Twenty Bucks Says You'll Remember Me...~

Also relevant to the other thread, but I wonder if fandom policing (also called anti culture, but I prefer fandom policing because it's more concrete & causes less confusion), together with its flip side of woobiefication, are fandom offshoots of this reluctance to engage with darkness and horror. You might recall the discussion on fandom.ink a little while ago about how so much of the "discourse" has become either "you're a bad person if you ship/enjoy something dark and/or immoral," or its kissing cousin (u c whut i did thar), "this dark and/or immoral thing I ship/enjoy is actually perfectly healthy because [bullshit reasons] so I am still a good person." I was actually caught in a Tumblr blowout because I didn't fall on either side of that stupidity. And these dumbass children howling about how I was being "evasive" and had been "misleading" them just because they are incapable of comprehending nuance... like whatever happened to exploring darkness and not trying to justify it? Murder and csa are bad, no shit Sherlock! But portrayal =/= endorsement! And just because you like something doesn't mean it's moral! Stop trying to justify things that are revolting IRL just so you can feel better about your wank focus!

Idk where I'm even trying to go with this, except that the essay Fiction, Reality, Fandom, and Adulthood (child sexual abuse and incest at link) remains the best expression of these ideas I have ever read.