vaspider:

I just saw someone saying to report non-con fic because it’s illegal. 

You… you do know the difference between fiction and reality, right? Or do you think we should report people who post things about Stephen King, George R. R. Martin, or Shakespeare because there are non-consensual relationships and sexual assault in all of their writing? Or … that their books should be illegal?

Like, there’s pedophilia, incest, bestiality and non-consensual sex in A Song of Ice and Fire. This is a fact. It’s still fiction. None of that is real, and people no more go out and rape someone after reading a non-con fic, because of reading that non-con fic than violent video games cause school shootings. (They don’t.)

Reporting people on Tumblr is just picking on people close enough for you to hit, most of whom are marginalized creators. It’s the definition of punching laterally or punching down.

This current anti bullshit is just puritanical suppression in social justice pants. It’s the right-wing thinking that says we can’t teach To Kill a Mockingbird because think of the children wearing a ‘but tags aren’t enough, that just shouldn’t be on the internet’ hat.

And just so it’s clear: I do not support, condone or make apologies for actual pedophilia, incest, bestiality, or sexual assault. I can’t believe I have to say that, but since pointing out the difference between fiction and reality and saying that reporting people for writing fiction you don’t like isn’t bullying people via Tumblr’s reporting system seems to make people on here think you’re somehow okay with actual abuse of any sort, I’m gonna say it. 

Writing fiction isn’t illegal, even if the acts being written about in that fiction are illegal. Abusing the reporting system against people who write fiction that you don’t like, however, is abusing the reporting system.

So, like, don’t do it.