I still can't believe we tolerated people going "normal people would think you're weird" OF COURSE THEY WOULD, THAT'S WHY I'M IN FANDOM, THE PLACE FOR WEIRDOS. IF I WANTED TO HANG OUT WITH NORMAL PEOPLE I'D GO TO THE LOCAL FAST FOOD RESTAURANT

The social forces that prevent you from being able to admit to your own desires in the safety of your own mind are far more evil than any desire you could have.

Unacted desires are fundamentally neutral, and you can't decide what to do about the things you want unless you can admit to yourself what they are in the first place. Everyone has desires that would hurt other people if they acted on them, but most people would not actually go out and do anything they know would cause harm. Far more harm is done in this world by people who are trying to pretend they can't possibly want anything they think is bad than people running around going "ehehehe I love hurting people!"

Providing people with a way of exploring the dark parts of ourselves in a way that cannot hurt anyone is one of the purposes of both fiction and kink.

All of us have a hungry, horny, angry, scared animal inside ourselves. You do not need to excuse or justify what that animal wants, it simply is. You cannot escape it. Lying to yourself about the animal that you are will only give you less control over it, not more.

"incest/rape/stalking etc depicted as romantic in fiction is gross because it's romanticizing crimes!!" everyone romanticizes crimes in fiction dipshit it came free with your innate desire to explore taboos from a safe distance

thing about censorship is that once you allow one thing to be censored, it’s a domino effect from there.

you can’t only vouch for the censorship of things you personally hate. because if those things can be censored, everything else can and will be censored too eventually, until all that’s left of art is just rainbow and sunshine and heterosexual stuff of conservative values.

it’s either nothing is censored or everything—that is not rainbow and sunshine and heterosexual and of conservative values—is censored.

“but it makes me uncomfortable” the block button is there. you can also filter out specific words/tags of what you don’t want to see. that’s how you curate your own internet experience and protect your own peace of mind. you do it by rightfully choosing not to consume (or even see) what makes you uncomfortable, what upsets you. but you don’t do it by demanding that others censor themselves just to cater to your personal comfort.

You know who supports freedom of speech for things that they already agree with?

Everyone.

Every human who has ever lived has supported free speech when it's something that they already agree with. Even Hitler and Stalin both supported speech that they liked.

The real test to see if you support Freedom of Speech is if you are willing to defend topics even if they disgust you.