everlong

— Abigail Anderson as a med-fan lady

“Lady Abigail was the only daughter of a vale and hill lord, and god did she love the tourneys and jousts. It wasn’t truly the shocking smash of sticks and shields, nor the bloody mess the losers would leave behind. No. She loved the swords and their intricate pommels. She loved the armors full of dent and notch and life. Finally, she loved the horses and all the noise, loosing herself in dreams and fantasies of being a knight herself.

The fictional characters can’t be hurt. The fictional characters can’t be killed or traumatized. They’re. Concepts. What you ARE doing is implying that people, instead of reading fiction, should go find content made of real people being hurt—because you’re implying it’s the same thing. Furthermore, you’re dehumanizing the people who make this content and valuing the fictional fucking characters more than the real people.

Do you think reading a book with fantasy racism means a person’s automatically racist? Do you also think kink reflects a person’s genuine morality? I notice you haven’t made a single comment about theft, espionage, violence, murder, and more—all of which are crimes that are popularly featured in media. Or is this just because sex is involved with this crime, and that somehow makes it worse?

This obsession with reporting, shaming, and policing fictional content—ESPECIALLY if you report art and fictional writing to hotlines for CSAM/CSEM—does not do anything but hurt real people over fictional ones. And with the example of reporting fictional content to hotlines and websites, you are taking away resources from a real person suffering from exploitation and abuse.

It does not matter how repulsive, disgusting, unnerving, or unappealing fictional content is to you; you cannot censor it, because the moment you declare any one thing too obscene, too taboo, too wrong, you open the door for fascism. The moment you say it’s okay to police content for one subject, you open the door to content about it mentioning people who are trans, gay, intersex, Ace, pan, aromantic, and any other flavor of queer being demonized or criminalized for being “obscene.”

“Non censorship” isn’t a privilege. It’s necessary to protect real people and the flow of information. It’s vital for preventing a government from deciding what we can and cannot talk about it. You do not have to like it. You just have to be able to block the tags, click the back arrow, and leave a polite comment to use warnings if the creator hasn’t tagged content appropriately.

I don’t even like content with rape/non-consent or graphic porn, and you’ve pissed me off.