Fancops won’t let anybody do anything they don’t like.
They very much have an “if you aren’t with us, you’re against us” mentality.
I’m convinced that half the reason they accuse us of being pedos, dog fuckers etc, isn’t because they really believe it but rather because they want to trigger and upset us.
Proshippers are the ones with normal attitudes toward fiction.
I don’t know how to explain to antis that they are not normal for getting themselves all twisted up and panicked about the moral lives of, and harm done to, fictional characters.
Antis, nobody cares but you.
It’s not important to be normal, but it’s absolutely normal to not care that people write about bad things and taboo topics.
Policing what other people write and draw and obsessing over other people’s morals is not normal.
Right? it always seems like “be critical of your interests” is code for “you’re not allowed to have fun”.
It also feels super performative. Like jesus christ nobody should care. And the fact that people who say it also freak out when people are like “um actually since you like this Irredeamable Media you cant consume critically” and yeah.
It feels as dumb as “basic dni criteria”
Exactly! It’s a free pass for people who shit on those of us who like problematic media to say “oh when I do it it’s okay, because I’m critical. But all of you degenerates are romanticizing it!”
It’s a rather nuanced issue that I’m not very educated on, so take my words with a pinch of salt, but I’m inclined to think that these people generally have this issue for two reasons.
1) They do not have very strong self-control, and falsely believe that because *they* would consider acting on those thoughts that others would as well. 2) They are within a culture that imposes the idea of thought purity, or the kind of dogma that ‘sin’ starts with ‘impure thoughts.’ In that kind of culture, even if you get away from believing in sin, you can still hold that framework when understanding morality.
I understand. Thoughts can be upsetting. But, understanding that the vast majority of thoughts one has are completely involuntary, one can better appreciate how our character is determined by the thoughts we place value enough to act on.
Individuals who understand the difference and yet propagate this kind of message anyways…? Those people’s motives are rooted in control. As soon as someone can make you feel guilty, they are able to use that primal urge to fit in to get you to do as they please.
You’ve gotta be kidding me. Again? I’ll have to look into it. Wouldn’t surprise me, in any case.
Confirmation bias 101: If you NEVER believe stories that go against your narrative, but aren’t skeptical AT ALL of stories that confirm it, that’s a warning sign that you could be in a cult. You can’t tell based on that alone, I’m just throwing that out there.
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.
see i do get the tag’s point, but not all works are meant to be educational.
of course a warning is good, like “hey murder is bad!” or something, or making it clear sometimes in an authors note or smth that a character isn’t good or something isn’t supposed to be looked up to in the writing, but like…
there are times when you, a reader, do need to pick and choose your own morals and read content and think about it critically. if you struggle with right from wrong, that’s up to YOU to realize and go “oh shit i should figure out my morals and where i stand on things” and then do that.
random people do not need to educate you on what YOUR morals should be.
