so it seems i'm someone i've never met

i'm greenie. they/he. old as hell. i post whatever i feel like and talk in the tags, as god intended.

[latedawnsandearlysunsets]

three of them

[olmec-colossal-head]

Courage, Anxiety, and Despair Watching the Battle by James Sant (ca. 1850) anyone?

[allthingswhumpyandangsty]

I don't think people who come from wattpad after the purge and now want ao3 to have its own official app understand that one of the main reasons behind the recent wattpad purge that drove them to ao3 was due to pressure from appstore demanding wattpad to be more strict and follow appstore's policy. wattpad complied in order for its app to be able to remain on appstore. thus the wattpad purge.

ao3 doesn't have an app because for it to have an app, appstore will have to approve it first. and if, hypothetically, ao3 needs appstore to approve it, it will also have to abide by appstore's pro-censorship stance and start banning dark and taboo fics, which is against its own core principle of being completely against censorship.

ao3 doesn't need an app. it works more than fine without an app. the reason ao3 can allow dark and taboo fics, the reason it can allow the most disgusting and shockingly vile fics, and be completely against censorship is because it doesn't need appstore's approval. it stands on its own as a non-profit organization with functioning site and a team of lawyers protecting its platform, its users, and every single fanwork on its platform.

everybody say thank you ao3

here's the list of things you need to know about ao3 if you're new to the platform

[daysleftofsecondterm]

AO3 does not, will not, has NEVER had an app. If you think that you found “the ao3 app,” that’s not the ao3 app

[nicijones]

Ao3 version that lets you open the 'director's cut' where I, the author, explain every detail in excruciating detail to you and what it is in reference to.

[liesmyth]

#it’s called sending me an ask and I tell you way more info than you actually wanted @newbromantics

[thatsbelievable]

[memento-meliora]

forced to say “it’s okay!” Instead of throwing a fucking chair at their head

[wateredwizard]

Why does your post have lingerie on

[memento-meliora]

God forbid a bitch be feeling herself while mentally ill in this economy 😢

[greelin]

“what’s up with you and vampires, man?” we don’t have the time to discuss this

[tichelcain]

i like to think that stephanie meyer told herself “the worst they can say is no” over and over in the mirror before asking mcr about the twilight soundtrack

the worst they could say was not no.

[sludgebitch]

this line read wont leave my fucking brain i cant take it

[weepingwidar]

Grzegorz Pieniak (Polish, 1994) - Untitled (2024)

[lukmarc10]

mom i can't go to school today, it's everytime we touch day

[un-father]

[allthingswhumpyandangsty]

sometimes I’m reminded that there are still people who don’t know ao3 was literally created by incest shippers — and the site’s sole purpose is to 1. be completely against censorship and 2. host all kinds of dark, taboo fics that are banned on other platforms — and the first ever fic that was posted on ao3 was a fic about an incest ship from supernatural.

you are in the house that was created by freaks. for freaks (affectionate). every disgusting thing you can think of is rightfully allowed and welcomed on ao3, because they are exactly the reasons why ao3 was created in the first place.

ao3 was created because its creators got tired of censorship, they got tired of dark and taboo fics getting banned on pro-censorship platforms, and they wanted a place that was safe for ALL FICS THAT WERE DARK AND TABOO.

ao3’s main principle is being against censorship and being proship / profic.

there are some things in fiction that make me uncomfortable, but instead of shaming people who are just minding their own business and not harming anyone in real life, I choose to curate my own internet experience by blocking/muting what I don’t want to see. ao3 has excellent tagging system, so instead of being a bitch, use their tagging system properly and you won’t see the things you don’t want to see.

it’s your job to curate what you see. it’s not other people’s jobs or responsibilities to censor themselves for your personal comfort. the world does not revolve around you.

also you cannot censor “only the things you personally hate” without expecting everything else, that isn’t of conservative beliefs, to be censored too. because censorship is a slippery slope and a fascist tool. I promise you there are people who think “why do tags for queer love even exist on ao3? they’re grooming children”.

if you allow the things that you hate to be censored — because someone with enough power gets to control what other people can and cannot create/consume, it will not stop at the things that you hate.

*illustration by sillyalexnorris

[fletchingbrilliant]

gonna go ahead and reblog this to make it clear this blog is safe for freaks

i don't fuck with purity culture bs

please recognize that it's just consverativism in a thinly veiled disguise trying to convince you it's actually about protecting you

it isn't

it's about control

filter what you don't wanna see and let the freaks be freaks

[fadingembers]

The tag exists so if you don't want to read it you can filter out those stories for yourself instead of censorship.

[inkjie]

soliloquy by an immortal cave painter.

pencil, ink, and ochre on paper

[alright-fuckhead]

Franchaela + changing their routine for each other.

[contemptible-scoundrel]

older lesbian outside the bar: *lighting a cigarette* when I was graduating high school you were just a baby. isn't that crazy

me, understanding the passage of time: not really

[3000s]

[chelmnik]

you may be aware that trip hop artists were sadly declared extinct in the wild about a decade ago due to the invasive spread of ‘lofi hip hop beats to relax/study to’. But did you know there’s a team of conservationists dedicated to preserving their natural habitat in the outskirts of Bristol? They’ve had some really promising efforts towards getting a fourth member of Portishead through their breeding programme and they’re testing habitats in Berlin, Marseille and the Balearics to see where artists can safely be released back into the wild. They’re open to the public too, it’s only like 20 minutes drive out of town. Most of them sleep during the day so you might not spot much but if you get really lucky DJ Shadow is very tame and might eat out of your hand.

[lordeboy]

What I eat in a day as a low agency emotionally manipulative performative metrosexual avoidant ADHD Adult male

[segamascott]

cliff bar usually