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tumblr "art should comfort the disturbed and disturb the comfortable" type people when they see something in art that disturbs them

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some of you really aren’t gonna like this, but a creator’s wishes should never dictate what fan content is produced for a piece of media.

in the past, authors like anne rice have tried to limit the production of fanfiction. but at least rice was honest - she thought this infringed on her copywrite. back in the day, this was considered a valid argument to not create any fanfiction at all for her works.

do you understand what i’m saying? while you may sound valiant for placing a creator’s “discomfort” above the fan’s natural proclivities in fandom, really you’re just continuing to advocate for censorship in fan spaces.

and for anyone who is a creator, or who wants to become one - get comfortable with the rules of the internet. there will be erotic content made of your characters, there will be weird AUs made with your characters. there will be strange pairings and headcanons, no matter if you interact religiously with the fans or not. you cannot stop people from connecting with and wanting to be creative with your characters.

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everytime I see this tweet I lose my mind

makes it look like y'all believe that thinking drawings matter more than real people is the "default" mindset. how can you seriously say "i think fake concepts matter more than a real human with real emotions and rights" and think that that's NORMAL?

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even if i ship a boy (whos gay) with a girl?? I'm bi so i'm not homophobic, but my notp is canon and ever since people act insane when you ship this character with anyone else.

No.

We love noncanon ships here! Have fun with it ❤️

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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 slight removal and distance of story. Some griefs and pains are so huge that even trying to process them can be overwhelming. Using the slight distance created by talking about traumas instead through storytelling allows people the ability to process difficult emotions easier.

This is why tragedy as a genre exists! The point of tragedy is catharsis, feeling a powerful devastating emotion in its entirety letting it wash through you and then pass. Opening ourselves to our own griefs can be unbearable, so we as a species find it easier to process them through characters.

Narrative therapy allows people to write and rewrite their own life story. They can change events that happen, or they can just find some measure of closure in processing something through metaphor. It can restore a sense of control over a life event that ripped away someone’s sense of self.

It is fairly obvious that a lot if not most people, especially when first starting in the art form, write fanfiction as an intuitive form of self directed narrative therapy. People love to project their insecurities and fears and experiences and traumas onto their blorbos.

Bad things happen to people. No one gets out of life alive. Some people experience the worst things imaginable and live to tell the tale. And sometimes those people process their traumas through creating fanart and fanfiction.

If art that depicts terrible terrible things like sexual assaults isn’t allowed to exist, then the people who have lived through them are forbidden from talking about their lived experiences. Isolated. Their very existence a taboo subject. People Need to be able to talk about their experiences, and survivors deserve to be able to make or consume art that reflects their life without being told they’re no better than whoever harmed them.

Now! That is not to say that everyone who consumes or makes erotica about a taboo subject has to have experienced that thing. Sexual fantasy is complicated and human brains are weird. But having sexual fantasies about a taboo subject is NOT the same thing as doing those actions in real life and many people fantasize about stuff that they have Absolutely no interest in actually doing. But trying to police sexual fantasies just harms people’s experience of self!

Kink is not inherently evil! Kink is just roleplaying!!! Many common kinks are reflections of larger cultural anxieties. For example, people socialized as women are taught to always fear sexual assault. Is it any wonder that so many have a cnc kink? Kinkplay or cnc erotica allow people to experience the feeling of a complete loss of control and process that in a safe way that they actually have complete control over.

Societies dominated by repressive religious morals already tend to result in people having unhealthy relationships with their own sexuality. Cultural norms around sexual purity do a number on people. I think a fascinating example of this is the girl defined sister who has actually started talking openly about how religious indoctrination about sexual purity almost destroyed her marriage (while still maintaining that sexual purity is important. Of course. Because the cognitive dissonance is strong). The saddest example of this I have seen is teens on tiktok self policing their sexual expression to the point of feeling bad for having a crush on a character their own age.

The answer to systemic sexual violence is not banning people from ever talking about it or making art featuring it. The answer is better education and social norms about consent and bodily autonomy and a normalization of discussing difficult and complex subjects. It is not policing all sexual expression to make sure it is morally pure.

Anyway all this to say I stand by my universal theory that:

fanfiction 🤝 kinkplay 🤝 RPGs 🤝 narrative therapy

And please stop regurgitating christofash rhetoric about sexual and moral purity while complaining about art you find gross and telling people to kill themselves for having a slightly edgy ship. You are not preventing harm, you are doing harm.

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in case any proshipper needs to hear this today:

you are not a bad person

your taste in fiction and which imaginary pixel people you want to kiss doesn´t determine if you´re a good person or not!

no matter what antis throw at you, you are okay. you are alright.

don´t allow antis to convince you otherwise <3

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Antis that call proshippers proshitters are hilarious because that's like. Middle school level insult and actually think that proshippers are offended by it fjdjcjshfjajd

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when internet people are like “i love gothic literature but i hate anything that discusses incest, sexual violence, oppression, misogyny, abuse, torture, gore, murder, or death”

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So as someone who consumes and writes fanfiction, I am on the fanfiction is a valid type of literature train choo choo but my god it is so painfully obvious some of you don't read anything else.

Some of you desperately need a cure for your fandom police brainworms and I think the answer might be just reading a fucking book. Check out a book from the library. Preferably one without a wattpad cover on it and a disclaimer from the author being like ZOMG PLZ DONT THINK IM CONDONING THE BAD STUFF!!! PROSHIPPERS DNI!!!111

Did you know that books don't have those usually because people reading books are generally smart enough to know that fiction is fiction.

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man if some of you are as traumatized by fanfiction as you claim to be, the public library must be the stuff of nightmares for you

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‘children should not be exposed to literature about bigotry, violence, etc because they’re Not Prepared For It’ is like one of the most privileged opinions you can possibly have. i hate to tell you this but a lot of children face bigotry and violence in their daily lives! for children of colour and children who are victims of abuse and children in poverty, these things are Actually Happening to them In Real Life! what you are advocating for when you say children should be shielded from these things in media is for the white children with stable loving nuclear families to be shielded from acknowledging the lived realities of their peers!

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When we hear about a suicide related to bullying or someone shared their story, people want action. They want change. They say people need to have more compassion or whatever

But some of those same people think it’s totally fine to bully people and be absolutely vile if they perceive that person as the enemy. Doesn’t matter if they don’t have all the facts. As long as they think that person is (inset word here), then it’s okay

And it’s tolerated. Because “I’m not going to be nice to a (insert word here)”

You cannot say you’re against bullying when you do it online and newsflash: that is cyberbullying

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no.

no, no, no, no, no, no.

what the absolute fuck is this. what the fuck is wrong with you people. oh my god.

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starting to think that antis actually think that “negging” works and that’s why they ask for donations immediately after insulting the people that they’re asking

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♡ It's completely valid to ship a character with anyone, even if it contradicts the character's canon sexuality. This won't affect canon and it doesn't mean you're homophobic or anything similar! Ship what you want to ship, you're not hurting anyone <3 ♡

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I don't, im in it more for abusive relationship dynamics (yandere/stalker stuff, etc) and problematic fandoms but idc if other people ship incest and underage cause... its not real! 💖

Proshippers that don't ship incest or Kid x Adult ships are valid 💖♥️💗❤️❤️

You're still part of the proship community 💕💝❤️💗♥️💖

We love and support you 💕💕💗💝💝

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Daily reminder that real people matter more than fictional ones ever will. Hard to believe this is even a controversial statement.