#Two wrongs don't make a right

[blackflash9]

"Can we move on? I'd love for you to be part of my life again."

So, I've recently come across some disturbing opinions in the community where some people are actively supporting or cheering for Lin to beat up Suyin for her childhood mistakes and personal imperfections, which gives off serious domestic abuser vibes? Look, I understand that everyone brings their own baggage to their reactions to fiction and fictional characters, but sometimes I wish people would acknowledge that more. It's literally okay to say, 'I don't like this character because they remind me of people I've had bad experiences with.'

But at the same time, I think people often miss the forest for the trees in what Lin and Suyin are supposed to embody about (imperfect) family and relationships. I'll preface this by saying that not everyone who hurts us deserves forgiveness. However, there are people we might benefit from forgiving or even just talking to. Lin and Suyin demonstrate that forgiveness can positively impact lives and that effective communication is essential for this to happen.

[dramoor]

[trexalicious]

Seriously Texas? Don't you have enough to worry about at the border without persecuting a young mother of five for returning her books a month late due to pregnancy complications? A $570 arrest warrant has been issued for her and the judge compared returning her books late to stealing merchandise from Walmart...🤯🤬👎

[queenofthewinternight]

More murder does not solve murder. Hate begets hate. Violence is not the answer.

Peace used to be the hallmark of those who called themselves liberals...

...but they are being pull down by the culture that Tr*mp & the MAGA idiots have created.

Congrats, you're now simply the other side of the coin. Are you happy and satisfied?

Go touch grass.

[creationsabyss]

My thoughts on the Aventurine drama

I've been inactive for a while, I was (still am) busy in real life but coming back online to post and seeing discourse about a newly crowned favorite character is disheartening. Even more so, that people are harassing other writers over a drama I feel is overblown.

I have thoughts regarding it but I'm unsure if my opinion would be appreciated. But if you'd like to peacefully talk it out with me, I'd be happy to lend an ear. I'd like to hear both sides, as meager as my opinion may be.

Oh boy, here we go.

Aventurine is a character, a fictional being born to entertain the players. He is not real. He can not be offended by what you create of him. There is no point getting upset on the behalf of a character and prioritizing fiction over a person who does actually exist.

If we do want to condemn slavery fics, why not also cancel slave reader fics? Or ones that include things such as dead dove (including yanderes in general) fics because those topics are equally terrible to condone and write about from that point of view. Or how about other characters that have similar topics in their lore. Should those also be canceled too?

*There are also folks who make problematic pieces to help cope with their own trauma. Does that mean they should be canceled too? (On that note: making a piece that holds problematic content does not always mean the person condones it in real life. Fiction is fiction for a reason.)

In the end, I think everyone can have their own opinions, but I would like to say that your opinions do not justify terrible actions. Just because you disagree with something does not justify you bullying someone into deleting one of their works, whether it is art or writing or anything else, I do not think that is justifiable. Harassing someone or calling people to harass them is not right either.

*If you did disagree with it, why not message the author about it instead of making accusatory posts? Even when done with good intentions, all it does is cause harm when it's practically inviting people to go harass someone over a fanfiction. A very mild fanfiction at that.

If you disagree with a piece, cool. That's your opinion. Just don't interact with it then. Block that creator or that tag or whatever it is that led you there. Or if you're curious, ask that creator.

Also, to reiterate, in my opinion, fiction is still just fiction. Especially when it's a fanfiction about a fictional character. Yes, his canon lore exists, but people can use that basis in fanfiction, something that will inherently warp canon because we are not the original writers and can not capture him in the exact way he was created. In case that doesn't make sense: Fanfiction does not have to comply with the original lore. Also since some of you seem to be forgetting: fiction does not mirror real life.

If you are truly that concerned over sensitive topics like that, directing that energy towards projects that involve such topics in real life would be much better than attacking people on the internet.

[abearinthewoods]

This is what radical feminists do when you don't agree that 100% of men jerk off to rape.

@radfemih8men Care to fucking explain yourself? (edit: she did, in the comments. long story, she confirmed it and thinks two wrongs make a right)

>mentions the darknet. 100% needs to have her hard drive check out.

Anyways, report this convo to the police, saying this kind of thing to a 13 year old is actually a sex offense PURELY ON ITS OWN in a lot of places.

[onsomekindofstartrek]

Like, I don't think this is profoundly feminist or even deep, but I want to write a sci-fi novel that gives older sexist male sci-fi fans the exact experience of being a nerdy teenage girl and reading a Larry Niven novel.

Like, it's not even that it was a failure of progressivism, the way those novels treated women, it's just that you get halfway or less into all these novels and realize that the author is truly incapable of being normal about women, that the aliens are more human than the women in this man's inner world.

I want to create the equivalent for grown-ass men who like Warhammer and Dune. A novel that leaves a forty-five year old libertarian Heinlein fan like... well, that's an amazing vision of the future, but why does the author think I'm... icky?

[new-biz11]

Guys...

I am really sorry for this.. but... I'm afraid that I'm going to have to quit... Well, not quit-quiting, I mean like, I'm just going to have to stop posting for a while... That means for both the @goodnight-45 and the @new-biz11 accounts... because apparently... I keep getting sudden ideas that I keep rushing onto... Only for me to just keep making mistakes on them... and it's really hard for me to do so many art projects at the same time... especially when I have my own fan series to make...so, I apologize..again to all those who were looking forward to seeing my song posters, the pilot episode...and everything else... it's just really hard for me nowadays...so as meaning to say, I will have to stop uploading posts for a while...and start uploading when 2025 comes..once I have recovered...(Maybe at the end of January or early February...) So...if you want to..... Go ahead and unfollow me.. because I've already made way too many mistakes...and..two wrongs don't make a right...so yeah...

Thank you for reading this patiently and.....I hope you all understand...and sorry again to everyone who's been looking forward to the new fan series and will now have to wait even longer for it to come out... good bye.....for now...

[sapphicczaroftorture]

Being a jewish anti militarism and colonialism living in occupied Palestine, i really feel like i have no place.

Even the tiniest empathy for PEOPLE, HUMAN BEINGS, CIVILIANS who are Palestinian is considered as "supporting terrorism". I feel i have no place here, and im ashsamed being part of the occupying side.

I really feel This [anon online spaces] is the only place i can say that w/o concequence;

Occupation is occupation. Don't you understand every single person attacking NEVER HAD A FREE DAY IN THEIR LIVES? Evey soldier was born to insane propoganda and active justification of the occupation? They were born into the occupation, none want to die to it.

Terrorism is awful. But not ONLY muslims do terrorism. The way the military and settlers controls the Palestinians is terrorism. The massacre in Reim was terrorism. Terrorism does not justify terrorism.

Also, criticizing either is not antisemitism and is not islamophobic. I also do not blame individuals, the people being drafted are not to blame, i criticise the Governments who give no shits about human lives, they only care about political power.

Hammas and Bibi need each other to stay in power.

[jayjuno]

Israel is committing genocide against Palestinians in the Gaza Strip right now.

Just sayin'

[blusical]

While we're still on the subject of the Booktok mess. This should go without saying, but please don't harass any booktok creators, especially if they had nothing to do with this situation. What's happening is disgusting, but two wrongs don't make a right. Just stick with calling out the harassing users or better yet maybe even blocking them.

[djevilninja]

Mary Wells - Two Wrongs Don’t Make a Right

[jisreal64]

Imagine committing just as much war crimes as Israel, taking hostages, oppressing your own citizens, killing Jews and Queer people for bigoted reasons, raping people, and selling POWs into human trafficking and then being praised by a bunch of gay young adults from western white majority countries who aren’t Israeli, Palestinian, Muslim, or Jewish for “resisting N&zism”.

[b0bthebuilder35]

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