There is no such thing as bad ship

I do really love it when women write graphic and fucked up things. I feel like so often people react to fucked up fiction with “of course a disgusting man would write this 🙄” and it often carries an unspoken (honestly sometimes spoken) message of “a woman’s PURE and DELICATE and FEMININE mind could NEVER think of something this VILE”. Thank you women in fucked up fiction 🫡

I respect an "I can fix him" villainfucker 50x more than a "he didn't do anything wrong, he's just misunderstood!" villainfucker. like yeah they both get the cute domestic happily ever after, but man the first guy has depth they have nuance and most importantly they are actually aware they're a villainfucker

but the guy i respect MOST is the unapologetic villainfucker. "yeah he did that shit and it was sexy" fuckers. "was the wanton murder fun babe it looked fun" fuckers. these guys know where it's at

Lessons from the 90s that children today need

the existence of dark and taboo fanfiction literally cannot hurt you. it can only upset you if you don’t like it but for some reason choose to seek it out, ignore the warnings the author gives, then deliberately read it on your own free will. you choose to seek it out then read it just to make yourself upset. sounds like a you problem to me

I dislike dark fic. I don't read it, don't want to see it and guess what? I pretty much never do! Because I use tags! I filter things out! And any time I stumble across something I dislike I simply disengage. And you know what? I might not read it myself but I am happy that it exists! I'm happy that people have that creative freedom to do what they like, and how they like, and I'm happy to stay out of it. And I promise it is *so easy* to avoid things that aren't for you if you just put in a tiny bit of effort, much less than it costs to intentionally seek out things that you find traumatizing just to ruin someone else's day.

I have all the powers

i think therapy as a psuedo-deific force in the more modern generations worldview is really exemplied in like. how people will say to you "youre a freak, go to therapy" and when you say "actually ive talked to my therapist abt this and theyve told me its a good way to process my issues" and they respond "well youre therapist is feeding into your mental illness and needs to have thier license revoked 😡😡😡 thats not real therapy." and it becomes very clear they are not thinking of the material realities of therapy as a interaction and dynamic, and more of Therapy as a nebulous "make you normal" genie.

no matter how hard i try, nothing i write will ever be as fucked up as the stuff somebody who thinks they're creating a Wholesome AU with unexamined beliefs will make.

i think it's quite harmful to share the mindset that basically anything goes on ao3. yes, tags and filtering are super helpful to avoid your dislikes, but because of how many "taboo topics" are written, it's more challenging to find what i want when i have to scroll past abuse, mental health glorification, etc. i think authors need to really take some time to self evaluate and really come to terms with what they're writiinf and if it's that important to be written.

Ah yes, and here we have tumblr user "innocent bean" telling AO3 to abandon the mission they were created for, and fan authors to shut up and conform all of their fic to what "innocent bean" wants to read.

Amen.