magistrate-mun replied to your post “it’s been like three days or more and I’m still hung up on a thing I...”
I feel this. I grew up being bombarded with slurs that weren't even directed at me because I was closeted and afraid, and sometimes I don't WANT what I'm reading to be sugarcoated because dammit, I lived it and there will never be a way to soften that. Saying "if you want details then you're a bad person" is like the author spitting in our faces.
I’v heard my fair share of slurs of different varieties during my lifetime, the one directed at me was more than often ableist than anything else.
But even if I’m lucky enough to have a slur directed at me, it still affects me when its directed towards people who are like me.
when I read a lighthearted fic, I think it’s appropriate that it avoids heavy stuff like slurs, but when I read something more dramatic I’d prefer to feel the impact.
and this just becomes yet another situation where I am almost afraid of pursuing “wholesome” content because alot of the people behind it and the people in those circles are so drenched in purity-culture and holier-than-thou attitude.
it’s fine to bury yourself in a pile of cotton, we all ned to do that now and then, but that shouldn’t mean purging your surroundings of any reminder that a world outside the cotton exists. you can’t turn the world cotton, we’d suffocate!
I feel like this metaphor is getting away from me
