Fun fact, being opposed to incest on the grounds of it causing genetic defects is eugenics.

This person is a clown who is trying to moralize to people while defending their own tastes that others would consider equally fucked up.

a proshipper is anyone who thinks people shouldn’t be harassed over fiction, typically they believe that fiction doesn’t reflect reality on a one to one basis (ex: if you read about someone murdering someone, you won’t go out and murder someone just cause you read it) I think most people are proshippers, cause, y’know, it’s stupid to get mad at someone over fiction.

fucked-up relationships in fiction fascinate me. I like reading about them, I like writing them, I ship a few of them. I don’t think that says anything about me as a person, other than I like fucked-up fiction.

It’s because tumblr started hiding any posts that use the tag nsfw.

If you tag something as nsfw it literally disappears from everywhere but your dashboard and your followers dashboards.

It does the same thing if you use the hashtag girls, too.

Any tag that tumblr associates with porn sends your post to the shadow realm.

she-who-fights-and-writes:

blackheart-biohazards:

🖋 It’s okay to write about dark and evil topics without explicitly condemning them in the text.

🖋 It’s okay to write with an unreliable narrator who views their own evil actions as good or admirable.

🖋 It is not your responsibility to make sure your audience knows that war, torture, abuse, incest, rape, child molestation and so on are bad.

🖋 Not all fiction is about telling a moral lesson to the reader.

🖋 You are not obligated to be your reader’s moral teacher.

I feel as though puritanism has become so incredibly pervasive in the writing world lately, hidden under the guise of social justice. I swear more people would wake up and see it if they realized just how many people use the word “problematic” as a flowery way to say “sinful.”

Just always remember to properly tag your work!!!

Ahhhhhh!!! <3

I love Tracey and Michael. I think they arguably have the most tender moments together in the game. They certainly have the most positive relationship in the De Santa household.

It’s almost embarrassingly obvious how much Tracey loves and hero worships her father– despite being a cranky teenager. It’s clear her desire to get into show-business is a reflection of her father’s own ambitions and dreams.

Even if Tracey gets angry in the moment its clear she’s more pleased by her father’s over-protectiveness than upset by it. Their tempers are another thing that they have in common.

They also both show the same (legitimately) hypersexual tendencies.

I’m honestly surprised given how dark the themes of the game are that Rockstar didn’t go more heavily into an incestuous undertone for their relationship in game.

Basically I just think its clear that Tracey heavily takes after her father, whom she idolizes, and Michael dotes on Tracey to the point where it seems like she’s the only person in the family he legitimately cares ago.

They’re great <3

I think that articles like that lack context and are created to clickbait people with moral outrage.

The GTA games, especially the modern ones, are about horrible people across the board. They are a reflection of society at its worst.

Every character is the worst possible interpretation of their type of person. We see every character in a terrible light.

Characters in GTA are lazy, stupid, greedy, trashy, jealous, angry and petty. Just, all of them, every character.

So of course the women come off as misogynistic stereotypes, and the men come off as misogynists.

Every character in the games is a negative stereotype.

Its because everyone is portrayed as an awful person.

And people who think that fiction should never portray women as terrible people– or never portray misogynistic men– are stupid. Those people are stupid.

Terrible, petty, stupid, greedy people exist. Some of those people are women.

Men who treat women like garbage exist.

Trying to force fiction to pretend like those people don’t exist is stupid at best an dangerous at worst.

ETA: Also, sex workers like hookers and strippers are cool people who deserve dignity and respect, and part of that dignity and respect is allowing them to be portrayed in fiction.

💕 Your writing is art.

💕 Your writing is self expression.

💕 Your writing will never please everyone.

💕 If you try to force your writing to please everyone, it will lose the spark that makes it yours.

💕 No story is ever told the same way by two people.

💕 Write your story without bowing to pressure to change what makes it yours.

💕 Any story you want to tell is worth telling.

💕 No matter how dark, no matter how self indulgent.

💕 Your story is worth writing the way that you want to write it.

Speaking as a fellow character adopt person, and toyhouse user–

The toyhouse / character adopt scene is wild, esspecially mixed with proship and antiship wank.

You’re absolutely right about many antis not caring who they interact with until they called out for it.

Thanks for sharing your experiences.

Some more notes on the reason and way the age of majority in the US changed in the 1970s.

During the early 1970s, some young activists, liberal lawmakers, and interest groups met with considerable success in their attempts to grant young people greater adult rights and responsibilities at earlier ages, successfully framing eighteen- to twenty-year-old youth as mature, responsible young people who were quite capable of shouldering adult rights and duties. But these positive perceptions of young people were short-lived.

By the mid-1970s, they were being supplanted by much more negative and unsettling images of young people who were thought to be exhibiting “adult” behaviors too soon, and were portrayed as being both in danger and a danger to American society.

As a result, lawmakers became increasingly focused on protecting and controlling young people in their late teens and early twenties, and on drawing clear, firm boundaries between childhood and adulthood.

These shifts demonstrate that images and perceptions of American youth played a key role in shaping 1970s reforms to the legal boundaries between childhood and adulthood.

Rather than the product of a sober, careful evaluation of young Americans’ capacity to make responsible decisions for themselves, these reforms were often the product of adult Americans’ visceral, emotional responses to shifting public perceptions of the nation’s youth.

–Under Age: Redefining Legal Adulthood in 1970s America (abstract)

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In 1971 the United States Government lowered the minimum voting age from 21 to 18, in response to widespread social unrest.

You see, 18 year olds were being drafted and sent against their will to fight in the Vietnam war.

And a lot of these teenagers were wondering ‘hey, how come you can force me to go fight in a war that I was too young to vote for? If I’m still kid why are you allowed to send me to die in a war?“

So at least in the US, the reason we’re considered adults at 18 is so that we can die as soldiers.

As for if it would affect proship discourse if the age of majority was 21, I can’t begin to guess because the last 50 years would have been very different.