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Sophie Wiener
@sophiebwiener · 4:50

Fantasy and Fiction and Horrible Things

The counter argument of that is that fiction does have an effect on what people read, the people who see or read it. These stories do have an effect, and you can go back and forth and back and forth. Me, I was always definitely on the side of dark and edgy media as a teenager. I just loved it. I loved everything that was like horrible things happening to people and giving me a huge thrill. And I was sort of siding with the safe place based argument

Thoughts on why disturbing content is and isn't a good time in #fiction and #nonfiction stories. Warning: brief descriptions of child abuse.

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@MysticScientist
Indy Rishi Singh
@MysticScientist · 2:39
Right. A lot of the books and popularized media for kids, including Harry Potter, which is awesome, but it's pretty dark. And Hunger Games, you name it, go back even further. On the other side of it. Those kids become adults, right. And those adults, the kids started off with dark, dystopian stuff, like really heavy. Yeah. Just the heaviness without any protopian kind of perspectives
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@JCB07
Jared Bogda
@JCB07 · 1:39
Reality versus fantasy. I think that fantasy and fiction ideas out there can sometimes be really helpful because I think that it's interesting to see how people's brains work and how things that that we don't think could happen, possibly could happen or at least understand of why they do or don't happen. But it is a really trying space in understanding that. What is the limit in this and how does this impact our lives if we are exposed to it?
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@sophiebwiener
Sophie Wiener
@sophiebwiener · 4:31
I think this is especially true for stuff relating to kids because when you're a kid and people write stories that send children on adventures, like, for example, I think Harry Potter is the easiest example. Jk Rowling, I don't think she was trying to do a deep investigation of child abuse with what she did to Harry Potter, quite famously, locking him in a cupboard under the stairs or whatever
@sophiebwiener
Sophie Wiener
@sophiebwiener · 0:53
I think it's very easy to get caught up in the more abstract stuff as I did, but I think there is a really good point in that it all comes down to personal preference and what people are going to feel the line is. And that is something that ultimately we all have to kind of for ourselves. So I think that's a really good point. That's all
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@ZLisbon
Zara Lisbon
@ZLisbon · 5:00
Like, there was a novel, actually two bread novels that really, really disturbed me that I felt had gone too far and one of which was at first banned and not publishable. And then they did eventually publish it. But the horror in there was just, like, for me, over the top. But I guess there's a personal limit for everybody censoring fiction for being too violent
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@aditi_tharran
Aditi Singh Tharran
@aditi_tharran · 0:23
Hello. I'm actually also very interested in fictional and unrealistic kind of things and creators. Like, for example, one of my favorite fictional character is zombies. Everyone I heard of zombies. I like zombies very much
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Bowie Rowan
@bowie · 4:16
And I went to this talk before I had a chance to read the novel, and I ended up reading the novel and it really impacted me emotionally. And if you go out there and read things, you'll definitely read a lot of viewpoints on this novel. A lot of people saw as exploitative of trauma, particularly like queer or gay trauma, and other people thought that it was an incredibly realistic portrayal of how a trauma like that might impact someone's life long term
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