What is up with the insane increase of people I'm seeing fully claim that the brain cannot tell the difference between reality and fiction?? At all??
Like I get there's the whole study of the brain physically reacting similarly to situations in fiction and reality. But that is literally it.
You don't believe that Jurassic Park actually happened do you? You realise that that is fundamentally telling the difference between fiction and reality?? Just cause you get happy when a happy scene happens, that doesn't mean you can't tell them apart from reality. That is basic empathy.
Anyone over the age of 5 can separate fiction from reality
It's my trauma/insecurity and I'll eroticize it if I want to
Honestly I think this has been a sign that we no longer need to try and tolerate or ignore purity culture, but that shit needs a hard stop now. I fully blame it as being one of the causes for the intense growing black and white thinking in a lot of youth or young adult spaces that prevents meaningful change or to take actions that help even if they aren’t perfectly pure
MY LITTLE MUNCHKINS!!!!!!
Antis will hate on ur posts about lolicon with this as their pfp
do mfs really go through every single like on their posts to see if ppl ship something
i will never get that😭 i can get dni (as like, dont comment or ask or follow) but do not like is crazy
Antis who claim that certain ships in fiction are illegal irl r so funny to me….
Tell the police that someone random on the internet is shipping a fictional age gap, dude.. see what they’ll do -_- (spoiler!! the answer is NOTHINGGG!!!)
heyyyyyy girlies just a reminder that ao3 is by proshitters, for proshitters and your puritanical anti rhetoric isn’t welcome there byeeeeeee ship and let ship forever 🫶
(This is from the official AO3 TOS update btw)
Periodic rent-lowering-gunshots:
Fiction is not reality.
You can enjoy things in fiction that would be awful in the real world. Like playing a murderhobo in a game! In the real world, being or supporting a murderer-thief would be pretty damn awful, while in the game it's just good fun. Same with anything else you choose to do with the pixels on the screen, like kinks that don't affect anyone real, so they're okay in fiction, but would be pretty damn bad in real life.
No one else is responsible for your online experience. They are required not to harass you, but they are not and never will be obligated to not post about ships, kinks, or tropes you dislike just to avoid you seeing them. It's up to you to blacklist words or phrases, block tags, or even block users as needed to avoid seeing content that upsets you.
No one can force you to read anything against your consent. Any content you don't like seeing can be instantly avoided by closing out of the offending post/fic.
You are not owed an online experience free of discomfort.
Nothing that happens in your imagination can ever make you a bad person. Words you write or read about fictional characters will never make you a bad person.
The claim that media consumption influences real-life behavior is intellectually dishonest and serves only to excuse the behavior of real offenders.
Fiction is a safe way to explore horrifying or confusing concepts. Therapists agree that fiction, even (or especially) about taboo topics is a good coping mechanism, especially, but not exclusively, for trauma survivors. Fiction is to adults what play therapy is to children. This doesn't stop being true if the work in question is of a sexual nature.
Sex isn't an inherently worse or better motivation than anything else. A work written to create feelings of arousal isn't dirty, shameful, or in any way less pure than works written to entertain, provoke moral questions, or for other reasons. And worth noting is that multiple purposes can exist in the same story, especially fanfiction.
You aren't entitled to an explanation for why someone reads, writes, or otherwise enjoys certain works, kinks, tropes, ships, etc.