#dark fics discourse

[crows-ace]

I’ve never been more confused in my life??

[the-bar-sinister]

I really find funny how this re-emerge of purity culture has affected fandoms so much, that now even the most vanilla ships can be problematic bc the characters have an age gap bigger than 6 months between them, one is popular and the other not so that indicates power imbalance, and don't write riské scenes that involve more than the missionary with the lights out or you are supporting abuse...

...Yet irl the most sold novels in the romance and erotica genres are tales written by teenagers about how a teen ends up in a romantic relationship with their adult stripper neighbour, or stories about violent kidnappings turning into epic romances, and more dark/"toxic" stuff. And i don't get it.

I honestly don't understand why I cannot write dark fanfic bc that's "problematic" and "you're making an apology to (inster stuff here)", yet a wattpad story involving an adult seducing a minor somehow becomes a bestseller and nobody has a problem with that.

The people who bully an "impure" queer fanfiction writer, and not an "impure" het published writer are showing their colors. They want an easy target.

[alexandraisyes]

Hot take (/sarcasm) but if an adult says "minors dni" about a certain kind of content (NSFW) and a minor interacts the minor then has no right to play herald and try to raise "awareness" about why the adult content that they consumed after being told at the door to fuck off about is bad.

[oneangstymotherfucker]

Tw for vague csa/abuse mention

Sometimes, yeah, I "get off to" the fics I write. And I definately like hearing that other people enjoy them, because I think everyone deserves things they enjoy and it truly makes me happy to provide a little of that for others.

But the reason I write what I write is so my brain has a place to spin out scenarios to try to make it okay. And by that I don't mean the things that happened to me. By that I mean the fact that I exist as someone who those things happened to. The fact that I live every day with the rammifications of one man's evil decision, wrapping themselves up and weaving themselves into every aspect of my life. And when I write I come at it from all angles- including sexual because I was a prematurely-sexually-awakened kid and that can make a person's relationship with sex a little confusing to say the least- to try to figure out how to live with it.

Fic writers don't write to normalize abuse. We write to normalize suvival. And survival isn't always pure and pretty and fluffy. I was not healed by a wholesome loving relationship, I was not healed by friendship or forgiveness or by trying to banish all darkness from my life and mind. I am healing myself by looking it in the eye. By getting elbows-deep in the darkness, letting it coat my skin again now that I am grown and safe. By forgiving myself for the tracks it left in my mind and body, accepting that it is part of my story and trusting myself to keep me safe.

That's what I'm trying to normalize. That it's good you survived, and it's okay to be "messed up by it". You are normal, and your existence isn't bad or tainted or dirty or wrong. You are good and innocent. You deserve to be here and you deserve a full, satisfying life with all the things you enjoy in it.

[prettyboykatsuki]

nothing against you but I think you should remove the general tags from the uncle sukuna fic that you used like (sukuna x reader) bc you have a lot of followers so regardless the fic will get traction and I think it’s just past the line of things you want to pop up when people search the general tags. Like I don’t think it’ll invite only a crowd of people who read it but also the bridgaders who don’t like dc as that’s how it usually starts

this is a well meaning ask so when i say i dont really care im not saying it to be rude !!! using the general tags is 1. for blog organization for my own blog less than it is for traction 2. i have been through countless amounts of discourse over my stuff and do not feel any desire to censor myself over it at this time. i only use the same like 4 tags on all of my posts regardless of the content in them.

with respect i only tag for traction in new fandoms anyway. i appreciate you trying to look out for me!! thank you for that!! maybe ill move the tags around but i just like. genuinely do not care at all about this

[iamnmbr3]

yeah, a lot of people don't get that dark/taboo topics should be shown to understand how it happens, what it is, and why it's unhealthy. It's better than ignoring it altogether.

Also, there's a huge difference between making a separate clean version (think radio version) and erasing the original thing.

yeah that's definitely one reason. but also. dark/taboo topics can be depicted for any reason. for shock value or horror or for the purpose of fantasy. it's perfectly fine to be uncomfortable with or even disgusted by such content. no one should feel obligated to engage with dark topics (or indeed any topic) if they don't want to. I don't think people need a "reason" to to feel triggered by something or to dislike it. Something doesn't have to be a certain degree of bad or be proven to be "harmful" for it to be ok to be very uncomfortable with it. as long as everyone stays in their own lane and curates their own experience and no real people are harmed (which includes getting harassed over wanting or not wanting to consume a particular kind of content) it's all good.

but yeah I do think it's ironic that the same people that try to censor any content they think is too "dark" ignore the fact that a lot of people have been helped by precisely that content because it has helped them learn to recognize and avoid or heal from unhealthy or abusive etc dynamics in their own lives.

i also find it presumptuous that these anti groups think they know what is and isn't triggering. the pro censorship attitudes among anti crowds tend to lead to a lot of mental gymnastics where people claim that a ship that they like is totally "unproblematic" which leads to a bunch of fics that portray pretty messed up dynamics as wholesome and healthy, which then feels like validating that behavior. i personally find that kind of content hugely upsetting, to the point that I don't even like scrolling past it. much more so than dark fics that are properly tagged that portray the same types of dark dynamics - often much more graphically.

because in those dark fics while the characters might not necessarily acknowledge or realize what is going on, the author certainly does and it's framed and tagged that way, so it doesn't feel like it's validating those behaviors. the whole point of a dark fic is to explore something dark. so it's portrayed as dark and messed up. so that's usually fine for me. but if I see even a milder version of that dynamic but presented as cute and healthy i can't read it and it viscerally bothers me. yet antis never think about that when they're running around trying to "protect" people from triggering content thru campaigns of harassment and censorship and bullying that help no one.

[jurassic-cunt]

just wanna be sad about the death of a character i love and not see stupid shit about how they deserved to die (fuck off) or that it's some kind of bury the gays shit (not possible). it's just a story and someone died and it's sad

[the-bar-sinister]

Fuck dude (neuter) I used to (during high school) write self insert RPF to cope with ongoing c-PTSD from many angles. It kind of fed into a folie a deux between me and my at-the-time boyfriend, and now I'm happy with just fictional people, but sometimes... man sometimes you just gotta remember the bandom days from whence you (I, this is probably so specifically a me thing) came.

So many people claim to support people with mental illness, trauma, etc but then turn around and go "ewwwww, you write RPF?" or" Ewwww, you write (insert weird fanfiction thing here)?"

My pal (theoretical reader)-- where the fuck do you think the motivation to write these things is coming from?

🫂Glad you're in a better place, now, anon. Much love and respect to your past self.

[lambtotheslaughterr]

men like ransom are the reason why women choose the bear.

i feel like the summit!reader would definitely choose the bear and ransom would immediately internalize it and get offended 🙄💀

with the bear, worse case scenario, it just kills her.

hit dogs gone holler 🤷🏾‍♀️

fucking facts.

his ego is too ✨fragile✨

[ervotica]

okay idk how to explain this but like how does one like a fic that is noncon? i read the dark!abby and ellie fic and it was obvious reader wasn’t enjoying it and wished it didn’t happen, so i just can’t wrap my head around how that would be enjoyable for the reader to read when y/n isn’t enjoying it if that makes sense??? idk idk

Here is some reading for you, and here is another.

Cnc and noncon is a kink like any other, cnc being consensual non consent, so it’s in a controlled environment with prior consent before the scene. The fictional aspect of this particular situation makes it a controlled environment and you’d be surprised how many women have rape fantasies and other things of that nature.

Liking dark fics does not make you weird! They’re an acquired taste for sure but they are very popular here on tumblr and have been for YEARS

[romanarose]

read a dark!joel fic the other day that was REALLY dark

super dark. too dark for me.

You know what I did? I clicked out and moved on with my life.

I didn't send the writer hate, I didn't leave mean comments, i didnt tell other people i thought the writer was fucked

I moved on and found something else

its pretty simple, actually.

[doodlebloo]

the exact! image!

Okay TO be fair it's one of the first Google images if you search up Wall-E and Eve BUT STILL.!!! The exact image is crazyyy 😭 Thiscannot be how I get my second indirect CC notice

[nny11writes]

Nunny! I'm sending you asks for your game.

I'm tempted to send you the entire post and just see the Nunny Rant. You might not even do She-ra. I'm thinking of She-ra sending these but go off about star wars or something else if you think it applies better to the question :D

the character everyone gets wrong (ahahhahahaaaaaaaaa)

8. common fandom opinion that everyone is wrong about (im sure there is a long list)

9 and 10 - Worst part of fanon and worst part of canon (imo there is some overlap)

13. worst blorboficiation

14. that one thing you see in fics all the time

25. common fandom complaint that you're sick of hearing

lakhglkajfas, I think my rant would mostly just be keyboard smashes and crying emojis so this is the better way to go lol!

the character everyone gets wrong God, like, fucking- ALL of them. :) Buuuuuut the one that's bugging me the most recently is Mermista.

I am SO sick of post canon Mermista in c/a fics specifically. Mermista would not hold a grudge that hard that long and that violently!!! Stop having her hate Catra and actively be out to do harm to her. Mermista's response to losing her kingdom was like a bad breakup where she just cried in a tub eating ice cream. Her response to seeing HORDAK at the end of the series was just a, "So are we good with him now?" implying that she's chill to be chill.

Mermista and Catra 100% would sit at a table calling one another a bitch (begrudgingly fond and pretend to not be) back and forth. Mermista would not be out to skin Catra alive! Mermista wants to talk to Catra about her murder novels because Perfuma reads too slowly and doesn't like spoilers but she NEEDS to talk to someone about the butler who has a brain cell because Sea Hawk seemed to miss the whole first half of the book AND FURTHER MORE-

9. and 10. - Worst part of fanon and worst part of canon

Worst part of fanon is the fucking shippers. This went from one of the more open and accepting fandoms for all ships that I'd ever been in to one of the worst.

Like, straight up, one of the fics that lives rent free in my head is an explicit fic where Catra and Hordak enthusiastically consent to having sex. Like Hordak is trying to be kinda standoffish but can't stop looking at boob window tits, he was Entrapta trained I'm afraid. The number of times I think of his awkward proposing they do it more frequently followed shortly by Catra dressing and winking saying, "Seriously, great cock!" is a lot lol. It's such a porn movie style fic and there is something fantastic to be said about it.

But you even hint that Catra could be headcanonned as anything besides a lesbian and your body will be found in a few months time in several different bags. Suggesting Catra and Hordak having any romantic or sexual relationship probably gets you reported to the fucking government or something. So there's a reason it's never made a rec list from me but fuck it I'm mentioning it now.

They aren't real. If I want to occasionally have a giggle about them and make my little dolls bump uglies everyone else should politely not look while my fellow weirdly sane people who get that this is all make believe but sure we're the freaks here come poke and enjoy!

Fucking shipping wars and discourse man. I'm sick of it.

Worst part of canon for me is the censorship and uncertainty that caused various issues with the plot and prevented the show from being even stronger. You can see it in real time while watching, but man it was wild in December 2018 to see how professional media talked about the show and Catra and Adora being adoptive sisters, to AJ (I think?) getting dumped on for repeating that idea and having to apologize, to the open gayness at the end. I love SPOP, but the rocky terrain the crew-ra had to navigate really did impact the quality and created weird gaps that asshole fans hunkered down into. Like, we cannot pry some of those fuckers out.

8. common fandom opinion that everyone is wrong about

I need you to understand that my immediate response when I started writing this answer out was a very strained and painful sigh through my nose as my brain returned a static white noise sound.

I am really tired of forcing this jock!Adora and slacker!Catra thing. Like, it started in modern AUs but it's gone and infected people's idea of canon as well. It falls into a bit of the "dumb adora" trope, which people just don't seem to actually understand what that means or is about. It also falls into Shadow Weaver's narrative of who Catra is which is wild. Like. Really wild.

You are telling me Catra, a cat person who grew up in a military, is actively against exercise? Yes, she would 100% sleep in a sunbeam for a nap, and then she wakes up and craves some low key chaos and violence.

You are telling me Adora, forced into a golden child and leadership position, is bad at reading and math and science because all she cares about is training? Adora 100% enjoys physical fitness and using her body, but she's got a sharp mind on her and there's no way in hell she doesn't like to work it too.

I am just exhausted with it in modern AUs, and now it has gone to infect canon interpretations. It flattens their characters out, ignores/denies parts of their abuse, and nukes their abilities from orbit. I hate it so so much.

Also if I have to see one more fic or art piece where Catra is willingly and happily wearing dresses, skirts, and heels I swear to fucking god I will KILL. :)

13. worst blorboficiation

Again, this is all of them. Everyone suffers from being blorbo'd to an insane degree, but it just shifts depending on which character is the favorite of that part of the fandom. You have talked several times about the insanity of Catra fans vs. Hordak fans, the blorboification is insane there. Same with Catra fans vs. Glimmer fans.

Like. God damn. I'm so glad the Adora vs. Catra fan fights died out real quick because this fandom is exhausting enough.

With Catra being my favorite it's extra exhausting because there is CONSTANTLY people attacking her and then total asshats trying to defend her who I do not want to be associated with. I love her. She's a fucking idiot and a bastard and a baby. Somehow, every take on her is both the worst and factually correct and then the fandom fights.

Tipsy, I. Am. Tired.

14. that one thing you see in fics all the time

OKAY

Let's fucking talk about how GLIMMER IS NOT AN EVIL BITCH. Can we talk about that? STOP TRYING TO LEAVE THIS POST AND SIT YOUR ASS DOWN WE'RE TALKING ABOUT THIS AGAIN because someone needs to hear it louder in the back.

Glimmer is the character who is probably be done the dirtiest by the fandom but for wildly different reasons throughout the whole show. Hands down.

After S1 fandom took Glimmer and made her into an entitled dumbass whiner who threw money and her titles at her problems. They made her act like a child without any complexity. And it 100% took me from not really liking her character much to detesting her which is outrageous every time I remember that I kinda hated her at that point.

This did not improve post S2. :)

Post S3 probably was the most sympathetic and understanding the fandom was to Glimmer but it came at the cost of trying to bulldoze Catra for the Portal and people making callout posts like these characters were real people. I feel like the rise of some of the G/A shippers that I really can't stand was around this time. It was catra vs. glimmer fans going bat shit and drawing lines for ships.

If they couldn't assassinate Glimmer's character, by god the fandom would assassinate both Catra and Adora's in wildly different ways instead!

Do I need to talk about post S4? The idea of dark Glimmer and Glimmer going off the rails should have been a fun thing to play with in the sandbox and instead just writing it down made me cringe. Now Glimmer has to be an evil bitch because she had a trauma response and made bad decisions, now she is irredeemable because I made up a situation where she did something she didn't in canon for reasons so OOC someone probably slapped Donut Steel on it somewhere.

There was a little lift post series, but man people are holding onto Glimmer being a spoiled brat to play off of for Catra or a cruel bitch for Catra and, again, as a Catra fan, I want to bite bite kill kill bite kill kill kill!!!

Glimmer is allowed to grow up from being a spoiled kid who had good intentions and was naive. She is allowed to be over eager, bratty, petty, silly, funny, caring, and smart too. She's allowed to make bad choices and struggle with how to recover from it.

STOP MAKING ME THE LEAVE BRITTNEY ALONE MEME FOR GLIMMER

25. common fandom complaint that you're sick of hearing

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[bereft-of-frogs]

my annoyance at overly violent ‘x type of people don’t even think about looking at this post, don’t even breathe on this post or I’ll (violent threat)’ vs my annoyance at the smug ‘um actually x type of people BETTER interact with this post, I see you not interacting with this post’

Fight.

[narmothewraith]

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[koifishanonymous]

I just,,, read SO MANY bad takes about grishaverse on twitter..... like how do you fundamentally misunderstand the point of a story THAT MUCH