Honestly these arguments about "anti's" and "ship and let ship" are so bullshit when held up to the light. Oh, you like the idea of this child and this adult in a relationship together? Cool! Now tell your boss about it. Tell your mom. Tell your neighbor who has kids. Tell anyone outside of this anonymous environment.
Because you fucking won't. You know it's wrong and fucked up to want a child to have a relationship with an adult. YOU KNOW that any sane real world person would think you're a disgusting piece of shit if you told them. So you stay in your little online community :) where you can bully others online with no consequences. Because no one would want to be around you if you told them this shit in real life.
THANK YOU. Jesus christ, the amount of full-grown ADULTS who are proshippers and constantly complain about how "fiction doesn't affect reality" is so fucking creepy to me. Guess what? I am a daydreamer (possibly a maladaptive one at that) who used daydreaming as an escape from my past reality, one where I was stuck living with my narcissistic grandparents who made me feel worthless and honestly scared for my life simply because I was different than them, I was struggling with suicidal thoughts and s/h, and intrusive thoughts revolving around giving up my virginity to fully grown men for money and a chance in life because my body was the only thing that I felt was worthy of loving. I cannot describe the pain depression I was dealing with at the time, and that little world I had created for myself honestly felt like home to me. It was the only place where I felt like I could truly be myself and feel happy, despite how dark it was at times. It was one of the only reasons why I am still alive to this day, other than my mother and the parts of my family who actually gave two shits about me. Even to this day, it helps me to cope with trauma, to recognize my issues, to feel proud of who I am, and my little world means so much to me. The point is that YES, fiction DOES affect reality and it CAN have a wide range of different effects on its consumers. I sometimes have to commit suicide or hurt myself or get sexually abused by men in my daydreams so that these kinds of things don't happen to me in real life, via me seeking these forms of pain out. Plus, there have been many times where really disgusting people on the internet have almost convinced me that things like child molestation are okay or my brain would try to normalize child grooming to myself. It honestly sucks and while yes, I understand that not everyone has to deal with these kinds of things, many do and if you still don't understand why fiction affects reality, just look into the BlogtheGreatRouge situation. It's a perfect example of how children viewing problematic content that glorifies disgusting behavior can take a serious toll on the way they view the world. And no, I don't believe that dark fiction or relationships between villains are bad. They just have to be done in a way that DOESN'T glorify or normalize gross behavior such as SA. If you have read this far, thank you for listening to my story, and goodbye.
