fujoshiandfudanshisupport:

nonbinarypastels:

Look, I don’t really care where you stand on fandom discourse but seriously—if you don’t think that reading published books, playing video games, or watching tv shows and movies that contain certain dark things means that a person wholeheartedly supports those things in realy life and is more likely to go out and actually do them but you think the total opposite when it comes to fanfiction, then that’s an obvious double standard and there’s a giant hole in your logic.

If you can happily enjoy watching a show like Hannibal without supporting cannibalism IRL and becoming a serial killer, but think people who read fanfic that contains content that’s just as dark means that they MUST support those things IRL and are likely to go out and do them, then that’s an obvious double standard and there’s a giant hole in your logic.

If you think that published authors like George RR Martin, Gillian Flynn, Stephen King, and countless others can write what they write without supporting it in real life or it meaning they’re out doing the things they write about, but think fanfic authors writing about the exact same things support those things IRL and are out doing them then that’s an obvious double standard and there’s a giant whole in your logic.

If you can consume media such as published books, video games, movies and shows that contain dark content without thinking that the things you read/see are okay to emulate IRL and thinking that they’re normal and acceptable outside of fiction but don’t think that people reading fanfic about the same dark content can do the same, then that’s an obvious double standard and there’s a giant hole in your logic.

If you don’t think that dark themes in published books, video games, tv shows and movies which have an audience of millions normalize the dark content that they contain and cause it to happen IRL but you think that fanfic that has an audience of only thousands does then that’s an obvious double standard and there’s a giant hole in your logic.

So many of y’all hold fanfic, fanfic writers and fanfic readers to a standard that you do not hold the creators and consumers of other media such as published books, video games, tv shows and movies which contains literally the exact same dark themes as the fanfic you’re going off over to and you never stop to ask yourself for a single moment WHY.

What’s the difference between a person checking a book out from the library that contains dark themes and them reading a fanfic which contains the exact same dark themes on ao3? What’s the difference between watching a movie with those themes rather than reading a fanfic with them? What about watching a tv show? Playing a video game?

What makes all of those things above reproach, safe to create and consume without it saying something about a person’s morality or ethics or IRL behavior and beliefs, but which makes fanfic that contains literally the exact same content some unending horror that needs to be destroyed before it corrupts everyone who touches it?

Very well said. The hypocrisy and double standards there are ridiculous.