#mmmmhhhhh
I think one of the things that always gets me in particular is how often “dark” writers say they’re just trying to “explore the topic / themes” whenever theyre criticized for writing absolutely vile things.
And I always want to know what the hell that’s supposed to mean in the context of these fics.
I DO think some dark topics can be explored in a reasonable manor, I obviously know someone who writes a murder mystery novel is not condoning murder. But the way you engage with a topic matters. Yes you can write a murder mystery, but if you exclusively write only graphic, detailed murder scenes and literally nothing else BUT the murder scenes themselves, I’m absolutely going to assume something is just deeply fucking wrong with you.
And I feel like that’s exactly how some of y'all approach this shit.
(tw for the rest of this post for discussing themes of sexual assault, racism, fetishization, abuse)
