trillgutterbug:

lauralot89:

cyanwrites:

vastderp:

rshathul:

vethica:

who-gives-a-ship:

shobijinsandy:

Dear people who ship taboo relationships

Such as in///cest and ped///ophilia

Do NOT harm yourself. That doesn’t help, and asking you to do so doesn’t help.

Instead? Tell your parents. Tell your family, tell your friends, your teachers, your employers, EVERYONE you know and interact with, that you support and even romanticize abusive content. Tell them that you think it’s harmless.

Well?

We’re waiting.

I do tell a lot of people. My mom, for example. She’s a writer too and she knows that I enjoy writing dark stories. I said people were mad at me on the internet over a ship and she immediately guessed which (very problematic) ship it was and was shocked that people had told me to die over something so ridiculous. I recently told my therapist that I write and enjoy darkfic sometimes, specifically mentioning the sort of sexual content they involve. His first impulse was to worry that I might feel guilty about my harmless interest. I told my previous therapist that I get off to violent fictional media and she said it was fine because she knew I’d never hurt a fly in real life. I’ve told my coworkers about the sort of movies I like (horror) and they didn’t care at all. Turns out people who work at libraries know how fiction works. My childhood best friend has known I’m a sadist for as long as I can remember and it never seemed to bother her. I still have a reputation as a very polite and helpful person, and my friends feel comfortable telling me secrets and asking for advice.

You know what always shocks people? When I tell them about the hate I’ve recieved online for my ships. My mom regularly says she’s proud of me for standing up for myself and others online, and my therapist considers it a very positive act. I don’t tell EVERYONE I interact with about my problematic ships (hi I’d like a number 1 combo with cheese also I think Thor and Loki should kiss), but I don’t hide it at all. The worst I’ve ever gotten is people being mildly surprised that someone as silly and positive as me loves horror.

Tell your family, tell your friends, your teachers, your employers, EVERYONE you know and interact with

“and that’s all 300 pairs of fictional characters I want to kiss each other. any questions?”

“ma’am this is a wal-mart”

Told my mom I wanted to rip open kylo rens abdominal cavity and she just shrugged so op idk what you’re expecting to happen here

“Hey young people, i want you to initiate sexually explicit conversations with lots of grown ups you barely know”

NICE TRY JARED FROM SUBWAY

This is honestly the funniest post I’ve read on this hellsite.

Especially knowing that OP’s definition of “incest” = people who were close friends before falling in love and “paedophilia” = adults who are not exactly the same age.

Listen, kiddo, if you can’t even type out the words without performative purity slashes, you’re not old enough to ride the disc horse. Don’t tell anyone you know and interact with you wrote this post, it’s just too embarrassing.

I told my therapist about the trashtastic fan fic I write and she called the purity police and I’m writing this from the Internet Jail and Reeducation Camp for People Who Fan Fic Wrong

I just want everyone to know

not to throw pearls before swine, but op (inadvertently) presents an interesting false dichotomy of morality here. “only Bad People will be punished by society for Bad Behaviour” is an implication so historically inaccurate as to be hilarious, and lbr op is not actually trying to be taken seriously with this bizarre gotcha attempt, but let’s assume for the sake of argument that they are. it’s noteworthy that a lot of people mix up morality and ethics on the reg and i think that’s the root cause of a lot of this type of confusion and hysterics.

morality is specifically culturally mandated. it’s the sum of what your family, culture, religion, economy, ecological niche, etc etc, have organically ratified as the code of conduct (theoretically anyway, and only at the time of its invention) best suited to keeping everyone alive. a lot of the time it sucks and falls short of reality, bc things like the heliocentric model of the solar system and germ theory haven’t always been around to inform our traditions. ethics otoh is basically the calculation of potential suffering. how does xyz action actually impact an individual/group, regardless (but acknowledging the subjective role) of cultural morality? masturbation, for instance: historically immoral; actually perfectly ethical. human sacrifice (culture-dependent): morally necessary; almost certainly heinously unethical.

regardless of the extensive, fruitless lengths it would take to draw some strict line between what an “abusive” fictional scenario is or isn’t (and then subsequently go out and burn the resultant millions and millions of works of Bad Art to keep ourselves morally pure), and regardless of the years that could be spent debating how and when and why fiction affects reality and whether thought crime should be a thing (??!!), there’s something grimly amusing about the conceit that culturally immoral (even if it is ethically sound) behaviour must always result in a personal sense of shame, and that the only reason people keep private information private is a guilty conscience. as though there have never been people who hid, eg, being queer, or a jew, or a female author, or a single mother, or a believer in heliocentrism, not out of personal shame but because a) their business is their own, and b) their peers’ unethical moral beliefs would have caused them harm or even death.

now obvs i’m not comparing being jewish or queer to enjoying subgenre fiction, that would be reductive and absurd (sort of like op’s post), but what i am saying is that this “hurr durr fire bad science scary nikola tesla thomas edison was a witch” style of moral reasoning is pervasive, obnoxious, historically fatal, and doesn’t ever need to be taken seriously. and imo it’s extremely debatable whether Bad Fiction is even culturally immoral in the first place. i’d wager not, at this point in 21st century western society, and that anyone you tearfully confessed an interest in, say, silence of the lambs to would back away from you slowly, but not for the reasons op thinks. in essence, op would have been right there alongside savonarola gleefully shovelling books into the bonfire of the vanities and i think most of us can agree ain’t nobody got time for that