#i was excited as both tlou and pedro fan to get the best of both worlds

[vadersaber]

what makes me even more sad than people using Joel for these r*pe fantasies and everything is… what these people are writing is like the worst experience ever for some people out there. Like it’s the most horrible and ugly and terrifying thing they had to go through.

And now you have some random people online squealing about how good and hot and 🥵 their most horrifying experience was.

Like I don’t engage with these posts, I have so much blocked and filtered and I still somehow see these posts in the tags because things weren’t tagged properly or tumblr is just being dumb. And it makes me sick to think of someone who actually experienced this seeing the same things. I know trauma is a complicated things and sometimes people use writing as an outlet. But you can’t tell me it’s your trauma outlet to write r*pe fanfics when you’re answering comments, celebrating how hot and good the writing was.

i've made my stance clear on those type of stories before: they're definitely not my cup of tea so I have the tags blocked and i scroll by, always. if others enjoy them, great, you do you babes.

but like you said, when survivors of SA come in contact with them, that's an issue. such topics should always be properly tagged. i've already had a few people reach out to me saying they feel unsafe even browsing the joel miller tag because of this. going in the tag of their comfort character has become triggering for them.

now, everyone is free to write whatever they desire. i can't and will never tell people 'hey don't write this bc i don't like it' (even if i literally do not get how anything non-consensual is hot, especially being an SA survivor myself). but yes, joel miller's characterization this year has gone very weirdly, down a rabbit hole that for the life of me i cannot process.