pleeeeeaaaaase don’t make fun of people for being overenthusiastic about their interests. if you see someone getting really excited about something and you think it’s a good idea to ruin their fun (and don’t think people don’t notice your eye rolls and side glances) you’re an asshole
i don’t know who decided that happy endings were boring but i wanna fight them. happy endings make all the bad shit that characters go through worth it, there’s nothing boring about that.
antis are actually hurting more than helping. their main goal is to stop “pedophilia,” when they’re actually starting to normalize the word.
for instance, i came across an actual pedophile callout post, and i hesitated to block and report the said pedophile. i hesitated because i didn’t know if it was a callout post directed at a real pedophile, or simply a callout post directed at someone who ships something that the op of the callout post didn’t like.
i’ve come across many csa survivors who have said that they don’t like antis comparing their abuse to a ship. i’ve come across many csa survivors who ship these so-called pedophillic ships, and antis have actually had the audacity to say that those csa survivor’s abuse was false.
it’s disgusting.
antis, don’t interact. i don’t want your bullshit on my blog.
those posts criticizing common writing patterns in fanfiction are so fucking harmful and they ruined me
so like yknow what??? People tell you to avoid “smirk” and “chuckle” as descriptors because no one does those things (???) but then when I need to use those words I have a ten minute crisis about how I’m a shitty writer. So heres my unwarranted writing advice: If you want your characters to smirk and chuckle fucking let them and don’t let anyone tell you that no one smirks or chuckles because I do both on a daily basis whenever I tell a shitty pun, bye
can we please bring back “in poor taste” as a concept
Because at some point it got folded in under “problematic,” and now every damn thing that has Unfortunate Implications or deals with sensitive topics indelicately enough to raise hackles or gores somebody’s sacred cow is treated as a grave injustice or a threat to society. Online activism culture has lost the vocabulary to express “this deals with touchy stuff in a way many people might find inappropriate, and you should probably avoid it if insensitivity on this subject gets you angry/upset, but it’s not promoting hateful ideas or demeaning people or affecting anything but my opinion of the creator’s sense of tact.”
I think this really an important post.
We’ve fallen into such a rut of “everything is right or wrong, no inbetween” that stuff that’s merely in poor taste is conflated with things that are actually offensively malicious.
this is so well worded like i been trying to say this for awhile thank you
Damn. This is the thing.
Good, yes. This is a valuable concept.
. . and while we’re at it, can “problematic” actually mean problematic again? As in potentially but not definitely bad. Imperfect. Difficult to assess. One person might find it hurtful and another might not. If you think something is definitely bad, ‘problematic’ is not the word you want. Basically can we just have the general concept of gray areas back?
SquireofGotham 