Lightnews — Scholar-powered news

The Fandom Purity Culture Archive @purityculture.bsky.social · Apr 8

Ang (Kyle Carrozza's victim) is in a dire situation and needs our help.

Please help them through this by donating any amount of money you can afford, even if just a few dollars.

Don't let them just be someone to "use" for fiction discourse: please show that you actually care.

Big Sister 🔞 @atherist.bsky.social · Apr 7

gofund.me/f3a9db71

This might be my final true statement if I don’t get the help I fucking need. I don’t even think anyone will see it or care enough to get me the rescuing I need. I need rescuing. I’m going to die.
Statement in thread.

Donate to Help Secure Safe Housing for a Disabled Individual, organized by Ang Vondra

Hi everyone, I feel sorry to do this but I am in a dire situation that i… Ang Vondra needs your support for Help Secure Safe Housing for a Disabled Individual

gofund.me

38 40

The Fandom Purity Culture Archive @purityculture.bsky.social · Feb 1

Lolisho is literally just ageplay. "Pedo shit" is what anti-BDSM people call CG/l too.

But there is no amount of research I can show you that will convince you otherwise, so goodbye.

2

The Fandom Purity Culture Archive @purityculture.bsky.social · Feb 1

Hm! Insightful reply using a nazi term. I'm sure I won't find anything interesting on your account- oh, you're a racist queerphobe who loves to complain about "DEI" and wants immigrants deported. How unsurprising. Muted!

2

The Fandom Purity Culture Archive @purityculture.bsky.social · Feb 1

Links between anti-BDSM "Kink Critical" rhetoric and anti-shipper rhetoric.

bsky.app/profile/puri...

The Fandom Purity Culture Archive @purityculture.bsky.social · Nov 15

PSA: "kink critical" is radfem rhetoric.

You don't have to believe me, some rando on the internet: check the "kink critical" tag on tumblr and see for yourself

The Shinigami Eyes extension shows in red the usernames of known TERFs (I've checked, they ARE TERFs)
Now check these screenshots. #thread

3 27

The Fandom Purity Culture Archive @purityculture.bsky.social · Feb 1

How do you know if your fantasies or kinks are healthy?
Listen to the 9 minute explanation by psychologist Liz Powell (they/them).

www.youtube.com/watch?v=4deR...

How do you know if your fantasies or kinks are healthy?

YouTube video by Dr. Liz Powell

www.youtube.com

2 21

The Fandom Purity Culture Archive @purityculture.bsky.social · Feb 1

Here's plenty of resources on taboo fantasies if you're still worried!

bsky.app/profile/puri...

The Fandom Purity Culture Archive @purityculture.bsky.social · Nov 7

🧵 Thread of articles and research on taboo sexual fantasies 🧵

1 13

The Fandom Purity Culture Archive @purityculture.bsky.social · Feb 1

Neither mean anything about what a person's values are nor what they find hot outside of the fantasy (= just because you like CNC/noncon doesn't mean you think rape is ok or would find a real rape survivor's actual experience "hot").

Enjoy whatever fantasies you want in fiction!

1 2 18

The Fandom Purity Culture Archive @purityculture.bsky.social · Feb 1

There is no difference between BDSM and fanfiction/fanart.

If taboo fanfiction is a written taboo nsfw scene, BDSM is the roleplay of that exact same scene in real life.

Both do not involve any actual victims, both are just playing around with an erotic taboo fantasy.

1 1 18

The Fandom Purity Culture Archive @purityculture.bsky.social · Feb 1

How many Owner/pet couples do you see act the way a human and actual pet would act if real life bestiality was happening?

Romanticization is often the point. It's a fantasy and it's normal and completely healthy to explore in a way that doesn't reflect real life at all.

1 1 23

The Fandom Purity Culture Archive @purityculture.bsky.social · Feb 1

"But what if it's romanticized?"

Of course it's often romanticized: it happens in BDSM too.
How many Caregiver/little couples do you see roleplaying that dynamic as realistically horrifying, like it would be if an actual parent was doing that with their actual little kid?

1 1 20

The Fandom Purity Culture Archive @purityculture.bsky.social · Feb 1

A Character can say "No! Please stop!" in the taboo fantasy, but the Real People involved have all consented to this scene.

All "noncon" fanfiction is CNC, because all the Real People involved have consented.

The Characters are merely objects for the Real People's pleasure.

1 1 23

The Fandom Purity Culture Archive @purityculture.bsky.social · Feb 1

Now that we know the Author and the Reader both consent, have a Safeword and have Negotiated, let's talk about the Roles.

The Roles, just like in BDSM, are simply the Characters in the taboo fantasy.

Like in BDSM, they do not have agency and their consent does not matter.

1 1 18

The Fandom Purity Culture Archive @purityculture.bsky.social · Feb 1

The Reader has consented to reading the fanfiction but can still make the "scene" stop at any time: the Safeword is the little X button on the top right of the page.

The Reader can, at any point, for any reason, close the page and the taboo fantasy stops immediately.

1 1 20

The Fandom Purity Culture Archive @purityculture.bsky.social · Feb 1

If the Reader is ok with all the tags/warnings, they consent to reading the fanfiction/enjoying the fanart.

(from now on I'll continue by only speaking of fanfiction so I don't have to repeat "/fanart" every time, but it still applies to fanart too).

And so they click on it.

1 19

The Fandom Purity Culture Archive @purityculture.bsky.social · Feb 1

The tags/warnings are a list of kinks and other info about the content. (in the case of fanart on social media without a tagging system, they're usually in the artist's bio or carrd/equivalent)

They allow the Reader to be fully aware of what they're consenting to Reading.

1 18

The Fandom Purity Culture Archive @purityculture.bsky.social · Feb 1

The Author (Practitioner A) consents to writing the text/drawing the art and sharing it on ao3/fandom spaces.
The Reader (Practitioner B) consents to reading the text/enjoying the art.

The Negotiation phase is possible through the tags/warnings that the Author provides.

1 1 19

The Fandom Purity Culture Archive @purityculture.bsky.social · Feb 1

Now let's compare all that with erotic fanfiction/fanart.

Who is the Practitioner in fictional fanworks?

Rememeber, the Practitioner is a Real Person. So...

The Practitioners, when it comes to fiction... are the Author and the Readers: the Real People involved.

1 2 20

The Fandom Purity Culture Archive @purityculture.bsky.social · Feb 1

Finally, the Safeword is a word or gesture that basically means "Stop immediately."

When the Safeword is used, the scene ends immediately no matter what, which ensures the Practitioners always have the power to stop the scene for whatever reason.

1 2 26

The Fandom Purity Culture Archive @purityculture.bsky.social · Feb 1

Negotiation between the Practitioners happens before the scene begins.

One way to do it is through a list of kinks, and each Practitioner specifying which they're ok with and which they aren't.

This way the Practitioners are fully aware of what they're consenting to.

1 2 25

The Fandom Purity Culture Archive @purityculture.bsky.social · Feb 1

The Character's consent does not matter because they're just a Character.
They're an "object", a "mask", being used by the Practitioner for their own pleasure; they are NOT a Real Person with agency.

The Practitioner is a Real Person. The Character they roleplay isn't.

1 2 31

The Fandom Purity Culture Archive @purityculture.bsky.social · Feb 1

The Character will say things like "No! Stop it! Please, please stop!", but the Real Person behind the character is actually thinking "Yes, I love this, please continue! I'll let you know if it's too much by using my safeword, so until I do, please continue!"

1 2 28

The Fandom Purity Culture Archive @purityculture.bsky.social · Feb 1

The Character's consent does not matter. Let me repeat that: /the Character's consent does not matter in the fantasy!/.

That's how we can have CNC (Consensual Non-Consent), in which the Practitioner consents but the Character/Role they roleplay as does not.

1 2 29

The Fandom Purity Culture Archive @purityculture.bsky.social · Feb 1

Next, we have the Role that a Practitioner can roleplay as. A Role (such as "slave", "little", "master" and so on) is:

- A fictional character inside the taboo fantasy.

A BDSM Practitioner can then "roleplay" as this Character (= Role)

1 2 28

The Fandom Purity Culture Archive @purityculture.bsky.social · Feb 1

First of all, what is a BDSM Practitioner?

- A real person who consents to engaging with (in this case roleplaying) a taboo fantasy in a safe environment, knowing they're actually safe and the fantasy isn't real.

So, a Practitioner is first and foremost a Real Person.

1 2 33

The Fandom Purity Culture Archive @purityculture.bsky.social · Feb 1

You might say: "but it's different, because in BDSM everyone involved consents! they negotiate beforehand, and they have safewords that can make the scene end at any time!"

And you're right, BDSM does have all that... but so does fanfiction.
Have you ever noticed?

1 2 33