hii, i have read your pinned post, and i wanna know what do you think about separate art from the artist, and in wich context
Yeah, it's important to separate art from artist, and that's layered as fuck. People use it to protect their comfort mostly and it annoys me to the marrow.
Exhibit A: We all know JK Rowling is a fucking TERF, openly, actively, she ACTIVELY donates money she receives from the HP Franchise to institutions that harm, hunt and try conversion therapy on trans people.
She states that everyone who purchases HP merch is seen as people supporting her opinions and views.
"Oh, but I don't support, I support trans people and I think JK Rowling is wrong and harmful."
So you're going to stop consuming her HP merch and everything, stop feeding her money to donate to those institutions, right?
"No!! HP is very important and loved by me and it makes me nostalgic and it's something I love I won't stop but I don't agree with her."
Well, too bad. You are actively feeding her your money and letting her know you support her views, doesn't matter if you say you don't, you literally are paying her and funding those things. Nothing you cry and moan about will change the FACT that she is using your money to harm people.
The end. :|
So yeah, trans people cutting contact with you when you openly chose a mid fuckass franchise that not even the actors get behind anymore because ough that woman is fucking evil, serves you right. Use your damn brain and think.
So when we separate artist from art?
In the content they create, not when they are harmful towards real people, in real life.
Exhibit B: HP Lovecraft was a damn fucking racist, so if he was alive, you BET your ass I'd not have a single fucking book of his. Because it would simply send him money, and why would I fund a racist shithead mf? But he's dead, yay.
No thing we consume from him goes to his dead carcass, shit's in public domain I think, so we get to study his impact on the literature and he's rotting six feet below. Win win situation.
Exhibit C: George R.R. Martin writes ASOIAF and there are so many dark themes on that shit. And those are plot devices for the story, the lore, the worldbuilding. He has never said anything odd, fucking terrible or harmful. Didn't attack minorities, didn't speak ill of anyone (as far as I'm aware, last thing I knew was him doing everything else that doesn't involve finishing the franchise + adding incest on Elden Ring) and he's there vibing, enjoying the rest of his life.
He's a bad person because in his books we find rape, violence, murder, cannibalism, incest, manipulation, child abuse, gaslight, all of the horrid shit?
No.
That's fiction, no real person is harm. Once again for the slower people. No real person nor animal is being harmed. Ever. None.
Pixels, words, PNGs, none of those can feel pain because they are not real. It's okay to absolutely FUCK UP fictional characters, do it, it's nice. You can beat your meat for whatever the fuck FICTIONAL shit you want. If that doesn't harm a real human being I can't give a single flying rotating ass rat.
It maddens me beyond reason when a mf tries to tell an author or artist they are bad, mean, terrible people, can't be trusted near kids because they create FICTIONAL content involving dark themes. Like, they can separate reality from fiction, thus they create those scenarios in fiction, but you are projecting this shit on them, so... the one that can't separate both is usually the dumbass pointing.
A real person that has been through CSA shit and some other dark trauma being compared to idk fucking Naruto Uzumaki makes me really reconsider so many human rights. You have no idea.
Back a decade I don't remember having so much idiots babbling about fiction and reality, and I think this wave of people getting into fandom since... pandemic, is so fucking nasty. They could learn first and speak later, but if a mf can't bother to sit down and understand that nothing is black and white, most shit are grey, who am I to lose my precious time explaining math to a fucking donkey, yk?
Also pay close attention to those people always omitting, deleting, not saying the word FICTIONAL when they are trying to harass someone else, it never fails, the rule lays wherever they think it lays, arbitrary af.
People who can't separate author and piece also often say "but you don't know if someone will consume your little dark fanfic and immediately go and fuck their daughter"
And to that I have very bad news. No piece of media ever has forced anyone to do anything, so if you kill someone after playing GTA, if you kill yourself after playing DDLC, if you fuck your brother after reading Game of Thrones, you did it because you wanted to, you're just placing the blame on anything but yourself.
You may have done it induced by a psychotic episode? Sure. Still on you and your brain, author and piece has NOTHING to do with your fucked up lil mental illness.
You can't separate fiction and reality and murdered a man after playing COD? Lock yourself up, the issue is you, not the game.
Don't pin YOUR lack of brain, of interpretation and critical thinking ability on the authors and artists, suck it up and own it like a champ. Put your hand on your chest and tell the world you are só emone inapt, completely incapable of differentiating reality from fiction, separating author from piece, and consider checking in on an asylum so everyone around you can feel safe.
And that goes on and on and on.
So I either try very lightly to explain in easy words, or in questions that will show the person their own hypocrisy (I'm okay with fictional violence cannibalism noncon and murder but i draw the line at fictional incest!! kind of people like that one dumbass on my pinned post) or I just tell them to try and eat a shard of glass before considering disturbing me in my damn blog with their lack of critical thinking.
And I think people should be less patient with others that are CHOOSING to be dumb. Information is there, free, on google. If I can sit down and read, learn, understand, so can they. But performing online to a bunch of random people to be part of a community is often more attractive to these kinds of people.
