#please don't be sending anyone hate over this stuff we are just chatting openly about whatever and just throwing stuff around

[wildpeachfarm]

i feel like i have to intervene here and say ( no hate to neuro here because i think they're cool ). this is rpf. you absolutely cannot "don't like don't read" your way out of being inappropriate about real people

it was inappropriate even if it was good. it was inappropriate even if it wasn't done with bad intentions. you cannot "don't like don't read" your way out of being disrespectful towards real people about a real topic they went through. this is not how anti-censorship terms work

weaseling yourself out of the responsibility of being respectful towards the real part of the real people fiction by using terms that are used in only fiction will not end well. no matter how much you like a fic or how important a topic is for you, you're still using real people to write it. the context of the fic was off, particularly on the way it was promoted. if you really want the fic to exist so badly, use a pseudonym on ao3 and just be normal about mentioning it in public

rpf and fiction have opposing rules. fiction is don't like don't read. rpf is you can't be respectful don't write it

fair enough tbh

I get the concern and everything and maybe it would've been better to use different names or something or maybe not promote on twitter or stuff like that 🤷‍♀️ I know when it's people's first rpf fandom (or one that's just much more strict about things) it can be lots of "you live and you learn" moments about where to tread and when to change things up to avoid people getting upset

*also last ask on this because I don't want a friendly convo about this to turn into people being rude to those in my inbox because none of these people I want to see getting bashed :(*