Is it really different when it's a specific event and someone writes about Hurricane Maria instead of a fictional hurricane?
Yes. Because real people died there. Real people had their lives destroyed. Real people lost loved ones. Real people had to live for months without clean water and go hungry because they didn’t have any food. Same thing with the Holocaust. Millions of people died there. Real people? Died. Thanks to the Nazis and their supporters.
And no, it’s no the same argument against underage or noncon. This isn’t a case of banning a hypothetical that does and could happen in RL from happening in fic with fictional characters. This is a case of not wanting to have national tragedies and atrocities against humanity that happened in living memory as RPF categories. It is taking a very specific tragedy that affected particular people IRL and making them into fanfic fodder. And for the Nazi request, it was making the Holocaust victims into fanfic fodder so the person could jerk off to the idea of them dying horribly. That is the problem. I give zero fucks about your noncon Thunderbirds request or underage Baby-Sitters Club fic.
As for your hypothetical about a celebrity implicated in sexual abuse, I don’t know, but I can’t see a nomination for Rose McGowan/Harvey Weinstein RPF going to well, though.
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Is it really different when it's a specific event and someone writes about Hurricane Maria instead of a fictional hurricane?
Yes. Because real people died there. Real people had their lives destroyed. Real people lost loved ones. Real people had to live for months without clean water and go hungry because they didn’t have any food. Same thing with the Holocaust. Millions of people died there. Real people? Died. Thanks to the Nazis and their supporters.
And no, it’s no the same argument against underage or noncon. This isn’t a case of banning a hypothetical that does and could happen in RL from happening in fic with fictional characters. This is a case of not wanting to have national tragedies and atrocities against humanity that happened in living memory as RPF categories. It is taking a very specific tragedy that affected particular people IRL and making them into fanfic fodder. And for the Nazi request, it was making the Holocaust victims into fanfic fodder so the person could jerk off to the idea of them dying horribly. That is the problem. I give zero fucks about your noncon Thunderbirds request or underage Baby-Sitters Club fic.
As for your hypothetical about a celebrity implicated in sexual abuse, I don’t know, but I can’t see a nomination for Rose McGowan/Harvey Weinstein RPF going to well, though.