Please make problematic art
It's really sad to see people hide things that they once thought were worth showing to others.
Ever since COVID hit (at least this is how I experienced it) fandoms grew more unbearable to partake in.
People, who, more often than not, don't make art themselves and just engage with it (sometimes they don't even, no like nor comment from them) started making up reasons as to why certain kinds of thing to do on the internet are bad for you or for others etc.
But expressing scary or strange thoughs and opinions should not be punished. Thoughts like these should start conversations not smear campaigns. Humans have scary or strange thoughs. That's normal. And expressing them creatively shows others they are not alone in feeling a certain way and helping them feel connected and understood, helping them work through them.
And while I am all for proship and profic and anti censorship what I think is also really important to remember is being human and remembering that those on "the other side" are also human. Insecure, unhealthy, scared, hostile - but still human.
This is not just about being profiction or proship but, well, there's no label for people who think anti-harassment should be about things beyond fiction. Likeโ not all of the things I care about that are "controversial" are fictional.
It's important to be able to show sympathy towards those who did all the wrong things so they could learn how to do things the right way. This cannot happen if people are scared of being seen as monsters.
And so I want this post to encourage people to post about (the title says make art but it's not just that) things that they think others might find disturbing, strange, gross, mentally ill - whatever you've seen others say about similar things or projects. It might backfire but it also might do the thing that's supposed to happen - it might start a conversation.
Historically bad times always start with censorship (and self-censorship or censorship within the community) coming for human expression of the taboo and complex, morally grey thoughts, helping to set people against each other.
And it is important that fandoms have a place for people that have these thoughts because otherwise it's not going to end well.
Please make problematic art.
kianamaiart
theartofmadeline
kaledo-art
prguitarman
tangentwithtanner
jbbartram-illu
