you can't tell me it's normal to call rape "fun" even in fiction, imagine if a man said that lol. you're not any better. it's a mental illness and you shouldn't be proud of it. stop reading fics and start talking to people in real life cause you're completely out of touch with reality
some people will see a stranger mind their own business, engage in a hobby that does not harm anyone in real life and think “I will play a therapist by diagnosing a complete stranger, whom I don’t know, with mental illness and make this my business somehow”
anyway, I am telling you that it’s NORMAL to find dark fiction fun, even if it portrays things like rape.
the same way it’s normal to find horror movies, slasher movies, war movies where characters get brutally and graphically killed fun.
why? because no one is actually being harmed in real life.
fictional characters are fantasies and thought crimes are not real.
“imagine if a man said that” I honestly could not care less what fanfiction a man reads or what he jerks off to. as long as he’s not actually hurting anybody in real life, his fantasies aren’t my business or concern
“you’re not any better” please tell me where exactly I say I am “better”
“you shouldn’t be proud of it” I actually am very proud of it. I am proud of my fics, including the ones that are about rape. I am proud of how far I’ve come as a writer. and I am proud of how unapologetic I am to portray dark and taboo things in my art.
“stop reading fics” No. I will neither stop reading fics nor will I stop writing fics. and there’s absolutely nothing you can do about that.
“start talking to people in real life” I have a lot of friends, thank you. and they all know that fiction =/= reality. we also love talking about how we can hurt our favorite fictional characters in our fics more. and it’s super fun. we always have a great time sharing each other ideas on what we should write.
“you’re completely out of touch with reality” then so are thousands, if not millions, of people who enjoy dark fiction because they know fiction are not reality and thought crimes are not real.
my advice? mind your own business. it’s totally okay to not be okay with taboo fiction. I don’t expect everybody to like or even understand the appeal of taboo fiction. but just because you personally don’t understand it doesn’t mean it’s not something a lot of people enjoy regardless.
next time you see something you don’t like on the internet, use that block button, mute that word, or scroll past it. what a stranger enjoys in fiction is not your business.
