are bad and wrong to have in the fandom all about morally bad people doing crimes. 😭😭😭😭
But its canon, not fanfiction that means that it’s totally morally pure and only there to show how bad and awful it is. Certainly not a nasty, dirty desire like all fanfiction absolutely always reflects. THE ABOVE IS SARCASM. Seriously[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
“But why would you want to imagine, read or write about a relationship that wasn’t healthy, good or desirable to you personally?” I genuinely don’t know how to explain the concept of fiction to you.
I wish I understood why pro-censorship fans think that its normal and okay to treat “shipping” as some kind of sacred moral space away from other types of fiction where only good and pure and desirable things can happen. I[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Actually, friend, freedom of expression does mean that it’s okay to ship anything you want. It’s imaginary. It’s not real. ☝️ You’re not obligated as a writer to exclusively write about healthy, normal relationships and sane, moral actions. ☝️ Fictional[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Anon, this may shock you but the word “pedophile” has an actual definition which does not involve “writing fanfiction about war criminals.”. Anon, I am begging you just to call me a pervert. Not for my sake, but for the[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
IDK what to tell you, fam. We ship clones and incest here. 🤷 We also ship people who knife fight one another, torture each other, and hold each other captive for weeks on end. Healthy relationship is not the goal[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
profiction-anomalocaris: problematic-faves-appreciation: whathihello: blackheartbiohazards: You know, it occurs to me that I don’t actually even know what fanfictons pro-censorship fans are objecting to when they say “it’s okay to write about it but not okay to romantcize it.” Because in[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
vergess: jactingjoices: jactingjoices: we are in a media literacy crisis friendly reminder that characters don’t need to be saints to be entertaining. and telling a story does not mean endorsement. art does not need to be all about morally good[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
rnorningstars: no offense but some of y’all should really consume more weird media ok some of y’all are ready to clutch your pearls at the mere sight of the slightest offbeat concept in speculative fiction and this can’t go on
moonytoastxx: bettylatrepadora: blackheartbiohazards: ✍️ 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.[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
blurds: I’ve answered this before so we’re going to do this bullet points style -If there are categories of people you don’t want to follow please assume I belong to all of them -If you need my demographic info before[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
frozen-strawberry-cow: i hate it when antis “”“fix”“”“ darkship/comship art to make it ”“"wholesome”“” and say the original artist has “”“wasted talent”“”. like just because you dislike what a creator makes doesnt mean you have to “”“fix”“” what they made. art[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
They’re an SCP files blog?????? child you would not have survived 2011 SCP files we would have eaten you for breakfast.
ieaturanium: blackheartbiohazards: You know, it occurs to me that I don’t actually even know what fanfictons pro-censorship fans are objecting to when they say “it’s okay to write about it but not okay to romantcize it.” Because in pretty much[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
hey quick question!! how would someone be able to not read a fic with triggering shit in it without a warning without reading the shit that will trigger them? Simple. Don’t read fics that don’t have trigger warnings. Don’t watch[…]↓ 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…
dead-pidoves-dirt-takes: I’m literally begging y’all not to disclose your trauma in order to justify and validate your tastes in fiction. The people who are or you fear are going to get on your case about your fantasies, taste in fiction[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
You know, it occurs to me that I don’t actually even know what fanfictons pro-censorship fans are objecting to when they say “it’s okay to write about it but not okay to romantcize it.” Because in pretty much every minor[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Hi anon! Thank you for asking this question. I’m going to answer it in a kind of grumpy tone, but I promise I am not grumpy at you! is it okay to depict unhealthy relationships in fiction (ie minor/adult) when[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Fictional stories and inside your imagination are the only places where you explicitly do not have to be responsible, careful or thoughtful of others. Do whatever you want in fiction and your imagination forever. No one is harmed. You are[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
molsno: What I believe is happening in the case of coming across a public expression of sexuality, or a trans woman in a dress, or someone wearing a BDSM collar, or a woman in a short skirt is that these[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
LOL honestly we’ve had the same experience. Those extremely hetero-normative life-script based imagines just aren’t interesting for us. Same for the life-scripty, heteronormative x reader fic. Every now and then we’ll see a “proship DNI” on a self ship imagine[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
palezma: palezma: I long for the day pearlrose is on a poll that isn’t “most toxic ship” “most toxic queers” “ship from hell” etc. 🙁 Yep. If you take power imbalance far enough it is hard to find a relationship[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
msnihilist: idk how to tell you this, but Black Butler is made by a shotacon.
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 actually saying that[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
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…
xx-slug-xx: marshemillow: theassholeantiarchive2-0: superanimepirate: faggot-billcipher: ableedingpen: just-antithings: Good luck! I look forward to seeing yall tear each other apart in the process “so many of us are forced to turn to a site like AO3” Why. It’s disgusting and terrible[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
marshemillow: theassholeantiarchive2-0: superanimepirate: faggot-billcipher: ableedingpen: just-antithings: Good luck! I look forward to seeing yall tear each other apart in the process “so many of us are forced to turn to a site like AO3” Why. It’s disgusting and terrible and[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
theassholeantiarchive2-0: superanimepirate: faggot-billcipher: ableedingpen: just-antithings: Good luck! I look forward to seeing yall tear each other apart in the process “so many of us are forced to turn to a site like AO3” Why. It’s disgusting and terrible and degrading[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
proshippers-against-censorship: Call me a bad person all I want, but I’d rather write a thousand parent-child noncon shipfics than so much as consider telling a single, very real life person to harm themselves or others in any way, shape, or[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
roach-works: lokihiddleston: violettenouvel: thediktatortot: Not people saying “Fandom has always been like this” in that vent post I made. No. It hasn’t always been like this. Fandom has NEVER been like this until recently and if you were in fandom[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
al-selfships: The “if you don’t want to get harassed, don’t post your weird shit online” take has to be among the ones I hate the most. You’re telling me I have to post “normal” stuff (whatever that means) or else[…]↓ 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.
ceasarslegion: You want more minority representation in media but if they have flaws its problematic and if theyre perfect theyre a patronizing mary sue. If they crack under the pressure of the conflict the author thinks that minority is weak[…]↓ 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…
world’s biggest corruption kinkster reminding you that naughty bad fiction doesn’t actually corrupt you. It doesn’t actually work like that.
calling people “antis”: confusing, niche terminology not understood by anyone outside of extremely online shipping discourse. Call them what they are– Pro-censorship fans who attempt to exert control over other people in public fandom spaces through harassment, threats and bullying.
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…
wendydarlingfics: id-rather-be-home: curseyouperrytheplatypus: notmybabies: curseyouperrytheplatypus: Gay or not gay people above the age of 19 writing/writing smut about teenagers is weird and creepy. When you become an adult you don’t forget what it was like to be young, but you[…]↓ 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.
creepymutelilbugger: sea-salted-wolverine: Tumblr purity culture thinks this is how AO3 works outta the way gayboy im boutta read Murder Magazine
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…
dead-dyke: You wrote about murder?? Murder is illegal?? You wrote about this dude killing someone and you didn’t even say ‘murder is bad’ at the start of the book, wht wtf, wtf is wrong with you? I can’t believe you[…]↓ 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…
spoookiepie: spoookiepie: I don’t wanna get too into fandom discourse but this is the funniest, most embarrassing shit I’ve ever read lmao “Why are you watching fucked up slasher movies when Cocomelon is right there?? 🤔”
I mean AO3 just calls it what it is: “underage”. And if it’s noncon you can just call it “underage noncon”. And if it’s between an adult and a minor you can go with “underage age-gap noncon”. You can also[…]↓ 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…
yeomanrand: nerianasims: failbaby: Super awesome and not at all puritanical The drowned person is an idiot, but now I want 100 different euphemisms for penetrative sex. Do you have any idea how difficult it is to find different ways 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…
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…
lecalcifer: puppyfan9000: lecalcifer: puppyfan9000: “I don’t want to see a CHILD shipped with an IMMORTAL DEMON” that child is a murderer for the British monarchy Sebastian is literally going to eat him… I guess it’s fine so long as the[…]↓ 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…
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.)
💖 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…
maria-sklodowskas-twix-bar: blackheartbiohazards: 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[…]↓ 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…