#fandom problem 5903

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5903:

This is laughable. And it's embarrassing how many purity goons it drew out of the woodwork.

So, let me get this straight... It's considered common sense that when someone writes about murder, manipulation, gore, or abuse… even if it's "romanticized"… it's not actually a big deal. Because we all know it's fiction. See: Hannibal, which romanticizes all of those things. But I never see people screaming about that.

But then suddenly, for some reason, it's not common sense as soon as anything that's negative of an inherently sexual nature is written about. Suddenly, it's off-limits entirely. Just. What.

Do you sheltered idiots realize how many people still "get off" to the main dynamic in Hannibal, even though there's zero rape, incest, and sexual abuse in general in it? And how many people get off to any number of dark events in movies and novels that aren't inherently sexual?

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Fandom Problem #5903:

Pro Anti stuff is always so weird because its such an extreme. Like: I think dark topics and stuff is cool. I like bad characters being bad. I am into the early 2010s gritty antiheroes. But at the same time even fictional incest makes me want to barf and seeing people glorify abuse and such as so hot doesn't seem heathy at all. I think these are all very basic opinions for people who aren't even a part of fandom or whatever. But still its like "oh horrible puritans" or "terrible pedophiles" everywhere, for the love of god please just be normal.

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5903 - I don't think people understand that just because something's written in a book doesn't mean the writer is trying to convince you it's okay. A lot of the time, there's an unspoken agreement between the writer and the reader, "hey, what happens in this book? it's fucked up. I KNOW it's fucked up, you know I know it's fucked up, I know you know I know it's fucked up, and so on, and so forth. We're all in agreement, right? Okay, carry on!"

For a very long time was widely understood by most people without needing to be explained, and it seems like all of a sudden people stopped understanding it.

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5903:

Oh, sure. Because blocking and moving on, and knowing your moral code won't be shaken by a fucking fanfic, is juuust as radical as harassing someone and sending them death threats, and getting people to gang up on them under the insane pretense of "fyi, this person ships iNcEst, don't harass just block uwu", just because they're making imaginary Barbies kiss... When they damn well know that as soon as they openly put someone's url on blast for an "offense" like writing certain fictional relationships, it is guaranteed to sic the chronically-online rage mob on them, no matter how much they play dumb or naive about that fact.

This was sarcasm. I was being sarcastic. I feel bad for the person who submitted that problem.

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5903 - is the story telling you incest is okay? Is the story telling you pedophilia is okay? Is the story trying to encourage it? Is the story framed in the way where it's not just the abuser being an unreliable narrator and is GENUINELY telling you to indulge in these things?

just because it's written doesn't mean it's supported. If the writer actually, GENUINELY supports it, then I would personally be disgusted. but if it's just a story to vent/bring awareness/explore something/simply to just be written, then I don't see how the writer can be seen as those things

(idk if I wrote what I wanted to say correctly, so if I say smth that seems kinda "antiship"-ish, sorry :'])

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5903:

"seeing people glorify abuse and such as so hot doesn't seem heathy at all."

Heh. Go look up "bodice rippers" and get back to us when you learn just how long they've been produced for. Or just look up "The Flame and the Flower" and read the synopsis, then look at the publication date for it.

How much are you actually willing to bet that 99% of the people who read that book aren't well-adjusted, functioning adults? I can assure you it's absolutely not a symptom of poor mental health to read an abuse or rape fantasy...

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5903: I genuinely wonder if it DOES have something to do with kids spending all their free time (and let's be honest, time in class etc) on their phones, being distracted, so as soon as they're alone and they're subconsciously coming up with ways to entertain themselves, they can't tell it's a normal thing everyone does so they end up slapping a "unique label" on it. I wonder if that label thing also has something to do with how kids want to socially define and distinguish themselves, and/or feel and look unique, so that makes them even more predisposed to assuming this is some kind of fantastical, but real, thing they can do.

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Fandom Problem #5903:

People act like at the start of every problematic fic is "Ooh this is so hot, yall should try it, you wanna try it right?"

But in reality its "do not try this at home, it is wrong and illegal irl"

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