Dont Tell The IRS

Pumpkin, she/her but it’s whatever, mid 20s, horse girl 🇭🇺/🇧🇪/🇮🇹 MDNI

[sanguinehaventiger]

oscar piastri you can't do this your brain too big your ass too fat your aura too high they'll kill you

[nxlx96]

following my last post about fandom etiquette. don't forget to be kind to the writers who provide the fics you love. they are people too who are sharing parts of themselves that are sometimes very very personal and vulnerable. click the kudos button, leave a comment, show your appreciation, be their friend, and cherish them before it's too late.

one single mean anonymous ask can do so much damage to someone's self confidence.

life isn't kind, so you should be.

[georgeru6s3ell]

I cant read sebmark smut because everytime they try to dirty talk I remember they have German and Australian accents

[ro4d-rge]

two sides of tamagotchi parenting (x)

[smallsolace]

i feel like everything important about the zc situation has been said by people who have put it way better than i ever could, but it feels like the right moment to thank some people.

thank you to everyone who writes fics for huge ships, even if it feels like there‘s an abundance of stories already. thank you to everyone who writes fics for rarepairs, even if the pool of potential readers is incredibly small. thank you to everyone who creates fanart, whether it‘s a quick sketch in procreate or a really elaborate piece you spent hours on.

thank you to people creating heartbreaking web weaves. thank you to people creating gifs and f1 incorrect quotes and moodboards and memes and edits. thank you to people sharing their thoughts and headcanons and prompts.

thank you to everyone who (respectfully!) comments, sends in asks or reblogs and leaves some encouring words in the tags and thus motivates others to keep creating. you are just as essential to the fandom as the people creating the things you engage with.

thank you to everyone who adheres to rpf etiquette and archive locks their fics on ao3, posts about ships only on tumblr, ao3 and private discord servers and refrains from sharing fics or even refering to the ships outside of fandom spaces.

and lastly, thank you to everyone who respects other fans, writers and artists. take care of yourself and others. i‘m so grateful for you all <3

[callsignrex]

Also just feel like I need to say that the irony of zero cycle, a fic with a major fucking plot line about privacy and facelessness and being scared to show yourself online for fear of what could happen and the importance of opening up on your own terms and how the internet can be a scary place because people don't respect creators, is the fic people decided they should share around and breach containment with and break the author's boundaries non-stop by doing so, is just painful. Like tell me you didn't fucking understand the point of the fic without telling me 🫠

[done-cruising]

gax animal fluff

[parallassse]

on this vibe... I don't like

[gumi-megpoidd]

i feel like youre faking being trans and are actually a cis girl

??? ive posted my penis?

[gumi-megpoidd]

I DID NOT PLAGIARIZE MY PENIS????

[darkisms]

idk i just think we’ve become overly mean as a society. the “you don’t owe people anything” mindset has gone a little too far at times. i do in fact think you owe people kindness and respect at the base level. sure, if someone doesn’t reciprocate that then feel free to stop. but our first reaction has got to stop being cruelty and hatred.

[foxlaren]

also contradicting my own take a little bit here but i’m just trying to think more about this: not even authors/creators stepping back can save us actually

there’s such a low barrier to entry with ai now that if people missed the content they could maybe just ask claude or whatever to generate it, and then post it somewhere themselves. i’d like to believe there’s an appetite for human writing but looking at the amount of kudos/attention some ai fics seem to get i’m not so sure!

[oooscarinooo]

so when are we crying together bcs of zero cycle?? i have the playlist ready

[marigoldrouge]

corporations getting involved in rpf is not cute it’s gross actually. they don’t care about fans, fandom, or the real people involved. they’re only interested in profit and they will use anything we give them to sell more stuff. there is no reason to put fandom content in front of them because they will take advantage of it. anybody laughing at the grindr comment about oscar, the f1 account posting about gax, etc is getting played like a fool.

[callsignrex]

With Rose (the author of Zero Cycle) announcing that she is taking down her fics and stepping away from the internet I think it's important to remind everyone about fandom etiquette.

This situation is not exclusive to rpf. I have watched this happen in pretty much every single major fandom. Klance Byler Mcyt, ect, they have all had a fic go extremely viral which then results in a downward spiral where fandom etiquette is thrown out the window and the author inevitably ends up pulling their fic from the internet and stepping away all together.

To be honest with you I am not surprised that this has happened again. I have been noticing for a while that the way people have been treating Rose and her fics has been absolutely terrible. Even people who were well meaning let their excitement about her fics cloud their judgement and cause them to be quite rude to her and disrespectful of fandom and rpf etiquette.

Therefore I would like to give some reminders to everyone about fandom etiquette. Because it's not just "keep all rpf discussion to ao3 and tumblr." those are important and those rules being broken certainly played a role in this particular scenario, but there's a lot more to it then that and as a fan you need to be more aware of how you interact with content.

Authors are not celebrities. They did not sign up for having an audience to deliver things to. They are fellow fans and creatives who are passionate about what they do. Because of this, I urge you, no matter how good a fic is, no matter how much you love it, you cannot treat it like a grand monolith for the fandom. When that happens the fic gets pulled out of its intended context and the author will inevitably be put under extreme strain and scrutiny. If you love a fic the best thing you can do for it is keep your interactions with and discussion of it purely to the ao3 comments and the authors askbox. I understand that creating a separate fandom for someone's works is done out of love and admiration but I have never ever seen it end well. When you create a fandom for a fic you are inviting typical fandom problems in and pushing them onto an author who did not ask for this.

You also need to stop treating authors like they are gods or something. I know this is usually done with the intentions of being complimentary. But an author is a real human being who deserves compassion and kindness. When you treat them like something to be worshipped you are inevitably dehumanizing them and making people feel more comfortable saying horrific shit to them or just generally being disrespectful. While it is also bad to get too parasocial and act like an author is your close personal friend, going towards the other extreme is also harmful. It is also just uncomfortable in general to have people act like you are not just a normal average person existing in the world. Authors are amazingly talented of course and that should be appreciated, but that does not rank above the fact that they are a normal person who would just like to interact online like anyone else.

The most important thing to remember is respect above all else. Because authors are human beings who deserve it. Being talented at something should not exclude them from that right. I ask that you take the time to reflect on the way you talk to/about authors and double check that you aren't accidentally forgetting about that.

Also last reminder for this particular situation. Do not complain about Rose taking down her fics. She does not owe you anything. You do not get to be upset that someone who has had their boundaries crossed over and over again and has been repeatedly disrespected has taken steps that are in her best interest. You are not the victim in this situation, do not act like it.

[foxlaren]

i’m starting to think we need a big rpf purge for things to go back to normal tbh. like creators need to either stop sharing altogether or go to another type of social media/a platform where you can only share with people you already know, or it’s invite only. it sucks, and maybe im being radical about this but i genuinely do think this needs to become a weirdos-only space again

[nxlx96]

i have to say i am devastated with the way the zc debacle has come to end. there is a very serious conversation to be had about fandom etiquette in media spaces, especially in the media platforms where the people involved might come to learn about the fanfictions written about them.

this time the breach didn't come from a stupid jorunalist who published about fanfiction, or a media admin bringing up the topic with the drivers themselves, it came from you, the readers, pushing it up on every fucking platform i stepped in for the last 4 days. you were in the comments of the video oscar uploaded of him playing in the sim, in the mclaren comments section. their official tiktok, and i have seen so many people talking about it on twitter too. like. i get you love it, but what happened with zc is really scary. i know the f1 drivers have a very, very low chance of seeing this type of content, especially when the fics are locked. but you should have known that the other side of the equation (in zc's case) are people whose job is to be chronically online and they see everything that gets posted to their name.

you should not be talking about fanfic in places where the people involved might see them. and that's it. no exceptions.

i have seen people talking about my own fics out in the wild, and while it doesn't bother me personally, i know i am an outlier, and that probably comes from the fact not many people know and read my fics, because who knows if suddenly all the comments talking about zc these past days were about one of my fics, i too maybe would have freaked out and deleted everything and myself from the internet.

i get that people want to talk about the things that they love, even when they're fics; finding people out in the wild who like the same thing as you is such a joy, i know. but you should learn that there are places to do so. like here tumblr where you know drivers have the least chance to find it, and you could even stumble upon the actual author and become friends with them; or in private discord servers where you share things with your friends.

but these breaches in containment are what have pushed so many authors to abandon writing lately. the zc author isn't the only one who gave up on this hobby, and it's so fucking sad to see.

i hope this serves as a lesson to everyone.

be better.

[mintraindrop]

be better.

[notsocreepycripy]

be better.

[cuti3-81-f1]

what a cutie patootie