🔹 Saying that it's okay to write or read about dark and taboo topics but only when they're portrayed in a certain way is still censorship.
🔹 Wanting to ban or forbid media that you believe portrays a negative topic in a positive light, by glorifying, romanticizing, or fetishizing it is still censorship.
🔹 There is no objective metric to decide if a story is portraying a negative topic the 'right' way.
🔹 Just because a piece of fiction doesn't explicitly condemn or portray an evil action in a bad light in the text doesn't mean the author thinks its good or is trying to persuade the audience that it is good.
🔹 Survivors of trauma will not always write fiction about their trauma in a way that seems 'right' or 'normal' to you.
🔹 Banning fiction because it portrays dark, taboo topics in a way you consider gross or disgusting is still censorship.
[Tags reading, "#I've said it before and I'll say it again #I create art for adults #and as an adult I expect you to already know that hurting people is wrong #I'm not gonna hold you're hand through that like you're a toddler #"hurting people is wrong" is something you should have learned in kindergarten #not at 24 from an m-rated dark romance novel"]
If I ask nicely will people reblog this and tell me what their most common breakfast is? Not your favorite necessarily, just what you have for breakfast most frequently? 🙏🏽
You don't have to apologize, or perform authorial disgust, for dark, violent, sexual, cruel or problematic topics in the fiction you create.
Fiction does not exist to teach an audience a moral lesson. You as an author are not required to be your audience's moral teacher.
You can have bad things happen-- you can have a protagonist who is bad-- without having to explain to your audience that they are bad.
#i have never and will never do disclaimers or “perform authorial disgust”#any reader who requires that is not my audience
"any reader who requires that is not my audience"
☝️☝️☝️.
The Fifth Element (1997) dir. Luc Besson – costume design by Jean Paul Gaultier
I miss movie outfit that fuck like hell
And the award for best supporting actor goes to… Bruce’s open-backed orange tank top.
me when im a liar who has lied several times already and is currently lying about being sorry for lying and will continue to lie going forward
precisely what a liar would say
you would not believe who this guy is
buck: i’m so nervous
dean winchester: don’t worry, it’s gonna be okay
*3 hours later*
doctor: your surgery was a success
buck: wait, where’s dean?
doctor: who do you think gave you the bisexuality?
Dungeon Meshi: Out of Context
I think they are having a moment of reconciliation or something
me writing the worst paragraph of my life knowing that a sexier, more hydrated version of me will fix it later
a soldier a goth and a biker walk into a bar
bad ending: the farmer sells out to Joja good ending: the farmer restores the community center and Pierre beats up Morris bad ending++: Morris goes to law school and comes back 4 years later as a Monsanto goon and hits the farmer with a killer lawsuit good ending++: same as above but the farmer teams up w/ Marlon and Pierre to disappear him in the mines true ending: the farmer must enter the water purifier even though it’s been established that abigail is immune to radiation
> looking for a new lgbt club
> ask the president if the lgbt club is john waters or our flag means death
> she doesn’t understand |> pull out illustrated diagram explaining what is john waters and what is our flag means death
> she laughs and says “it’s a good lgbt club sir”
> attend a meeting
> it’s our flag means death
call my tits sam and dean the way they’re super naturals
official boob post
its so unfortunate when different peoples neurodivergent traits clash horribly. like yes i totally understand that the man at the other table cant control his stimming and loud vocal tics and i think he deserves to have a nice day out at a restaraunt without judgement. however if i dont remove myself from the audible vicinity in the next 20 seconds i will explode.
“A myth's a powerful thing.” “Pray you never know the weight of it.” — SNOWPIERCER, 1x04
you can log on and draw girls. it's allowed. encouraged, even