Re: Assignments!

(Anonymous) 2022-10-24 08:50 pm (UTC)(link)
You know that people can disagree with you about fiction without misunderstanding fiction, right?

Re: Assignments!

(Anonymous) 2022-10-24 08:51 pm (UTC)(link)
This is not about the preachy paranoid anti policing other people's fic, though.

Re: Assignments!

(Anonymous) 2022-10-24 08:53 pm (UTC)(link)
It's really not.

Re: Assignments!

(Anonymous) 2022-10-24 08:56 pm (UTC)(link)
Indeed, some people can disagree about fiction without misunderstanding fiction, but the dumbass running around screaming that fiction about fictional characters equals endorsement of real people is not one of them.

Re: Assignments!

(Anonymous) 2022-10-24 08:59 pm (UTC)(link)
You're arguing with more than one person and that's not what I think. I think it's disrespectful at best and endorsement at worst.

Re: Assignments!

(Anonymous) 2022-10-24 09:00 pm (UTC)(link)
Personally I think it's similar to writing fic about irl disasters or tragedies within living memory. Not exactly the same, but

Re: Assignments!

(Anonymous) 2022-10-24 09:01 pm (UTC)(link)
disrespectful to the people involved and in bad taste.

Re: Assignments!

(Anonymous) 2022-10-24 09:02 pm (UTC)(link)
How is someone who writes Muncle RPF, in the same ATG flavor as in 2015, disrespectful?

Re: Assignments!

(Anonymous) 2022-10-24 09:03 pm (UTC)(link)
It's disrespectful to people with good taste ;)

Re: Assignments!

(Anonymous) 2022-10-24 09:06 pm (UTC)(link)
Okay, that's the only acceptable argument, lol!

Re: Assignments!

(Anonymous) 2022-10-24 08:57 pm (UTC)(link)
Is it really so impossible for you to come up with a reason someone might think it's shitty to write rpf about rapists that isn't confusing fiction with reality?

Re: Assignments!

(Anonymous) 2022-10-24 09:04 pm (UTC)(link)
I guess you'll happily pull out the pitchforks on all historical novelists who wrote, e.g. about Henry VIII?

Re: Assignments!

(Anonymous) 2022-10-25 02:21 am (UTC)(link)
Good point.