There is no such thing as fiction that is too self indulgent, anon. I hope you do post and share it.
It is always okay to use your dark experiences to share your perspective in fiction.
The world is richer for your fiction and your perspective being shared.
Not all art is about ‘goof representation’.
Meaningful art can be transgressive and challenging, both to the observer, and to the creator.
I really hope you share your work with the world, anon.
🌟 It’s okay to make bad art.
🌟 It’s okay to make art in bad taste.
🌟 You have a right to make art that others consider to be of poor quality.
🌟 You have a right to make art that others consider to be in poor taste.
🌟 You have a right to enjoy art that others consider to be of poor quality.
🌟 You have a right to enjoy art that others consider to be in poor taste.
Art and creativity can be just for fun!
Even art and creativity that depicts sex, suffering, harm and/or taboo topics.
Its okay for art to be just for fun!
Art for its own sake is still art!
You do not have to justify your creative works to anyone.
Art doesn’t have to be serious to be worthwhile.
Art doesn’t have to pass a test of merit to be art.
“But what if a child sees this content?”
This content is appropriate for, and within the rules of the platform that it was posted to.
It is not my job to moderate the content of a site to a higher degree than the actual site moderators.
Children who are uncomfortable with the content posted to a site where it is allowed to be should remove themselves to a site that is more heavily moderated.
Antis are trying to moderate the content of spaces that are not moderated to the degree they prefer.
Antis are mini-modding.
Kindness: treating others with the gentleness we’d like to be treated, rather than stooping to the level of our opponents.
Justice: defending the rights of our fiction creators to not be treated cruelly or as criminals, and taking a stand against censorship.
Bravery: refusing to be terrorized by harassers into hiding our content; and creating an environment to embolden others to share their creativity.
Freedom: maintaining the ideal that others can share their taboo and dark creative works, even if those are not themes we’re personally interested in.
Hey pal, thanks for writing in.
Just want to make sure you know that you can be proship and still have things in fiction that make you uncomfortable and you wanna avoid. There are specific pairings and some general problematic tropes that make us really uncomfortable and we just avoid them.
What makes someone proship isn’t being comfortable with everything, it’s acknowledging that we can’t control what content others make, and that’s okay. It’s also totally okay to curate your own space and avoid whatever it makes you happy to avoid.
As far as rpf and shipping real people goes, I’ll be honest, I don’t understand what compels people to write about that stuff, but I also realize it’s not my business to police what they do.
👉 Hate and harassment make fandom a toxic place for everyone.
👉 Hate and harassment decreases overall participation in fandom; it doesn’t just chase away people you don’t like.
👉 Hate and harassment discourages everyone from sharing their fan work for fear it might make someone upset.
👉 Hate and harassment decreases engagement and commenting on fan work for fear it might make someone upset.
If you see fan work you don’t like; block and move on!
Ship and let ship!
Unless the drawing was photorealistic, it more than likely was not illegal under US law.
I just double checked, and yes, shadman was arrested.
For assault with a deadly weapon, not for drawing gross or fucked up cartoons in bad taste.
I’ll be honest I don’t know much about shadman, and I have no desire to know more, but drawing somebody you hate’s child in porn as an attempt to trigger them just seems like a immature thing to do whether or not it’s illegal.
Like, it just sounds like a vindictive edgy middle schooler. Extreme chuuni energy in the worst way.
It’s like getting mad at someone and drawing a picture of you beating them up, except with 4chan loser vibes.
But yeah it sounds like his crime was assault, not drawing immature art in bad taste.
“Do you realize that whatever we fantasize about matters to God? He is intimately aware and involved in our spiritual development. As Christians, it is critical that we censor our imaginations, because wrong thoughts can easily become wrong attitudes that give birth to sinful actions. Emotions can manifest with equal force whether incited by fantasy or reality. This fact alone fuels the pornography industry.”
– an excerpt from “Buying and Selling the Souls of our Children: A Closer Look at Pokemon” by John Paul Jackson
Please, please show this quotation the next time you see an anti arguing about how we shouldn’t compare them to conservative Christians.
Antis can’t accept that once something is out in the world, you have no control over how others perceive it or interact with it.
Honestly it’s not just antis who act that way though, sometimes.