[ SECRET POST #5414 ]

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⌈ Secret Post #5414 ⌋

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[(Anonymous)]

In my mind, the problem is that one of the following is true: either people have extremely varying reading comprehension skills or some people willingly miss the point a lot. What you (or if not you, inevitably someone) thinks of as "toxic relationship portrayed as aspirational and healthy" other people will interpret as "obviously toxic relationship, it's right there in the text; I still love it anyway" and ANOTHER group will inevitably be like "relationship goals!! 😍" (unironic idolization). The third group makes the first group think that texts need to stop "romanticizing" fucked up relationships (they are, after all, proof that portrayal in fiction have real-world consequences). But by preaching this to the second group, the second group begins to suspect that no amount of "this relationship is obviously toxic" is going to be "clear enough" for the first group (and it won't be, because the third group inevitably springs into being, no matter how anvilicious or over-the-top the toxic portrayal is -- inevitably some person unironically thinks the relationship is romantic and healthy). Therefore, what the first group actually wants is for there to be no toxicity in representation at all. I wish people in the first group would just realize that it doesn't matter what the author's intentions are or how much the author endorses or doesn't endorse the behavior of the characters -- fucked up pairings inevitably generate an unironic fanbase. This is not within the power of authors to control so holding them accountable for their fans' actions is tantamount to telling them they should not write toxic relationships at all.

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All of this