“this ship/work of fiction could hypothetically hurt someone” is not an argument.
We don’t prohibit alcohol just because some people can hurt themselves/other people with it. People who can drink responsibly aren’t at fault for people who can’t.
You either believe in people to be personally responsible for themselves or you believe in a dystopia where all fiction is subject to censorship due to any possible cultural impact.
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Okay but are we talking about NOTPs of personal preference or NOTPs that are abusive and toxic
why. do people get off on writing traumatizing events happening to their ocs
why cant you just say “yeah i enjoy developing my ocs’ backstories” or “its fun coming up with their lore” instead of being freaks who talk about how fuuun it is to abuse your ocs n how you just loooove making em into bloody messes
like its not cute
i dont know how to make this clearer but that comics like this:
are fucking everywhere on tumblr and always have like 50k notes is terrifying. yall get a hobby and stop n*tting over trauma n abuse its weird n youre Not off the hook for being the character creator if youre gonna act like THIS about it
almost 100% the time it’s the creator projecting their own trauma on their ocs and it’s actually painfully obvious that that’s the case…
Actually it’s also just people writing what the hell they want a lot of the time and there’s nothing wrong with that.
Also the comic example here is clearly a style of exaggeration to make something funny out of a relatable experience that’s developed over years of talking about it in a certain way; in most people’s cases, the relatable experience is creating drama and development through anything from tragic back stories to traumatic events.
If you go back a couple years on tumblr, you’d actually find posts discussing why so many people wanted to create sad, dark, or painful stories for their characters, and why they were always put through such horrible things (and why everyone seemed to ready to do it.)
Some people said they did it to explore their own experiences. Some people did it because it was a way to explore those themes they were unfamiliar with in a completely fictional world. I think overwhelmingly, people agreed it gave characters a lot more depth, ability to be empathized with, and attachment. It fosters protective feelings in people to see characters go through bad experiences.
In any case, there was a shift in how OC treatment (and character treatment in fandom as well,) was viewed and talked about. People went from “I’m about to make my fav go through something bad bc I love him and it’ll make him into the character I love” (or something similar, you get my drift,) to funny posts like the ones above, because among creators there was and is an understanding of how we all tend to do that to them, and its making a joke from it because you don’t get noticed by being the nth person to make the same ~relatable post~ again, you do it by taking something relatable and making it new and funny (welcome to tumblr.)
But I guess it’s more edgy to completely ignore the language development that’s pretty consistent with the dramatic escalation EVERYTHING gets spoken about on here (basically the “cultural subtext,”) to call people freaks in order to participate in callout culture and feel superior in some way, so good for you I guess?????
Writer/roleplayer jokes and character development is are problematic now I guess.
Stories have conflict in them Karen
Do the initial posters live under a rock, or????
How exciting, now people are telling us how to write and talk about our own ocs! Not only must you fic in certain approved ways. Woth approved characters and ships, but now your original stuff must also pass muster.
I’d say tumblr makes me long for death but I expect soon there will be posts about how stating one wants to die/be killed needs to stop too.
I’m sorry, let’s go back to Storytelling 101 where we learn that conflict is necessary. Whether that means the characters are being chased around and/or eaten by dinosaurs, snapped out of existence by some purple alien asshole, suffering a long and miserable journey to the heart of a volcano where they have their finger bitten off, losing their parents and an entire school of friends and mentors to a pissed-off wizard without a nose, or coping with drug addiction and/or an abusive relationship (obvs the most relatable out of these options) CONFLICT IS NECESSARY!
We (meaning fandom creators but also mainstream creators, see above) use conflict as a medium to tell a story. No successful book has ever been like, “These cool people existed, everything was fine and they lived happily ever after the end.”
And anyway, they’re fictional, so why does OP even care?
One day.
One day I swear I’ll commission each and every one of my favorite fan artists and authors.
Just need to get me some fucking money and all you lovely bitches is getting commissioned. Just you wait. I’ll drown you in money some day.
Tumblr’s definition of queerbaiting 90% of the time the term is used is fundamentally just “the fans interpreted this dynamic as romantic/sexual despite the fact the writers never meant it as romantic/sexual and if the writers don’t make it canon they’re queerbaiting because we clearly know the narrative better than them” like that’s literally not what queerbaiting is that’s just fan entitlement and y’all not being able to differentiate between your HC’s and actual canon
I don’t think a lot of people in the Voltron fandom understand why people are so annoyed by this whole ‘reboot’ situation.
Nobody is saying you can’t make AU content if you don’t like how canon went. You’re well within your rights to do that. The reason people are pissed off is because you’ve spent a week shitting all over S7 because you didn’t get exactly what you wanted and have been harassing the showrunners and VA’s to the extent they were told to stay off social media and have had to plead with the fandom to calm down, and now have the audacity to make a self proclaimed reboot to supposedly ‘fix’ canon because you’re so entitled you act as though you know the narrative better than the writers and act as though the writers owed you something.
Like if you want to make AU’s about Kl@nce by all means go ahead nobody is saying you can’t, but your attitudes towards this whole reboot thing and how you’re going about it fucking stinks and that’s why it’s pissing people off. If you’re taking “you can’t make AU’s” from people being pissed off about a self proclaimed reboot from people who have been trashing canon and shitting on the cast and crew and who radiate fan entitlement then you’re missing the whole point.
Person: I respect people shipping and headcanoning what they want because it’s personal and doesn’t reflect on their actual personality and worth as a human being.
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