No.

I'm gonna say it.

It's unhinged to assume that someone's taste in fiction equates to what they believe is moral or good, or is something they want to see or experience in real life.

That is a bonkers assumption to make.

I'm tired of humoring people with long arguments about it when the simple fact is it is a totally fucking absurd reach to accuse someone who enjoys something in fiction of being in favor of it in real life.

I'm tired of pretending like this is a legitimate position to hold-- that they should be afraid of fiction's dire influence on a reader's moral decay or that it's a sign of what the author secretly wants for realsies in real life.

"i want more media with zero drama, no tension, and zero problematic characters and i am not joking"

Great! Here are my recommendations:

so dark content in fiction "normalizes" crimes irl, but harassing and sending death threats to real people doesn't "normalize" harassment? between me shipping fictional siblings and you threatening to ship me with my actual sibling, between someone writing noncon and you sending them wishes of rape, which one "normalizes" doing more harm?

I really think everyone needs to truly internalize this:

Fictional characters are objects.

They are not people. You cannot "objectify" them, because they have no personhood to be deprived of. They have no humanity to be erased. You cannot "disrespect" them, because they are not real.

no offense but some of y'all should really consume more weird media ok some of y'all are ready to clutch your pearls at the mere sight of the slightest offbeat concept in speculative fiction and this can't go on

FB worldbuilding: Light and Darkness have to keep in balance in the Realities. The Great Valokas is the ruler of the 1st, and Mabuka the ruler of the 5th Reality. Our concept of death only exists in the 3rd and 4th reality.

Me: okay

FB lore: TG Valokas died in a war with the darkness, Mabuka still lives tho.

Me:

HUGEASS ARCHIE SONIC ARTDUMP i read the entire series recently and i had so many thoughts

T H E

S P 0 0 K S

Antis SHOULDN'T watch series/movies or read books, because that's literally stalking fucking people. 💀

You are literally watching the character PERSONAL stuff and LIFE without their consent, most of these "characters" that represent real people of course, are KIDS AND 100 YEAR OLD DEMON CHARACTERS WHO HAVE THE FACE OF A 10 YEAR OLD GIRLSSS, and they DON'T KNOW you're there.

That's just pedo behavior frfr. 🙄🙄🙄

Like, that's so fucking twisted bro, ew. 😟