[ SECRET POST #6413 ]

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⌈ Secret Post #6413 ⌋

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Comments

[(Anonymous)]

Why are you so insistent that ayrt and everyone else engage with fiction the exact same way you do? Seriously the only person here who is trying to argue that someone else is Doing Fanfic Wrong is you.

[ariakas]

Looking at the thread, I'm not, objectively, the only one, but since you asked: as I said earlier in it, it's myopic and kind of sad. If fiction doesn't exist to broaden our experiences and allow us to relate to others, but rather only to engage with perspectives that are already comfortable to us and points of view from which we already agree, that's, like, really fucking sad, man.

I get it, and you're not a Bad Person for it - that one other anon has explained their view very well to me - but it's still it's really fucking sad.

[(Anonymous)]

Yeah, I feel like if that's your take on fiction (that you only want to read about characters who are just like you) then you're honestly missing the entire point of fiction in general.

[(Anonymous)]

Literally point to where any of the anons ITT have said that. I've read pretty much the whole thread (god help me), and there isn't a single comment that supports this reading.

Once more for the people in the back: Not wanting the character you are vicariously identified with, to engage with one specific topic that you find personally squicky, does not equal "I only want to read about characters that are just like me."

Hope that cleared some things up for you.

[(Anonymous)]

To add to what's already been said, not only is it sad, but it honestly also leads to worse fiction. When a majority of people need a text to keep them comfortable and reflect their own experiences and preferences back at them, then the incentive is to avoid producing fiction that steps outside of comfort zones, broadens horizons, or has anything remotely interesting to say.

[(Anonymous)]

+1000000

There's a couple people here who are being weirdly aggressive about...other people having things they don't like in fiction? The "identify" thing seems to have triggered them, but I don't fully understand how. I see a lot of comments where people seem determined to believe that "I don't want to engage with this one particular subject within the context of this fanfic about a character I feel very strongly connected to," automatically equates to, "I don't want to read about any character being different from me in any way ever."

No, no, nopity, no, nope. The leap from A to B on that is staggering, but by god, they're making it Evel Knievel style.