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[questionablygourmet]

I notice you didn’t respond to the ask because you know it’s right and you’d sound horrible to try and go against it. Try walking up to any sane person in the street and telling them why it’s perfectly normal for people to imagine their favourite characters as paedophiles and minors having sex without any kind of plot or educational purpose - simply smutty fanfic they openly get off to despite recognising that it’s wrong as they comment “I’m going to hell for loving this so much”

I didn't respond to the ask because I didn't feel like I owe a rando on the internet who won't even message me off anon the time and energy of trying to give a thoughtful and constructive response to a pile of fearmongering strawman arguments. Or an accounting of my personal Trauma Cred(TM), as if anything I could possibly say would make an anti take me seriously.

I've been on the internet too damn long not to know better, thanks.

Try walking up to someone on the street and telling them that it's normal, nay, a moral imperative! to spend one's time and energy harassing real people about how, exactly, they may or may not be fantasizing about fictional people. Use those words, because that is the crux of the issue, here.

Invoking pedophilia as a bogeyman to get people to turn their brains off and break out the pitchforks is a classic because it's effective, and because anything other than full support of whoever's doing the invoking can be turned into a new target for harassment. I didn't ignore your previous ask because it was right, I ignored it because there wasn't any indication whatsoever it was sent in good faith, and frankly, it was such a cliche it was boring.