I’M NEVER GOING TO CARE WHAT YOU DO IN ROLEPLAY.
you can torture, you can include gore, cannibalism, rape, you can have murder in your threads, you can include toxic dynamics, friendships, relationships, incest, you can include disturbing sexual fetishes, you can ship your teenage muse with an adult, you can not ship it and have it be a crush instead, you can include mental health issues, you can include racism, sexism, making fun of disabilities, you can include social issues, you can take baby Judith, and throw her out of a window. you can portray Carl as a sociopath who really wants to kill his father? I’ll just be like… huh, i disagree, and move on.
I don’t care. I’m never going to care. It’s fictional.
shokcingly enough, fiction and roleplay are places where can explore issues that are disturbing, that are — difficult to comprehend, that make us uncomfortable. I have read books published and put on shelves that involve torture scenes and particular murders that I have found… so upsetting. I remember one, in COMPANY OF LIARS by Karen Maitland, where an apprentice boy was murdered, and… I was so upset I couldn’t even focus on my college work for days. I remember reading underage rape in… A SONG OF ICE AND FIRE. y’know, that book series that most of us believe is on of the best series of literally all time? and yeah… people even ship the couple involved.
i’m never gonna’ mind what you do in your roleplay, because i know that writing a fiction is not enforcing a moral. and to think so, and to start to order people around and berate them and gang up on them according to a real life moral, is utilizing a highground that no one actually disagrees with to make you feel happy about bullying.
even things that i find disturbing or disagree with? you can write them. you can explore them. it’s not gonna’ effect me. however, i know it can effect some people. of course content can be disturbing and, in those instances, you need to do whatever makes you comfortable. you need to avoid it, make sure it’s tagged properly. & content creators, as in, ourselves, should make sure we make that clear for people. because they have the rite to avoid things that upset them. they do not have the rite to silence things that upset them.
you don’t have to apologize for your blog or your content. ever.
