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wow can’t believe my blog is still here XD coming back to tumblr probably. i’ve moved on to other fandoms, once in a while i’ll go back to stony hell but now my current fandom is danmei and bl dramas so...i’ll probably start recommending fics again and post reclists :D?

mercyandmagic

Is MXTX in Prison? A Fact Check

Online in the English-speaking fandom, you will find everything from “her arrest was confirmed” to “how dare you even ask the question?! You’re catering to antis and ruining her name.” But since rumors of MXTX’s arrest keep popping up and there’s been no direct word from MXTX herself for close to two years (and because I have anxiety) I decided to investigate and fact-check for myself.

Let me start with this: I’m not interested in gossip and speculation. I’m a concerned fan interested in the truth. Going forward I will be explicit regarding what is fact and what is my own analysis. If you are an anti or someone who believes that the process of investigating rumors automatically grants rumors power, please spare yourself and stop now.

I should also add a major disclaimer: …I only know conversational Chinese and had to rely on several online translators for most of this. Yeah, I’m not the person for the job. I know. But since I didn’t know or hear of anyone else doing an objective fact check, I decided to try anyways. To this end, I have referenced all the facts I will discuss, so you can and should double-check my results yourself.

Claim: MXTX is the ‘Yuan’ (袁) investigated in the 3.28 case concerning pornography and illegal business. She was detained in May 2019. The rumors surfaced with an announcement in August 2019, and the judgment was released on November 10, 2020.

For what it is worth, I will not be treating this claim as an all-or-nothing statement; I will be investigating with the notion that all, some, or none of it could be true.

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bealullaby

Another one of those who thinks she's doing international fandom a favor but is spreading panic with something that HAS NOT BEEN CONFIRMED OR PROVEN. Nothing you have written here is proof that she is in jail. It's your analysis. It's your theory. Like, do you want mxtx herself to come out in public knowing that she's getting attacked by antis again and again? Did you miss how antis hacked her a couple of weeks ago and started sharing her private information in a group on weibo? Have you not thought that, idk, she eliminated her social accounts because of this? You're sharing this ridiculous theory on international fandom, making people panic and continue once again with this rumor that has been coming out every month for the past 4 years and going off on how ch/na is a horrible country and being anti-ch/na without knowing much about the country or its policies in the first place. If MXTX were in jail, it would've been made public and she would've been made an example just like all these artists and c-ent. Your evidence is not evidence because you can't confirm anything as fact 100%. It's an analysis and a theory. Please stop saying that it's fact and that you know for sure. Because you don't

snow124-art

Thank you

... for going through this with me

sns, sn

c-rowlesblogs

I’ve been seeing just. The wildest takes about AO3 this donation cycle and I’m at my limit. I just saw a post claiming that AO3 isn’t a real archive, that it’s a scam, because there’s no quality control like a real, legitimate archive would have, that they just let in any old trash. And that this makes AO3 not worthy of anyone’s money or respect.

And you know what? It’s true! AO3 does let in any old trash! People can just post whatever the hell they want. And you know what? An ad-free, free-to-use website where people writing fanfiction, in their free time for no money, can upload their work with no hassle or exclusive vetting process, that also happens to be a highly popular and well-known fanfic repository for every fandom under the sun? WITH a robust and well-curated tagging system, too? That’s the dream. I’m glad they let anyone upload whatever weird trash they want. GOOD.

lemonsharks

Libraries--legit brick and mortar libraries around the world are in awe of AO3's curation. AO3 is lightning in a bottle and these turds want to burn it to the ground because they won't read a freakin tag block? Because they choose to consume material that "makes them uncomfy" when the contents of that material are laid out in big step away anyone with the good sense god gave a bedbug to assess and move on from?

Listen up kiddos, a lack of self control on your part does not constituent a crisis of morality on mine.

Figure out how the fuck to not look at things that upset you and get on with your life.

naryrising

I'd add that, as with any archive, AO3 can and does remove things that are not within its mandate to host. Those include: commercial promotion, non-transformative works (someone's economics homework, the entire text of The Great Gatsby, plagiarized fics), spam, ephemeral content (e.g. fic finding posts, update plans, reaction posts), and illegal-in-the-US content. The rest of it?As long as it's a fanwork, our mission is to preserve. It doesn't matter if you think it's unimportant, doesn't have artistic merit, is offensive or in poor taste or badly written. As an actual professional archivist for about as long as I've been an AO3 volunteer, that's the "quality control" that we engage in.

nannyfeline

speaking to what @lemonsharks said, I am an actual librarian who works in an actual library that I am inside of right now, and yes, I am in awe of ao3 (and really any online archive with a mandate to host content in perpetuity).

some people need to hear that a librarian approves of the trashy stuff, too, so here you go. you porn is LIBRARIAN APPROVED. even the shitty stuff that's really poorly written.

sorion

In short: AO3 lets in any old legal trash. If people are unhappy with the type of trash, they should take it up with the US legal system. (Have fun.)

snow124-art

So tired

sns, sn

nikutsuneart

mermay kiss day

i don’t know if it’s actually kiss day but, like, that’s not gonna make me stop??

iizuumi

Behind closed curtains ..~

tishawish

STONY BINGO - N4 My Best Suit

And that’s that for this round! Have some half naked Steve (•̀⌄•́)/

clarkegriffins

Tony, I’m gonna need you to focus- And I needed you.

clarkegriffins

a family™ +bonus

crazyupsetter

Hello, my name is Cass! I'm not sure if you'll see this because you aren't very active on ao3 anymore, and i'm not sure if you're active on tumblr because i dont really use tumblr lol. I'm not in the one direction fandom anymore, and i dont ship louis and harry together anymore, but one of your fics (always come back to you) is one of my favorite works, but i dont really enjoy reading it that much anymore as i am not in the 1D fandom and do not ship larry. So i was wondering if i would be (1/2)

be able to change the names in your fic to fit the ship from the fandom i am in now (bts). Obviously, i would give you 100% credit and link the original fic and anything else you would like me to so people are aware that i did not write the fic (only changed the names and some minor details for it to make sense for bts). I hope i hear from you soon, whether it be a no or a yes. (though i am hoping yes lol). tysm! to contact me you can message my ig (babyparkjm) or my twt (tinyparkjm)!! (: (2/2)

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I’ve gotten this question a few times now and I have to be honest, I’m not sure why anyone would think that I would say yes to this.

To be clear, this is an unequivocal NO. Do not take any of my fics and change them to suit your ship.

Let me give a bit of an explanation, though, to help you understand why this isn’t an appropriate question to ask a writer. Basically, you’re asking me for permission to plagiarize my work. It doesn’t matter that you’re saying you would give me credit - that’s kind of ridiculous, actually, to be credited for something that’s already mine, that I spent hours upon hours working on. I wrote all of my fics for a specific fandom, for specific characters, and changing the names and some “minor details” is not what I wanted when I wrote it, and it’s not what I want now.

Writing is hard. It takes hours and days and weeks and months and years. It takes a lot of work, and that work is seldom easy. It’s almost impossible sometimes - there’s times that I have to fight for every word that I put down onto a page. Fics take me months to write. Hell, there’s one that took me over a year. My metaphorical blood is in these stories, and for you to ask me to give them up just so that you can claim them for your own fandom is a little insulting. The time and effort it took to create these things don’t get acknowledged a lot, but this request completely demolishes them and reduces me, my writing skills, to nothing.

I’m happy that you enjoyed my work enough to be able to envision your characters in them, but if you want fics for your fandom you can’t just take them from other pairings. You can take inspiration, of course, use similar situations and plots, but a word for word copy is never going to fly. Please stop going around to ask authors this.

Also, I won’t be going to your IG or Twitter to send you this response. You asked, you have a responsibility to follow up. If I see that my fics have been reposted anywhere in a different pairing, I will report them.