i'm sure you get lots of asks but i'm new to the fanfic/tumblr fandom scene. when you say horrific topics like incest and noncon should exist, do you mean they should exist because it happens irl but it shouldn't be romanticized? because if so i agree. i think we should experience reading and/or writing such things. movies and shows have portrayed such acts for years. but i think the problem lies through the fetishization and romanticization of it.
no. I mean romanticize whatever you want. my stance has always been โwrite whatever you want, however you want.โ
not to mention that you canโt always tell if something romanticizes bad things. two people can read the same fic, one can say โthis romanticizes non-conโ, the other can say, โno, this doesnโt romanticize anything.โ itโs all about each personโs interpretation. itโs all subjective.
that said, if someone wants to romanticize bad things in fiction, then go ahead. itโs their rights and their freedom to create whatever they want, however they want. no censorship means nothing is censored, doesnโt matter how it was written/created.
and if these taboo fantasies are someoneโs fetish, then as long as theyโre not harming anyone in real life, what turns them on is literally none of your business.
incest and cnc kinks have always been one of the most popular kinks, and most people who are into them can separate fiction from reality.
(and if some of them canโt, their inability to separate fiction, kinks and fantasies from reality is not other peopleโs problem or responsibility.)
fanfiction is not an act of activism. someoneโs kink and what they do in bed with their consenting partner is not an act of activism.
kill the moral cop in your head. fanfiction and kinks donโt have to be โmorally correctโ. it can be whatever turns a person on, however turns a person on, and as long as no one in real life is harmed, what they do and how they do it is no oneโs business.
you donโt have to be comfortable with it. you donโt have to like it. you donโt have to understand it. you just have to mind your own business and not shame or harass others over fiction and fantasies. because otherwise itโll just make you a bully who wants to find a โmorally correctโ excuse to shame and harass innocent people.