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ithoughtuweregoingforahug · 7 months

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a great thing about fiction is that it's not real. which means you can indulge in concepts that are fun and interesting to explore and make art about within the context of a fictional work that you in real life would never condone due to how morally objectionable they are. you know, if you can distinguish fiction and reality.

what i'm saying is i can romanticise the murder and the self-destructiveness and unhealthy relationship that my OCs have going on and have fun doing it, because it's sexy and evil men tickle my brain, while also condemning any degree of the same in real-life situations.

Idk i think media showing, perhaps even postively framing, morally bad things has its right to exist because adults (at the very least) should have the media literacy to tell apart fiction from reality and not be influenced to do the bad things shown.

#it's not even necessarily media literacy it's just. a constructive perception of reality that a healthy adult should have.#and for those with conditions that impact reality perception and those that struggle with understanding what behaviour is hurtful #mental health and socio-emotional-education resources should be readily available.#man idk i just feel like internet culture has reinforced some kind of belief that any and all media must be 100% morally 'pure'#things that are bad irl have to be depicted as bad and things that are good must be depicted as good always #and yeah i agree to some extend but as i said. i also think bad things can be fun or interesting to show with a less 'morally judgy' framing #if it's done well (and not just plain abuse with no coherence and nothing more interesting added)#what i'm saying is i've always liked the queer villains because. well they're fun.#conner.txt

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