Every single person on this planet thinks about dark and taboo things. It's literally the most normal thing in the world.

Instead they’d say it was because I liked Pokemon too much after it stopped being cool, or my clothes looked ridiculous and I wore the same pair of jeans 3 days a week, or that I was just weird/nerdy/unpopular. In many, many cases, that is what neurodiversity looks like. Not someone with an obvious disability, but someone who’s just weird.

I see so many allistics and neurotypicals on here that claim to be anti-ableism but turn around and make jokes at the expense of people who are eccentric but harmless.

a fanfiction or a piece of media can depict things that make you uncomfortable in a glorified manner, but at the end of the day it is fiction, it’s your job to use your common sense, as a grown adult, and understand that “hey, these things are bad in real life, but a fanfic is all fiction and play pretend, so it’s fine”, even though the bad things in fiction are glorified, it is still fiction. nobody in real life is harmed by the way it is being portrayed.

you have the power to stop consuming it any time you want. it cannot hurt you the second you turn off your tv or click out of a fic.

but you do not have the power to tell other people what they can or can’t create/consume.

also, no, ao3 will not remove a dark fic because it glorified rape or whatever. anti-censorship stance aside, whether or not a fanfic glorified bad things is entirely subjective. you cannot demand ao3, a site created by freaks for freaks, to remove something because you think it’s too disgusting for your personal comfort.

a gentle reminder that the entire point ao3 was created in the first place is to host “fucked up fics that were banned from other platforms with censorship, fics that glorified taboo things and portrayed them in explicit details”.

I have talked about this like, a hundred times on here but “if seeing bad things in fiction alone is enough to make someone hurt real people in real life”, then the actual problem is that person’s inability to separate fiction from reality, and chances are that they are already a danger to themself and other people, with or without the fictional things they consume.

I have been enjoying the cannibal aesthetic, and the romanticization of murders and cannibalism, from nbc hannibal for decades, and so do millions of other people worldwide. guess what, the show didn’t actually turn their fans into actual murderers or cannibals, despite how it glorified and romanticized bad things.

it’s okay for you to be uncomfortable by taboo things in fiction or how they are portrayed, but just because you are personally uncomfortable by it doesn’t mean other people have to share your personal views.

I feel like you can sort of tell how long (or not) someone has existed in fannish spaces by how outraged they get about things like this. Like rings in a tree trunk lol. I've been in so many fandoms. At least one, but often multiple at the same time, since I was a teenager. I've seen just. Everything.

Sex pollen. Mpreg. Incest. Monster fucking. Tentacles. Pairings like Snape/Hermione that would be crazy abusive and illegal if they were real. Wild kinks. The babygirlification of all kinds of villains. So much RPF (the 'I sincerely believe they are secretly a couple' kind and the 'this is fictional but it's fun to imagine they're in love' kind.)