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I was recently reminded of the (adorable) fact that crows enjoy rolling down snowy hills, and since I like to headcanon that Crowleyâs wings are crow wingsâŚ
Crow instincts: Câmon! :DÂ Itâll be fun! :D :D :D
Snake instincts: What the Heâ What on EARTH are you thinking!?!
you know what, you are absolutely right
you donât need purity in the material you consume
you have a brain, you are capable of critical thinking, you can sift through the material and keep what is edifying for you and discard what isnât
flaws donât necessarily make material worthless
all right i queued this last night because i was already posting a lot and didnât want to flood anyoneâs dash but you guys i need to talk about this more.
like, okay. i grew up REALLY STRICT christian. like. every piece of media i consumed underwent a fine-toothed comb by my parents to be sure there wasnât anything âsinfulâ in it. I got into a tearful, screaming fight with my mother over whether I was allowed to watch a piece of educational childrenâs material on PBS because one of the characters said âdamnâ once.
(Iâm still not sure they did. In retrospect, I think my purity-focused mother misheard something and, having her suspicions confirmed that you couldnât trust any âsecularâ source not to be sinful, reacted accordingly.)
(Pay attention, that parenthetical was also relevant.)
Do you know what my teenage rebellion was? Listening to the oldies station in the car when I had my driverâs license and could go places on my own. That was my big fuck-you to my parents: listening to the Beatles and Simon & Garfunkel and the Fifth Dimension when they couldnât tell me how I shouldnât be listening to them because the creators of that music were drug-addled, free-loving atheists whose own disregard for God and religion might just infect my impressionable spirit. Like I was gonna listen to âLucy in the Sky with Diamondsâ and go do LSD and become an atheist. This was my teenage rebellion in the year 1999.
Iâm 35 now. And all right so I became agnostic. But I didnât become a drug addicted prostitute because I loved listening to psychedelic rock music as a teenager. (And you know what? Even if I had become a drug addicted prostitute, Iâd still have worth as a human being, so dissect that one.) And it wasnât even the psychedelic rock music that turned me agnostic: It was Christianity itself. But thatâs another story altogether.
My point here is: Yâall are on here acting like my goddamn parents, âdonât watch thisâ and âdonât listen to thatâ because this character does XYZ problematic thing and this author said ABC ignorant thing two years ago at a con when they were put on the spot in an interview. If you watch this movie where a teenager falls in love with someone five years older than them, youâre going to become a pedophile! If you read this book by an author who once used an outdated term for someone in the trans community, then youâre a transphobe!
Yâall need to sit the fuck down and stop acting like nobody ever taught you to think for yourself, because I know damn well that youâre capable of critical thought and you donât need your media chewed up and spit into your mouth like a baby bird. And Iâm an adult and I sure the hell donât, so stop telling me Iâm going to choke because Iâm consuming something complicated, complex, and not already pre-morally-dissected for me.
Thanks for coming to my TED talk.
A team of three Black girls from D.C.âs Benjamin Banneker Academic High SchoolâBria Snell, India Skinner and Mikayla Sharrieffâwas excited to enter the NASA Goddardâs Optimus Prime Spinoff Promotion and Research Challenge (OPSPARC) student competition to win a trip to NASA. Their project, IN3-Incubator Program, aimed to create a filtration jar that will filter water continuously and âŚ
This is foul they close the public voting and arenât going to count the votes. someone made a GoFundMe for these young ladies to continue their work though so go contribute if you can.
https://www.gofundme.com/hidden-figures-2018
Oh my God I remember voting for them.
Wow
The link doesnât work but this is what they said in the GoFundMe campaign:
âVoting was open to the public so that in the case of a tie, the voting would be the tie breaker. Last week, the voting was shared on various social media networks. Many votes came in for Mikayla, Bria, and India. So much so that these young ladies were in the lead at least 50% ahead of their closest competitors!
However, as is expected, our beautiful young ladies have been blocked from achieving their goals. It has been alleged that 4chan hacked the NASA website and skewed the votes. NASA has since suspended voting and will âonly be using the rubricsâ to make a final decision.â
Why would people hack this? Please the lies
I assuming that their reasoning is that people are only voting for them because they are Black , not on the merit of their project. And while that may be true to some degree isnât that the point of any public vote? People share the link of their kids or community member and vote for them not because they have an opinion on their project but because they want to support. Parents and teams were probably passing out the link in church, school, to other relatives, sharing it on Facebook and Twitter etc. now that the girls engaged in a similar social medi campaign, itâs unfair and now has to be solely on merit(which the girls obviously meet the requirements for, they deserve to win) but it seems like NASA is punishing them for getting more support in their campaign than the other teams who surely also tried to utilize relationships and connections to get people to vote for their preferred group not out of âthis is the best project because of xyz!â But because âI want to support these kids in particularâ
Why have a public vote if you wanted to measure the scientific prowess of the groups only? Most people would be impressed by all the project and vote according to which teamâs stories motivated them the most. Like this is all so damn warped because they wouldnât have had the public vote in the first place if they wanted to stack the projects up against each other based on scientific rigor only.
exactly, the whole point of a public vote is to vote for who you feel deserves it the most. the vote for merit obviously already preceded a public vote, or else these girls wouldâve never been nominated by nasa in the first place.
these racists keep contradicting themselves. stop cowardly hiding behind these same old lame ass recycled excuses. just say you hate to see black girls win in âwhite and trumps amerikkkaâ and go.
Fuck nasa. I used to want to work for them bitches with every ounce of my being
You wonât work for NASA because they stopped the online voting after it was completely butchered all around?
They did the right thing. They opened it to the public, but people played identity politics and fucked it all up.
Donât blame NASA. Blame SJWs and Anti-SJWs.
ItsâŚits not like its a new and shocking thing for a public poll to be disregarded after blatant attempts to rig the vote result. And y'all even post the fact that no, the poll wasnât the competition, it was a tie breaker just in case and you fucked that up.
Theyâre just lucky it wasnât a write in vote, then an inanimate carbon rod would have won.
They were right to pull the vote once it was being abused. And there were kids of both genders and from a variety of ethnic backgrounds. Given that the focus of most of this thread has been that they are black girls and not what their project was, we can guess why they were getting votesâŚ
These fuckwits are no better than the channers. Those kids deserve better than having their competition skewed by identity politics.
>I assuming that their reasoning is that people are only voting for them because they are Black , not on the merit of their project. And while that may be true to some degree isnât that the point of any public vote?
Racism? No, no it is not.
For any Shaladin shippers out there feeling down about that darn age gap that antis throw at you, allow me to introduce to you: Some âQuestionableâ Age Gaps of Actual Disney Couples!
(now since many of the princes donât have confirmed ages, I put estimated ages I found and made age ranges. The reason these are âquestionableâ are because its either between a definable minor and adult or the age gap is âtoo largeâ which are common anti arguments)
Snow White
Snow Whiteâs age: 14
The Princeâs age: 17-20+ (non confirmed but he was of marriageable age)
Age gap: 3-6+ years
Tangled
Rapunzelâs age: 18
Flynn Riderâs age: 26 (Itâs actually canon, look it up.)
Age gap: 8 years (I can hear the Sheith and Shance shippers cheering already.)
Mulan
Mulanâs age: 16
Li Shangâs age: 20-28+ (non confirmed but he was a general so I was generous with the upper estimate)
Age gap: 4-12+ years
Pocahontas
Pocahontasâs age: 18
John Smithâs age: 20-27+ (non confirmed in movie, but in IRL history 27-28)
Age gap: 2-9+ years
Beauty and the Beast
Belleâs age: 17
The Beastâs age: 20-21 (confirmed but he was 20 at the start and 21 at the end)
Age gap: 3-4 years
The Little Mermaid
Arielâs age: 16
Prince Ericâs age: 18
Age gap: 2 years (tame gap but sheâs still technically a minor yâall)
Aladdin
Jasmineâs age: 16
Aladdinâs age: 18
Age gap: 2 years (again, tame, but if you have a problem with a ship between an adult and a minor, welp 16 is still a minor by U.S. standards!)
Sleeping Beauty
Auroraâs age: 16
The Princeâs age: 20-26+ (non confirmed but from the start of the film he is easily 7-10 years old when first seeing the newborn Aurora. Still, I gave him a very low guessed minimum age just for good measure)
Age gap: 4-10+ years.
In conclusion, Shaladins are fine and have a wonderful day!
i didnt realise ao3 was started in response to lj deleting account relating to p//edophi|ia and they explicitly support the posting of such works yikes
it wasnât, like, ~~~we luv pedophilia, it was way more complicated than that!
although itâs true AO3 does allow all fannish content provided itâs properly warned for, thereâs a long history there - of spaces being used by fans until the host decided whatever we were doing was too weird and distasteful and either kicking us off, banning certain content, or changing the nature of the site until it was no longer viable as a host.
youâre referring to the LJ Strikethrough of 2007, which, being an ancient crone, I lived through, and since I was hanging out in the last vestiges of SGA and in bandom, I saw some of the fallout. this was before LJ was sold to the Russians (which is a whole ânother story), when it was still owned by Six Apart; in an effort to clean up LJâs act, Six Apart decided to delete all accounts using tags like underage, incest, rape, etc.
this was supposed to get rid of actual child porn on the site, and I hope it did, but it also targeted fan communities. this was a problem for a couple reasons; for one thing, not every story tagged with these words is in favor of them; for another, these things happen to real people and these personal posts were also potentially in danger of being attacked; for the last one, look, I ainât into this kind of fic but people write about what people write about, and if itâs fictional and not explicitly banned in the TOS (correct me if Iâm wrong; I donât think written content about this stuff was banned?) then itâs not cool for a content host to just start deleting communities without warning.
but thatâs what happened! these deletions were also primarily targeting slash communities, which smacked of some serious homophobia since things were deleted that had nothing to do with any of this kind of content.
eventually someone found out it was this super conservative religious group whoâd sent a list of journal names to Six Apart, and who if I remember correctly targeted slash fic on purpose, even after it became clear that the fic was, well, totally fictional. after a while, Six Apart admitted theyâd made a mistake and started to reinstate journals, but all of fandom was pretty shaken up.
THEN Boldthrough happened, which was essentially the same debacle several months later, at which point fandom began its long slow migration from LJ to GJ, IJ, and eventually AO3, Twitter, and tumblr.
AO3 was opened in 2008 in response to several incidents, of which Strikethrough was a really intense one. remember, also, that back in 2008 the stigma surrounding fandom was significantly greater and more shameful than it is today, so finding hosts willing to archive fic was difficult unless someone had the dough to pay for server space - often not an option. this was also back when fanfic.netâs HTML restrictions were so great that users couldnât use any special characters or bold or italicize anything, and it didnât allow R-rated content, so it was clearly not ideal. in addition, although cease & desist letters were much less common than they were in the early 2000s and before, DMCA takedowns were still a phantom on the horizon.
LONG STORY SHORT, even though pedophilia is reprehensible and I personally cannot stomach fanfic that involves that kind of content, AO3 was founded specially as a safe space for fandom communities that could not find homes elsewhere. it requires warnings precisely for that reason, and if you find a story that is not properly warned, you can alert the admins and get the story labeled appropriately.
IDK, maybe itâs just because I am, again, ancient, but I was in and around fandom before homosexuality was legal in all 50 states. so were most of the people who started AO3. for most of my formative life, being gay was associated with pedophilia, and so was writing about gay characters. just - itâs a lot more complicated than you might expect, and thereâs a reason many older fans who have been involved in several generations of fandom were so grateful to have AO3 as an option.
I donât read, for example, Hydra Trash Party fics. They squick me, and I generally feel they are pretty gross. But writing noncon body-horror is not the same as saying âyeah, I totally want to go out and rape and torture people for years while brainwashing them!â or even âyeah, I wouldnât do it myself, but it would be totally okay if someone did!â Nobody is hurt by it, and nobody is going to be hurt by it. So should I have the right to go, that is gross, you donât get to write or read that? No.
In the same way, writing about underage teens getting it onâsometimes with each other, sometimes with adults, sometimes consensually, sometimes notâis not the same as child pornography, nor does reading a fic about Hermione and Snape getting it on while she was his student mean someone thinks that would be a good and/or healthy thing in real life.
Fiction affects reality, but fiction is not reality. And writing about something does not mean you want to do it in real life, or believe that anyone should.
Letâs take a closer look at that âAo3 supports pedophilia!â shall we?
1) The only fics I have ever come across that had actual pedophilia (i.e. someone having sex with a child), it was clearly and explicitly abuse. It was not meant to titillate or arouse. It was meant to horrify. It was seldom explicit.
2) Thereâs a lot more incest, but it is usually portrayed either as explicitly mutually consensual (i.e. Sam/Dean) or as abusive.
3) Iâve been in fandom for a decade and a half. When people start getting upset at âomg pedophilia, think of the children!â the fics they are usually objecting to arenât actually pedophilia. Usually, it is teenagers having sex, especially queer sex. And people donât like that, and use pedophilia as an excuse to shame people for writing/reading sex they donât like.
Letâs look closer at Strikethrough, shall we? I hope that, if there were any communities of actual pedophiles on LJ, they got taken down, too. But here are some of the communities that got taken down that were not in any way supporting pedophilia and/or rape and/or incest that got taken down:
1) at least one support community for survivors of sexual abuse.
2) a literary book discussion group that was reading Lolita.
3) lots of slash fanfic communities, for things like Draco/Harry fic set in their fourth year (when both boys would have been 15).
Basically, this very conservative âfamily valuesâ group hated porn, and they hated queer stuff even more, and used âbut think of the children, itâs pedophilia!â to pressure LJ to get rid of huge swathes of things they didnât like. And one time taking down the worst of it wasnât good enough for them. No, this was step one on a moral crusade. If you acceded to their demands, all that did was whet their appetite, and soon they would be back with a new list of demands. This is why the 2007 strikethrough was not an isolated event, but rather one of a series of events, nor was LJ the only website thus targeted. It starts with anything that can get labelled âpedophiliaâ or âincestâ because thatâs low-hanging fruit. But they use that to go after anything relating to queer teen sexuality. Then anything with teen sexuality. Then once the community is already divided and diminished, they go after anything with non-con. Then whatever is next on their list. It doesnât stop until theyâve won the point and nothing but suitably âfamily-friendlyâ fics that match their purity test are allowed.
Which is why AO3 has no morality content in their terms of service. You canât break copyright beyond fair use (and AO3 has an expansive view of âfair useâ and a team of lawyers on call). You canât use AO3 for commercial advertising. And you canât post ACTUAL child pornography, i.e. the things that are legally prohibited, i.e. actual photographs or videos of actual children (not teens) in sexually explicit positionsâyou know, the stuff that actually hurts kids. Other than that? Itâs fair game. You can post anything you want, and the archive will not judge. There is no handle for the Moral Majority Family-Friendly Thought Police to latch onto, no cracks they can exploit to divide and conquer.
Weâve been down that road. It doesnât lead anywhere good.
Reblogging this for the excellent explanation of what exactly the moral crusaders did last time. They had an explicit agenda of anti-queerness, and they specifically targeted slash and femslash communities in particular, such that many ship communities became (or started as) deliberately members-only. You had to apply, and your personal blog had to look like a real person and a fan. You were vetted, a la 1990s private servers.
During this period, Dreamwidth was also targeted by attacking its payment processor. They had to get a new one. These âWarriorsâ (literally called themselves that!) were totally on board with destroying fandom as a side effect of destroying the parts of fandom they didnât like.
If youâre carrying out harassment of people right now because theyâre posting works with sexual elements you donât agree with? (And itâs always sex, never non-sexual violence, how strangeâŚ.) If youâre doing that, youâre also totally on board with destroying fandom as a side effect of destroying the parts of fandom you donât like. Because your tactics are fandom-destroying, and so is your agenda.
reblogging because this is important: strikethru and boldthru and all the various âpurgesâ that fandom went thru about 10 years ago: this had to do with OUTSIDERS deciding that fandom in general and fanfiction in specific were evil and needed to be destroyed; unless we were writing and shipping good vanilla M/F married people. These were outsiders, going after fictional writing about fictional characters.
AO3 and OTW are HUGE, because now we have an organization, with very smart women and a lot of lawyers, that have our back. Fannish history is important, people! It has not always been this way.
This is so, so important: thereâs that other post about AO3 and fanfiction floating around, about our history. People decry violent video games but no one is trying to force companies out of business. But people can and do attack fanfiction: an activity primarily written by women for women, about fictional characters. And often about sex. We have to constantly defend ourselves, protect ourselves, support each other against charges like âpaeodophiliaâ.
^^^rebageling again for excellent commentary
Throwing this in because I was also present: This was during the American Governmentâs attempts to pass censorship laws on the internet. As MOST of those domains had their serves in America, they were beholden to those censorship laws. A great deal of fanfiction.net was removed because they happened to lose a goddamn courtcase. Iâve been on the site since 2002. They may not have âofficiallyâ allowed NC-17 rated content (what it used to be listed as in the filters), it never did a damn thing to remove it. Ever. They had it listed as a rating option during âNew Storyâ uploading after all. It was i nthe search filters. After they lost the courtcase however, they legally had to start doing things about the mature content reports they got. The admins and mods were not actively looking for fic to remove, they were just responding to reports they had already received.Â
tl;dr - I know tumblr is all about black and white âyouâre either all right or all wrongâ thinking, but itâs important to understand what actually happened before going âew ao3 was made to give pedophiles a safe place to postâ because that is 110% not what happened.
This is why so, so many of the comparatively older fannish folks on tumblr like me are so vehemently against stuff like the anti movement and âall ships are valid UNLESSâ. It smacks of censorship and content policing - and weâve been there. We got our shit deleted and our accounts banned because someone else thought what we were reading or writing or talking about needed to just⌠not exist. No warning. Literally overnight. We just woke up and stuff was gone.
And yeah, the group was legit called Warriors for Innocence (or maybe of). I knew several people that were members of survivor/support groups that lost their groups - and their main support network - when Strikethrough happened (ten years ago holy shit).
You antis need to listen when us older fans tell you that the censorship youâre advocating for, when put into practice, is NOT a positive thing; itâs an extremely scary thing!
I can guarantee that you would be very, very upset if another event like LJ Strikethrough were to happen today because *you* are just as vulnerable as the rest of us! If you support the rights of marginalized groups of people, if youâre a slash or fem slash shipper, if you support gender identities that arenât defined by biological sex, if you care about representation, if you support women, if you have any kind of kink, if you care about fandom in any capacity beyond its eradication, YOU DO NOT ACTUALLY WANT THE SORT OF CENSORSHIP YOUâRE ADVOCATING!!
People were terrified during Strikethrough. Â I was there. Â Communities were being shut down, individual users were being shut down. Â People were losing access to their own fics, their feedback, their comments â a LOT went on in comments on LJ. Â Think more coherent reblogs, much more personal, very widespread. Â Comments were also very important, and in terms of networking/communicating, were absolutely critical. Â
LJ was, for many people, central. Â
It was a fundamental part of the infrastructure of fandom at the time. Â
Having it attacked, having parts of your fandomâs territory just deleted like that, was very very scary.  People didnât know who was next.  Every day, the list of stricken journals grew.  And not all of them came back, not all of them recovered their content.  Some people even voluntarily deleted their content as a form of protest.  It was a bad time.
You do not have to interact with fic that grosses you out or makes you uncomfortable.  Tagging is a thing.  And even outside of tags, you are responsible for curating your own fandom experience.  It is not right to expect it to be curated for you.  And it is not right to lash out when someone refuses to do so and expects you to walk away from things that do not concern you.
I was gonna say âthings that donât harm anyoneâ but I realize you can argue that.  If you get triggered, thatâs upsetting.  That could be considered harm.  And I have sympathy for that.  I do.
I have run across fic that triggered me. Â I have pretty specific triggers, and people donât always think to warn for them because they arenât that big a deal for a lot of people. Â Or itâs sort of bundled into kink and is presumed, that if youâre okay with certain kinds of kink, youâre okay with this. Â So Iâve been blindsided by it before. Â And it sucks for a couple of days while I get over it.
That was not the fault of the authors! You could argue that tagging should have been used, and maybe it should, but ultimately thatâs not an ironclad obligation. Â Itâs a tool people provide out of courtesy.
That was not the fault of the site! Â The site is there to give authors a way to make fiction available, not to judge each work and interrogate its validity and make sure everything is tagged so that nobody has to see anything bad, ever.
That was not even my fault! Â It was my responsibility to try to curate my experience, and I tried, but it wasnât my fault because I didnât deliberately set out to trigger myself.
When I get triggered, unless it is by a deliberate act, it is actually the fault of the people who hurt me in the first place! And I refuse to let them off the hook and blame perfectly innocent people who just wanna write their fanfiction! I may hate that fanfiction, but that is irrelevant to the question of whether or not people should be allowed to post whatever they want.
Also, some people cope by writing about fucked-up shit.  My best friend in the whole wide world has shared her fic with me, and HOO BOY it is messed up. She wrote it during a time in her life when she was in and just coming out of a horrifically abusive relationship.  I mean, it was exactly the kind of relationship all of us here on Tumblr love to hate.  She was married to a shitty, abusive man who preyed on someone younger than he was and used his influence over her to treat her in a way that would be right at home in that Lundy Bancroft book Why Does He Do That? He was a real rapist, a verified grade-A bad fuckinâ guy.  (She was lucky to escape.  I have immense respect for her.)  And she wrote some fucked up fic to deal with it, and she shared it, and people were invested in it.  And because this was early 2000â˛s, she had to host it on a foreign server and cover her tracks, because at that time no-place was safe to post it.
âYeah, but if sheâs writing it for therapy, she doesnât have to post it where other people might have to see it!â I hear you say.
But like ⌠what the hell??? âShut up, donât talk about it, itâs bad to talk about these things, because these things are bad!â is something used against folks with trauma.
âThis isnât good for me, I canât talk about this, I canât be your audience for this,â thatâs fine, those are boundaries that people with trauma use to defend themselves. Â You should learn to say those things! Â It will help you!
But expecting other people to never create and share art about trauma is just so thunderously oppressive I lack the ability to fully articulate it.
And nobody should have to disclose their history of trauma to prove their motives are pure or virtuous enough for their speech to be protected.  Iâve only really been able to openly say âI was assaulted, it was traumatic, I am a little fucked up from itâ for the past couple of years, tops.  I couldnât talk about it before that.  Couldnât!  And it was over 20 years ago!
I also believe, very firmly, that you donât need a history of abuse to find writing really messed-up shit satisfying, or to find reading it cathartic. Â I believe 100% in the freedom of creative expression, and the freedom to read whatever fucked up shit you want to read.
All yâall fandom youngsters can spit nails all you want over gross rape fic, incest fic, whatever.
Fine, I donât like it either!
But that fucked up shit? Â That fucked up shit helped carve out the spaces we have today. Â You donât have to like it, but campaigning to get it deleted, harassing content creators, calling people rapists and pedophiles who have never done and would never ever do such a thing, that is not the way to improve the world, it doesnât keep actual kids or teens or assault/rape victims safe. Â It wouldnât have made me feel safe when I was 16 and didât want what was going on. Â It doesnât make me feel safe now. Â I can say with the perspective of someone 24 years away from that event, it doesnât make the world safer for people like I was. Â It actually makes it worse.
Learn to steer clear of the messed-up stuff you donât like.  Itâs a skill, you get better with practice.  Have someone else vet stuff for you if you need help doing it now.
Everything that is sketchy and gross is not criminal, and writing about a thing is not morally the same as doing it. Â Please stop acting like writing about an adult and a teenager having really questionable, gross sex is as bad as the actual registered sex offender they caught hanging around an actual elementary school two neighborhoods over from mine, just trying to talk to the kids. Â The former is, at most, in poor taste, and potentially triggering to abuse victims. Â The second makes me want to vomit because even though he was just talking, that guy was gearing up to try something and create another abuse victim. Â A g a i n. Â
The first can be avoided because it is imaginary and you, an adult, have power over your back button so that you donât have to witness harm to imaginary people.  The second, those very real kids had to rely on real adults and real law enforcement to keep them safe from very real assault.  (It worked!  The neighborhood rallied!  He was arrested for violating parole!)
Pretty sure Sleazebag McDongface didnât read some gross NC-17 Draco/Lucius fic before deciding to harm an actual human being. Â Pretty sure not having read it didnât keep him from doing it. âCause he fuckinâ did it. Â And he would have done worse. But actual people stopped him.
I get wanting to protect victims when so many of us are victims ourselves, but man, going after fiction is not the way to do it.
An author is not a perpetrator. Â Stop trying to make those things synonymous in the minds of other fans, and in the minds of other recovering victims.
Iâm a crone who also lived through strikethrough, and all y'all young fans need to read this and understand it if you donât want history to repeat itself someday.
Hereâs the thing, also: it doesnât stop with fic about objectionable stuff.
If you have a website with TOS that includes any kind of âobjectionable contentâ rules, there will be parties who will use those rules to try to silence other people whom they want silenced.
Letâs look at the alt-right and MRA movements today, or GamerGate a few years ago. What is one of their primary weapons? They report black or feminist or really any leftist YouTube channels (or Twitter accounts, or whatever) whose message they donât like and claim those channels are are violating TOS by posting hate speech or incitations to violence or whatever bullshit they can come up with, in an attempt to silence those channels.
When Anita Sarkeesian of Feminist Frequence came under fire for starting a crowdfunding endeavor to fund the production of her Tropes vs. Women in Video Games series of videos, male gamers tried to get her KickStarter and various social media accounts shut down by reporting her for for hate speech and promoting terrorism.
Luckily, that became a big enough story that the dudes failed and their efforts backfired. But a lot of times, these tactics work.
How do I know this? Because it happened to me. Not over major shit like the examples above, but over something completely petty.
Back in the mid-to-late 90s, before LiveJournal really became the place for fandom, before FF.net was really a thing, you had to create your own personal website on whatever free webhost you could find (GeoCities was popular, but there were others) if you wanted to host your fic somewhere.
And back then, TV studios and book authors were still sending their lawyers after people who wrote fanfic, issuing cease and desist letters to not only the authors, but also to their webhosts.
At the time, I was writing perfectly het Mulder/Scully fanfic. No rape, no pedophilia, no slash. Maybe a little BDSM. But largely it was unobjectionable.
Then the 8th season of X-Files started, David Duchovny decided he only wanted to be involved part-time, and the show decided to bring in another male character. The fandom lost their shitâas fandoms doâover the idea of âreplacingâ Mulder blah blah blah.
One of the most popular fanfic mailing listsâone that had previously had no restrictions on what characters or pairings could be postedâdecided that if you wrote fanfic involving this character, you were no longer welcome. Well, this was the mailing list with all the readers. Sure, authors could go to other mailing lists, but they wouldnât have exposure to the sort of readership this other list boasted.
I spoke out, saying that this change was unfair to fic authors and that the moderator of this list was behaving in a pretty vile way. The moderator and her friends took aim at me and began a campaign of harassment, and a few days later, suddenly my website with my XF fanfic was TOSed because someone had reported it. So was the next site I tried to create to host my fic, and the one after that.
Thanks to the way AO3s TOS are constructed, that sort of shit doesnât happen now. I can speak up if I need to, and while I may receive harassment on my various social media accounts, thereâs no chance they can have my fic taken down just because they have an agenda and donât like me for reasons not relating to my fic.
So yeah, AO3â˛s rules protect fic a lot of us might find objectionable. But they also protect fic that is in no way objectionable from being targeted by unrelated harassment campaigns. And since any of us could find ourselves in the sights of those sort of campaigns at any time, we need to thank our lucky stars for that.
I like this last addition.
When I helped write the ToS for AO3, I wasnât primarily thinking about strikethrough. I was primarily thinking of FFN, where so many people post things that are technically against the ToS but that the community tolerates. Any time someone gets pissed off, they can go on a grudge-reporting spree and target their enemyâs work. Often, that means guys targeting slash or Twilight fic because itâs âfor girlsâ and thus sucks. Sometimes, itâs one ship vs. another. I was also thinking of Miss Scribe and all of that other Harry Potter fandom drama. (And if you think fans are above destroying an entire archive just to strike at one enemy, think again!)
We canât force people to like each other. We canât force people to be nice to each other. But we could take away fandom bulliesâ favorite tools.
So we did.
Watching young (ostensibly liberal) bloggers and fans take up the deeply conservative rhetoric and moral crusading of the right wing and evangelical groups from the 90s has been both fascinating from an anthropological perspective, and fucking horrifying for someone who lived through this time period and the death of LJ. Â
This thread keeps getting better.
It galls me to think that those of us who went through all this shit might have to go through it again because people who were still in primary school at the time donât see anything wrong with harassing us over
Like, I hate to pull this argument, but we are your fandom elders, we did what we did to preserve fandom for y'all, so y'all would have space to safely explore the sane things we did and still do. And in doing so we rightly realized that if we wanted to protect the comfortable, cuddly parts, we also needed to protect the dark parts.
You can hate non-con fic all you want, and I will always advocate for adequate tagging/warning (especially with franchises that are aimed at younger audiences, e.g. MLP:FIM and SU) so that you donât have to see it because I sympathize, but I will never support people who want to make sure that it isnât even there to be seen. Iâve been through that once. It didnât help anyone. It didnât fix anything.
Please, learn to curate your own online experience. You are responsible for not clicking, or clicking away. Donât try to force others to do it for you. Thatâs not cool. You arenât protecting children. You are asking fandom to treat everyone like a child. There is a massive difference.
Man of the moment Keanu Reeves has shown his generosity by giving away ÂŁ50 million of his earnings from the Matrix sequels. The 38-year-old decided to hand over the money to the unsung heroes of the sci-fi blockbusters - the costume and special effects teams.
*fistbump*
Confirmed. Heâs also dumped millions into cancer research. I really do love Keanu Reeves a lot.
Keanu Reeves is like the nicest person. He still lives in an apartment/flat and he gives most of his money away to charities and people who need it. He even invites some paparazzi people to sit down and eat with him when heâs at a coffee shop or restaurant. Heâs such a nice person.
When I was working on the UWS, one of my delivery guys accidentally backed his scooter into a parked car in front of the restaurant. I went out to help, since the driver didnât speak much English, and it turned out the car belonged to Keanu Reeves. He helped us pick the scooter up, and when I asked if we could exchange insurance information (because the front of the car was pretty banged up), he kept telling us not to worry about it and put his hand on the driverâs shoulder and said âI just want to make sure youâre okay, man. Are you okay?â And he was so sincere about it and so kind that I decided in that moment I would always defend Keanu Reeves at all costs. He is an excellent man.
I need to be more like Keanu Reeves because Iâm evil compared to him.
âNext few centuriesâ
Keanu dropping hints that he is an immortal.
i love keanu reeves
My wife and I were dining at Nobuâs in Honolulu and sitting across from us was Keanu or at least I thought it was. We kept talking about whether it was him or not and finally, I decided to throw some old school Bill & Ted at him.
I stood up and threw my arms up into the motion of an air guitar, my wife is begging me to sit back down, and I pointed at the guy who may be Keanu Reeves, and said, âMost Excellent.â
He stood up and did it back at me. Then we both had a moment and pointed at each other. I sent him another of whatever it was he was drinking. It was a cucumber sake martini. That was the end of it.
Or so I thought.
He left before we finished our meal. By the time we were done, dessert came that we didnât order. We thought, âoh, must be compliments of the chef.â Then the bill never came. When we asked for it, our waitress said Keanu Reeves took care of it.
IT WAS REALLY HIM. And he left a note. It said, âthanks for the refresh. Keanu.â
When I finally saw him again years later, because of work. I brought it up. Then he air guitar and said, âmost excellent. I remember. At Nobuâs. Thanks for the drink.â We chatted a bit and I got an autograph for my mum because sheâs a huge Keanu fan. Then that was that.
What a moment.
An angel
And he does a lot of anti human trafficking work iirc. Seems like a really awesome guy.
Back when I first moved to NYC, I got a job as a theater usher. We were all young, 18-20 or so, and it was heavily impressed upon us that we needed to treat the theatergoers with TOTAL respect at ALL times or risk our jobs. As such, we were all totally underprepared for the drunk guy who tried to steal a bottle of wine from the lobby bar during intermission. We were trying to politely get the bottle back, but he was growing loud and belligerent. Since the second act was now starting, this was a countdown to all of us being in trouble.Â
Then Keanu walks up. Calmly charms the guy. Slips the usher behind the bar cash to cover the bottle, without the guy even noticing, and walks him back in to his seat like itâs a normal thing he does every day. He didnât know the guy, didnât know any of us, but effortlessly deescalated the situation and quite probably saved some jobs that night.Â
Just a wandering do-gooder, this man.
#everything iâve ever heard anecdotally about keanu reeves #further convinces me that he is the chillest immortal #like heâs probably just spent centuries donating blood instead of drinking it (via @revolutionarygirlshati)
My favorite Gordon Ramsay moment is when his food was too slow so he took a jog and then fell asleep
Fullmetal Alchemist AU where everythingâs the same except Ed makes up stupid stories as to why he lost his arm and leg and theyâre different every time someone asks.Â
ex: âI got attacked by a sharkâ âI stubbed my toe and decided I didnât want it anymoreâ âI went through a steampunk phaseâ âSheep are vicious when theyâre hungryâ âSquirrelsâ
ây-you have an automail arm and leg⌠youâyou must have committed the ult-â
âdid you know horses are omnivorous? youâd think they just eat grass and weeds but thatâs what they want you to thinkâ
@takashi0 so it was YOU who took his limbs!
That punk-ass dwarf canât prove anything.
Your blog is a blessing~ :) Baby Ben is too cute.
Seems like some time baby Ben can turn evil too.Â
Ahhhhhhhhhhhh cutieeeee
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Antis: Shaladins are such nasty fetishists who ship gay people irl just for their OTP, theyâre such nasty fujos & racist yaoi-obsessed creeps!
Anti: OMG GUYS, check out this secret video I filmed of my white classmates!!! Theyâre basically Klance even though theyâre both white!! KLANCE WHITESONAS!!!! KYAAAA, THEYâRE SO GAY TOGETHER~.
Antis: KYAAAAA OTP!!!!
Shaladins:
EDIT: Censored the faces.
antis out here calling us homophobic and gross for shipping fictional people when theyâre literally out here shipping their male classmates together
no offense but what kind of actual freak do you have to be to secretly film and take pictures of your classmates and put them on twitter for your stupid internet friends to see so u can yell about how u ship them and tell them to âget married alreadyâ just bc theyâre two boys wearing red and blue shirts sitting next to each other!! like in what world is this not a fucking creepy thing to do!! this isnât what we meant when we told u to go outside!! leave the real people alone and go back to salivating over fictional ships
Watch as they now scramble to delete every single post in an attempt to pretend nothing ever happened.
@sheikofthesheikah Time taken: around less than a minute.
Must be a new record for antis!
Have you seen the 'voltron season 3 in a nutshell' video? Because you should.
a;dfj I WAS JUST POSTING THIS IN OUR SERVER. ITâS SO WORTH IT:
Oohhhh MYYY goooddd, Iâm only gonna say it once y'all..
Aging up characters for sexual purposes IS pedophilia because it means you thought âhey, this child is sexually appealing to me but I donât wanna seem like Iâm being wrong and illegal.. Letâs hide that by saying theyâre 18+!!â And then you wrote your gross âcollege smutâ
It doesnât fucking matter if that was your thought process or not because thatâs STILL. WHAT. IT. IS.
I was a child once, so my boyfriend is a pedophile
Thinking about fictional characters. We meet them at a certain time in their life and wonder what theyâll be like at later points or what they were like a earlier points.
We grow up and want them to grow up with us.
Gravity Falls came out in 2012 and is set in the summer of 2012. The characters are 12 going on 13. So in summer of 2018 theyâll be 18 going on 19 and so will any 12 year olds that started watching the series when it first came out.
Those 12 year olds grew up and are young adults going to college. They wonder what the characters they related to then are like now and project themselves onto the characters.
Of course, sometimes it is just being more comfortable shipping adults than children. I always thought Ang and Katara was a bit creepy. Sheâs like 15 and heâs 12 and I never got the idea of wanting to date a 12 year old or even a 13 year old at 15/16.
Ang in LoK is freaking HOT at 40! And is heâs that attractive at 40, imagine what he looked like in his 20s?
So yeah Iâd rather ship a 20 year old and a 23 year old and see that than imagine a 12 year old kissing a 15 year old.
But not wanting to think about a 12 year old dating is somehow pedophilia?
Nobody tell the Harry Potter fandom, with all those explicit fics that take place after the books end and the characters in question are adultsâmany of which were written while the books were still being published
Also youâre strictly forbidden from looking at photos of your adult partner as a child and thinking they were a cute kid
Just Anti Things: this thing that is literally the opposite of pedophilia is pedophilia, amirite?
things fans Love: animated female characters
things fans Hate: actual women working in animation
this is the truthful brew
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