rich ppl are like so easily convinced abt ghosts I remember growing up it was near this vacant lot and whenever I broke a toy instead of going to face the wrath of my mother I would fucking bury it in that lot and then sure enough, some dude tried to develop the land and found a ton of buried rotten dolls and shit and told everyone it was haunted
it’s been over a decade and that lot is still vacant
You single handedly tanked the value of someone’s prime real estate and that makes me happy
As soon as I read this I immediately started thinking of ways to do this on purpose to get cheap land and I was five posts down my dash before I realised I was becoming Scooby Doo villain
“you can’t control who’s going to read your gross fic!!”
yes i can. it’s called tagging appropriately. the only people who are gonna read my gross e-rated dead dove dubious consent mind control vore porn are
1) adults who want to read that content, and
2) people who looked at those tags, looked at the mature content warning, and then said “well that looks like absolutely nothing i want to be a part of” and then clicked it anyway to get angry about
[Oglaf cartoon (“Annals”)
Person 1: “If they hate the show so much, why do they keep coming back?”
Person 2: “Do you know some people can orgasm from outrage alone?”
Person 1: “What? No!”
Person 2: “Me neither, but it’s the only guess I have.”]
This is a pretty shit post tbh
“#your intentions are clear when the example you give is dubious consent mind control vore #lmao #what disgusting shit”
yeah dude my intentions are “i’m into the idea of getting eaten by a creepy fairy lady so i wrote porn about it and i’d appreciate not getting death threats”, you can think it’s disgusting all you want that’s why it’s tagged so you can….avoid it………
I’m sorry you get death threats, that’s terrible and I’d never condone that shit. Correct me if I’m wrong though, but are you defending your right to produce any content you want without criticism (specifically of the type of content)? Because I disgaree, fundamentally. Art should be free of censorship, definitely, but not of repercussion. Expecting to recieve feedback only from your target audience is a narrow mindset, and tagging something doesn’t magically excuse you of whatever ramifications your work carries with it.
If it’s harassment and death threats that you were talking about, I apologise because again that’s never okay. Otherwise, no.
the point of this post is that something behind an 18+ mature content “do you consent to read this” barrier and which is extensively tagged with warnings for the purpose of keeping people safe from accidentally reading something that may be triggering or otherwise distressing has been responsibly handled by the author. if someone reads something they weren’t prepared for in spite of having the content warned for them, that’s not the fault of the author—not even if the reader is underage, because they clicked a whole thing that said they were of age and consented to read it.
writing weird erotica is protected under the current law, and it does not harm a single person who did not explicitly consent to open that page and read that content, and while of course nobody gets freedom from criticism, the facts are that not only is writing that weird erotica and making it available is not a Bad Thing To Do by any reasonable standard, but that if you, as someone who did not want to read that content read it anyway, the only person you can blame for that is yourself.
this post was never, in fact, about anything other than the fact that a reader is responsible for themself. if they were warned and made themself miserable anyway, knowing full well that the content was not intended for them, that’s not the author’s problem.
the target audience is the target audience for a reason; if it’s correctly labelled for the target audience to enjoy and those who it might harm to avoid, it’s doing its job. a novel with no “objectionable material” might still be inappropriate for children and that’s because its target audience was adults and that’s who should be reading it, and non-adults reading it need to be cognizant of the fact that what they’re reading isn’t intended for them and they might find some of the content distressing; the sole fact they found the content distressing is not, actually, the author’s fault.
i’m not here to get critiqued by a middle schooler for the fact i wrote something a middle schooler shouldn’t have been reading in the first place and which was tagged and warned in such a way to make clear it was inappropriate for them.
go read things that make you happy. you don’t have to read things you don’t like, and none of us are trying to make you.
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