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[dramioneshipperz]

i left twitter a while back and i only just heard about what happened with the community. i’m glad everyone is finally standing up and i hope ur okay❤️

Hey anon,

Thank you so much for checking in. I’m doing much better now and I’m also glad people are calling out everyone who contributed. It is also a huge reason why my fanfiction updates were slower. 🫶🏻

I also ended up deactivating from Twitter and deleting the OG Riara community a few weeks ago. It was a really difficult decision considering it was home to so many Riara shippers before everything happened.

I’m also glad things are coming out about the group of individuals that not only helped shape such a negative fandom space, but also bullied countless people. The amount of stories and people coming forward is so sad. It goes far beyond just a lack of fandom decorum.

My experience with them was hostile and negative. Having that many people going after me for calling out negativity was a lot for anyone to deal with—especially considering my whole goal was to create a safe and positive Riara community.

This all happened because I called out toxic fandom behavior from an extremely negative person with a large platform. Because I suggested she try cultivating a positive space for OBX and Riara shippers.

The reaction I was met with was shaming writers, ageism, harassment, countless pile on NGL’s about me or writing in the Riara space. It got to a point I heard people were hate reading my fanfictions as well because I decided to speak up.

I have a few people recommending I speak up on my experience too over on Twitter. If I do, I can share here too for those who don’t go on there.

For now, I’m glad I not only have my Riara discord, but also know a handful of people that are amazing still left in the Riara Twitter space.

I hope that going forward there is an opportunity to rebuild a space for everyone to safely ship Riara.

Ultimately, everyone looked for a community and murals because of the ship. That’s what we all love. And I hope that people who contributed to what I personally experienced that are now attempting to distance themselves from these people know their treatment towards others wasn’t okay either.

No one has to agree with dark themes in fanfiction. But no one should be bullied for standing up for it and writers.

[dramioneshipperz]

Fanfiction, Exploration of Dark Themes, and Puritanical Judgment

I think this is an important topic that needs to be talked about.

This is going to be a longer rant about the puritanical judgement, morality policing, and the complete lack of fandom decorum in the Outer Banks community.

Over the past few months, I’ve seen a lot of judgment, shame, and policing of fanfiction within the Outer Banks community on Twitter specifically. So much negativity, careless “critiques” framed as opinions, and a total lack of fandom decorum.

Let me be completely honest and unfiltered here. People are allowed to dislike or disagree with a fanfiction. That’s fine. What is not okay is sending death threats, spreading hate, or shaming writers (and readers) into thinking that something they enjoyed is immoral or bad.

Let me say that again.

People are sending death threats. Over fictional characters.

That goes far beyond being uncomfortable with a story.

Reading or writing fanfiction that includes dark themes does not define a person. Some corners of Twitter have completely lost the ability to separate fiction from reality.

If you don’t like something, don’t read it. It’s that simple. I’ve seen multiple people get harassed silently or publicly because they dared to write something that made people uncomfortable. Every week on Twitter, the purity police show up saying, “That’s disgusting and wrong,” as if the act of writing something is the same as committing it.

It’s not.

Writers dissect the parts of humanity people pretend don’t exist. We explore obsession, violence, guilt, and desire. Not to glorify them, but to understand them. Which is only one of many explanations.

Writing about different kinks isn’t evil. Dark tropes aren’t endorsements.

You don’t have to like it. You don’t have to read it. But people do not get to police the boundaries of someone else’s art or freedom of expression just because it made them uncomfortable.

If you don’t want to see that kind of work, block and use the filter specifically designed for it. That’s what the filtering tool is for on AO3, and blocking too.

It’s exhausting watching morally righteous people inside and outside the Riara Twitter community judge, shame, and talk negatively about fanfiction writers. I’ve been in fandom spaces for a long time, and I’ve never seen this level of hostility toward creative exploration.

I also urge people to actually look into why AO3 was created. To protect transformative works, creative freedom, and the right to explore complex or taboo themes safely and transparently.

People don’t have to like every story. People don’t have to understand every kink. But no one deserves harassment for fiction. That’s not moral righteousness—that’s cruelty disguised as virtue. It doesn't make people a "better" person to shame others.