Also some people need to stop with their exaggerate use of “trope”… I’ve seen too much bullshit these days. Slavery isn’t a fanfic trope. Conversion camp isn’t a fanfic trope. Segregation isn’t a fanfic trope. Nazi AUs aren’t a fanfic trope. Stop considering traumatizing events who caused the deaths of millions of people targeted specifically for their skin colour, religion, and/or sexuality, as something “cute” and “romantic”.
I don’t want to read about a slave (especially brown or black) falling in love with their master “who is not cruel like the other masters uwu~”. I don’t want to read about a character being sent to conversion camp and meeting someone there and “will they fall in love despite the hardships??”. Stop romanticizing and trivializing these events (some of which are still happening today, all of which are still hurting people today) for the sake of your ship. It is incredibly hurtful. Just stop. These “tropes” you find cute and a good plot device are just offensive and harmful.
And when people are telling you to stop, instead of getting mad because “I’m not racist/homophobic/antisemitic how dare you!!!” and “You are being too sensitive it’s just a fanfic” or even “I have the right to write whatever I want”, maybe listen to people.
But also there’s nuance in these things like, sure, both are kind of skeezy, but there’s a difference between the kind of skeeziness of an AU where the setting just happens to have institutional slavery as a major difference between it and the world we know and the kind of skeeziness of an AU that places an interracial couple as master and slave in the antebellum South
As I wrote in my post :
“Slavery isn’t a fanfic trope.
Stop considering traumatizing events who caused the deaths of millions of people targeted specifically for their skin colour, religion, and/or sexuality, as something “cute” and “romantic”.
Stop romanticizing and trivializing these events for the sake of your ship.These “tropes” you find cute and a good plot device are just offensive and harmful.”
I’m not talking about stories where institutional slavery is part of the world the characters live in, be it a historical story or a fictional one (even though the author must still be careful about how they depict slavery and its consequences). I’m specifically talking about people who use slavery (and other horrible things mentioned in the op) as some kind of disturbing rom-com trope. And i think that “kind of skeezy” is a really weak expression to describe slavery, segregation, conversion camps or the holocaust being romanticized and fetishized lol. It’s revolting and disgusting, that’s what it is.