Goddessmoonlady - WTF My World... >_>

I can't believe Baby is 3 today! How time flies... She was only 1 year & 3 months old when I brought her home from the Christian County Animal Shelter!

As usual, she got a special Birthday treat and pup toy, this year, they were from the Nashville Humane Association Dog Day yesterday! This year, it was a Jack Skellington pup cookie & a Squeaky Bat! I love that her birthday falls in October, so all of her birthday gifts end up being spooky themed. 😆

Writing Prompt #2482

"Maybe I don't know anything, and maybe I am just an idiot desperate for attention. But you make me happy, and I don't want to lose that."

Your personal triggers and squicks do not get to determine what kind of art other people make.

People make shit. It's what we do. We make shit to explore, to inspire, to explain, to understand, but also to cope, to process, to educate, to warn, to go, "hey, wouldn't that be fucked up? Wild, right?"

Yes, sure, there are things that should be handled with care if they are used at all. But plenty more things are subjective. Some things are just not going to be to your tastes. So go find something that is to your tastes and stop worrying so much about what other people are doing and trying to dictate universal moral precepts about art based on your personal triggers and squicks.

I find possession stories super fucking triggering if I encounter them without warning, especially if they function as a sexual abuse metaphor. I'm not over here campaigning for every horror artist to stop writing possession stories because they make me feel shaky and dissociated. I just check Does The Dog Die before watching certain genres, and I have my husband or roommate preview anything I think might upset me so they can give me more detail. And if I genuinely don't think I can't handle it, I don't watch it. It's that simple.