after seeing yet another huge post where young people rail against AO3 and older people have to explain that censorship is bad actually, I gotta say that as someone who reads a fuck ton of books a year, these younger people could really benefit from doing the same for a little perspective. fucked up content is not just a fanfic thing, and with books, you don't get any warnings! you just turn the page and gaze upon the most fucked up scene of your life! these people do not know how good they've got it tbh just filter tags my lieges
This. All of this.
I mean, listen, at 11 years old I found The Prince of Tides in my mother’s box of old paperbacks and boy howdy was it NOT the fluffy romance novel I thought it’d be based on the title. That’s mainstream book reading for ya. IT IS A RISK AND YOU HAVE TO BE PREPARED TO TAKE THAT RISK.
