We Are In A Media Literacy Crisis

You can use all the non-accusatory or "compassionate" language you want, but folks can tell when your "Seek help" comes from your negative or lesser perceptions of them. They can tell when you say "Get Therapy" that you, on the other side of the screen, wish they would keep their weird or uncomfortable identities private, wish they thought lesser of themselves so you would not have to be made uncomfortable by someone else's pride or acceptance of themselves.

They can tell.

(unmute)

This looks AWESOME!❤

She kinda reminds me of Fran's "evil" self...

Try the lady in kingdom au?

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i want to do an experiment

proshippers who aren't scared or uncomfortable with reblogging posts made by other proshippers and being openly proship, reblog this post

proshippers who are secretly or just quietly proship and are scared or uncomfortable reblogging posts made by other proshippers, but are fine with liking posts, like this post

proshippers who hide being or even like about being proship and won't like or reblog posts from other proshippers ever because they don't want their username out there on proshipper's posts, click the pole option below that best suits you (this is completely anonymous by the way, even to me)

i want to get an idea of just how many proshippers there are, and what percentage is freely open about being proship, is just secretive, or is hiding that they're proship

also, proship adjacent people, such as comshippers, anti antis, dead dove club members, freedom of expression fighters, anti harassment folks, etcetera, feel free to partake!

🖤 Whether or not a taboo, unpleasant, or illegal subject in a piece of fiction has been 'romanticized' or 'glorified' is an entirely subjective opinion based on a personal reading of the text.

🖤 You cannot assume that an author is trying to make a taboo, unpleasant, or illegal subject seem appealing just because their writing made you feel like it was appealing.

🖤 'Glorifying' or 'romanticizing' a subject is not a good reason to say that a piece of fiction should be censored, or that the author or people who enjoy it should be harmed or punished.

🖤 Your personal interpretation of a piece of fiction does not reflect on the morality or psychology of the author of the fiction.

🖤 It is authoritarian to want to censor fiction based on your interpretation that the fiction is 'romanticizing' or 'glorifying' an unpleasant or illegal topic.

🖤 An author has no moral obligation to explicitly condemn taboo, unpleasant or illegal actions by characters in their fiction.

🖤 It is perfectly fine for an author to present terrible actions and events without holding the audience's hand to make sure they know they're wrong.

🖤 There is nothing wrong with writing a protagonist who does evil, immoral and illegal things without the author taking pains to make certain that the audience knows that they're wrong.

🖤 If you read a book and see taboo, criminal, or immoral actions as romantic, glorious, or something to aspire to, that is a you problem, not the author's problem.

🖤 An author is under no obligation to be their audience's morality teacher.

The "if you don't want to get harassed, don't post your weird shit online" take has to be among the ones I hate the most. You're telling me I have to post "normal" stuff (whatever that means) or else the harassment is justified? That the one in the right is the person sending threats? That I can't even have a space for myself online? For fuck's sake.

This is how I feel whenever HxH forces me to look at this mans ass.

VOLUME WARNING

DONT BE AFRAID TO COMMENT ON OLD FICS DONT BE AFRAID TO COMMENT ON FICS IN A FANDOM THE AUTHOR MAY NO LONGER BE ACTIVE IN. IF THE STORY IS STILL UP LET THEM KNOW YOUR THOUGHTS IT MIGHT JUST BE THE REMINDER THAT MAKES THEIR DAY.

SINCERELY SOMEONE WHO JUST GOT A REPLY THAT MADE ME WANNA MAKE THIS POST