It's annoying me that people are saying 'well of course, people living under fascist conditions write about peace because they crave escapism' when no
These people aren't writing these neutered fics because they're escaping fascism, they're propping up fascism.
These are people who believe in thought crimes, who can't differentiate between fiction and real life, who afford more compassion to things that don't exist than people who do.
When you genuinely believe that writing about anything 'Bad' without a big obvious 'This Behaviour is Bad and Wrong!' first means you support it, it's really easy to write 1 dimensional docs where everyone uses therapy speak and acknowledges their privilege and lives idyllic lives and then think you're a good person because of that
It's not just fiction, now it's a vehicle of moral standing, now it's activism, and now they think they're good people, better than you, because they write morally pure healthy fiction and no amount of harassment, ableism, racism, hate campaigns, etc etc, they do in the real world counts because look, they write PG kidfics
Writing dark fic is on thin ice, especially if you torture the protagonist, but when you write about sex it's only about your secret sexual desires, it's only and must be what turns you on
You can't write about rape unless you support getting or being raped, you can't write about incest unless you support incest and want to fuck your family members, you can't write a 3 year age gap because that's practically pedophilia,
what you write is a reflection of who you are, and your secret desires and look at my fic, look how pure and good and clean I am
I am good and pure and not hiding anything and therefore you can trust me to be the righteous accusing hand, passing judgement and making call put posts
I control nothing in my life, but I can tell someone who writes fiction in a way I think is wrong to kill themselves and feel like I'm part of a movement, that I'm raising awareness and have done something good
