[ SECRET POST #3928 ]

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⌈ Secret Post #3928 ⌋

Warning: Some secrets are NOT worksafe and may contain SPOILERS.

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[The Shape of Water]


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05. https://i.imgur.com/FFikkoI.jpg
[linked at OP's request for graphic image, worm in eyeball)


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07. https://media.giphy.com/media/3ohhwgHt2QqljARnlm/giphy.gif
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Comments

Re: Is there anything you think shouldn't be portrayed in fiction?

[(Anonymous)]

I think fiction shouldn't paint child sexual abuse, or child abuse in general, as desirable or a good thing. Ditto for genocide, slavery, racism, homophobia, and misogyny. And poverty, which is a weird one as a majority, at least in the US where I'm from, at least pay lip service to everything else on this list being awful, but yet somehow poverty is still often seen as making people more resilient, and not as shitty and soul-crushing.

Re: Is there anything you think shouldn't be portrayed in fiction?

[(Anonymous)]

Well, when I was growing up poor, I was deathly, desperately afraid that if I did anything "wrong", EVER, I was going to end up stuck where I was. So I constantly told myself that my situation was only making me stronger, you know, so that I could continue to be imaginative and creative and not soul-crushed. I guess it ate into me and since my plan eventually worked I now believe it was all true. Might also be the case for others who write about their experience with poverty, maybe they also wanted to believe that it makes them resilient.

Re: Is there anything you think shouldn't be portrayed in fiction?

[(Anonymous)]

AYRT--I was thinking more along the lines of people who excuse not doing anything to help the poor, praise poverty in the abstract as a source of strength and resilience, but either never experienced poverty themselves and are unwilling to do so (minimalism of the "20 identical cashmere tops in shades of cream" or "$100k capsule wardrobe" type is the closest they get) or say they made it out of poverty and anyone who didn't is lazy.

Privately thinking surviving poverty, or abuse, or systemic racism made you personally stronger is fine, because you do what you have to to survive and function. Writing off attempts to end poverty and abuse and systemic racism as naive and besides I survived it, why can't they, is shitty.

Re: Is there anything you think shouldn't be portrayed in fiction?

[(Anonymous)]

I see a lot of that in politics, sure, but in fiction?