saw a comment someone made on a post saying “it’s not possible to read dark fiction and not have that affect your morals, you can’t train your brain NOT to normalize those things!” and i completely agree
as a life-long crime fiction and horror fan, i am an immoral monster. i’ve watched all 456 episodes of law and order and committed a murder after each one. i ate my neighbors after watching hannibal. i started a meth lab after breaking bad. i ruined my high school prom because i watched carrie the night before. in middle school i read stephen king’s it, went down to the sewers with some friends and
Wendy why would you hide this masterpiece in the tags
Like, all hyperbole aside, don’t @ me about how fiction can guide your mindset. Believe me, I know. Consuming certain pieces of media and thinking about them has helped to make me the person I am today. But the argument that consuming less-than-pure content (and pure according to whom?) is inherently harmful to “young, impressionable minds” is exactly the same bullshit that book-banning, fundamentalist types have been spewing for decades.
Sorry to put this salt mine on your dashes for a third time today, but I can’t believe I missed OP’s most excellent tags:
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