bethanyactually:

anne-of-our-hearts:

“ANNE” IS GETTING A THIRD SEASON!

I am so so excited guys! There are so many things that can happen in the new season, so many things to explore and I can’t wait to discover it all with you! I’ll keep you updated in case see any other things regarding this but for now let’s be celebrate the renewal a little! Great job to everyone who trended the hashtags on Twitter and requested a third season with Netflix! I can’t wait!

Anne With an E Anne Renewed for “Uplifting” With a U Season 3

ardwynna:

espeoradar:

ardwynna:

espeoradar:

ardwynna:

I wonder where the break happened that such wide swaths of younger fans don’t grasp fandom things that used to be unspoken understandings. That fic readers are expected to know fiction from reality,  that views expressed in fic are not necessarily those of the author, that the labels, tags and warnings on various kinkfics are also the indication that they were created for titillation and not much more, please use responsibly as per all pornography. The ‘problem’ isn’t that so-called ‘problematic’ fic exists but that some of the audience is being stupid, irresponsible, at worst criminal, at best not old enough to be in the audience to begin with. And that’s on the consumer, not the author who told you via labels, tags, ratings, warnings and venues what their fic was about and what it was for.

porn of kids written by adults is never justifiable no matter how many warning labels are written on it. that is on the sick, sick writers of such materials. especially porn of minors w adults. that content straight-up should not exist, regardless of how many warning labels go on it.

that is the kind of stuff we are fighting against. i couldnt care less if you write inflation-cum-foot fetish kinkfic or whathaveyou, just so long as the characters in it arent god damn minors.

Fiction is legal. Drawings and writing are not child porn. Learn what words mean before you use them. You don’t have a legal leg to stand on and you’re too young to pull off wearing those pearls you’re clutching.

i dont care if its legal. i couldnt care less if its legal. its morally repugnant. adults shouldnt have any reason or drive to read or write that shit. and if they do i think that says something very dangerous about them. learn some fucking critical thinking, take a step back, and realise that you just tried to tell me that its morally okay for adults to write fucking child porn.

Think what you want but it’s worthless without actual proof of harm. There is a vast difference between living breathing children being harmed and fanfiction that makes you uncomfortable because you’ve been so helicopter-parented you can’t make single judgment, action or decision on your own. ‘Critical thinking’ does not mean ‘don’t do what makes espeoradar uncomfortable’. You have a right to your own insipid morals but you have no right to force them on anyone else.

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How are you going to ask me a bunch of questions and then block me? Are you afraid of an actual conversation? Unable to defend your points? Blog too ugly to be borne? (I pick D, all of the above).

So, one more time for the slow child in the back. Child Pornography has an actual legal definition. Real children are harmed to create it. Fiction and art are explicitly NOT part of this legal definition. Because real children are not involved. Artistic expression is protected. I get that you’re uncomfortable, but you’re also being stupid.

As for why an adult might want to write about minors, because we were minors once. We had our celebrity crushes. We remember being that young. You pretend to be an adult but honestly you can’t be much of one if you haven’t grasped yet that these fics aren’t about adults lusting after children, but about adults remembering being underaged themselves and at that time lusting after their peers and people older than them.

Now stop pissing in the wind, you big crybaby.

espeoradar:

ardwynna:

espeoradar:

ardwynna:

I wonder where the break happened that such wide swaths of younger fans don’t grasp fandom things that used to be unspoken understandings. That fic readers are expected to know fiction from reality,  that views expressed in fic are not necessarily those of the author, that the labels, tags and warnings on various kinkfics are also the indication that they were created for titillation and not much more, please use responsibly as per all pornography. The ‘problem’ isn’t that so-called ‘problematic’ fic exists but that some of the audience is being stupid, irresponsible, at worst criminal, at best not old enough to be in the audience to begin with. And that’s on the consumer, not the author who told you via labels, tags, ratings, warnings and venues what their fic was about and what it was for.

porn of kids written by adults is never justifiable no matter how many warning labels are written on it. that is on the sick, sick writers of such materials. especially porn of minors w adults. that content straight-up should not exist, regardless of how many warning labels go on it.

that is the kind of stuff we are fighting against. i couldnt care less if you write inflation-cum-foot fetish kinkfic or whathaveyou, just so long as the characters in it arent god damn minors.

Fiction is legal. Drawings and writing are not child porn. Learn what words mean before you use them. You don’t have a legal leg to stand on and you’re too young to pull off wearing those pearls you’re clutching.

i dont care if its legal. i couldnt care less if its legal. its morally repugnant. adults shouldnt have any reason or drive to read or write that shit. and if they do i think that says something very dangerous about them. learn some fucking critical thinking, take a step back, and realise that you just tried to tell me that its morally okay for adults to write fucking child porn.

Think what you want but it’s worthless without actual proof of harm. There is a vast difference between living breathing children being harmed and fanfiction that makes you uncomfortable because you’ve been so helicopter-parented you can’t make single judgment, action or decision on your own. ‘Critical thinking’ does not mean ‘don’t do what makes espeoradar uncomfortable’. You have a right to your own insipid morals but you have no right to force them on anyone else.

Your post brought up a common predicament for writers, how do you write characters with questionable/abhorrent beliefs without causing readers to assume they reflect your own?

neil-gaiman:

Well, unless you are going to only write stories in which nice things happen to nice people, you are going to write stories in which people who do not believe what you believe show up, just like they do in the world. And in which bad things happen, just as they do in the world.

And if you are going to write awful people, you are going to have to put yourself into their shoes and into their head, just as you do when you write the ones who believe what you believe. Which is also hard.

I think that knowing what you believe, writing fiction informed by what you believe, and knowing that your fiction has a moral grounding (if it does) is the best thing for an author. And not worrying about what readers think of you, any more than you’d worry about what your parents or lovers might think if they read your fiction.

It’s something that I thought a lot about a long time ago, when one young man killed his lover, and then killed himself, and tried to frame Sandman (and me) for it. And the conclusion I came to was that you have to be good in your heart with what you’ve written. And beyond that, you cannot worry.

(For the curious: http://neil-gaiman.tumblr.com/post/54466572210/rebloggable-by-request-on-responsibility Is a link to the time I wrote about it here on tumblr. And https://nothingbutcomics.net/2018/02/26/sandmanmurder/ is a blog entry by someone else.)

espeoradar:

ardwynna:

I wonder where the break happened that such wide swaths of younger fans don’t grasp fandom things that used to be unspoken understandings. That fic readers are expected to know fiction from reality,  that views expressed in fic are not necessarily those of the author, that the labels, tags and warnings on various kinkfics are also the indication that they were created for titillation and not much more, please use responsibly as per all pornography. The ‘problem’ isn’t that so-called ‘problematic’ fic exists but that some of the audience is being stupid, irresponsible, at worst criminal, at best not old enough to be in the audience to begin with. And that’s on the consumer, not the author who told you via labels, tags, ratings, warnings and venues what their fic was about and what it was for.

porn of kids written by adults is never justifiable no matter how many warning labels are written on it. that is on the sick, sick writers of such materials. especially porn of minors w adults. that content straight-up should not exist, regardless of how many warning labels go on it.

that is the kind of stuff we are fighting against. i couldnt care less if you write inflation-cum-foot fetish kinkfic or whathaveyou, just so long as the characters in it arent god damn minors.

Fiction is legal. Drawings and writing are not child porn. Learn what words mean before you use them. You don’t have a legal leg to stand on and you’re too young to pull off wearing those pearls you’re clutching.