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one of the best decisions you can make as an artist is to stop talking about your artwork from a position of defending it. the artists statement should be a tool of pride, community, and conversation, not an appeal to those who had no interest in (or ability to) understand it in the first place.

7/10/26, 5:20 pm360 reposts1.1K likes

angel💀

@sabattons.com

the best responses to a stranger casting moral aspersions in an attempt to publicly humiliate you are, 1. ignoring the person entirely, 2. explaining that you refuse to engage in the conversation and bidding them an honest good day, and 3. "kiss my ass."

angel💀

@sabattons.com

and in the case of erotic fiction, feel free to remind others that using sexually-hostile or threatening language and demanding disclosure of sexual trauma or assuming things about real people's sexual preferences and proclivities is a form of (real) sexual harassment against a (real) person. peace.

female wifeguy (but scary)

@snowlikeash.bsky.social

i recently i saw a good post here (shocker) that was like “what if the writer’s barely disguised fetish was front and center” and You Know What