Okay, even when I try to be open and upfront about my writing preferences and how they may differ from those of other people, even after I make an extremely personal post about my position on those topics, I still get vilified for my choices by people who don’t even have personal experience with the nature of the content.
So I’m going through and unfollowing anyone who isn’t a mutual, and I am done seeking any new interaction on tumblr until everyone gets over the purity policing. For those who only accept purity on your dash and still follow me for some reason, here are some warnings. Feel free to softblock me.
I WRITE PROBLEMATIC SHIT.
I write incest, and I’m really sick of the freshman-psychology level bullshit excuses people give for not liking it. Just say you don’t like it and stop making yourself sound like a self-righteous idiot.
Also sick of people calling things that are not incest incest, and I ship that, too. I’ve shipped characters with their step-siblings, or adoptive siblings — hell, even childhood best friends is close enough to siblings for a lot of you people.
I write and ship with villains, and people with otherwise ambiguous morals. I’m cool with people who write genocidal maniacs and unstable rapists and racist assholes because there are a fuck ton of people in the world, and pretending that the people you don’t like don’t exist doesn’t help you learn to cope with or talk to those people any better. Thinking you can apply your infantile black and white understanding of the world to the entire roleplay community is so ridiculous that I don’t even want to be a part of a community that perpetuates this kind of immaturity.
You’re not going to stop whatever it is you don’t believe in just because you refuse to acknowledge its existence. As a matter of fact, ostracizing people from a community that gives them the freedom to express unhealthy thoughts only leaves them alone with those unhealthy thoughts. That only causes the wounds that people try to heal with creative expression to fester, and hide, and get infected by bitterness and hatred. That causes a lot more problems than giving them the outlet they need.
So don’t worry, everyone, I voluntarily opt out. My roleplaying blog is already private af, and I’ll be removing the URL even from my description on this blog because I only keep it for my friends who can’t or won’t move entirely to Discord, and for when I want to write novella.
Have fun writing whatever you write. Seriously, sincerely, have fun. Be as private as you want. Be as selective as you want. Write with problematic people or don’t. Whatever you do, stop villainizing each other. Everyone is here for a reason, and their reason, whatever it is, is just as valid as yours.