If You Read And Enjoyed Dr Jekyll & Mr Hyde (or The Glass Scientists), Frankenstein, Dorian Gray, Etc—odds

Fictional stabbing, torture, cannibalism, stalking, and murder are all fine but you draw the line at rape, incest, and underage ships?

Why???

I don't want anyone to get stabbed irl just like I don't want anyone to get raped irl and reading about either one of them isn't going to change my mind on that.

All of the above topics are dark and taboo things that make people uncomfortable. They also all have a right to be explored in fiction in all different ways.

Why is violence so normalized that even the most staunch anti can have fun playing with the dark themes of murder but when it comes to rape, exploring it in fiction makes you a criminal?

They always go for the old excuse of "you can portray this but only in certain ways or else you're normalizing/glamorizing/romanticizing/fetishizing it which is bad" but ONLY when it comes to sexual things.

Horror movies? You can woobify the killers, ship them together, joke about them, and write killer x reader fanfic til your fingers fall off. That's all okay, everyone knows that watching a horror movie or crushing on a fictional killer won't turn you into an irl murderer. Duh!

So why can they understand that for violence but not other controversial topics? If you can understand that watching a slasher movie or writing Billy Loomis x reader fanfic doesn't turn you into a murderer, then why do you think someone who reads for Billdip or ships Katara x Sokka is a real life sex criminal?

I doubt we'll ever get a real answer because there isn't one. It just boils down to "taboo stuff I can handle is fine and can be explored freely, taboo stuff I can't handle is gross and has no place in fiction".

What if they had matching outfits? 😳

not enough robert x gil-martin content out there. come on guys they were so queer coded. be yaoipilled

rewatching game of thrones right now and the scene where cersei asks for lady to be killed in nymeria’s place is such a good metaphor/foreshadowing for sansa’s experience over the course of the rest of the show (for a while). she lies and allies herself with the lannisters for her own safety, playing the perfect lady, but ultimately she is repeatedly the one punished for her family’s actions because she’s simply the stark they have lying around. killing lady symbolized them cutting her off from her family and heritage at the same time they ‘defanged’ her.

I’m not anti-Vivziepop and in fact I’m a fan of HB but I’ll be using tags accordingly to try to reach the right audience

I’m gonna be honest, I dropped this series for a couple of years and I did after watching “the circus. “ to me making Stella evil since birth just so Stolas can be let off the hook (rather than having an interesting and nuanced situation where maybe both characters are imperfect) just felt like such a BAD writing choice. Every now and then, the writing kindaaaa reeks of…misogyny maybe? Regarding Stella and the way she’s written so Stolas can be an uwu innocent gay bean. Keep in mind, I LIKE Stolas, I just wished this part of the story had been written better.

Anyway, I actually got back into it because someone told me that Striker came back again so. I guess if Stella didn’t put a hit on her husband, striker wouldn’t exist so silver lining

Edit:and let me add-it’s not like I don’t like Stella at all. I like her, she IS a funny villain and her toxicity kinda amuses me tbh. I love seeing women crash out. I think despite the bad writing, the VA’s performance REALLY saves her, but I also feel irked by where said writing is coming from and the fact that we COULD have had better.

love how fucked up the ned/robert dynamic is. they grew up together and got attached because they both have brothers they aren’t close to and replace with one another despite the jarring similarities (brandon and stannis). ned loving robert despite the atrocities he committed and the ones he refused to condemn, hiding himself in the north so he doesn’t have to be faced with how much of a monster his friend actually is and feeding that lie to his children. robert forcing ned to come south with him and run his kingdom all under the premise they were always meant to rule together (they were full on married for the entirety of agot tbh). robert projecting how much he wanted to be with ned onto lyanna. robert loving ned arguably more than anyone else in his life and despite all that he refuses to respect his boundaries and wishes. their entire agot relationship is held together by nostalgia and like 20 layers of traumabonding that neither would ever work through. ned getting himself killed because he loved robert too much. god what the fuck is wrong with those two.

on the job

beautiful princess disorder moment 🎀

Sometimes I'm terrified of my heart; of its constant hunger for whatever it is it wants. The way it stops and starts.

Edgar Allan Poe

the amount of people saying mickey 17 and similar films are ass because it’s “torture porn” is insane to me. like dawg how do you miss the point that bad.