#the trauma code: heroes on call headers

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ㅤ  ،، the trauma code: heroes on call icons & headers

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[burntelf12]

genre fiction is fascist. the only ideologically pure fiction is slice-of-life with no plot. - Excuse me please? How do you even get that idea? Did you roast your brain with too many drugs?

any book with more than one sex scene is erotica - Nope, not even true. Multichapter fics and multiple-character fics are completely allowed several sex scenes. I'm pretty sure if those sex scenes pop up in every chapter... or maybe every other chapter, then it's erotica.

romance novels encourage women to have unrealistic fantasies, like “having enjoyable sex” and “being apologized to” - News flash; female 'enjoyable sex' is possible. Being apologized to is a thing; it's called being respectful. Shy of that, it's just common curtesy when the offender is WRONG.

describing a female character’s body for any reason, even during a sex scene where her love interest’s body is described too, means you’re a gross male writer who doesn’t understand women - I call b.s. here. Male, female... toaster, I don't care. I'm describing it because it's relavent to the scene.

if the protagonist is an anti-hero or morally gray, each chapter should have a disclaimer detailing all of said protagonist’s moral failings

the-truth-within-the-lie - Screw this. I'm not profiling a morally gray anti-hero in the header of every chapter. It's completely unnecessary. Don't like him/her? Don't read the fic.

I can add at least one more, from someone I unfollowed last week because of it:

- if anything bad happens to any of your characters for any reason, it’s because you have unprocessed trauma and you should stop writing fiction and go to therapy - I probably do have unprocessed trauma. Big deal. Every adult on the planet has skeletons in their closet. That trauma is what a good writer draws from to create a beleivable scenario. Characters are hurt, they're even killed... all to advance a story. They are fictional. It's a process. Deal with it or don't read it.

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can’t forget these

if a romantic relationship between two fictional characters is anything less than wholesome and drama-free without it being explicitly condemned every chapter, the writer thinks it’s a perfect romance everyone should aspire to and is thus encouraging abusing relationships - A fictional pairing in a less than wholesome relationship absolutely has no bearing on whether the writer thinks bad relationships are ok or not. The fictional relationship is bad because it's a motivating factor in the story.

if a book about queer characters does not perfectly encapsulate my personal experience and i personally didn’t relate to it or like it, it was definitely written by a cishet person for a cishet audience and is problematic and bad - Stuck in a rut much? Can't relate to relationship patterns that don't fit your expectations... because it's different? To bad. Don't read it if you don't like it.

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feeling a little high reading these

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If a character was ever shown as a minor, allowing that character to have sex as an adult is exactly equivalent to child porn - Total b.s. here too. Children grow up, especially in books that revolve around life stories. Adult characters having sex with other adult characters is not child porn... even if one of them was shown as a child in a previous book/chapter/paragraph. So long as both are adults during the act, no harm, no fowl. Shut up, grow up and maybe throw up too.

If a female character is under 5'4", she’s child-coded, and therefore your work is potentially child porn even if she’s not shown in sexual situations - (Scream laughs hysterically... takes a breath... scream laughs some more) You're all so full of bullshit it's leaking out your ears! I'm very much an adult (48) and I stand exactly 5'1". Does this make me a child? Hell to the no! If my female character is under 5'4" and an adult, then an adult she is. Height/size does not matter in comparison to age/adult status. OMG what is wrong with you people?!?

[sevenverses]

ㅤ  ،، the trauma code: heroes on call icons & headers

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