some girls burn bridges
she blows them up

there is nothing quite like watching a fandom collectively decide a background character is now everyone’s blorbo

Fandoms stopped being a fun escape from reality when people started spreading the belief that you should prioritize purity over pleasure and the art you create must be a reflection of your moral standards at all times.

Jinx w nipple piercings propaganda like if u agree

I think a great deal of Sephiroth’s story is about regression. You have a character that was forced to grow up way, WAY too early. A character that never experienced a proper childhood. Yet instinctively longed for the warmth and comfort of maternal love. And latched onto that sense of yearning all his life. This is someone incredibly emotionally stunted. Someone who carefully constructs himself in a way that will fill the mold of a hardened warrior, but is secretly harboring the needs and desires of a desperate child.

And then after setback after setback, loss after loss, Sephiroth finally gives up on being an “adult”. He walks down the metaphorical umbilical cord that is the tube connected to Jenova’s tank. And thereby figuratively returns to the womb. He no longer identifies as Sephiroth the man, but simply Sephiroth the son. Jenova’s son. Her messenger. Her destined child.

In many ways, Sephiroth’s story is an anti-coming of age. Sephiroth throws away the adult connections and responsibilities that ultimately make him human. And instead returns to a false sense of safety and security in Jenova’s arms.

rarepair shipping is basically 10% canon interaction / 90% vibes

for many of us, shipping was the first time stories felt interactive

like we were allowed to respond, not just consume

i hate how sanitised art is forced to be now, i wanna draw stuff thats a reflection of deeply personal things about me but its just taken as a surface level, “oh, you drew this? so that must be something you wanna see happen irl!!”

like NO!!!!!!! i drew it because it means something to me!!!! its not a 1:1 depiction of something i agree with, art is suposed to be confusing and weird and gross and human!!!!!!!!

Fandoms stopped being a fun escape from reality when people started spreading the belief that you should prioritize purity over pleasure and the art you create must be a reflection of your moral standards at all times.

I can not imagine a life so fucking BLAND where ALL the fiction you consume HAS to have PERFECT MORALITY and no one can do anything wrong or even subjectively “icky”

i love freaks, allllll freaks , even freaks that transcend my level of freakiness ur all amazing i love you

no one owes you “safe” art

they owe you accurate tags and the ability to opt out

that’s the social contract

‘i don’t like pairing’

'i hate this fandom’

'i don’t want to read noncon/dubcon’

'i don’t like 'x/y/z’ and i shouldn’t have to read it’

'i hate this character’

'i don’t want to read explicit stories’

a resolution for you:

Periodic rent-lowering-gunshots:

1. Fiction is not reality.
2. You can enjoy things in fiction that would be awful in the real world. Like playing a murderhobo in a game! In the real world, being or supporting a murderer-thief would be pretty damn awful, while in the game it’s just good fun. Same with anything else you choose to do with the pixels on the screen, like kinks that don’t affect anyone real, so they’re okay in fiction, but would be pretty damn bad in real life.
3. No one else is responsible for your online experience. They are required not to harass you, but they are not and never will be obligated to not post about ships, kinks, or tropes you dislike just to avoid you seeing them. It’s up to you to blacklist words or phrases, block tags, or even block users as needed to avoid seeing content that upsets you.
4. No one can force you to read anything against your consent. Any content you don’t like seeing can be instantly avoided by closing out of the offending post/fic.
5. You are not owed an online experience free of discomfort.
6. Nothing that happens in your imagination can ever make you a bad person. Words you write or read about fictional characters will never make you a bad person.
7. The claim that media consumption influences real-life behavior is intellectually dishonest and serves only to excuse the behavior of real offenders.
8. Fiction is a safe way to explore horrifying or confusing concepts. Therapists agree that fiction, even (or especially) about taboo topics is a good coping mechanism, especially, but not exclusively, for trauma survivors. Fiction is to adults what play therapy is to children. This doesn’t stop being true if the work in question is of a sexual nature.
9. Sex isn’t an inherently worse or better motivation than anything else. A work written to create feelings of arousal isn’t dirty, shameful, or in any way less pure than works written to entertain, provoke moral questions, or for other reasons. And worth noting is that multiple purposes can exist in the same story, especially fanfiction.
10. You aren’t entitled to an explanation for why someone reads, writes, or otherwise enjoys certain works, kinks, tropes, ships, etc.

friendly reminder:

you are not a bad person for what you consume in fiction.

consuming fictional content does not mean you think the actions shown are okay to enact in real life.

you are not evil for reading, writing, drawing, watching, or otherwise engaging with dark fiction.

if you can separate fiction from reality in your mind, then you are not a bad person for consuming that fiction.

dont let anyone tell you you’re gross, bad, weird, toxic, evil, predatory, or disgusting for exploring taboo topics in a safe setting.

OooOohHh

Vijinx moodboard

“people are allowed to be grossed out”

ok. keep it to yourself. it’s the polite thing to do. if i’m not enjoying food someone made, that i get to eat for free, i’m not gonna shit all over their cooking and personal tastes

this is a post about proshipping

I actually love kinksters so much

Learning from every source in your life that sex is disgusting and sinful, that you should be ashamed of your feelings, thoughts and desires and then having someone in a dog mask tell you, “No, it’s all cool, actually,” is mind-blowing lol

In the comments seeing a lot of aces saying “Yeah I appreciate that kinksters are often accepting of ace people” and that is because there are many asexuals in kink! Sexual attraction or behavior is not essential to kink/BDSM.

My spouse and I are both a-spec kinksters who do a lot of Kinky Activities and exactly zero traditional genital-involving sex. I write about being nonsexual kinksters professionally as well.

“One funny thing: At most of the kink parties Selena went to, no one was doing anything that seemed to be sexual. People would say, ‘I’m tying someone up, that’s sex,’ but much of the time it didn’t seem to feel sexual and nobody could explain how this made sense. Was tying someone up really sex, or was it a rope and some trust? Selena didn’t care about sex, but she did love rope, so it was unclear exactly what was happening here, and what she actually wanted.

Intimacy, it turns out. Selena cared about intimacy, and kink was a way for her to be intimate with others. Intimacy and sex are not the same. Intimacy can be in service of sex or sex can be in service of intimacy, or they can be completely separate…”

-Angela Chen, Ace: What Asexuality Reveals about Desire, Society, and the Meaning of Sex

Oh my god-

I never thought of it that way

Kink is allowing folks a space to be weird and unconventional, its in that space that questions can be asked and explored in a way conventional space wouldn’t normally allow.

Actually you SHOULD make problematic content. You SHOULD explore dark or taboo topics. You SHOULD have a space where you can cope with your traumas or explore sensitive topics in a way that doesn’t hurt anyone.

This is the type of response I can get behind 🤣 This would make me write even more freaky shit, and make it more fucked up.

I enjoy reading and writing about rape and other taboo stuff (though incest isn’t my thing) and it’s not even a secret. you can like whatever you want in fiction. I don’t think it’s any different from liking horror or slasher movies. taboo things happen in those media that would be unacceptable in real life. people enjoy it anyway because it’s fiction.

 I’ve been looking out a window for eighteen years, dreaming about what it might feel like when those lights rise in the sky.

TANGLED
2010 — dir. Nathan Greno, Byron Howard

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there is something deeply unserious about trying to “protect” people by attacking fan creators

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