As a celebration of this being my most popular post, have a sequel to the world's worst double date.
YouTuber: Hey, I swear and cuss and yell. But my videos is not geered towards children. It's not my job to monitor your children and make sure they only consume content age appropriate to them.
Anti: Yeah. People shouldn't be expecting random YouTubers to make content for kids.
Horror Writer: Hey, I make graphic and scary media. But my books/movies are not meant for children. And it's not my job to make it appropraite for children/
Anti: Yeah. They made it clear what the movie was in the trailer/poster. If a child watches that and gets scared it's their own fault. The writer made it for adults not kids.
Adult Show Creators: Hey, my show has sexual jokes and violent imagry. But it's not my fault if a child sees my work. My shows are for adults, not children.
Anti: Yeah. Not everything is meant for kids. It's up to parents to make sure their children don't see inapropriate material.
Libriarian: Hey, we have a variety of books including books parents don't agree with. But I'm not payed to monitor what children are reading. The most I can do is ask a child if they know what they're reading and if it's in their age bracket. But I can't memorize the morals of every parent of every child who comes here to make sure they're reading approved books. And it's absurd to expect me to.
Anti: Yeah. Book banning and censorship is alt-right tactics and disgusting. It's not libriarians' jobs to make sure your child is reading books you approve of. If you don't want your child seeing somehting you don't approve of, you monitor them.
Proshipper: Hey, I make content with taboo themes and imagry. But I make it clear children shouldn't be seeing my content and it's not meant for them. My content is meant for adults and it's not my job to parent random people's children.
Anti: That's groomer logic! Keep that shit to yourself! What if a child sees it!? You deserve to rot in jail! KYS! Pedo! Children don't listen to DNIs! We should be protecting children from this degeneracy!
Considering how every time a Beast cookie gets released they get more and more obsessed with the Ancient they are associated with I'm tempted to think by the time we get to Silent Salt they'll be like
REPEAT AFTER ME:
GAY CODED IS A THING BECAUSE GAY PEOPLE ARE STILL STIGMATIZED
SIBLING CODED IS NOT A THING BECAUSE BEING SIBLINGS IS NOT STIGMATIZED.
YOU DON'T HAVE TO SNEAK BEING SIBLINGS PAST THE CENSOR
IN FACT, A LOT OF GAY CODED CHARACTERS GET TURNED INTO SIBLINGS OR COUSINS JUST TO GET THEM BY THE CENSOR SO THEY CAN SHOW THEM BEING AFFECTIONATE WITHOUT CUTTING IT OUT
THINK SOMETIMES AND REMEMBER THAT CANON DOESN'T MATTER IN FAN WORK BECAUSE FAN WORK DOESN'T CHANGE CANON
Being an open darkshipper and proshipper who's not a paraphile or victim is a constant struggle of "I don't want to speak for these people but I sure as hell don't think you should either" when talking to antis.
HAVE YOU EVER HEARD OF A CHARACTER FLAW.
Last year everyone and their mother was complaining about all the Mary Sue ocs! Pick a lane!!
right, but then try rewriting this with literally any other comparison between media and irl crime
villain fans when you say that liking fictional murder is just as bad as being a murderer in real life
like what do you find so attractive about fictional murder? if you wouldn't commit murder in real life and risk going to jail and everyone hating you then what makes it morally and socially acceptable to find fictional, murderous villains attractive?
they're literally the same as real murderers, the height, voices, looks/appearance, (kinda varies) the personality, and since y'all LOVE TO SAY THIS for some reason, cannibalism as a metaphor for love
this is exactly what i mean when i say all villain fans are or will become murderers one day whether they wanna admit it or not.
this is also the same logic that homophobes/transphobes use to censor lgbtq+ literature and media portrayals because reading and enjoying those things and seeing them normalized in the media will turn their kids gay and therefore rotten in their eyes.
shit, you play violent video games? you're gonna kill people someday! your favorite character is mean and has abused people? well i guess you're just gonna end up being like that person. it's not like you could ever know the difference between fiction and real life or have the self control and self awareness to separate the two, that's impossible. that doesn't exist actually, b-because... it just doesn't, okay!?
these people fail to understand that liking something in fiction does not immediately translate to you condoning it in real life or becoming that way. it is such a strange concept to them.