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◆ You don’t have to perform disgust
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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 to be your audience’s moral teacher. You can have bad things happen– you can have…

◆ It’s a fantasy, not a reality.
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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 care of you, who will defend you, to a larger than life degree. And because…

◆ All Fiction Has Artistic Merit
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✨ All fiction is art and has artistic merit. ✨ Yes, including the novel you hid in a drawer. ✨ Yes, including Marvel movies. ✨ Yes, including soap operas. ✨ Yes, including slasher flicks and torture porn. ✨ Yes, including fanfiction. ✨Yes, including smut, porn, and smutty porny fanfiction. ✨ All fiction expresses ideas and…