I'm Going To Comic Con This Year And I'll Be Meeting Ian Somerhalder, Paul Wesley, David Harbour, Steven

I'm going to Comic Con this year and I'll be meeting Ian Somerhalder, Paul Wesley, David Harbour, Steven Ogg, Jamie Campbell-Bower and Matt Smith.

I don’t see why someone writing stuff for a noncon kink is bad, like, it’s a fantasy. Sure, they can also write out the characters acting out a scene (and some people do!) but also… both of those play into a fantasy it’s not immoral, but if someone just writes noncon, it’s immoral and they must actually be a rapist or want to be a victim or something. I don’t know if it’s just anti-kink stuff in general or what.

Its because a lot of people can't differentiate between fictional actions and real ones. Because someone has to write/create those fictional actions, many people assume its the creator acting via fiction, whereas the truth is simply that its the creator creating something fictional.

Characters "acting out" rape is acceptable to certain people because nobody is actually getting raped, and consent is being given to roleplay actions and emotions. This makes those people comfortable because they humanize fictional characters and consider them to be "protected" by real laws and stipulations. The characters are people, so their lives must reflect those of people in real life. Thus, rape is bad.

By the same simplistic explanation, someone writing a fake rape scene isn't actually writing about rape. They're writing about characters enjoying the contributing aspects of the roleplay. Control, size and strength kinks, trust, ect.

However someone who is just writing about rape, in their mind, is sourcing their enjoyment specifically from the rape itself. From those same things, but they're no longer individual, they're just rape.

Essentially they ignore the fact that they're the exact same thing and dictate that the given consent makes the difference.

If your child is old enough to learn boundaries with people and appropriate behavior around people they're old enough and aware enough to learn boundaries and appropriate behavior around animals.

Its really that simple.

On one hand I do understand the concept of a job having a relative value in terms of hourly wage based on required qualifications, ect, but on the other I absolutely do not understand the way some people talk about how someone is undeserving of payment above a certain value based on what job they do.

We are literally selling hours of our lives in order to afford basic survival necessities. If we want to eat, we first have to sell hours of our lives and skills and labour. If we want to sleep in shelter, drink clean water, have access to medicine and healthcare and transport, we literally have to sell part of our lifetime to working.

And often, its not a small part. I know people for whom an 80 hour workweek is just. Normal. And they're still only just making it by. I know people who are working two jobs alongside their partner's job(s) just to afford to run a small, minimal, two-person household.

Humans aren't meant to live life like this, period. No matter your political stance or perspective on class. Absolutely everyone should be able to have a healthy balance between time spent working and time spent actually living. If you have to choose between eating, doing laundry or getting more than 5 hours sleep between shifts, there's a problem. If you're pulling 60 hour weeks and still barely affording your bills, there's a problem. If your health is declining because you have to work so much just to live, there's a problem.

If your argument is that people need to 'be worth their pay' and not that people should be paid enough that they can do more than just afford the bare basics needed to survive, you are part of the problem.

Guys, if you read on AO3 please try to create an account. So many of us writers are going to be forced to lock down our fics to registered users out of necessity to help keep AI away, and it kills us because we don’t want to stop any of you from reading.

AO3 is invite only. So if you know an AO3 user, ask if they have an invitation to give you (we’re given invite codes to share with others who want to join) because that’s an easy way to get in. If you don’t know someone you can ask, this is AO3’s instructions for requesting one from them…

I know this seems like an extra step and maybe you don’t think you need it and can just read from people who haven’t locked their fics. But this isn’t just about you as the reader. If you enjoy fics and you want to keep them coming, this is how you support your favorite writers! If our stats and comments plummet, I guarantee writing is going to start going down as well. Nobody wants that! So please consider making an account and signal boosting this as well! 🙏🏻

**NOTE: AO3 indicates (as of today) there’s 48k some people in the queue for invites and they’re sending out about 5k per day. That’s not a bad wait at all!!**

The sequel ‘Skull Measuring for beginners’ is scheduled for 2025.