#sightmarish

[meyerlansky]

you say in your bio "antis fuck right off", and "darkfic" rarely means anything else, so regardless of if you didn't say anything related to that literally, it still carries those connotations and I don't want my post to be seen through "anti-anti" lens or to be interacted with as if I agree with those views, which is why I want it unreblogged since you might consider me an "anti"

I’M the one projecting? that’s not what “darkfic” means. it just means dark content. that includes murder. that includes dehumanization. that DEFINITELY includes cannibalism. it includes the exact same elements that pathologic highlights in the game itself. the narrow lens of the term that one person brings to it isn’t the end-all and be-all of the concept.

beyond that, disliking “darkfic” of any stripe doesn’t make you an anti. it makes you a person with preferences and boundaries that deserve to be respected. harassing people based on what you think their choices say about them as a person makes you an anti.

i don’t agree with harassing people into self-harm, suicide, or joblessness, or ostracizing them and creating whisper networks based on unsubstantiated accusations, which is what antis do and have done, including in the pathologic fandom. so yeah, i have “antis fuck off” in my bio. if you prefer to be seen through that lens and associated with that kind of behavior, that... sure is a choice. do you do those things? i assume not, because i generally try to assume the best of strangers on the internet, and if not, then i don’t consider you an anti. i consider you a person with preferences and boundaries that deserve to be respected.

if you don’t want people in the pathologic fandom, even people you disagree with, to engage with your posts about pathologic, then it probably shouldn’t be maintagged, because people you disagree with are still part of the fandom for the game. i’m also a person with boundaries that deserve to be respected, and there’s a HUGE difference between saying “i don’t want my post misinterpreted and i’d appreciate if you removed your reblog/tags” vs immediately assuming the worst of me, then doubling down on putting words in my mouth and making assumptions about what i REALLY mean, and expecting me to take responsibility for what you’ve projected onto me.

i’ll delete the post, because i don’t want content on my blog from people who  think it’s okay to treat other people this way. but you could have just asked me to. none of this was warranted.

[the-queen-of-staves]

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— pogga (@sightmarish) April 22, 2020

[runningwithinfinityy]

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"men don't do drama" those dudes in the count of monte cristo beefed for 1276 pages

— pogga (@sightmarish) April 22, 2020

[meyerlansky]

my post has nothing to do with what you wrote in the tags. I was speaking on the hypocrisy of people who don't just feel "above" daniil/artemy but feel as if fans who acknowledge the connection they canonically have are somehow consuming pathologic "wrong" when they often do the same thing only with different themes that are just as prominent.

which has absolutely nothing to do with fans of pathologic acknowledging the dark themes of this game that are always portrayed as horrific and unsettling (as any horror game would) and rightfully being disgusted by people not only turning those themes into masturbation material but tacking on more "dark" themes that make no sense in this game only to consume it as porn (like rape/incest/pedophilia. don't try to obfuscate by calling it darkfic, no one in this fandom's repulsed by horror, they're rightfully repulsed by trauma porn)

you can go ahead and delete your projection of a reblog. I don't agree with anything you wrote in the tags and I don't want to take any part in it

i didn’t say anything about rape or incest or pedophilia, or even anything sexual at all. i brought up the specific game mechanics that i did in my tags because i appreciate fic that engages with artemy’s canonical capacity for violence and his tendency to depersonalize the people he kills to save the people he values. “Soft Dad Found Family Artemy ONLY” types getting angry and accusatory when someone includes traits he canonically possesses in what they write was the point of my tags and the point of me bringing up those mechanics. the people that sanitize artemy of his darker traits are often the same people that look down on burakhovsky because they think daniil is “worse” and artemy shouldn’t be brought down to his level, when the reality of the text is they’re much closer in grey-morality than people like to believe.

if you read other things into those tags that i didn’t state, then that’s what you’re bringing to the interpretation, not what i put there.