wading in the shallows

The doors swing open and in steps a stranger, a newcomer with a dangerous aura. The room goes quiet as they swagger in.

All eyes are on them as they spit on the floor and loudly proclaim, "Writing about icky fictional scenarios is the same thing as tacitly endorsing them."

You could hear a pin drop in the beat of silence that follows, then the saloon erupts into laughter.

"Why are you laughing? If you do something to a fictional character that's the same thing as doing it to a real person!" they insist, their eyes welling up with self-righteous tears.

The roar of laughter now has some boos laced throughout; the locals begin to jeer. A bottle soars over their head, smashing into the wall behind him, spattering them with warm, backwashed beer.

That's

That's Roy Mustang

Just the opposite.

Roy "I grew up with 10 sisters so I know how to disguise covert information reconnaissance as flirting" Mustang.

"I grew up with 10 sisters so I know how to weaponize my sexual charm to disarm others and win favor."

Roy led every higher-up to believe he was just a fuckboy and a manwhore in this for his own ego and that they shouldn't view him as any kind of violent revolutionary like "no sir I'm just a slut."

Which. is an absolutely batshit primary character backstory to mention once, late in the series, and then immediately move on from.

And actually Hiromu Arakawa did it so well that every single fan interpretation of Roy Mustang for the FMA03 anime treated him as an honest to god man-slut. Bought his whole act hook line and sinker.

✨it's not that serious✨

If you can't handle art being about subject matters that you are uncomfortable with, that's ok. But it's no one else's problem.

Your personal experience should not condemn others to being called names and slandered or given death threats for enjoying fictional scenarios in art or writing

If you don't agree with something, here are your options ..... 1) Scroll on 2) Block a user

Tumblr is the place where people are allowed to be in a safe space and explore not only their fantasies but sexualities and feelings. It is not anyone else's job to censor their art or writing for your comfort.