Rising Shadows

well that sounds nice but did you actually comfort them and find a coping mechanism that actually works better for them or did you just manage to gaslight them into thinking that what they're doing is going to turn them into a predator one day and that they're just as bad as their abuser? do you actually know anything about mental health or do you just assume stuff and act like its the truth because it makes sense in your brain? do you actually know what you're talking about or do you think a coping mechanism works the same for everyone in the whole world? do you know how MOST (not all) victims cope with their trauma or do you assume a coping mechanism is automatically unhealthy for everyone in the world because the kind of stuff it may contain PERSONALLY makes YOU uncomfortable and assume a coping mechanism is healthy just because you PERSONALLY don't find the stuff it has "icky". do you really care about that person or do you just want everyone to be the way you want them to be without anything you PERSONALLY may find "icky"? do you have any proof that darkshipping is unhealthy or do you assume that people who like darkfiction don't have critical thinking skills and morals?

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.

someone put that guy in gay highschool

"DNI if you claim to be 'sad' without an MDD diagnosis"

"You're 'proud' of being 'self-confident'? Stop romanticizing NPD, it's a debilitating disorder for people who really have it, faker."

"Trauma is the only valid origin for psychosis, people who claim to have 'hallucinated' because of drugs or sleep deprivation are either lying or they just don't know how traumatized they are"

Today's Nonbinary Character Is:

Niko from Pipe Up!