bottomsona:

bottomsona:

“fiction doesnt affect reality! it has no impact if it’s written!” says a fandom adult still obsessed with harry potter in 2018

there are plentiful studies that show that fiction affects reality. that’s why positive representation matters, too.

there are also studies that show that being exposed to porn makes the viewer become desensitized to sexual violence and violence against women. that’s why no more studies are being conducted about porn; because of the damage it caused to the participants. porn, too, is fictional.

there’s a logical conclusion to draw about the exposure to (not to mention, creation of) ~fictional~ pedophilia and rape as a hobby

vaantablack:

Everyone’s such a punk pussy bitch like! Grow up, put some hatred in your heart for rapists and pedophiles and abusers. Turn your back on people who have committed grand acts of violence. Stop being such lil’ fake and gutless people that you’d spend more time defending sadists than their victims.

tomcats-and-tophats:

This AO3/fandom anti-anti/purity culture whinging stuff is always so unnerving, and it’s always even more unnerving the next time it rolls around because people still haven’t learned, and I know it’s not a hundred percent related to this blog, but look.

This post is going to be long, and it’s going to touch on every sort of trigger, but here’s the thesis in the form of a misquote - especially for everyone out there unable to parse these concepts without a media reference:

“You’re going to go through life thinking that [people] don’t like you because you’re a nerd. And I want you to know, from the bottom of my heart, that that won’t be true. It’ll be because you’re [really fucking creepy].”

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