why are all prompts from those shitty writing prompt blogs always the same. its always some shit like “every person is born with the taco bell logo tattooed on their forehead. the logo changes colors like the tumblr logo during pride month when the person who is going to t-bone you in a 4 way intersection is nearby. one day your taco bell logo starts flipping its shit when you wake up next to the love of your life. you feel betrayed.”

THIS. I saw a post the other day that literally said if you do it to a fictional character, you’ll do it in real life.

No. Just NO.

I’m so glad someone put it into words.

Lin-Manuel Miranda is a legend, and he’s absolutely right.

And I really feel like there are parts of fandom that don’t get or don’t believe this, and I think that’s troubling.  I’ve seen arguments that people shouldn’t have dark fantasies, or that bad impulses in themselves make a bad person.  I’ve seen so much shaming over thoughts.

And if you get to a point where it’s bad to have dark thoughts and it’s bad to wonder what something would be like and it’s bad to put yourself in the shoes of anyone who isn’t “pure”, if fiction is no longer a realm where you can confront and explore, but an ongoing test of moral purity… well, maybe not everyone’s brain works like mine, but I feel like that takes away something incredibly important to being human.

Purity culture is gonna kill art if y’all let it.

Fiction is a safe place to explore whatever fucked up or dark desire that you have. You can write the most vile and fucked up shit in fiction and it be absolutely nothing you desire in real life. You can write about a serial killer who gets away with it. You can write about someone who goes on moral crusades to purge the world of all evils and still be the protagonist. You can write anything in fiction because that’s what it is meant for. 

It isn’t meant to be a social commentary unless you create it to be. 

It isn’t meant to be educational unless you create it to be. 

Sometimes a story can be just that, a story. Entertainment. Nothing more, nothing less. 

Not everything has to be deep, or have meaning, etc. unless the creator wants it to be and a lot of the purity types end up forcing something to have deep meaning or social commentary where it isn’t meant to.  Is this inherently bad? No, but these people don’t just say “But this is my interpretation of it.” they go as far as trying to force that interpretation onto everyone else, including the creator, as a means of saying “See? It means that they promote/condone xyz so they’re bad and shitty people who should spend the rest of their life in jail with/are the same as people who’ve actually committed acts of violence against other people.” 

THANK. YOU.

@ all the people in the notes saying “yes except u can’t write about (list of immoral things they don’t want to see in fiction)” congrats on missing the point so spectacularly I’m not sure I could create better performance art if I tried

Transcription of the Miranda quote in the images:

“I find that, for me, the work is a safe place to put all the stuff you don’t want to put in your real life. I don’t want to be a crazy, manic asshole. I don’t want to have an affair. I don’t want to have a fucking gunfight. But! There’s a part of your brain that wants to experience everything, and so work’s a safe place to explore it all. Both in the writing and in the performing. I get to write about having an affair. I get to have the guilt and the feeling of that without having to fuck my life up. [laughs] Art is the place to safely explore all those other sides of you, because the side you want to bring home is the side that wants to be a good father and be a good husband and be a good son. In art we can be fucking nuts.”

bro im sick of this shit im sick of the fact that we all gotta sit here making online jokes to cope with the fact that the most inhumane and horrible things are happening on/to the planet all cause some freak ass demons will stop at nothing to get some shitty oil like this is hell im living in what hell is

Congrats you're able to ignore 99% of the evil in the world

hi i have a question . what prompts you to say bitter things that make no sense in any possible interpretation? Eager for your reply. thanks

me: *makes a pointless venty post about the oil industry on a social media website*

some genius scholar harry potter blogger: hmm. pretty fucked up that your post didnt include every bad thing in the world you sick fuck.

oh you hate bad things happening? name every bad thing

Canadian Election Results are in

Feel free to reblog and repost these, we need to cripple Disney to break China

PERHAPS

x / x / x | x / x / x | x / x / x

is… is this a odis aesthetic post?

i honestly have no words anon scalped me bald 

same energy

yoda isn't even a star wars character to me any more he's just his own man

*sees yoda in a star wars film* yo shit they cast that guy who sang seagulls

Young, dumb and full of gum

gum stays in your body for 7 years and i eat a lot of it

That’s actually a myth! If you went digging through your yummy shits you’ll find chewed gum looking about the same as it did when you swallowed it!

my whats? 

This is the post that cost Verizon 1.1 billion

bigfoot, but fully shaved

mr clean

posts like these are why I have anxiety

I feel uneasy

these pictures are so loose and lacking in detail that it’s making my brain force images onto them that aren’t actually there

is that wrinkly kong

ok these are all quite certainly this exact picture of wrinkly kong. why

forget what you saw

Tumblr University

Optional Uniform

ID

DORMS!!!!!

The Who/Sherlock dorms

Harry Potter/Narnia/LOTR Dorms

Pirates/History dorms

disney/disney princess dorms(you can put more posters,etc)

Directioner dorms(but put more ireland flags and more pics of the boys)

Bye mom

remember when dashcon happened and these kind of posts completely disappeared

why did you bring it BACK

Wonderful pain

I’m literally gagging

due to personal reasons you will be passing away

i love this meme