Loose Lips Might Sink Ships
I keep reading about how other subreddits may ban or shadowban users, just for being active on this subreddit. It's so weird, just about eight years ago you'd see characters in mainstream TV and movies referring to pairings of fictional characters not traditionally depicted as together like, "I so ship them!" But somehow scenes like this are now widely rebuked as "cringe" even though a majority of these examples use what you might call "safeships" meaning not legally or morally dubious. A few years back I accepted an invite to a random discord called "The Pit" that it turned out was full of scummy, scuzzy individuals trying to cosplay as morally superior they asked me who I was, I told them, I gave them links to my writing. They didn't believe me, they insisted I was some scuzzbucket they know masquerading as me... Why anyone would pretend to be a third rate unknown horror author is completely behind my ability to comprehend. Still, I think... Not believing I was me, they decided to ask my opinion on "lolicon" as an ethical horror writer naturally I had to say that I defend the depiction of criminal behavior in fiction and art, so long as the artist is not advocating for participation in said criminal behavior, and that when it becomes apparent that the artist is advocating for criminal behavior that that's not cool, but just depicting something in fiction or artwork should not automatically be interpreted as the artist advocating for that thing. Y'know there are other factors to take into account. So realistically, I think it's not cool to advocate for encourage abuse of anyone , especially children, and as such I am not in favor of artistic or financial CSAM that is designed to encourage the activities depicted. However I don't feel like depicting and advocating are always synonymous. For instance one of my favorite Pokémon related creepypasta stories is Pokémon Snap, but I don't think that the author of that story advocate was for something just because the villain of their story was depicted as committing, that I know of.