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thepeacockangel:

1. No Trigger Warnings On Fic: For the love of all that’s good, if you’re going to write about potentially triggering stuff (like rape, or eating disorders or whatever) FUCKING PUT A FUCKING WARNING ON IT!
2. Using eating disorders/self injury/abuse/etc for dramaz!: I have no objection to stories that include well written use of horrible things.  I’ve experienced horrible shit, and I sometimes include these experiences in my fiction, but the lack of understanding, the ignorance, and the generally crappy bathotic way these fics are written just pisses me off.  Other people’s pain is not yours to use to make your fiction seem edgy, not yours to use as a prop in your poorly thought out plot.  Not to mention that trauma/mental illness is often used as a way to make a character good n’ vulnerable for the romantic advances of another character (because that’s totally the way to start a healthy relationship).
3. Erases/White Washes POC Characters: So often in fanfic characters of color are dropped entirely, or their ethnicity forgotten, or there’s always what happened to poor Blaise Zabini after fandom found out he’s of African descent (almost no mentions in fanfic ever again).  
4. Believes That In Order To Be Submissive in Bed You Have To Be Weak: You know what really irks me about ukefication?  The assumption that in order to be a bottom you have to be weak, needy, clingy, and incapable of taking care of yourself.  I’m submissive and I will tell you, I am one badass mother fucker.  I run a business, take care of myself, and am (if you hadn’t noticed) assertive, opinionated and downright pushy about things I care about, and I am undeniably submissive in bed.  There are passive people who are dominant in bed and so on and so fourth.  Yeah…
5. Assumes That All Effeminate Men Are Gay:  You know James from Pokemon?  You know what the major argument against Rocketshipping (Jesse/James shipping) is?  The fact that James likes to wear women’s clothing (he likes it A LOT, if you didn’t notice).  Fandom assumes that wearing women’s clothing = gay.  Goddamnit, no.  James is a girly guy, he might be gay, he might be straight, he might be bi, or pan, or ace, or whatever, but his effeminacy has no bearing on his sexual preference.
6. Assumes All Gay Men Are Effeminate: I can’t even… just… fuck… goddamnit.  Guys, when a character comes out of the closet he does not immediately start getting pedicures.
7. Doesn’t Believe In Sexualities Other Than Gay and Straight: In fandom THERE ARE NO PANSEXUALS, BISEXUALS, OR ANY OTHER SEXUALITY THAT ISN’T TOTALLY GAY OR TOTALLY STRAIGHT!  Want to write a slash fic about a character in a straight relationship?  OMG they totally realize they’re gay and promptly dump their partner!  Could we maybe, maybe acknowledge that other sexualities exist, please?
8. Is Ableist As Fuck:  Fandom thinks that all disabled people are magical martyrs who need to be saved with someone’s MAGICAL PENIS (or the TWU WUV of an abled person) Yeah.
9. Believes Trauma Can Be Fixed With Sex: Fandom thinks that all trauma, and mental illness can be fixed with the power of TWU WUV! and sex.  I mean twu wuv is nice, but I’ll fix my own damn self thank you, and as much as I love genitals (as I’ve said here) they are not magic, and are not equivalent to SSRIs and years of therapy.
10. Believes All Sex Workers Are Abused/Forced Into It or Believes That Sex Work Is Super Easy and Hyper Glamorous: Sex work is… work.  It’s much like a job doing anything else, sometimes it’s great, sometimes it sucks, sometimes it’s coercive and exploitive and horrible, sometimes it’s not.  Most of the time it’s like “What do you want to order for lunch, oh shit my shift’s in five minutes” in other words LIKE EVERY OTHER JOB EVER.  Don’t even get me started on when it treats sex workers as lazy social parasites.
11. Believes Trauma Makes You Evil/Excuses Evil: Look, redeeming the pretty villain by giving them a “tragic past” is so messed up for so many reasons.  For one you’re saying that “trauma makes you a bad person” yeah, just think about the implications of that one. You definitely want to suggest that people who have bad things happen to them will become bad.  Secondly, the idea that trauma excuses evil is a big damn problem because it suggests that people who have bad shit happen to them have no free will anymore, essentially reducing them to a non-human status “oh, they’re just a survivor of gang-rape, they don’t know any better” Yeahhhhhh, go stand in the “I’m a shithead” corner until you can behave.

tuchanka:

actually i kind of wanted to say something else about that, tw ableism

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