The Problem With Trying To Irrevocably Tie What We Create To Who We Are Is That It Then Completely Voids

The problem with trying to irrevocably tie what we create to who we are is that it then completely voids the freedom of being able to create things.

Fiction is not meant to be our reality. Its meant for all the things we can't do. For the things we shouldn't. For the things we want to do but will never get the chance to. Fiction is for being more than our reality.

What is the point in fiction if you want it to be intrinsically bound to who we are? To what we believe in? To what we dictate we must obey?

How much of our own history would we lose if your demand that we must only create what is sound and 'right' comes to fruit? What lessons will we fail to learn in the future because the fiction that taught them to us in the past no longer exists?

Those who huddle in a barren shelter will starve but those who venture forth might find a bounty.

I was just thinking about how important it is to have authors (both fan and professional) with whom I feel... safely unsafe, if that makes sense.

Like, this is going to hurt, there are going to be things that happen to these characters that I absolutely Do Not Want to happen, but I trust you and I trust this ride.

Drawn cp not being classed as csem by the FBI doesn't mean it's okay, you know that right? You understand that just because something is legal doesn't mean it's immune to criticism? Do you understand that "it's allowed by the FBI actually!!" is a very weak and bad response to someone condemning something?

"Drawn CP."

Again. Not actually CP.

Its. Fictional.

By definition. It does not involve any real children. That's the distinction I'm making. Because its an important one, and one that people who share your mindset love to ignore in regards to vehement defence of fictional characters who neither exist nor need defending. Because they're not real.

By all means. Criticize or condemn what you like. If your moral stance is that you can't separate fictional creations from real life actions and intent, then that's your stance. If its equitable to you, that's your opinion.

Where it has to stop is when you begin trying to treat those fictional characters with the same victim consideration as real people and labelling the person who created the content as a rapist/murderer/pedophile/ect.

People like you love to condemn fictional content on the basis that it serves as an alternate, direct reflection of reality, when the simple fact is that it isn't.

OP's post was quite literally: "If you're using the subject of your trauma to create fiction that allows you to heal or exist in the least harmful way, you should feel ashamed and guilty."

My response was. Why?

Genuinely. I would love to know what is so abhorrent about people creating victimless, fictional content because it benefits them.

I, personally, would prefer someone writes 100,000 pieces of fiction over harming a real life child.

I, personally, would prefer someone writes 100,000 pieces of fiction over going out and trying to find an outlet in unsafe sex and making themselves vulnerable.

I, personally, would rather people enjoy or experience dangerous, wild, weird, unsafe, unethical kinks and activities fictionally over doing it in real life and winding up hurt or hurting someone else.

I, personally, would never see someone processing, understanding or finding outlet from their trauma through fiction and demand they scuttle off into some dark corner and hate themselves for it.

I implore you to talk to some actual real life therapists who specialise in trauma. Not just your generic therapist. An actual trauma specialist. Creating fictional content, be it art, literature, music, ect, is a very viable, proven tool for both living with something and moving on from it.

I'm terribly sorry. My tentacle dildo can't make me infertile. Your parents have begged me to bear them another child because they went so terribly wrong with you. I'm their last hope for a legacy.

"Taboo enjoyers DNI"

DNIs go both ways. If you don't want me to interact with you, do not interact with me. Hypocrisy is unbecoming.

"Why don't you tell people what kind of fictional porn you like?"

Why don't you tell them you spend your free time telling real people to kill themselves and arguing about the rights of people who literally do not exist.

I'll tell my mom that I read about Tony Stark pounding Peter Parker until his ass is as open as a 24/7 McDonald's if you tell yours that you wholeheartedly tell people you hope their families burn alive and they get raped because they ship a human and a celestial being together.

While we're at it, sure, I'll tell my boss I like monsterfucking as long as you tell yours that your break-time hobby is scouring the internet stalking people and harassing them over their kinks.

I might be the freak with a tentacle dildo and a bookmarks page full of nasty, kinky incest, but you're the freak who could literally kill someone.

I know which one I'd rather be.

"Its so hard picking between X and Y ships!"

You pick between ships?? You only ship one ship per character?? You limit yourself on ships??