please DO NOT assume that just because my character is doing something that i as the writer

fandomisnotyoursafespace:

gameboyassassin:

femme-with-cherries:

steve-rim-jobs:

thedevilsbartender:

• approve of it
• am romanticizing it
• have a kink with regard to it
• think it is okay for anyone to ever do ever

because sometimes my character does things that I absolutely cringe at and which are almost painful to write.

but my writing a villain does not make me a villian

understand that it is fiction and I do not condone the wrong actions that sometimes are written out on my blog for in-character purposes.

The fact that some people don’t understand this boggles my mind.

Except it’s your responsibility as the author to show that you don’t approve of your character’s actions. If you keep rewarding your character in the story, if ppl love your character despite their shittiness, if that character gets to keep all their nice things, if there are no consequences for your character at all, and you don’t show it in a way that makes the reader understand that those lack of consequences are ironic or whatever, then what’s the difference? How do we know you’re not condoning their behavior?

Because sometimes shitty people get away with doing shitty things and never end up facing the consequences. If people can’t tell that what the person is doing is shitty or can’t determine if the author is celebrating the character’s actions that’s on the person.

My only “responsibility as the author” is to tell the story I want to tell. I don’t write morality tales. You want something to spoon-feed you morality, get out your Veggie Tales DVD.