I Had To Check Myself Recently Because I'm So Used To Being In Discord Servers With Vent Channels, That

I had to check myself recently because I'm so used to being in discord servers with vent channels, that when I ended up joining one *without* a vent channel, I realized Holy shit, where can I go to complain about the day-to-day things that piss me off? And I thought of your post & took a step back, like You know what? I can complain on my own time, on my own blog, or in private to a close friend who offers to listen. I can just let this server be fun.

Anyway, I think people are still furious over your post because (and forgive me if someone's said this before) the availability and reach of the internet has conditioned ppl to believe that it's acceptable/required/encouraged to vent in any space, at any time, to anyone, and that the audience should willingly receive it. It's like a form of brainwashing.

Honestly, the single major response I've gotten is people screaming that I'm an evil racist white bitch oppressing people of color because I'm asking them not to talk about genocide or police brutality in fandom spaces.

There is a huge, huge difference between stopping someone who is actually, actively being racist within a public space and asking people not to force others to constantly engage with and expose themselves to the horrors of the world, especially in spaces where they have retreated specifically to recover from those things.

Its basically like going to a wellness and recovery retreat and forcing everyone there to watch the news and read articles and watch videos about world horrors.

Almost everyone in a Discord server has profiles on other social medias. Everyone on the internet sees, willingly or not, what is happening in the world right now. We all know these things happen. We are not blind. We are not ignoring it.

When I go onto Discord and go into my silly little fandom servers, its after I've spent an hour on Tumblr on my main blog reblogging aid posts. Circulating information. Doing my best to connect people to people who can help them. Its after I've spent my lunch break at work listening to my colleagues talking about the latest knifing or child kidnapping. Its after checking Snapchat only to see headlines like MAN BRUTALLY STABS DOG IN PUBLIC PARK.

When I go into those servers, its because I need to get away from all of that. I need to have that time away where I can recover and recharge or I simply won't go online because I know there is absolutely nowhere online where I can simply enjoy something without other people grabbing me by the head and forcing me to look elsewhere at things that are horrific and upsetting.

And the thing about those spaces is they themselves need protection and moderation in order to remain safe. And you know what that means?

It means preventing racism and homophobia. It means if someone is being unpleasant, they get shut down. If someone is being bigoted, they get removed. Because they are making that space unsafe.

Literally nobody except these idiots screaming about racism are suggesting that we just outright allow racism to keep happening.

I hate Instagram

Every social media platform has muppets like these. I usually just report their comments as spam and false information then block them.

Honestly, if you get these kinds of comments on any of your posts, don't engage. Literally just delete them and block the commenter. They're looking for an argument. They're looking for an opportunity. They want to grandstand and virtue signal. Just don't let them. Trap them in their own little sandbox where they only have each other to sound off against.

Or. Y'know. You can just let people rest without also turning their need for emotional and mental respite into a massive guilt trip about activism. Again.

Its a nice sentiment, it really is, but that isn't actually rest. Reducing people's privilege and right to rest and enjoyment back down to activism and the horrors of the world literally just voids the entire purpose and nature of rest and enjoyment.

I can assure you that when I'm in those political spaces I'm already thinking about people's rights and the things I have that others do not. I do not need you dangling my respite over my head like an unreachable carrot just to make me keep running on the wheel.

I am actually begging some people to just let some spaces exist untouched by real-world issues and horrors.

Like I've lost count of the amount of times peaceful game or fandom servers have been ruined by people stampeding in with political rants, bitching about world issues, demanding internal activism, demanding vent channels so they can whine about their shitty parents, ect.

Like. Respectfully. Not every single space has to be inclusive of and welcoming of outside topics. The real world sucks. We don't needed to be reminded of that absolutely everywhere.

"AO3 is a broken site" is one hell of a way to admit you're too dumb to figure out how the filtering system works

Skill issue confirmed.

https://www.tumblr.com/myfandomrealitea/753096686405124096/ao3-was-our-site-the-site-of-scamming-people-out

Damn Anon, before speaking you must learn to read a website's TOS. AO3 does not host this kind of content. It's literally written:

The Archive of Our Own is a place for fanworks. Content may not be uploaded to OTW's servers if it contains or links to child pornography (images of real children); warez, cracks, hacks or other executable files and their associated utilities; trade secrets, restricted technologies, or classified information; or if it consists entirely of actual instruction manuals, technical data, recipes, or other non-fanwork content, including non-fanwork creative work

Unless, of course, they're talking about fanfictions with fictional characters who experience fictional events…

You and I both know very well they were talking about fictional characters who experience fictional events within fictional literature. We also both know very well they cannot read.

Anyway. Death to Wattpad and long live AO3.

What are your thoughts on aging-up stuff, even if it's sexualize? It seems somewhat divisive these days on whether it's an okay thing, a grey area thing, or just plain immoral to do so, as I always makes me feel so insecure about drawing it.

Its fiction.

People complain if you sexualise fictional minors (even if you are, also, a minor.)

People complain if you age-up fictional minors to sexualise them.

People complain if you sexualise fictional characters regardless of age.

Morals are not the governance of fiction. Do what pleases you, not what pleases others.