I'm Going To Comic Con This Year And I'll Be Meeting Ian Somerhalder, Paul Wesley, David Harbour, Steven

I'm going to Comic Con this year and I'll be meeting Ian Somerhalder, Paul Wesley, David Harbour, Steven Ogg, Jamie Campbell-Bower and Matt Smith.

I know that it seems funny, but please stop bringing overly sexual and invasive signs to concerts. Especially if you know the artist is someone who's hypersexualised by the media or know they're not comfortable with being sexualised. If an artist has to call you out (even lightly) on a sexual sign, you should know you've crossed a boundary and are being inappropriate.

Signs telling them you masturbate to them, think about them while having sex, signs about how you want to touch them or things like 'cum on (my face) Harry' might be funny to you, but they're exhausting, uncomfortable and often just disappointing for the artists who are trying to have a good, fun, meaningful show and are trying to have a happy connection with their fans.

Find some other way to get noticed. Its not funny and its not fair.

We defending rpf pedo and racist fantasy fanfics on ao3 now 🥺🥺👉👈

some things shouldnt get preserved, thats how you end up with ppl getting hurt dude. Your kink is not my kink and ill mind my business until ppl start bringing actual bigotry and irl kids into it

Contrary to popular belief, arguing for the preservation of content deemed 'other' does not mean I don't have my own personal limitations on content I agree with or content I would, privately, prefer to cease existing.

Also—Fanfiction does not actively result in people getting hurt. Never once, in history, has there been a legal case where someone has explicitly stated online fanfiction directly influenced them into raping someone or harming a child.

What we are defending is the right for a space to exist on the internet that is, to some extent, immune to bias-based purging. If you're incapable of actually addressing the broader issue of the damages that content purging and bias-based regulating and censorship causes, then forgive me, but might I suggest you take a step back and do some research and exploring before you speak on the matter.

If you can't see someone talking about how censorship can and has been abused in the past in order to force people to conform to things like corporate and religious beliefs on content rights without immediately laughing at them and going whahh you want pedos to fuck kids, you're not mature enough nor possess enough understanding of the topic to get involved.

Do you know what actually gets people hurt? What actually claims lives, millions of them, every single year?

Poverty. War. Bigotry. Religion. Capitalism. Classism. Inadequate humanitarian efforts. Inadequate support systems and social structures.

If someone is going to hurt another person, they're going to do it no matter the catalyst. If someone is that mentally unwell or in that mindset, not reading Starker smut isn't going to stop them. Something else will eventually trigger that thought and action. I have never, ever read any of the fanfiction that I have over the years and thought afterward hey, lets do that in real life.

And the people who do? They're not mentally sound, and anything has the potential to trigger them into thoughts and actions. Remove fanfiction, and suddenly its the movies triggering them. So you remove the movies. And suddenly its song lyrics. Its historical footage. Its the Bible. Its their dreams.

I encourage you to broaden your understanding of why people campaign for AO3 to retain its current policies, and why even if you don't condone certain content, it is so much safer for everyone involved for it to have a space to exist where you have to actively choose to look for it in order to find it. AO3 offers a huge database of filters that can actively prevent you from seeing something. If AO3 goes, all those writers and their fics with the things you hate are just going to flock back to sites like Wattpad where its a no man's land and you can trip over underage rape fic at any given moment.

Would you rather play russian roulette, or know exactly which guns are loaded?

On one hand I do understand the concept of a job having a relative value in terms of hourly wage based on required qualifications, ect, but on the other I absolutely do not understand the way some people talk about how someone is undeserving of payment above a certain value based on what job they do.

We are literally selling hours of our lives in order to afford basic survival necessities. If we want to eat, we first have to sell hours of our lives and skills and labour. If we want to sleep in shelter, drink clean water, have access to medicine and healthcare and transport, we literally have to sell part of our lifetime to working.

And often, its not a small part. I know people for whom an 80 hour workweek is just. Normal. And they're still only just making it by. I know people who are working two jobs alongside their partner's job(s) just to afford to run a small, minimal, two-person household.

Humans aren't meant to live life like this, period. No matter your political stance or perspective on class. Absolutely everyone should be able to have a healthy balance between time spent working and time spent actually living. If you have to choose between eating, doing laundry or getting more than 5 hours sleep between shifts, there's a problem. If you're pulling 60 hour weeks and still barely affording your bills, there's a problem. If your health is declining because you have to work so much just to live, there's a problem.

If your argument is that people need to 'be worth their pay' and not that people should be paid enough that they can do more than just afford the bare basics needed to survive, you are part of the problem.

As we hit Pride Month this is a friendly reminder that fighting over a character's unconfirmed sexuality and instigating things like elitism, homophobia and bullying over contradictory opinions of said character's sexuality is not okay, was never okay, and never will be okay.

Everyone has the right to interpret a character from their perspective. Everyone has the right to interpret a character based on their personal experiences, projections and assessments.

Your opinion is not worth more or more valid than someone else's. Even if you see your own journey in that character.

Likewise, using a character in order to peddle homophobic ideals and propaganda because you believe one sexuality is elite above another is also not okay and is, frankly, just pathetic. (E.g; trying to say a character is not a 'real' lesbian because they were shown in a heterosexual relationship in the past.)

If you're projecting onto a character and it upsets you that someone else is interpreting them differently, you need to sit back and understand that that other person could well also be projecting or seeing their own journey and experiences within that character. Yours is not above theirs, and vice versa.

The concept that a lot of you don't understand is that AO3 is not just another funky little fanfiction upload site like Wattpad.

Its very specifically a content archive.

Its not a social media site. Its not like BookReads or Wattpad or the Kindle library.

Its for the preservation hosting of fanfiction. Think of it like a museum. When you upload your fanfiction there, you're basically donating it to a museum where its preserved, protected, and displayed.

That's why AO3 doesn't have the same rules and regulations as Wattpad. That's why AO3 doesn't allow for monetisation. That's why AO3 doesn't have content mining and ads and all the other stuff Wattpad does.

If you want to keep benefiting from those things, you need to understand and respect what AO3 actually is and how it functions.