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tag on post about darkfic: "that being said if you romanticisize it you have treaded into the wrong neighnorhood"[sic]
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so, uh, i have a lot of Doubts that we can so easily tell what romanticizes abuse and what doesn& #39;t in fanworks & feel that appropriate tags negate most harm
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so, uh, i have a lot of Doubts that we can so easily tell what romanticizes abuse and what doesn& #39;t in fanworks & feel that appropriate tags negate most harm
it& #39;s a different ball game when you get into works with bigger, more heterogeneous audiences and no agreed-on warning/flagging system (aka anything published or mass media) and god knows there& #39;s a fckton of romance novels with abuse/toxic behavior treated as romantic
but even these would be a lot less worrying if we just provided much better education about what abuse looks like IRL??? like legit, a good education will nip 98% of potential issues caused by immoral fiction right in the bud
and some people enjoy fiction that has abuse/toxic behavior being treated as romantic! and as long as they know this is actually an abusive situation irl that& #39;s their business. the thing to prevent is RL harm, not immoral fiction, and truth/education is what protects people.
and finally: if someone consumes a story where abuse is treated as romance, and an abuser then uses that model to draw in, trap, and abuse that person: the only person at fault is the abuser. reading & #39;bad& #39;/immoral content is not signing an invisible agreement to be abused irl.
