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@detta-pica / detta-pica.tumblr.com

hermit (she/her) . current obsessions include: tragedy, JJK, moral dilemmas . links: AO3, Twitter , Bluesky . this is a sideblog, so you'll only see likes and follows from my main account (tea-maker). sorry! .
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Reblogged charmspoint
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a lot of stories treat romance like it makes the relationship between two characters self explanatory and to be honest it doesn’t

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story: they're in love :)

me: why?

story: what do you mean? they're in love :)

me: what do they bring to each other's lives? what do they admire about one another? what draws them to each other?

story: love :) :)

me: ok... so what is that going to look like now?

story: like love :) :) :)

me: are their personalities going to clash at all? are they going to have arguments? learn to compromise for each other? will they need to adapt to sharing their life with another person? is it going to be smooth perfect harmony from day one? are they going to be always together? see each other sometimes as their occupations allow? how does this relationship affect their lifes.

story: they're in love :) :) :)

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Tbf this is how a lot of people also treat irl relationships

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“Time is on our side,” Itadori agrees. “On mine, anyway. Have you seen the movie Interstellar?” “Please entertain yourself elsewhere, Itadori-san,” Suguru begs, shameless in his desperation. “I have work to do.” He does. There are patients he needs to see in--Suguru glances at the wall clock--ten minutes. And before that, he wanted to review his notes and answer a few emails. Disrupting his morning by seeing the girls off was necessary, but the consequences are unpleasant. “Fine, fine, I can tell you aren’t in the mood to chat.” Itadori rolls to her feet and stretches tall, arms above her head. “I’ll try again later, when you’re less cranky.” Once she’s gone, Suguru manages to catch up to his routine little by little. He barely notices when the sky outside gets dark--or as dark as it gets in metropolitan Tokyo. It’s only an unexpected knock on his door that pulls him out of reviewing his research results. Suguru sorts the loose pages into a neat stack, marks his place, hides it in a drawer, and only then calls for the person--a sorcerer, but which one?--to come in. Gojo has to duck under the doorframe. The movement causes his blackout glasses to slip down his nose, and the effect is, frankly, striking. He cleans up well, even if his outfit is a strange mix of a teenage boy’s taste in fashion and what Nanako would describe as dad energy. “Yo,” he greets, looking around Suguru’s office. “I’m here for our date.” Suguru manages to keep his composure, but only barely. “Hello again, Gojo-san. If I remember correctly, I was the one who asked you out, which implies that the burden of choosing a time and location rested on me.” Gojo flops his hand back and forth. “It’s been hours, I got impatient. So hey, your office kinda stinks. Real funky vibes. Like, stale, you know?” It was silly of Suguru to think he was on a level playing field with the strongest sorcerer. Of course Gojo would be suspicious and follow up on it immediately. Suguru thought he’d obfuscated well enough, but clearly he needs to check his ego. This is a major fuckup. Panicking won’t fix it, though. “That must be the effect of a… colleague of mine.” Gojo crosses the room in three steps and perches on the edge of Suguru’s desk, looming over him. He takes off the glasses and fiddles with them idly. “A--dramatic pause--colleague of yours? Do I know them?” Suguru leans back comfortably, elbows on the armrests, fingers steepled together. “I’m sure you do not.”

I can finally share a snippet from a different fic written for Satosugu Cliché Tropes Fest. It's progressing slowly, but I'll be spending some hours on trains in the near future, which should help me catch up.

#jjk#stsg#satosugu#jjk fanfic#jjk stsg#stsg fanfic#satosugu fanfic#geto suguru#gojo satoru#jujutsu kaisen#my writing#event fic#wip wednesday
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How I Write with Gojo Satoru | Saturday Magazine
“I write diligently, in my own way. People think writing has to do with schedules and work ethic and whatnot, but in reality it’s all about sympathy. Pretty basic. But if I think about how I started to write — how I could see people’s pain but never relate to it in a meaningful way — and how I see them now, there is a big gap, there is more understanding. Yet it’s difficult, at times, you know, when your best work is done alone, to remember that a person’s life still holds value beyond the memories that create their identity.”

Or: Gojo Satoru is reunited with his former best friend Geto Suguru when his book’s acquired by major publisher Mappa. Spanning across over ten years of maybes and won’t, this is the publishing au no one ever asked for. Read on AO3.

#jjk fanfic#stsg#fic rec#stsg fanfic#gojo satoru#geto suguru#i forgot tumblr exists last night sorry#this is so GOOD
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"Came back wrong" trope but actually the character came back right. A character who, when they were living, hid and changed so many parts of themself around others to appease them and, when they died and came back, they stopped doing so and started living as who they always have been. But everyone thinks they came back wrong because of how different they are

#ooh
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Reblogged kaleidoscopic-quiddity
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blackheartbiohazards

"I don't want to read this" is totally valid.

"This is disgusting to me" is totally valid.

"I don't want to read this because it is disgusting to me" is totally valid.

"I don't think anyone should be allowed to read or write this because it is disgusting to me" is authoritarian.

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blackheartbiohazards

"I don't think anyone should be allowed to read or write this because it is disgusting to me" is authoritarian.

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Bro, blocking someone and then using their tag like this is, all offence, weak as fuck. Like all you had to say was, na bro I don't promote pedo protags on this here blog, because I wholly agree with the premise of your argument given contexts (i.e., writing abusive relationships to show the evils, great; writing abusive relationships to show the romance, yikes).

This response is so, so comically shitty within the context of that tag, oh my god.

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blackheartbiohazards

"I don't think anyone should be allowed to read or write this because it is disgusting to me" is authoritarian.

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blackheartbiohazards

"I don't think anyone should be allowed to read or write this because it is disgusting to me" is authoritarian.

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blackheartbiohazards
"Censorship of some topics in fiction and art is good and I would be happy if it were to be enacted in a way I approved of"

and

"some things should be banned from ever being written or read about in fiction"

are both authoritarian viewpoints to hold and express, even if you don't have the power to enact them.

If you hold these viewpoints you are holding authoritarian viewpoints.

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DUDE IT’S PEDO FICS EVERYBODY THINKS THEY’RE NASTY

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blackheartbiohazards

Let me explain this to you in simple terms.

Something being nasty is not a good reason to ban fiction about it.

If we accept that "something being nasty is a good reason to bad fiction about it" then we give a foot in the door for all the people who truly, genuinely believe that queer people are nasty to ban all queer literature.

This is not about defending bad people this is about defending the freedom of good people from tyranny, you moron.

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I think if you take it to its logical extreme. Say, banning people from writing stories of sexual abuse. That could then be said "well ANY talk about sexual abuse is bad."

And from that, you could ban books that talk about it irl. Or books like how to recover after being abuse. If its not something to be discussed AT ALL.

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The fact that I’ve seen this post in some form on my dash like 100x and each time there’s new idiots who do not get that you can’t have *some* censorship.

Either you’re for it or you aren’t.

The moment you agree that something should never, ever exist in fiction is the moment that anything can be banned.

Remember a while back how Tumblr banned a bunch of tags, including many popular innocuous ones that even people who are for censorship used and were upset about?

When censorship happens, stuff YOU like can and will be banned. That’s how it works.

Remember how a bunch of people had their accounts terminated here only last year for writing about their own sexual abuse?

When you ban “pedo” topics, say, any talk of child sexual abuse in any form, that means people can no longer write about their own experiences. It means people cannot educate others so they can learn how to protect themselves or get help from these situations.

Censorship is authoritarian. Full stop.

Even if “everyone” agrees something is “gross” and “shouldn’t exist,” that does not fucking matter.

Do you know who generally believes queer people are gross and shouldn’t exist??

The same people who are banning books left and right solely because they have queer characters or relationships.

The same people who attack and kill queer folk for simply exisiting.

This is not just some fandom matter or a case of being chronically online.

Protecting freedom of expression is essential, and if you do not get that, I don’t know what to say to you.

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And the people who keep bringing up child sex abuse as a reason for censorship are doing it very specifically because everyone feels like then they HAVE to agree with the person in favor of censorship.

It’s not that there isn’t widespread societal agreement on this. It’s that they want you backed into a rhetorical corner where you feel compelled to agree with them.

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Also, like, we KNOW how this shit shakes out in fandom because it's happened before.

In 2007, Livejournal capitulated to the "pedophilia and sex crimes!" cries of (hate group) Warriors 4 Innocence, and you know what communities got shut down? Slashfic communities. Sexual assault survivor support communities. Authors who'd written non-smut m/m fic even got caught up in it. It was DEVASTATING to fandom spaces. I think pretty much everyone knew at least one person whose account was literally DELETED, or were a member of a community that was wiped off the map because they were considerate enough to include topics like "sexual assault" or "BDSM" in the profiles under the badly-named category of "interests" to indicate that posts on said blogs or communities may include discussion of things like that. Even if it was for a SUPPORT group. And it was because a group of religious bigots came to LJ and said essentially "EVERYONE thinks it's gross and that it's promoting CSA, we should ban it."

Like, strikethrough and boldthrough were a large part of what propelled AO3 out of a more unfocused conversation on one person's blog about hosting a site INTENDED for fandom content, into being an actual archive and nonprofit. And it's a large part of why you won't find AO3 banning topics that you find "gross".

Censorship is authoritarian and it will ALWAYS have more collateral damage than you can imagine.

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Going to add that fiction which had sexual abuse and communities which played around with it as a writing topic are the very things that protected me from irl sexual abuse when I was a teenager. I was in a dicey situation, and realized that while my situation did not match up to any of the superficial or textbook cases mentioned in passing (if at all) through school, it matched up a LOT to what I'd learned about irl sexual abuse through works of fiction and the rhetoric of my communities. I got out of that situation and dodged what was, in retrospect, one hell of a nasty bullet. If it hadn't been for that "nasty" fiction and those "nasty" communities, I would very likely have been abused, and subject to further violence spiraling out from that abuse.

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you can’t have *some* censorship.

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Censorship is authoritarian.

#beautiful post#fandom culture
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