
@trisscar368
Screenshoting because I think this is important.
Like, it will always and forever blow my mind that darkfic is condemned for existing.
I am a huge horror fan. I always have been. Recently, I found out an 8th Saw film is coming out. The Saw series is basically gratuitous violence and only serves to add gore and torture to the horror genre after the second movie. And I love it. I love bloody, gross, sadistic horror films. I don’t know why. Maybe it’s because I want to be scared and grossed out. Maybe it’s a desire to dare myself. Maybe I’m a sadist. I dunno what it is but I love those movies. Some people think that’s sick but it is what it is. I’m not gpnna go out and kill people because I love those ridiculous, nonsense movies.
Darkfic is like that, I think. Everyone who enjoys it has their own reasons. Some are “deeper” than others. But I think as a concept it exists for the same reasons horror movies exist. Sone of us get something out of them, whether it be catharsis, entertainment, fear, whatever. It’s important for some people. It’s okay.
But to think it’s not or that it doesn’t “count” for some dumb reason really worries me. I’d really like to understand why dark media is not supposed to exist in the minds of some people.