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So I read With Bloodied Feet Across the Hallowed Ground by @nocoastposts and it was so good that this scene sprung fully formed into my mind and wouldn’t let go until I drew it

Shane is perfectly motionless as he watches his breath fog up the gleaming blade. The parts of his mind urging him to fight back go silent. The part of him that was a whisper now becomes a roar.

Submit. Yield. Obey. Be good.

I made a whole Alpha Dirk/Beta Jake 'comic' with 11 pages over on my Patreon some of you are missing out on

(18+, link under cut)

I just think it’d be neat if Dirk were a rope bunny (something, something, control freak getting taken down a peg)

doodles under the cut <3

more (badly censored) yuri

I don't think I know what sparring is

(bg text from this post from @avainblue )

edit: forgot the close-up

ahahahahahahahahaha

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@fiction-is-not-reality2 is the place to start.

This is a fool's errand though. The fact that you've presented it this way means you haven't actually dug deep enough to be competent to make this video.

"Community"? They aren't communities. They're philosophical standpoints.

Some people who hold these views group together into communities, and I hear proship twitter is full of hypocrites who betray their own stated values all the time, but for the most part, these are two deeply unequal camps of thought.

Antis operate on appeals to emotion and junk science of the type behind anti-video game panics of the 1980s. They prioritize "protecting" fictional characters over protecting real people. They treat thought crimes as serious business. They condone bullying. They push the same kind of conservative agenda as anti-porn Christian groups and as TERFs.

Proship arguments are that fiction does not affect reality in a 1:1 direct and clear fashion. Thought crimes are not real. Bullying is not acceptable. Other people's fiction tastes are none of your business.

These are not equivalent sides.

And. Sure. It is not good to wallow in stories about Horrible Stuff.

However.

You can't tell from someone's online habits if they are "wallowing" in some kind of content. Not even if they leave kudos on tons of it and nothing else. You just don't know how much time or mental consideration they're giving to the stories. You don't know how those stories are affecting them.

While there are people who have problems with obsessing over dark content, there are also a lot of people who use dark content for other reasons: To process their own traumas is the one that gets mentioned the most. It's also used to sort out complex emotions, to understand the motivations of unpleasant people they've known (especially if those people got better, and they want to figure out how they could ever have done bad things), or just to explore the possibility of human actions in a setting where no real people get hurt. There is value to this content.

It is not your job (not my job, not AO3's job) to force people to Not Do Bad Things. If someone is damaging themself by wallowing in horrific content... that's their choice. If they're a child, it's their parents' job to manage the media they're exposed to. (When I had young kids, I sure as hell did not want randos on the internet deciding what was acceptable for them to see.) You are not the thought police.

There is no variant of "this content should be banned" that doesn't play right into the alt-right evangelical Christian neo-nazi TERF agenda.

And there is no variant of "the people who make or read this content should be ostracized, bullied, and threatened with real-world violence" that isn't just hate speech and punching down at marginalized people.

The closest thing to a valid "anti" stance is "I don't want to see any of that horrible stuff; I don't want it to be welcome on the archives I read at; I don't want people who like it in my communities because they creep me out."