rainbowloliofjustice:

the-wandering-girl:

rainbowloliofjustice:

It’s fine if you want to avoid certain content, it’s fine if you don’t want to consume content that makes you uncomfortable, it’s fine if you blacklist the content and/or dont follow people who post it.

But what ain’t okay is telling other people they cannot consume it because it makes you uncomfortable. It isn’t okay to tell other people that they cannot create that type of content because you don’t want to see it.

Okay but OP, is this about actually generally “nonharmful” stuff – e.g. rarepairs – or about stuff like incest, pedophilia, abuse, rape, and so on?

I keep seeing posts like this and they keep being about the latter and I refuse to uncritically reblog them.

This is about any type of manner of fiction. 

re: your tags, the only things that hurt real people are actions that are taken out on real people. If I stab a real person obviously the action is harmful because it hurts a real person directly and a real person is suffering consequences of an action that I directly forced upon them. 

In fiction, a character being stabbed doesn’t hurt anyone because the character is not real. They’re fictional. Lines on paper, ink on paper, etc. they have no bearing, no rights, etc. in the world full of real people. They are tools meant and used for creation and content. 

Can the character being stabbed make someone uncomfortable? Yes. Are they right to avoid content revolving around that? Yes. Someone drawing frisk x sans isn’t harmful because both frisk and sans are characters, but someone giving a real person needles because they drew frisk x sans is harmful. 

The idea that fiction is on the same level as real people is harmful because then people start caring more about the lives of characters than they do real people. There have already been incidents recorded of parents forgetting to feed their infants because they were too busy caring for a virtual baby or playing video games. 

If someone wants to write a story that contains rape, they’re free to right that because it is fiction. 

If you don’t want to read that story, you’re free to blacklist, not read, and avoid it.