Mykki Writes Stuff

Hello, I'm Mykki and I write things. #scifi #fantasy #horror

[sunraven0828]

Me: *Reading my drafts and getting invested on the story just to realize there’s a cliffhanger*

Me: “Damn, i wonder what happens next. I hope the author updates so-“

Me: *realizes im the author and im the one who has to write what’s next.*

[allthingswhumpyandangsty]

things some people, especially people who are new to ao3 or fandom/fanfic space as a whole, seem to not understand:

archive of our own is an archive. not a social media.

archive of our own was built with the stance that there would be no censorship, because other platforms already had censorship where some things that were taboo were reported/removed. ao3 was built with the purpose that all of these works, that were not allowed on other platforms, would be allowed on ao3.

the archive will house anything that’s considered fanworks. so no, you cannot report this fic because it portrays in explicit details taboo topics about xyz, you cannot report that fic because it romanticizes and glorifies xyz. ao3 will not remove any of those fics, because whether or not you like it, those fics do not go against ao3’s terms of service.

“but these things are not allowed on other platforms” that’s precisely why ao3 was created, to house and give a platform to these things that were censored/banned/removed from other platforms.

if you have a problem with this, you can use other platforms to post and read fanfics

but you should also know that ao3 by far has the best tagging system, meaning you won’t get anything like what ao3 provides on other platforms, meaning it may be a pain in the ass for you to find a fic with the prompts and pairing you’re looking for, meaning you may still get jump scared by things that are triggering to you half way through your reading of what you thought was an innocent fic. because other platforms don’t have tagging systems, where you can find and avoid any character/pairing/tag as you please, like ao3.

[innocentb3an-deactivated2025111]

i think it's quite harmful to share the mindset that basically anything goes on ao3. yes, tags and filtering are super helpful to avoid your dislikes, but because of how many "taboo topics" are written, it's more challenging to find what i want when i have to scroll past abuse, mental health glorification, etc. i think authors need to really take some time to self evaluate and really come to terms with what they're writiinf and if it's that important to be written.

[allthingswhumpyandangsty]

actually, authors can write whatever they want because they write for themselves. not. for. you.

we don't have to cater to your personal liking or comfort because we fucking write whatever the hell we want for ourselves. we are our main audience and priorities. and we already tag our warnings, it's your job to avoid them.

also if you actually filter out tags about topics you don't like, you won't have to scroll past most of the things you don't like, because every fic that's tagged as such just won't show up on your screen at all

[the-bar-sinister]

Ah yes, and here we have tumblr user "innocent bean" telling AO3 to abandon the mission they were created for, and fan authors to shut up and conform all of their fic to what "innocent bean" wants to read.

[teaboot]

Stop me if you hate the concept: short, fat, hairy lady gets isakai'd into a high fantasy, and instead of "oh look at all these ethereal elves woe for I am but a flawed mortal" routine she lands in Dwarf territory and is immediately revered as the most enchanting and desirable maid in all the land. This immediately becomes a zesty romantic drama. Thoughts

[akiyty]

[allthingswhumpyandangsty]

“this fic portrays problematic ship” then don’t read it

“this fic romanticizes bad things” then don’t read it

“this fic makes me uncomfortable and angry” then don’t read it

“this fic about my favorite fictional character goes against everything the character believes in in canon” then don’t read it

all of the problems you have with somebody else’s fanfic can be very easily solved by the act of Not Reading It

scroll past a fic if it’s something you don’t like, filter out tags about things you don’t want to see

no one forces you to read a fic that upsets you. also you can stop reading any fic at any time you want.

harassing real people over fiction will not make you morally superior. it just makes you a bully

[drunktuesdays]

the absolute funniest ao3 tag wrangler story i know is that @kalpurna once emailed them and asked for “just the tip” to be canonized so us perverts could filter on it, and they responded back that they didn’t think it was good idea as it’s “rather ambiguous between the sex act and the financial transaction.” i just about lost my mind. who is tagging “just the tip” meaning their characters are working out how to split their dinner bill???

[drunktuesdays]

HUGE NEWS. GUESS WHAT'S FINALLY CANONICAL

[bookgeekgrrl]

my other favorite tags that became canonical this year:

Oh. OH. | Italicized Oh Moment

The Mortifying Ordeal of Being Known

Soulmate Goose of Enforcement

Humans are Space Orcs

Monsterfucking | Teratophilia

DILFs | Dads I'd Like to Fuck

[thebookbutterfly]

I love it when fan fiction writers are like: “ah shit, this was meant to be one part but I started writing it and now it has to be three”. Like the fanfic is happening to them and not being created by them.

[derinthescarletpescatarian]

Unfortunately all writing is like this

[bambistjames]

non-writers will never understand the mental illness of writing an entire conversation in your head while doing dishes and then forgetting every word the second you open a blank doc

[allthingswhumpyandangsty]

reblog if you love archive of our own and how they firmly refuse to let censorship have any place on their platform

[pomegranateteeth]

This isn’t even a love triangle anymore it’s some sort of psychosexual dodecahedron

[dear-ao3]

[fair-itself]

Normies talking about getting whiplash from recipe blogs. You know nothing

[babycharmander]

[ID: An AO3 author’s note reading, “Sorry for vanishing, I did a little too much research on cults an coercive control for Damian’s arc, and then realized I was raised in a cult, and THEN I ran away to a fishing town cabin on the other side of the country and had to start learning to be a person in the real world. I also forgot how to write. But I’m learning again, so I’m back now! Have some more.” The “I” in “I was raised in a cult” is emphasized by sparking emojis, and the note is ended with heart emojis. /end ID]

[babycharmander]

Aaaand THIS is one of the many reasons why it’s not only not a bad thing to portray dark subject matter, but EXTREMELY IMPORTANT to do so!! You can learn a lot when writing, and others can learn a lot when reading! This can save lives, dudes.

[the-real-seebs]

I am so proud of the author though. That took multiple kinds of courage at once. Good job, author.

[goldkirk]

Hi! I’m the original author from ao3!

I want to thank everyone for such hilarious and kind additions/replies/tags on this post, they’ve been so amazing to read. They’ve meant more to me than you guys know. ❤️

I also want to add some information for anyone who wants to know more about recognizing the signs that you might be in a high control group.

High control groups can be small or large, religious or not, clubs, schools, online servers, friend groups, etc.

No human is invulnerable because we all have brains and emotions that can be played like a fiddle. Knowing the red flags can help us all keep ourselves safer!

igotout.org

BITE model of understanding thought and behavior control

International Cultic Studies Association (ICSA)

Crisis Text Line (highly recommend, especially if you’re not in a safe place to discuss things on the phone)

Please always protect yourself as best you can and never be afraid to reach out for help—even if you’re just wondering, even if you’re not sure about something.

No safe group or person will EVER be mad at you for being cautious and taking things slow, or for changing your mind at ANY point. You’re the one who gets to decide whether you join or stay with a group, no matter what they threaten or love-bomb you with.

If you’re not safe, there’s help.

If you feel trapped, there’s help.

If people are being actively hurt, good people want to listen, understand, and help.

We all deserve freedom. I’m grateful every morning I wake up that I get to live it now, even though it’s hard and I have a long way to go. Thank you for walking this journey with me, for one brief moment or for years, and helping me—and others like me—not be alone.

Take care, stay safe, and happy fanfiction reading!

[pearlsandpeacocks]

[rosary-enthusiast]

This is what I mean when I say myth literalism is bad. While the gods are individuals, they are also concepts- forces that make up a greater whole. Hades is not just a king, he is cold, is is death, in the most literal of senses. His actions are not the actions of a man, they are the planet turning & the world around us breathing.

[breelandwalker]

All of the above, PLUS....

Myths, with absolutely no exceptions, are created by human beings. The myths of the ancient world were often created to explain natural phenomena. They reflect the culture and time in which they were born, and that is the lens through which we must read them in order to properly understand what we're seeing. The story of Hades and Persephone was not created in response to a literal kidnapping. It was the allegorical lens through which one culture chose to view the natural phenomenon of seasonal change.

Expecting ancient myths to scan when viewed through the morals and values of a cultural viewpoint several millennia removed from the the source material is nothing short of ludicrous.

[bambistjames]

non-writers will never understand the mental illness of writing an entire conversation in your head while doing dishes and then forgetting every word the second you open a blank doc

[approximateknowledge]

"this would be so good if it was good" might just be my favourite sentence to use when analysing any media

because it's not a meaningless thing to say

some things will always be mid at best, but sometimes things that suck could be so good, if only they were good

[k1llerfr0sst]

Censorship, Pro-shipping, and the Limits of Dark Fiction

A looong post about my stances

I think there’s this weird debate about censorship of dark topics, and as someone who fiercely hates some of the things I read online (because I find them immoral and awful/encouraging bad behavior), these are my thoughts (please read it all before commenting):

Content Warning: Discussions of written SA/rap3, p3dophilia, abus3, violenc3 (all in reference to dark fiction and if it should be allowed)

Yes, fiction affects reality, but you can choose whether to engage with it—and while you can’t always control your initial reactions, you can control whether you keep reading and how you process it afterward—this is evident in how different people interpret the same story in completely different ways. (This makes me sound like a TikTok proshipper but just wait i swear)

A book, film, or comic doesn’t land the same for everyone; someone might find it harmful while someone else might find it healing slash empowering. That’s the power of art—It’s a mirror reflecting what you bring to it, you are reading more of yourself than the text. To pretend there’s one single way to read a text is not how human beings work.

A story about abus3 might retraumatize one survivor and give another survivor the words they never had. A violent/s3xual scene might disgust one person but feel cathartic to someone who’s been powerless or abused all their life. This subjectivity is exactly why censorship doesn’t make sense: you can’t flatten all readers into one reaction. When people try, what they’re really saying is, “I don’t trust anyone else to make their own choices, so I’ll choose for them.” That’s not protection that’s control.

And this gets especially complicated when you’re talking about writing that involves murd3r, rap3, abus3, or other fucked up material. You can’t really draw a clean line between fet1sh, coping, or just fictional storytelling, because those categories often overlap. Some people process trauma through dark fiction; others use the same kinds of stories as pure horror entertainment; others still might engage with them in a s3xual way.

Like for example, even a book like Lolita, which clearly depicts the horrors of p3dophilia, has been praised online by some as a “great love story” :/

BUT.

Even when you accept that fiction is subjective and people can process difficult topics differently, there’s still a clear ethical boundary. Content like an overs3xualized story depicting ch1ld rap3 or p3dophilia isn’t just “dark fiction” or a space for coping—it’s exploitative. It carries a real potential for harm because it normalizes, s3xualizes, or f3tishizes something that is illegal and deeply damaging in real life.

BUT.

Even when a story is gross or deeply problematic—something like p3dophilia—it’s still fiction. It doesn’t leave the page unless someone takes it with them. It doesn’t hurt anyone unless someone chooses to turn it into action—and if they’re going to, censoring a fic won’t stop them.

Fiction isn’t a weapon until someone makes it one, and most people who engage with dark fiction do so precisely because it’s safer than reality. Treating all fiction as dangerous by default only makes the real world more dangerous, because it removes the safety net.

And here’s where the normalization issue fits: yes, it’s bad that some of these things get normalized—like how people barely flinch at murd3r, w4r, or extreme violenc3 anymore because they’ve seen it repeated in movies, games, and superhero films.

That desensitization is real, and it’s shit. But the reason it exists is exactly because fiction gives people a space to engage with violenc3 safely, without anyone being directly harmed. And the alternative isn’t safer: we don’t have a society that can safely support people who struggle with dark thoughts, or make them feel secure enough to seek help without judgment, shame, or punishment.

So the choice is brutal: either remove their coping mechanisms and risk them hurting others, or let them process those impulses in fiction, where it can’t directly harm anyone. As ugly as it is, fiction becomes a pressure valve. Taking it away isn’t protection—it’s cruelty disguised as morality.

As someone who’s been hurt before by things these people will write about, I can tell the difference between experiencing something in real life and reading about it on a page. It’s not even close. Fiction is words and pixels; reality is bruises, flashbacks, and a ruined life.

One can shake you, disturb you, even disgust you—but the other DESTROYS you. That difference matters. When people act like the two are the same, it feels like they’re minimizing what real abus3 actually is. I refuse to let anyone flatten lived trauma into the same category as a story on AO3.

And here’s the other thing: taking this kind of fiction away in the name of “protection” doesn’t stop abus3. It only pushes those thoughts or desires into the real world, where they can become dangerous.

Anti-censorship isn’t about defending stories for the sake of stories. It’s about preventing real-world harm by keeping harmful impulses contained in imagination instead of action. Erasing fiction under the guise of morality risks more than it prevents—it removes a safe outlet, punishes curiosity, and forces people to process complex feelings in unsafe ways.

If you actually care about protecting people, you have to accept the messy truth: letting even the grossest fiction exist is safer than pretending you can erase it. Banning it doesn’t stop the harm. It just stops people from surviving it in their own ways.

BUT.

Even with all of this, creating communities around this kind of material shouldn’t be something we encourage. I get that anti-censorship mainly means what this essay has argued: leave people to engage with fiction safely, and don’t criminalize their coping.

But in today’s context, especially on platforms like TikTok using anti-censorship terms like “pro-ship,” you see people posting abusiv3/rap3 stories, romanticizing harmful behaviors, and forming communities that s3xualize or normalize them. That crosses a line. Coping through dark fiction is one thing—but sharing it or building spaces that encourage it is another.

There’s a difference between using fiction as a pressure valve and making a culture that treats trauma or exploitation as entertainment. Respecting safe, personal engagement with fiction doesn’t mean we have to endorse its social celebration.

Acknowledging all of this, people still do reserve the rights to feel uncomfortable with people who write or consume this stuff on their own, even if it doesn’t hurt anyone like communities do—like sometimes I personally feel uncomfortable with even knowing that a person likes certain stuff, so I don’t interact with them and ask them not to interact back.

ALL IN ALL

P3doph1lia/Rap3/Violence arousal are mental health issues; they won’t stop, society doesn’t provide help that works (as seen in the world), so harm reduction is necessary.

Fiction affects reality, but far less directly; people choose to engage with it, doesn’t actually harm someone, etc

The same story can retraumatize one person and help another process trauma. Subjectivity makes censorship ineffective

Overs3xualized depictions of taboo stuff are exploitative and can normalize harmful ideas

Fiction isn’t a weapon until someone makes it one; most people engage with dark fiction because it’s safer than reality.

Normalization of violence or dark topics is a side effect of repeated exposure, but removing fiction doesn’t make people safer—it removes a pressure valve for processing impulses.

Anti-censorship is about harm reduction and safety, not endorsement

Communities that glorify abus3 (TikTok darkshippers) cross a line; safe, personal engagement is okay, but social celebration of harmful content should not be encouraged.

Individuals have the right to not want to interact with people who consume or create media they deem immoral or inexcusable

[mykki-writes-stuff]

Erasing fiction under the guise of morality risks more than it prevents—it removes a safe outlet, punishes curiosity, and forces people to process complex feelings in unsafe ways.

This was so incredibly nuanced and well-written. Please take some time to read through the whole thing and absorb it.

[hislittleraincloud]

I'm a proud Agnes Shipper.

That's not a typo, because I'm a multishipper and would/could write/ship her with anyone.

In my fanon (the W.O.W. drabbles), Agnes is such a big Wednesday Addams stalker because they share a birthday, not just because she saved the school. She had already been smitten/fascinated/had a huge girlcrush on Wednesday because of her uniqueness. I write from experience, since I had a weird ass stalker like that in high school too (but obviously not to the caricaturish degree).

Agnes Demille is slightly coded as a "freshman". Freshman and Juniors have one year between them [Sophomore], but are two years in age apart. Generally (and tightly speaking), in American schools:

You turn 15 during your Freshman Year.

You turn 16 during your Soph Year.

You turn 17 during your Junior Year.

You turn 18 during your Senior Year.

That would make her only two years apart from her and you are lying off your asses if you've never heard of a freshman dating a junior. I wrote this in the Invisible Girls post, but apparently I have to say it again:

There is no uniform manner in which adolescents are socialized, especially in fiction. FICTION.

And fiction is the safest place for you to explore the dynamic, especially since fear has been driven into your skulls about what you should and shouldn't be doing offline. Vermont's laws in particular give younger people the freedom to be with who they want, within age and reason (anyone less than 19 years old). Not that we should even care about that, we're writing in a world full of supernatural shit. A world FULL of supernatural shit that I don't fucking see anyone considering when it comes to sex. Mention #Thingclair on TikTok and you get a bunch of Gen Z stares who don't understand why you'd ship a hand with a sixteen year old girl.

Agnes is an Invisible Girl. She's seen much more than you're giving her credit for, and she and Enid click, since Agnes is the kinder version of Wednesday who's open to colorful clothing and being there for her. And while Wednesday mainly sees her from a utilitarian point of view (and as a lowkey threat, given her powers), Enid was the first real bond of a classmate seeing her.

And the reality:

No one at all is shipping Evie with Emma (and if they are, they're degenerates). That is precisely what scares Emma into going so hard against the fictional ship, because she is a victim of Jemma/people who ship her with Jenna. She doesn't want the same thing to happen to her and Evie, but again: We're not doing that. I would never.

And I, unlike a whole swath of fandom, have a GOOD GRIP on reality and fully comprehend the difference between an actor and their role. I honestly can't believe I even have to try to beat that concept into your heads, since we have seen the effects of treating actors like their fictional characters, and it never ends well for the actors. We're seeing it right now with the cast of The Summer I Turned Pretty

I don't know how y'all kids are doing this, but the line between fantasy and reality MUST be repainted into a thick, solid line.

Stop treating actors like their characters. It's a role. A JOB. They're doing because they enjoy the job and like to entertain the public, but shit like this ruins everything, and that's what concerns Myers re: Agnid shipping, since she's been through and is still going through that Hell with Ortega.

Imma repeat it in all the fonts:

Stop treating actors like their characters.

Stop treating actors like their characters.

Stop treating actors like their characters.

Stop treating actors like their characters.

Stop treating actors like their characters.

Stop treating actors like their characters.

Stop treating actors like their characters.

You all have to get the Hell out of that smoke and back into your lane.

[shaftking]

“Uuugh 1984 is so gross and misogynistic the main character objectifies women and it makes me so uncomfortable”

That is literally the point. Winston is not an aspirational figure he is just some fucking guy who has been suppressed and emotionally manipulated by the intense thought control of a totalitarian government his entire life to the point that he cannot connect to other human beings as a result of that system. The suppression of language and thought has effected people in this world so deeply that they cannot understand and communicate with other people at a base level. This intentional degradation has led people to not view each other as human.

[cuntcashier]

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