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I reblog/post about tomarry/harrymort. I would apologize for that, but I feel nothing. This is not a safespace. I have been abandoned by all gods, old and new. ❤️❤️

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Hello Boys, Girls, And Everything In Between! Today, We Have A Very Special Lesson Called: How Not To

Hello boys, girls, and everything in between! Today, we have a very special lesson called: How not to be a shitty on Ao3!

Above us we have a very interesting comment! Why is it interesting? Well let me tell you!

Archiveofourown has a very very wonderful thing called filters, and what it does is that it keeps everything you don't want to read from kinks, genders, ships, or anything that maybe harmful to the reader away from the readers line of sight.

Now, presently, we always will have an issue of people not always tagging correctly. If you do come across fanfiction that isn't tagged properly, please let the author know, and if they refuse to change it, do not hesitate to report them.

Now, and this may come across as a shock to some people, if a story is tagged with a certain ship, kink, etc; then it probably has said things in it! O my googly moogly it's such a strange phenomenon.

The picture above me is an example of someone reading a properly tagged BL story. They proceeded to read this lovely story, and instead of either stopping, they went to the very end just to slap these words together and call it a compliment! It is not. It hurts the writers feelings. It's unnecessary.

We don't need to know that you hate the ship. We don't need a kiss at the end of said insult. The only thing that goes through our heads is, "Why even read it?".

So remember, it's okay not to like a ship, kink, story layout, plot, or anything non Canon. But do not take the effort on going through the filters you know you'll hate just to leave things like this on someone's hard work.

Thank you very much for coming to today's lesson. Until next time. Ciao!