The Crow pit

"This is disgusting to me" is totally valid.

"I don't want to read this because it is disgusting to me" is totally valid.

"Censorship of some topics in fiction and art is good and I would be happy if it were to be enacted in a way I approved of"

and

"some things should be banned from ever being written or read about in fiction"

are both authoritarian viewpoints to hold and express, even if you don't have the power to enact them.

Something being nasty is not a good reason to ban fiction about it.

If we accept that "something being nasty is a good reason to bad fiction about it" then we give a foot in the door for all the people who truly, genuinely believe that queer people are nasty to ban all queer literature.

Either you’re for it or you aren’t.

The moment you agree that something should never, ever exist in fiction is the moment that anything can be banned.

Remember a while back how Tumblr banned a bunch of tags, including many popular innocuous ones that even people who are for censorship used and were upset about?

When censorship happens, stuff YOU like can and will be banned. That’s how it works.

Remember how a bunch of people had their accounts terminated here only last year for writing about their own sexual abuse?

When you ban “pedo” topics, say, any talk of child sexual abuse in any form, that means people can no longer write about their own experiences. It means people cannot educate others so they can learn how to protect themselves or get help from these situations.

Censorship is authoritarian. Full stop.

Even if “everyone” agrees something is “gross” and “shouldn’t exist,” that does not fucking matter.

Do you know who generally believes queer people are gross and shouldn’t exist??

The same people who are banning books left and right solely because they have queer characters or relationships.

The same people who attack and kill queer folk for simply exisiting.

This is not just some fandom matter or a case of being chronically online.

In 2007, Livejournal capitulated to the "pedophilia and sex crimes!" cries of (hate group) Warriors 4 Innocence, and you know what communities got shut down? Slashfic communities. Sexual assault survivor support communities. Authors who'd written non-smut m/m fic even got caught up in it. It was DEVASTATING to fandom spaces. I think pretty much everyone knew at least one person whose account was literally DELETED, or were a member of a community that was wiped off the map because they were considerate enough to include topics like "sexual assault" or "BDSM" in the profiles under the badly-named category of "interests" to indicate that posts on said blogs or communities may include discussion of things like that. Even if it was for a SUPPORT group. And it was because a group of religious bigots came to LJ and said essentially "EVERYONE thinks it's gross and that it's promoting CSA, we should ban it."

Like, strikethrough and boldthrough were a large part of what propelled AO3 out of a more unfocused conversation on one person's blog about hosting a site INTENDED for fandom content, into being an actual archive and nonprofit. And it's a large part of why you won't find AO3 banning topics that you find "gross".

It is called Archive of our own. Archive of our own. It's there to archive as much fanwork as possible. It doesn't have an algorithm and nobody makes money of it!!!

I do understand when people have a problem with romanticized abuse in a published book and the author defending it as romance since they make money off it and most of the time have a company backing them. That's the reason so many people have a problem with authors like Coleen Hoover.

But again, Ao3 is non profit! Nobody makes money of their weird little abuse fic!!!!

I get that, but even then I would never ever want to censor it because censorship is bad. That's all there is to it. Censorship is a tool of fascism. A society that censors media is on it's way to fascism.

NPD: Scapegoat

ASPD: Scapegoat

BPD: Scared baby lamb

ASPD: evil abuser

BPD: innocent victim of NPD & ASPD

HPD:

Or if you don't do things bcs you have low self esteem/to boost your self esteem/you try and make ppl like you/you feel a sense of superiority/you care about others people's opinions of you then obviously you must be a psychopath or sociopath!

Basically if you care about other people's opinions about you and act accordingly then you're a self absorbed narcissist

"if she's your girl then why is her leitmotif part of my theme" "to highlight the tragedy of how she'll never love you back"

"I wrote this??"

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