I Dont See Why Someone Writing Stuff For A Noncon Kink Is Bad, Like, Its A Fantasy. Sure, They Can Also

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.

The concept that a lot of you don't understand is that AO3 is not just another funky little fanfiction upload site like Wattpad.

Its very specifically a content archive.

Its not a social media site. Its not like BookReads or Wattpad or the Kindle library.

Its for the preservation hosting of fanfiction. Think of it like a museum. When you upload your fanfiction there, you're basically donating it to a museum where its preserved, protected, and displayed.

That's why AO3 doesn't have the same rules and regulations as Wattpad. That's why AO3 doesn't allow for monetisation. That's why AO3 doesn't have content mining and ads and all the other stuff Wattpad does.

If you want to keep benefiting from those things, you need to understand and respect what AO3 actually is and how it functions.

This is just an FYI but no matter what issues you're an activist for or a supporter of;

Its okay to need moments or days where you simply don't talk about it.

Its okay to say; "I need to step back for a little bit to recharge and focus on the positives."

Its okay to tell someone you can't be their ear right now because you need to rebalance yourself and focus on your own wellbeing. Its okay to tell people you just want to enjoy this moment or this day and not focus on terrible, awful things.

Moments of happiness and peace are just as important as activism and engagement.

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.

(By full shift I mean think of the werewolves from Twilight as an example.)