#I don't want labels I want my sandbox back from these randos who showed up and started policing the sandcastles

[rabbitsonthemoon]

Void Rants About Writing

Life is too fucked up and short to not write whatever's in your head. It's fictional. It's yours. Go nuts. If someone gives you grief about it, block them. You don't owe them shit. If it makes you happy, if it makes life pass a little more bearably, if it helps you feel safe, just write it. I know exactly where the shame in my head comes from and those traumas can fuck right off. Fluffy, smutty, gory, whatever, I won't be shackled by the fear that I'm somehow lesser or wrong for expressing my creativity in a way that doesn't appeal to everyone.

I know who I am. You know who you are. That won't change because we enjoy writing things a little fucked up, or a lot fucked up, or weird, or strange, or so damn niche that there's only 12 people in the world who'd understand it.

This isn't judgment day, it's fiction. Take a chill pill and stop listening to the people who want you mad and upset and feeling like there's a threat when there really, really isn't. Writing is an amazing outlet and people should feel safe exploring their perceptions, thoughts and ideas. Creativity is a neutral force and shaming it sucks. Shitty people are going to be shitty people regardless of what is and isn't considered acceptable. They can't handle taking accountability for their own decisions so they blame other things, people, and influences. I promise that books do not do that, any more than video games make people violent or playing DnD will make you sell your soul to the Devil. Being under the thumb of people who think that way absolutely sucks and being free of their influence feels like rediscovering breathing.

Making it out to be some measure of morality is such a shit lesson to teach someone.

Do me a huge solid and block me if you have a problem with that. This is a hill I'll die a hundred times on. If that makes me wrong, I never want to be right.