What Happens Next: A Gallimaufry

melancholic romantic comic cynic. bi & genderqueer. fantasy writer. sysrae on ao3.

Anonymous asked: honestly ty for talking about the whole kylux thing. i've seen so many people with defences like "they're just fictional, they're not real" but shit like this is happening in the real world, and ignoring it in fiction is just as unacceptable as ignoring it in real life. you shouldn't be getting shit for this.

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I’ve said this before, and I’ll say it again: depiction is not endorsement, but it is perpetuation. Telling a particular story is not the same as saying “this thing is Cool Beans,” but that doesn’t mean you get a magical Get Out Of Jail Free card that instantly voids all narrative or political criticism otherwise. I don’t care that people ship Kylux; I care that Nazism is on the rise and a whole bunch of people are romanticising fictional Nazis in contexts that expressly characterise said Nazism as either an apolitical fetish or as something cute and harmless.  

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