what's so good about dying?

[perilous]

NEWSFLASH!

You should do the decent, compassionate thing for no other reason than that it is the decent, compassionate thing to do, you fucking assholes. YOU DO NOT LIVE IN A VACUUM. OTHER PEOPLE SURROUND YOU AND REACT TO YOU ALL THE TIME.

Unless you want to cut off all social contact forevermore, you have some responsibilities as a human being. Yes, these do include, if you are a writer of fanfiction, giving survivors of abuse and trauma the tools to use their own responsibility to avoid things that could hurt them. Reducing the options to "cheerfully open yourself up to being triggered without complaining" and "get out of fandom entirely" is not even remotely okay or good enough.

Why the hell are we even talking about this? How is this an issue? How?

:( Hold me, flist. (And if you disagree me with, honestly, please let me know so that I can defriend you.)

Comments

[egelantier.livejournal.com]

i'm always so frustrated and bewildered with people like this. not even because of content of their replies (though oh shit the content), just because they CAN'T be reasoned with. you talk and talk and talk and it all just washes over them or gets turned against my, it's like a fucking magic. i'm awed by people who can say something that'll reach them, but i never can, i just get frustrated and helpless.

[peridium.livejournal.com]

Exactly. It's like everything anyone says goes in one ear and out the other, sometimes with a stop somewhere in there to get distorted into derailing or a straw man. I tried a little bit, but as far as I can tell it didn't do much.