Words like âproblematicâ or âunhealthyâ or even âabusiveâ being thrown around like popcorn everytime a ship dares to step out the lines of your neat little box of acceptable fiction. And it is fine that you say all of these things, really. For most of the time they are absolutely correct. But the problem is that all this words come covered with accusatory tones and allegations that just make no sense, meant to hurt and shame the people making and consuming the entertaining piece that was made. Be it fanart, fanfic, headcanons or even just expressing their love for a ship. I just want to know at what moment did we start equating artistic freedom with âbeing an apologistâ. And who decided which things are and are not okay to be written/drawn/spoken about? Art doesnât follow your rules. Art follows NOBODYâS rules, and thatâs what is great about it. And as far as Iâm concerned nobody died and made you people âthe supreme judgesâ of all art forms in the worldâ. Art is free and inexcusable. Fantasy is what makes us free. No regulation, no rules, no dictatorship. You can make a utopia in there, or a post-war decaying world, you can make a surrealistic adventure or just write about your everyday person, you can make clouds heavy and rocks weightless and it breaks my heart everytime I see someone trying to dictate what someone can and cannot put their artistic effort into. If itâs problematic, if itâs terrible, ugly, harmful, devastating, unacceptable. Let it be. The fantasy world is where it belongs, itâs where it SHOULD be. Cause when it gets to this side, when it stops being a dream (or a nightmare) and turns into reality THEN it causes real damage. A paintingâ of a gun is just a painting. The bullet from the gun that is pointed at your head when you walk at 3 AM in a dangerous neighbourhood and that will make a hole in your skull, that, that is the real danger. The painting didnât cause the violence, the violence caused the painting. And we bring this to our fantasies, cause in there we can simulate. We can try to understand. We can deconstruct and construct again. We can look it from all the angles and perspectives we are denied in reality. And to deny fantasyâs ugliness is to deny realityâs nature. You donât live in a perfect world, I know youâd like to, but you donât. You can cover your eyes, you can cover your ears and cover your mouth. But the evil will be always there. And it will make itâs way to fantasy, cause fantasy is fabricated out of reality. Always was and always will be. And if you think youâre somewhat eradicating it by throwing all this insults and accusations at people that DO understand the distinction and the connection between these two worlds, youâre most likely just creating even more evil. Censorship is the real evil. Fantasy is not good, but itâs not evil either. Itâs just what it is. So maybe you should take a deep breath and step down of your pedestal and take a look at the world. It is not perfect, but it makes fantasy perfect by being so.
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