Genuinely evil and dark-sided to put the periods between the letters in “milf” and “dilf.” Like what is M.I.L.F. that is a supervillain organization composed entirely of cougars. Whoa that’s a great idea actually post canceled hold on
Our fandom forbearers did NOT suffer through Anne Rice, strikethrough, and other bullshit for fucking ACOTAR and Harry Potter fans to fucking ruin it for all of us by selling fanfiction. I am not losing novel length yaoi epics because some of you don’t know how to act in fannish spaces and yes I do blame the booktokification of fanfic but I also blame those of you that treat fandom like content to consume and not a community to engage with.
I’m just saying there are many kinds of dark fic you can think of that you’re not comfortable with I’m probably fine with it and I may have written it before I changed my online handle and decided to create the more wholesome version of Ennui you see before you.
CATWS was my moment where I decided I would try my hand at friends to lovers and publish publicly. These decisions were coincidentally concurrent, but entirely separate. I have done other things. I do other things. My taste in fic isn’t always the things you see with my name on them. My bookmarks and history are intentionally private.
You must accept that you will never actually know me, just the version of me I have chosen to show you. That was how the internet worked in the before times, and if you have any sense, that’s what you’re doing now.
I feel like you can sort of tell how long (or not) someone has existed in fannish spaces by how outraged they get about things like this. Like rings in a tree trunk lol. I’ve been in so many fandoms. At least one, but often multiple at the same time, since I was a teenager. I’ve seen just. Everything.
Sex pollen. Mpreg. Incest. Monster fucking. Tentacles. Pairings like Snape/Hermione that would be crazy abusive and illegal if they were real. Wild kinks. The babygirlification of all kinds of villains. So much RPF (the ‘I sincerely believe they are secretly a couple’ kind and the 'this is fictional but it’s fun to imagine they’re in love’ kind.)
You learn to just scroll past shit you don’t like or unfollow people or filter tags. The tldr of fandom is that humans are weird as fuck. And creative, and unhinged, and traumatized, and talented. And amazing. And every single thing that you clutch your pearls about 'well surely someone doesn’t want to read/write THAT!’ - someone does. Probably lots of people do. And those people are perfectly normal. In their offline lives, they’re parents and siblings and they have jobs and friends and they go about their lives and they don’t cause any harm. And that’s the sticking point. There’s this really concerning, frankly highly Evangelical idea that if someone enjoys the wrong kind of fiction, they are obviously a Bad Person. But nothing is that simple, and thought crimes aren’t real, and you definitely have some thoughts or ideas that someone else would find fucked up. You don’t have to like every kind of fic that exists. I certainly don’t. But shaming people for their harmless fantasies about fictional characters is so boring. I saw Goody Proctor enjoying a Toxic Ship! Good for you, I’ll alert the pope.
I can’t speak for other social media webbed sites but I really enjoy how tumblr seems to just completely spin a wheel on whatever media is hot right now. Like yeah sometimes it’s a new show that’s big and actively coming out but also sometimes there will be a solid month where half my dash is Columbo memes. Defy authority. Get really into an book from the 1800s. Watch shows that haven’t aired in 40 years. Celebrate the anniversary of the Boston Molasses Flood. Become unmarketable
Really wondering about this. This might be what pro/anti ship is about.
So, there's this fic author you found. They write for your fandoms, they respond to comments, and they've written some of your favorite types of fics.
The problem is, they also write things you're not comfortable with. I'm talking incest, child characters being aged up to be shipped with other characters, etc. I don't know if I should keep reading their fics, because on one hand they write some great fics and I'm all for creative freedom, but on the other hand...yeah.
This is like saying “should I stay friends with this person because I found out they like slasher movies and slasher movies are bad because violence and gore and murders are bad!!!!”
Honestly do whatever you want. But you can’t “police” how other people create their art, or what type of art they create, that’s not your business. Also fiction and dark fics aren’t a reflection of the artist’s moral compass.
Also this sorts of censorship and “writing fanfiction about taboo things makes you a bad person irl” mindset are lowkey fascist beliefs. So I think it’s a good thing that a talented and skilled writer isn’t, you know, a fascist.
Also also, AO3 (assuming the fic is on AO3) is literally a site for freaks lol. Giving a platform to dark fics about rape, incest and other fucked up things is literally the main reason the site was created in the first place. Because these types of fics were banned on other platforms, people came together and created a new site that was safe for all taboo fics. And surprise, that site is AO3.
So anon, if you don’t like dark fics, if you have a problem with it and have to check if an author is “pure enough”, then maybe AO3, a site created mainly for taboo fics, may not be a place for you, with all due respect.
This blog supports profic / proship / dark fics and is anti censorship by the way
current fan creation landscape is kinda like if you went to a party with a homemade cake and everyone takes a slice and silently thumbs up at you with no attempt to start a conversation except for occasionally some guy sits in the corner with a tape recorder critiquing the cake as though he was a restaurant critic and another guy is handing the cake to an uber driver like “yeah i need you to find a restaurant that makes cake like this so i can have more of it” and the only person that’s talked to you in 30 minutes is a very sweet little guy who was like “hey i liked your cake” and then ran away apologizing for bothering you the moment you said thank you.
someone brought a cake analysis robot to feed the cake into to determine the exact ingredients and supposedly it can spit out the exact same cake. and if you’re like dude. what. then they’re like well if it bothers you you should have made more cake. i’m hungry and i deserve cake. and you’re like dude we’re at a party.
Three months later you find out that fifty people locked themselves in a room to discuss how much they loved your cake and how they wished you made more. None of them ever told you.
so for the love of god. please tell people you liked their cake and don’t feel embarrassed about it. because then they will make more cake.
