lol they just came right out and said “the whole animation industry is a pedo club”

anyway the dumbest thing about this whole situation is people defending it like drawing porn of cartoon turtles, every other damning detail aside, is some normal thing people do and anyone who sideeyes that is a purity culture nutjob

“oh it’s so ridiculous that someone would be crucified for drawing porn of children’s cartoon turtles, a thing normal well adjusted people do all the time, because those characters are underage” like I just don’t know where to even start with this mindset

it’s like if someone was like “oh of course the purity culture antis are going after someone because the toilet paper they’re eating just happens to have shit on it” like there’s a lot of steps here and none of them make you look like the reasonable one anywhere but online

eating toilet paper, similar to drawing porn of a children’s cartoon, isn’t something that I would say is evil or inherently bad, but which I would say describing as normal behavior is probably kidding yourself

if the cartoon characters in question are underage, and you’re drawing incest porn of kid characters who are underage, then the toilet paper’s got shit on it and something has gone from kinda weird to very badly wrong

of course the big takeaway of this is that it’s so so funny that the “defending Serious Messy Queer Art” squad is now bending over backwards to justify teenage mutant ninja turtles porn, because it reveals this has always been about protecting people who want to make nasty shit

like the whole argument of “my messy art is an expression of my trauma and I don’t owe it being ‘unproblematic’ to anyone” is a shit argument but it’s at least an argument I can see a reasonable person coming up with. maybe not for the reasons they think they are, but.

but when you apply it to something like cartoon turtle porn, it’s just so bonkers that there’s clearly no argument there. what, you’re processing your incest trauma by drawing the teenage turtle crime fighters fucking? and bragging on private about how you’ve fooled everyone?

like it could not be clearer this is just dumb voyeuristic fetish shit. drawing the ninja turtles fucking each other is not Important Art.

gretchen’s book is a whole nasty can of worms but like I’ve said before I can at least see how something like that is born from trauma, and having a feeling about your own marginalization. I cannot imagine the same justification for fucking ninja turtle porn. goofy as hell.