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It's incredibly foolish to disregard the dialectical relationship that exists between any materially existing entity/process and its fictionalised depictions; this includes even the most difficult and sensitive of topics like sexual violence and abuse. To say that the fictional depictions, whether actual published media or various informal play scenarios, have nothing to do with the real thing is absurd. They are obviously drawn from the image and ideas around it, and in turn can have varying forms of influence on how people conceptualise and respond to such things in reality. But at the same time the real and fictional are ultimately still separate and so it's equally absurd to talk about them as though they are one in the same

Like you can't take for granted that a piece of media depicting something automatically endorses it, or even that any "endorsement" exists in a context where it's materially meaningful. You can't take for granted that someone engaging in a sort of roleplay reflects any interest repeating those actions or affirming those values in real life; half the time the sense of moral transgression and personal aversion is part of the appeal. If you think that a fictional representation of a problem in any way exacerbates that issue in reality then you need to put in the work to demonstrate an actual throughline, a specific relationship between the material and ideal.

It's also very important to be aware of the limits; a discrete piece of fiction may reflect and in some limited ways reinforce social values but it's never going to "normalise" these values any more than the material structures that created them in the first place. A larger aggregate of media can have a larger effect, but only within the limits of the prevailing material conditions. While a causative relationship can't always be ruled out entirely, it's usually more constructive to view fiction through the lens of reflecting widely extant values rather than as bringing them into existence. The role of the ideal shouldn't be ignored but it shouldn't be irrationally inflated either, no matter how socially rewarding or emotionally satisfying indulging in that irrationality may be.

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I self-ship but the idea of actively doing it on the tumblr community makes my shudder because I'd rather not deal with another community's discourse please. Any time I see some about 'sharers' vs 'non-sharers' I feel quite weary

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Need her to groom me so bad

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have you ever shipped something so hard that you become irrationally happy and make a sound akin to steam escaping from a kettle everytime they so much as stand next to eachother

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Strange, Binghe keeps falling into wife plots...

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Brainrot cringe Sonic and Shadow who doesn’t understand what he’s saying

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‘unreliable narrator’ but it’s ’narrator is deeply in love with the person they are narrating’

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"we have progressed beyond the tumblr sexyman"

Nah babe, we've effectively regressed back to shaming women for openly liking something unless they write a 3 page disclaimer about how they understand that the sexy morally gray character is actually PrObLeMaTiC and solemnly swear that books and movies will not lead them astray from a life of devout self-denial.

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Ive said this before but swear the biggest skill to learn as an adult is how to resist high-pressure sales tactics. You do NOT have to answer questions with anything other than "Sorry I'm not interested." No matter how nice they are or no matter how many follow up questions they ask or even how agitated they get when you stand your ground. Just keep saying I'm not interested. Don't answer their questions. Don't give them an opening to try to push back on your reasons. Be a fucking brick wall of I'm not interested.

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I love mentally ill, abusive vampires. I love vampires when they kill and maim and act barely human. God they're so hot

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Look I can only speak for myself and what this work has meant to me, but I feel like I wanna say something for the new people incoming who are gonna be real judgey to elder fans. And please know I understand your perspective and would most likely have felt the same way had I gotten into this fandom as it is now as a younger age.

Kuroshitsuji really played a big role in getting me through school. I’m a CSA victim and was undiagnosed autistic until I was 25, and I literally played Ciel as a character. I masked in his personality, and it got me through ages 12-18. I wasn’t very pleasant. But it got me through

For me, idk if I’d even call myself a shipper as my interest lies in the power dynamics and psychological warfare those two put each other through… but the relationship between ciel and Sebastian was really healing, almost. Here you have this child, which I totally used as a self insert. Who was been abused, tortured, decimated. And has now found power in knowing the only thing he has to truly fear bows to him alone.

Now I’m almost 27. But when I started in this fandom, I was Ciel’s age. And I still feel like he and I are intertwined. I don’t know what I’m trying to say. Just that, I guess, these characters have meant a lot to many people for a really long time. So please just be kind and don’t assume someone is a predator or pedophile for being interested in that relationship dynamic. They’re characters. Don’t be cruel to real people.

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Norman Lindsay (1879-1969) - Other Lovers, 1924