Anonymous
July 7, 2025 at 12:44:43 AM
weren't you a pro before, not hating just curious because I never seen you in so long last time I did you were a pro or something
Replied on: July 7, 2025 at 1:41:31 AM
Goodness me! Well, I think I'm a pro at many things... A pro at making very humorous faces at disgruntled people... Grunting at little piggies as they leave their patrol cars... But, in all seriousness, dear Messeger, I suppose I was a "Pro" if you mean it in the sense of "Pro-fiction" or "Pro-ship". I however now dislike that term as it's tied to too much frivolous discourse.
I hold generally the same beliefs, that there is no such thing as a thought or fantasy crime, that people should be judged individually, that our society should be held to take responsibility just as much as an individual, and most importantly, dear Messenger, that fiction is freedom.
Fiction is liberation. Fiction is nasty, fiction is beautiful. The world is nasty, the world is beautiful. Humans are nasty creatures sometimes. We have complex brains with complex thoughts and feelings that make us do things that don't always make sense to others.
But we have to live together as well. We have to live with those people who are just as strange as us, or stranger, or less strange than you'd anticipate. We have to learn to live together without immediately trying to shoot our neighbor for having an "unsavory feeling". We have to learn to live together and find a way for those "unsavory feelings" to exist in a way that reduces harm.
I know very deeply what that harm can be, Messenger, and I don't want that to happen to anyone, for as much as I can find a way to prevent people from hurting others. And I will tell you, destroying literature, the arts, etc. is the wrong focus for one to reach that goal.
