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I have been playing snake all day...
âdonât you want your favourite character to be happy???â no? i want my favourite character to be interesting. i want me to be happy. which sometimes involves my favourite character being in exquisite agony
Okay, so, I get it. Its a great site! You can post things there without worry that someone who claims that media seeing it and sending lawsuits on your ass.
You can write all sorts of things, and you can have it be taggable and organizable on this neat website.
It runs donations every now and again so that they can keep the site's servers (and therefore the stories) up. It also keeps a team of lawyers so that any person who takes issue will have to deal with actual law know how.
Thats great, and I love the site for the neat, organizable system it is. It sucks that people write shitty stuff, but fiction can help you run through situations you never want happening irl, and if you dont like it, don't read it!
But. Uh. Enough about ao3, the twitter post is made by a Thorki shipper. They emphasize the part of no censorship of adult content. Hm.
Okay look, you made a very rational post for the most part, and I am not trying to pick on you or start a fight (unlike my recent replies to anon where I let my cranky out full-steam). You appear to be generally getting the drift, and I appreciate your moderate tone. Â
I am not bitching at you, here. I am kind of laughing at you, though. In a gentle and non-aggressive way.
I, uh, I have some news for you... about the people who, yâknow, founded AO3:
Oh this is... *chef's kiss* I haven't seen such delicious dramatic irony in the wild since the days when first-time New Who viewers would plaster their Doomsday liveblogs and distraught Tenth Doctor Feels reaction posts with that one "I'm in a glass case of emotion" gif.
ASTOLAT STARTED AO3?!?!?!?!?!?!
I should be used to these posts by now, but they never fail to crack me up.
AO3 was proposed in astolatâs 2007 post An Archive of Oneâs Own (making the Virginia Woolf reference even more obvious).
Always hilarious. A little sad, in that it shows how much people donât look into the âAboutâ pages or histories of popular websites, but also, delightful that AO3 is being used by people who have no idea why it was made; itâs just useful to them. (Which was absolutely the plan.)
But yeah. AO3 is never going to get rid of the underage sex, the incest, the sex-pollen orgies, the forced marriage fics, the mpreg, the underage incestuous forced-marriage sex pollen orgies resulting in mpreg fics... because those were the reason it was created.
@elfwreck AO3 was created in response to a series of actions being taken by several authors who didn't like fans writing content in the authors sandbox for themselves, for free, and sharing it with other fans. Entire archives of fan fiction were taken down and purged. LiveJournals were particularly affected by this, as well as many other sites I can't remember the names of right now (it's almost 6am and I haven't slept yet, forgive me).
That's why it's called Archive of Our Own. It's a fan-created, fan-run, fan-moderated archive of fan fiction that is well protected by lawyers so that the authors who just want to have fun and be creative don't have formal legal action taken against them again.
Yes, that happened. It was terrifying.
In case you ever run across a fic with a disclaimer on it that says something to the effect of: "don't own, not making money, please don't come after me" that's why. I remember putting those on my cringey af fics myself on ff.net, or fanfiction.net.
That site is another large reason why AO3 is what it is, too. FF.net decided one day that adult/mature content was no longer allowed, and they promptly removed all of it. Didn't inform the authors, nothing. Just... Whoosh. Gone. Mind you, they had a rating system, so if you didn't want to find explicit fics, it was easy not to. AFF.net, or adultfanfiction.net, was put in place rather quickly and it was alright for awhile, but ultimately a bandaid.
Then, AO3 came along, and the game changed. Things could be tagged, collated, and organised like never before, and part of that was because AO3 decided not to censor content. They decided not to because of the damage that had been done to the fanfiction community due to all the recent bans and purges. All of the tropes you mentioned have been around for way, waaaaay longer than AO3.
The site wasn't created to cater to ships, tropes, or kinky stuff; it was created to house fan fiction, no matter the type, and to keep the fans who wrote it from being legally attacked by angry authors. Anne Rice was one of the big names in this, btw. AO3 is a virtual library, essentially; they expect the reader to have responsibility about the media they consume.
Btw, I'm not trying to start a fight or anything; I only wanted to educate you if you didn't know. I think it's very important to preserve our own history, because it's so unique and also because things have changed so much and so rapidly. If you did already know all this background, then please just disregard đ
AO3 was created for a lot of reasons; protection from authors who got upset at fanfic involving their characters was one of them.
Mainly - it was created for fic that was at risk of being thrown off other platforms. It was created after Strikethrough and Fanlib, with several of the founders still coping with the sudden closing of Detention.
âFics that might be challenged by authorsâ was a large category AO3 was built to welcome. AO3â˛s founders looked into the legalities of Riceâs claims, and the history of things like Yarbroâs legal action against a fanzine, and decided: No more. Weâre done with fanworks being squished by the mere threat of lawyers, without fans having any idea how copyright law actually works.
Extreme kink was another big category: Fic and art with content that regularly got thrown off of hosting sites, regardless of the legality, because it squicked someone who couldnât be bothered to pay attention to the âdonât like? donât clickâ warnings.The definition of âextreme kinkâ shifted around a lot; in some places, any slash pairing was considered âadult ratedâ and âtoo kinky.â In others, slash was fine; explicit sex was not. In others, sex was fine, but any hint of BDSM would get a work removed. And so on. Lots of shifting goalposts.Â
AO3 wasnât specifically focused around âextreme kinky smut,â but it was made with that content specifically in mind; the terms of service and acceptable content policies were shaped by âhow do we allow for stuff thatâs going to disturb or offend a lot of people?â Content that would bother fans was just as important as allowing content that would bother outsiders, authors and media companies and moralistic crusaders trying to purge the world of whatever fictional tropes were most hated this year.
(@lesdeuxcygnes I donât think weâre in disagreement, just focused on different parts of the history.)
"You can write all sorts of things, and you can have it be taggable and organizable on this neat website. "
"It sucks that people write shitty stuff, but fiction can help you run through situations you never want happening irl, and if you dont like it, don't read it!"
"But. Uh. Enough about ao3, the twitter post is made by a Thorki shipper."
me, whoâs seen astolatâs fics floating around the way you occasionally hear about that cool thing your cousin did:
Awake My Soul ⢠9
Pairing: Bucky Barnes x F!Reader
WC: 3.7k
Summary: Itâs been 5 years since zombies first began their invasion, and despite everything youâve been through, youâve managed to survive up until this point. Now itâs time to face your most dangerous challenge yetâŚ.the grumpy, untrusting, fiercely protective Bucky Barnes.
Chapter Warnings: Angst, description of injury, blood, tending to wounds. Mentions of torture. A whole lot of emotions start flooding out BUT THEN.... :) This chapter destroyed me while writing it and I don't know if I will ever recover so please enjoy :,)
Series Masterlist / Series Playlist
A part of you was convinced that Bucky was leaving you behind when he finally got up and whispered for you to stay put.
The tears finally stopped shedding, your body an empty vessel as you watched him barge past you down the aisle of the CVS - you frozen in place - fingers resting around the painful bite mark.Â
The loneliness you felt in that moment was crippling. Worse than youâd ever felt before.
It had been lonely when it was just you and your parents on the run at the start of this shitshow.
It was even lonelier when you were captured by Hydra, when your main source of company when allowed outside of your cell being the monsters who were harassing you as they manipulated your body to do their bidding.
And then there was the isolation after the escape, being totally on your own for the first time, fighting for survival with no one at your back.
You were positive there was no chance you could ever be capable of feeling more lonely than you did in those months before you found Shield.
Until now, as you watched Bucky - the man you had finally realized you were completely and painfully in love with - walk away from you.
Yes I did reblog 4 times in succession because people need to understand this concept.
Okay life.. I've gotten enough lemons. Can you start giving me some sugar now?
Relationship tip: Learn how your partner makes oatmeal before making long lasting decisions about them.
if you pay for a tv license in the uk here's your reminder to cancel it right now and let the bbc know you're doing it because they hate lgbt people
As long as you don't let them into your house to check if you have a tv they can't do shit and their threats are empty bc it is probably never going to be worth their while taking people to court for ÂŁ100.
Thank you for reblogging this, I forgot to add a warning for anyone who doesn't know: cancelling your TV licence will cause them to harrass and threaten you for the rest of your life and they will follow wherever you go. Their letters are very intimidating and made to sound like you are breaking the law and they know it so let me clear things up:
I have never had a TV licence and you are not obligated to have a TV licence even if you have a TV. You only need a TV licence to be allowed to watch BBC programmes (broadcast or on demand). Nobody can tell if you are watching BBC programmes without you allowing them into your house or admitting to it. You do not have to allow anybody in your house no matter what they threaten. No, TV licensing are not driving around in little sci-fi vans scanning for what programmes you have on. TV licensing have no legal power over you and they cannot do anything to you.
Also take note that the letters you receive have no information on who you are or who your local authorities are. Do not communicate with them and do not give them any info, if that's not obvious. If anyone comes to your door asking weird questions about whether or not you have a TV and what you watch, tell them you'll call the police if you see them in the area again.
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Anyway I've never paid for my TV license and I would encourage everyone else to do the same đĽ°
I'm confused as an American
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or, youâre leaving the theater as the end credits play, excited to check fanfiction.net â itâs already rampant with fics about thor and his poptarts. the team is together and no one is dead and things are good and youâre younger than you are now, full of wonder at the prospect of the new MCU.
What does it mean if Iâm repeatedly having dreams about Sebastian Stan? Asking for a friend...
Sebastian Stan for Menâs Health
I put the immigrant song when Steve lifted Thorâs hammer
(AUDIO NOT MINE OKAY??? CR TO MARVEL )
No big deal or anything but CW Seed pretty much uploaded every Whose Line US episode on their site. âAll the Drew and Aisha, tooâ as they put it. You can watch them all for free. You do have to be in the United States to access the site but there are plug ins and proxies around as we all know.
Because this is my favorite show and I don't want to forget this link!!!!!!!
Bucky cap is really funny bc Steve never had weapons so all the villains only had to watch out for the shield, but then comes Bucky andÂ
One of my favorite parts from bucky!cap is when he tries to give guns to all of the avengers, and theyâre all freaking out. AND HE CANâT UNDERSTAND WHY NO ONE HAS A GUN.
Bonus:Â