Why is it that antis are all for censoring media? Pro-shipping isn't something that's contemporary, it's been happening in literature for CENTURIES. As a BA English student, it worries me that critical thinking, especially critical thinking in regards to darker subjects, has been declining in my generation.
This is several paragraphs long, so,
TDLR : Critical Thinking is in fact a much needed skill, I am worried about my generation's ability to understand what's real and fictional, and worried for the future of literature.
I specialize in poetry, however I dabble in gothic literature, so I know what I'm talking about when talking about Wuthering Heights, hell, it was the very first book I ever properly analyzed.
Wuthering Heights has been touted as one of the greatest romance novels ever. Hell, Kate Bush even has a song about Heathcliff and Cathy, the two characters often seen as peak romance. To the normal person, this is normal, this isn't out of the ordinary. However, if you are well versed with the novel, you'll know this crucial fact.
Heathcliff and Cathy are adopted siblings.
That's right! There's incest in this beloved novel. There's also pet murder, abuse, death in general, implied necrophilia, and the list goes on. There was backlash for the novel in those times, but that was mainly for the fact that Heathcliff was a man of colour, and the general edginess of the book. Which makes me wonder, if Wuthering Heights was published in this day and age, would it have such a chokehold on the literature scene as it does now, or would it burnt to the ground?
See, people nowadays see writing about dark topics as ENDORSING the behavior. Which is. Extremely incorrect. I would never, ever endorse such a destructive relationship like Heathcliff and Cathy's, but the sphere related to dark media is full of, forgive me, literal children tearing apart people for what? Writing about the same thing Emily Bronte did? What's next, tearing people down for writing about horror? Tearing people down for writing about death, or trauma? There is a very steep hill here, and we are racing down it.
I was once an anti, but upon looking into literature and starting to analyze novels, have I realized it was wrong to be an anti. I now have access to the full sphere of media exploration, to Lolita, to Wuthering Heights, To Stephen King's IT. We need dark topics to explore and understand why these things are so wrong. Which is why I'm so terrified for the future of literature.
Will we end up losing these novels due to metaphorical book burnings because of censorship?
You don't out people who have asked for a link to the Discord server?
We don't! It's why we ask for people to send a non-anonymous ask, so we can privately send them a link. At most, your username will be put into the mod chat just so the other mod knows who was invited. I (seal mod) wouldn't want my main blog outed, I won't out anyone else's. 🦭
