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saw something that made me do a double take so: poll

do you:

read AND write fanfiction

read fanfiction, don't write it

write fanfiction, don't read it

don't do either but wanna hit a button

Voting ended onMay 3, 2024

1. for the purposes of this poll, if you have ever written any amount of fanfiction, even just a sentence, even if you don't post it, that counts

2. if you write fanfiction but don't read it please tell me why. i want to study you

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psa for christians

1. nobody who was hurt by christianity and has since rejected it wants to hear about how much god loves them

2. nobody who was hurt by christianity wants to hear how sorry you are that the church hurt them. the only thing saying that kind of shit does is assauge your own guilt.

2.5. when you say that shit you are (unintentionally, i hope) demanding that the other person comforts YOUR guilt surrounding your own religion, which you should maybe work on with a therapist and not some rando who didn't ask

3. no amount of "the people who hurt you weren't REAL christians!" makes christian-inflicted religious trauma less painful

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they should invent a version of talking to other people that doesn't make you feel like you should be shot afterwards

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trying not to let the rsd get to me but ohhh boy !!!

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being extremely sex averse sucks for a lot of reasons, mostly societal, but one of the biggest ones is that i have all these interesting OC dynamics that only somewhat involve sex in my head, and i absolutely cannot fucking talk about them because sex favorable people will somehow take that to mean that they can always talk to me about sex, like i've been magically cured* and the sex fairy made me normal** or something.

*, **: [TO BE READ WITH EXTREME SARCASM.]

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wow they were not joking those head wounds sure can bleed

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i think the thing that gets me about shipping an explicitly aroace character, especially an explicitly sex/romance-repulsed one, is like...it's not just the fics. that's fine, whatever, write whatever you want. the thing that gets me is the way people choose to defend it. sometimes people genderbend a canon gay ship, or make one of the dudes bi when he shows zero interest in women canonically, and nobody tries to point at canon and go "but it COULD be true!" so i don't have to sit here and read meta that goes like

maybe he's just traumatized into not liking women

maybe if he was presented with the option to have sex with women with no pressure, he'd take it, just to see what the fuss was about

the original poster would not imply that this is somehow a better ending than him just never trying to have sex with a woman, because sometimes people are bisexual and they just didn't realize it. identities are fluid!

don't you know that sometimes gay men like having sex with women? don't you know it's actually MORE rude to assume that ALL gay men don't want to have sex with women?

people just don't feel the need to say any of that. they can go "i understand this isn't canon but i'm playing in this space."

so like, gosh, i wonder what it is that makes them unable to do the same about aroace people. it's such a mystery.

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latest petty reason for blocking: called my favorite show straight