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.
We are realizing more and more than antis have no concept of people who think and believe in a way other than the way they think and believe.
Antis seem to believe that there is only one category of people who think and believe in a way that they don’t, and that category is “weirdos and criminals, and weirdo and criminal are synonyms.”
Can’t win ‘em all!
I wish teenagers who wrote smut knew not to go around telling everyone how old they are.
“On the internet nobody knows you’re a dog” as we used to say.
best thing a writer can do is make it clear that it’s not ok many ppl lack intelligence to part right from wrong so try and help them every author: tag your shit
Somebody reblogged our post from the other day and tagged it with this.
And yes, tag your shit, that part is very correct and very important.
But it is not your job as a fiction writer to educate anybody.
Unless you are specifically writing material to be educational you do not have any kind of responsibility to educate your audience on what is and isn’t moral behavior.
It is not your job to educate your audience on morality.
You do not have an obligation to tell your audience that bad things are bad.
Fiction is not moral education.
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.
There is nothing wrong with enjoying:
Shipping is imaginary; there is no way do it wrong.
Ship and let ship!
👉 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!
📢 Moral and immoral are not immutable qualities everyone agrees on.
📢 You are not obligated to listen to people who tell you that the fiction you enjoy carries moral weight.
📢 Trying to dictate what type of fiction is acceptable is authoritarian behavior.
“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.