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20 something year old fandomites in 2026: ugh fandoms are so media illiterate these days cause of all these ipad baby puriteens
20 something year old fandomites in 2016: if you draw sans the skeleton singing steven universe songs you hate lesbians
20 something year old fandomites in 2006: my favorite show added a woman to its main cast. lets mail pipe bombs to her actress's house until she quits
you read stuff on wattpad for shit and giggles where most of the fics there are reader-inserted ones written in 1st person pov where y/n is a barely legal white girl with blonde hair and blue “orbs” who’s so smol and fragile that she’s dependent entirely on this morally questionable guy who’s killing people for a living but for some reason happens to have a soft spot for her.
you read real actual literature on archive of our own where it’s two middle aged men, who are each other’s sworn enemies, with tragic past, trauma and strong homoerotic tension. and while they’ve made each other bleed, killed each other’s friends and loved ones out of jealousy / possessiveness, lied and betrayed and manipulated, the rawness, depth, complexity and slow burn will keep you up all night, haunt you during your day and possibly change your life forever. and also the sex isn’t just smut. the sex is poetry that puts Shakespeare to shame
“Wattpad is for little girls with ribbons in their hair who want to kiss allllll the boys and write self-insert Mary Sues, unlike MY AO3 fics which are MANLY! and SERIOUS! and the sex isn’t just smut!”
Like shut uuuup, do you hear yourself? You sound like a 13 year old Naruto fanboy whose entire opinion on any media with a female lead is regurgitated from YouTubers.
like don't make me defend reader insert fics i hate them but my god the casual misogyny in this post is deafening and all the reblogs laughing and twirling their hair like OMG YEA MY SUPER SERIOUS MAN SEX like you can just say ao3 in general is better written (it isn't most fanfic is bad and i'm tired of pretending it isn't) without going on and on about how its so much more mature for being about two grown men instead of a young woman
Was gonna make a confession to that fandom confession account about proship/antis but then I realized I'm on tumblr and that account is used by proshippers to bitch and whine about the teenagers they argue with and pussied out.
Do you kinda hate AO3?
Do you kinda hate AO3?
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the amusing thing about the notes on this one is that the no voters angry enough to comment seem to live in a version of reality where the question is "do you kinda hate non-profit, non-algorithmic fanfiction archives" rather than "do you kinda hate this one particular non-profit, non-algorithmic fanfiction archive," almost as if they don't realise there are others that exist and that some people prefer, as if ao3 is the definition of a non-profit, non-algorithmic fanfiction archive.
every post hyping up ao3 makes it sound like a more embarrassing version of book tok #mysadtruth
their juvenile womanly smut versus our transgressive achillean literature. subscribe to james somerton on patreon for more analysis
this is your daily reminder that archive of our own is NOT an archive just because it has "archive" in its name. it is a fanfiction social media site. it doesn't archive shit.
ain't no way someone fr tried to say that archives don't archive and store information. and then told me to read a dictionary 😂 because no matter what definition of archive you use, you still can't call ao3 an archive.
they're not preserving information (in this case, information is fanfiction). they don't store information in the way archives do. the user can easily delete whatever they posted at any point in time and no one will ever see the original content again if that's what they choose. and once it's deleted, unless you have the information stored somewhere else, you will never see it again. many ao3 users actively discourage the reuploading of deleted fanfiction out of "fandom etiquette," which is very unlike an archive. you would think users of a supposed archive would be happy to see information preserved... strange huh. oh and it isn't a collection of fanfiction. archives collect, store, and preserve. if ao3 was an archive, then they would be going through the effort of collecting fanfiction from all kinds of different platforms. the moderators would actually be doing their jobs and making sure that the content posted there doesn't get scrubbed from the internet. but this is mostly left up to the users, again, who may or may not make a bookmark of a fanfiction from another site. and even then you're not guaranteed to see it, because bookmarks can be hidden.
information on this archive sure is hard to access. and very inconsistent with its own rules. and you can easily interact with others like it's social media. but sure... it's totally an archive. totally.
Do you kinda hate AO3?
Do you kinda hate AO3?
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No
eh, it’s alright.
Do you kinda hate AO3?
Do you kinda hate AO3?
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No
Oh my god these people are so annoying it’s literally just fanfiction…
Do you kinda hate AO3?
Do you kinda hate AO3?
Yes
No
imagine hating a non-profit site created by fans, for fans, with excellent tagging system, no censorship, no ads, no algorithm, no capitalism bullshit — just fans creating and sharing their art with other fans for free, out of pure love and passion — couldn't be me
I hope highlighting these tags is okay bc you put it perfectly
some of us just don’t want to read problematic white authors so ao3 is our only option 🤷♀️
oh there is no saving youse
the famously unproblematic white authors of ao3
i think the reason "fiction affects reality" trips so many people up is because they think it means "engaging with media that depicts uncomfortable subjects will taint your soul" when really all it means is that "fiction is meant to reflect certain ideas of the world intentionally or not, and it's going affect your perception of it, if you don't go in with a healthy bit of skepticism"
like playing a first person shooter isn't going to turn you into a school shooter, but that doesn't mean that Call of Duty isn't like. explicitly military propaganda.
or (for a more specific but also weirdly common example) enjoying horror movies isn't going to turn you into a serial killer, but if you watch a lot of horror where the killer is "a gender confused man who kills women whilel dressed in drag, because his repressed female split personality hates his attraction to women because it gives her gender dysphoria" than you should like. be a bit criticial of what you're enjoying. or something like that.
Purity Culture: Misogynistic religious abuse that also exists within secular culture. Purity culture is about controlling the actions, thoughts, and sexuality of girls and women while victim-blaming them.
Tumblr: Controlling sexuality?! That's just like when I was kink-shamed by a teenager for posting unproperly marked fetish art of a popular children's character! Kids today are such cops. :(
I am open to discussions about art censorship, even for the two things I advocate censoring because censorship should never be taken lightly.
However, 99% of the time people don’t talk about any form of censorship. They talk about things like- receiving criticism, being asked to give warnings, or being informed that their content is against site rules.
None of that is censorship. We can’t talk about art censorship if people pretend these things are censorship.
And I think that is the point. They don’t like censorship, but they also don’t like media literacy and critique, reasonable expectations for certain warnings, or sites having rules. Even when there are other popular websites that would be more appropriate for their art.
It’s not so much that they want to protect art. What they want is to do whatever they like without any argument ever. That is why they treat critique, any expectation of CWs, and site rules the same as governmental censorship.
It’s not about freedom, it’s about ego.
I feel like if you hear about OCD primarily from Tumblr you can get the impression it's basically all moral scrupulosity OCD and/or primarily obsessional OCD, and so I am begging anyone who is going to write about OCD to do some real research and also learn about compulsions equally as much as you learn about obsessions please and thank you very much
people act like being critical of the shit you like is some sort of weird stressful thing thats new and forced on the internet. like lol no, everyone is critical of their interests
you thought the movie was too straight and didnt have any gay characters? thats being critical. you thought it had a lot of awkward scenes that couldve been handled better? thats being critical. you didnt like that the director made misogynistic remarks? thats being critical
im so tired of people acting like being critical is something so tough and time consuming. 99% of the time, you already do it, you just dont want to recognize the pedophilia/racism/antisemitism/etc in the media you love
The gang in their uhhhh alive years
I’ll explain their backstories another time for now I just wanted to redesign those 3 fuck ass human designs but ended up doing the whole cast
Below the original sketches they kinda trash tho I get tired easy on paper
They're so in love,,, ❤️💙🦋🔥
