◆ Fiction enriches us
🔹 It’s okay to create or engage with fiction about whatever topic, theme, or idea that you want to. 🔹It’s okay to create or engage with any fiction you want to for any reason. 🔹It’s okay to enjoy any fiction…
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◆ Thesis of Scott Pilgrim Takes Off (as far as I can tell)
“I’m gonna give them all a REAL happy ending. The kind you can’t get just from punching people.” Also. This show was amazing. 💖
◆ You don’t have to perform disgust
You don’t have to apologize, or perform authorial disgust, for dark, violent, sexual, cruel or problematic topics in the fiction you create. Fiction does not exist to teach an audience a moral lesson. You as an author are not required…
◆ It’s a fantasy, not a reality.
When people– and especially young women– are attracted to “abusive” and “controlling” and “violent” male characters in fiction– The fantasy is not about being abused, or controlled. The fantasy is about a partner who is devoted to you, who takes…
◆ The Literary Value of Smut
Let’s talk about how to think about the artistic merit inherent in smut and pornography. Smut and porn have the same amount of artistic merit and worthiness as every other kind of fiction, and can be interrogated in the same…