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got some questions about ethical kink fiction
4 years ago
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Hey, I wanted to ask you all about a potentially sensitive subject regarding kinky stuff.
I've got an idea for a comic sequence in mind with my usual weight gain shenanigans involved, but it would be a little bit darker than my typical stuff. It involves a character that's basically kidnapped and forcefed, and I didn't think too much of it until I realized the implications of it being a nonconsensual scenario. (It's something that I wish would happen to me, but that might not be relevant here.)
I don't want to focus on the terror of the situation or get too real with it because I don't like that part, but also more importantly I don't want to trigger any relived trauma for people who have gone through terrible things in real life.
I just have a kind of fantasy for this sort of thing happening to me and want to share a fictional comic story along those lines, but I started second guessing myself when I considered the implications.
So my question for everybody: is it alright to go ahead and illustrate a story like that or is this something I should just set aside and not do?
I've got an idea for a comic sequence in mind with my usual weight gain shenanigans involved, but it would be a little bit darker than my typical stuff. It involves a character that's basically kidnapped and forcefed, and I didn't think too much of it until I realized the implications of it being a nonconsensual scenario. (It's something that I wish would happen to me, but that might not be relevant here.)
I don't want to focus on the terror of the situation or get too real with it because I don't like that part, but also more importantly I don't want to trigger any relived trauma for people who have gone through terrible things in real life.
I just have a kind of fantasy for this sort of thing happening to me and want to share a fictional comic story along those lines, but I started second guessing myself when I considered the implications.
So my question for everybody: is it alright to go ahead and illustrate a story like that or is this something I should just set aside and not do?
Could try to write it in a goofy-ish style too, if you'd rather not focus on the darker aspects :p
It's probably going to end up on the goofy side too because that's just how I roll in general, heh
For what its worth, I think if you'd enjoy making it, a lot of other people would enjoy viewing it as well.
To help avoid triggering anyone, maybe you could add a content warning?
Maybe customize the icons or something.
Yeah, I'd definitely enjoy making it, I just don't want to put anyone in a bad situation who doesn't want to see that kind of thing. Gonna need a lot of custom thumbnails, I think!
Also, I think I might be overselling how graphic I wanted to make this thing by doing this journal :o I'm not, like, thirsting for the depths of depravity, heh. I just sort of noticed that I'd be doing a thing that doesn't directly focus on but is adjacent to some things that could trigger bad responses in people and I want to make sure everyone is okay.
If you're worried about making people uncomfortable, using the custom thumbnail as a content warning of sorts (like how story submissions are usually formatted on this site) would be a good way to make sure people are actually opting in to reading it.
I guess worst case scenario even, I don't think it's something you gotta give up on drawing if it's something you'd like to exist. But it's also okay to keep stuff you draw to yourself, if you think people wouldn't like it.
I do want to express myself and be tasteful about it and I might be making a mountain out of a molehill here, I just wanted to air it out with everyone and get some input on it
So if you want to do such works, then do it. People who don't like it shouldn't look at it - do what you always like and not what others tell you
I'm not entirely sure that it's alright to include that in something I make even if it's entirely fictional and only a fantasy, and I'd like to hear more about it from others so that I can figure out where I stand on it.
Also just on a personal level it's important to me that I'm not contributing to a problem and encouraging bad things or something like that. I probably have some internalized sex negativity that I need to work through that sometimes makes me uncomfortable with sharing certain things.
but warning people beforehand is a nice idea
In the end it is your Accound, your work and your works and therefore you should really do what you feel like doing