A List of Problematic™ Things
fuckofffanpol:
(All Takes I Have Actually Seen)
• Childhood Friends to Lovers? Practically Incest!
• Two characters share the same (extremely distant) ancestor? Literally incest! Bad and wrong!
• Platonic familial affection and intimacy? Suspicious.
• “Sworn Brothers”? You guessed it! Incest.
• Height/size difference? Suspicious.
• Two 17 year olds? You should have just made them adults.
• But also aging up characters is Not Allowed.
• 30+ year old with a much older character? Ew, age gap!
• Puppy crushes? Illegal.
• Enemies to Lovers is Abuse,
• and you should never redeem or sympathize with Villains/Abusers/The Bad People.
• Monsterfuckers? Zoophilia. Or necrophilia, if it’s vampires or whatever. The point is you’re wrong. And bad. >:(
“Wow what can they read? Only the fluffiest Coffeeshop/Soulmate/HC?”
• Coffeeshop AUs? Romanticizes workplace harassment. And gentrification.
• Soulmate AUs? Amatonormative. Supports predetermination.
• Hurt/comfort? Why would you want to hurt the characters? Freak.
Also:
• Straight ships are heteronormative.
• But queer ships are fetishizing.
• It’s very simple!
And even:
• You need the original media creator’s consent to write fanfic. Anne Rice was Valid, actually!
(via characterlimit)