THIS. I saw a post the other day that literally said if you do it to a fictional character, you’ll do it in real life.
No. Just NO.
I’m so glad someone put it into words.
Lin-Manuel Miranda is a legend, and he’s absolutely right.
And I really feel like there are parts of fandom that don’t get or don’t believe this, and I think that’s troubling. I’ve seen arguments that people shouldn’t have dark fantasies, or that bad impulses in themselves make a bad person. I’ve seen so much shaming over thoughts.
And if you get to a point where it’s bad to have dark thoughts and it’s bad to wonder what something would be like and it’s bad to put yourself in the shoes of anyone who isn’t “pure”, if fiction is no longer a realm where you can confront and explore, but an ongoing test of moral purity… well, maybe not everyone’s brain works like mine, but I feel like that takes away something incredibly important to being human.
Purity culture is gonna kill art if y’all let it.
We live with a younger generation who seriously believe that censorship is more important that creativity.
We got extremist and a younger audience, who aren’t supposed the be reading alot of these things, as well as other people who take it too literally. Just because it’s portrayed onto art or writting, etc. Doesn’t mean we support or want it in rl. It’s to bring more realism in our work for the good and bad. Alot of times it’s self-therapedic to vent out our dark emotions, psychological traumas, experiences, and just simply to explore as stated above. Don’t judge anyone by their work, it doesn’t reflect who they are in real life.
I mean you like GOTs right? It has incest, rape, murder, you name it. And just because you like the series, or the writer himself doesn’t mean you support these in rl either.
Same goes for any horror films, art, stories you enjoy, action movies including starwars. It’s all the same. Sure there’s rainbows and glitter, but even the dark is part of life as well.
He’ll even history has it, it’s just apart of life.
But stop with the hate of FICTION and FANTASY ART. It’s NOT REAL. You have an option to not read dark stuff..thats why TAGS exist.
Yes. To all of the above – exploring dark themes in writing or art has nothing to do with reality in the way that some people seem to think. You no like something? You no watch/read – it is that simple.
Marshmellowmilktea 