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holy HELL and they wonder why we compare them to fundamentalist religion??? “X books are evil, and as such even selling them to someone else would be wrong because they shouldnt exist at all so they should be burned to rid the world of their evil” is LITERALLY a thing I was taught growing up except my family was talking about Dungeons and Dragons books (because, i cant belive how on the nose it is, this PRETEND GAME was clearly evil and going to corrupt us, fiction/reality conflation much?)

shipping-isnt-morality:

aiahwjahsksusjdvs.

ok you’re making a serious point here anon, and I agree, but you’ve also made me realize: Oh my god yeah how my parents talked about DND is literally exactly how antis talk about fanfic

  • consuming fiction about something will normalize it, no matter how clearly fantastical the fiction is
  • eventually you will become what you’re creating fiction about. (my parents told me this story over and over about a man who truly came to believe he was a dwarf wizard because that was his dnd character)
  • sometimes the characters were sexy. this leads to people associating evil with sex and everyone knows that sex is the most powerful force known to man
  • there was no safe way to DND, the only means of protection was to prevent exposure entirely. if you were a good person why would you ever want to consume media about bad things???

ace-inclusionist:

shoutout to the hetslash writers who make their boys soft and giggly and ridiculously in love. shoutout to the hetslash writers who make their girls gentle and fierce and full of compassion. shoutout to the hetslash writers who treat both genders not only with equal complexity but also equal scope for fucking up and fixing it. y’all are doing great

9/11 made antis is the best meme ive ever heard lmao

freedom-of-fanfic:

Thanks for telling me! But I can’t take credit for that one. What I said was a lot of anti-shippers seem to have grown up after American culture became hyper-paranoid, so you don’t even remember what it was like to not be hyper-paranoid. And it’s pretty natural for paranoid people to try to control what other people do so they feel safer, instead of trusting them to look after themselves.

The shift to a paranoid culture happened after the 9/11 attacks, because the attacks were used as an excuse by Republicans to overreact and scare people into giving them lots and lots of governmental control. That’s why I mentioned 9/11 as the turning point.

But I’ve seen the copypasta version of my post that makes out that I said 9/11 made antis, and it’s a truly artful meme. A masterful shitpost that deserves recognition. 👌

Just saw a bigger youtuber use this argument: by viewing X bad thing our brain fires the same way as if *we* are doing X bad thing. Therefore normalization of X bad thing occurs. IDK how true that is, but I’ve always wondered why the ones making this argument are excluded from it? Like how are they immune, why is it always *other* ppl who will start believing X bad thing is okay?

fiction-is-not-reality:

On today’s episode of: antis don’t understand how neurology works but still hope we won’t notice.

[amusing straw man follows, optional read]

Antis: “If you think X, your brain doesn’t know it’s just a thought and not reality, so it ends up liking X!!!” 

Also antis: *write and read and think of and shout and dream about X 24/7*

Also antis, when questioned: “It’s because you think of liking it, and I think of hating it, so my brain really hates it and yours really likes it. Sure, I like horror movies, but of course that’s different, because I like thinking of liking something that I hate in real life, so my brain likes to think to like to like#2 something that it hates, yours is just stupid instead.”