The story has been taken down. Thank you to all the users who reported that story and who still take a firm stand against ia and hebephilia. Thank you to those who have commented in support of this blog post and who have expressed their disgust over it having been featured. Lastly, thank you to those of you who have voiced your support of me continuing with my blogs and my commentary. I appreciate it. 

On that note, I'd like to point out how absolutely baffling it is that in this day and age, we still have people who don't have a problem with ia and hebephilia. I am astounded and saddened by the state of young (?) users who believe that this story had no issues, who thought that it was cute, loving and plain romantinc. It feels as though there is a widespread condition of insanity on AFF, where users wield the bats of free speech and freedom of opinion strictly to be able to tell themselves that there is nothing wrong with what they are writing or doing. 

Yes, there is something wrong with it. There is something wrong, even if it is "just a story", even if "the people aren't real". How on Earth can we remove ourselves further with the things we produce? Aren't the people we're writing about integral parts of the stories we write? This brings me back to the very first blog post I made about why I can't stand AFF. We write about very real people who have lives of their own, thoughts and feelings and most of all, they are not who we think they are. We do not know them. They are not Harry Potter characters, whose deepest thoughts and emotions we get to partake in because the books reveal them, they are not TV-show characters like Sherlock Holmes, whose nitpicky habits we get to see each episode.

They are real. Humans. They are made from blood, flesh and bone, not words on a paper. Not a man acting out a script. 

I have never and likely will never understand how we can write such incredibly degrading, disrespectful and ually assaulting prose about them, when we know that they are aware of it happening to them. They know that fanfiction is written about them, and yet we have not ceased to write terrible, terrible things, because we chalk it up to our own enjoyment. Why is it that there are so many users on here who say that "this is just a story, the people aren't real"? What the do you mean that they aren't real? Yes, they are, that's the whole ing point. We include photos, gifs and edited posters with these people in them, we take their personal pictures from their Instagram pages to lend a feeling of "reality" to our stories. We add their real character traits to our stories, we show YouTube clips of them interacting to force that very element of reality. 

What the do you mean "they aren't real"? 

I think leaving this website has been long overdue. I should not have opened an account here to begin with and I should definitely not have condoned so many of the horrible things that people write in the name of creativity. 

It was nice to talk to some of you. Merry Christmas, happy new year.

Take care of yourselves.