I Know That It Seems Funny, But Please Stop Bringing Overly Sexual And Invasive Signs To Concerts. Especially

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.

Guys, if you read on AO3 please try to create an account. So many of us writers are going to be forced to lock down our fics to registered users out of necessity to help keep AI away, and it kills us because we don’t want to stop any of you from reading.

AO3 is invite only. So if you know an AO3 user, ask if they have an invitation to give you (we’re given invite codes to share with others who want to join) because that’s an easy way to get in. If you don’t know someone you can ask, this is AO3’s instructions for requesting one from them…

I know this seems like an extra step and maybe you don’t think you need it and can just read from people who haven’t locked their fics. But this isn’t just about you as the reader. If you enjoy fics and you want to keep them coming, this is how you support your favorite writers! If our stats and comments plummet, I guarantee writing is going to start going down as well. Nobody wants that! So please consider making an account and signal boosting this as well! 🙏🏻

**NOTE: AO3 indicates (as of today) there’s 48k some people in the queue for invites and they’re sending out about 5k per day. That’s not a bad wait at all!!**

Have you perhaps ever wondered why an alternate AO3 using its open-access structure and code hasn't been created yet?

I mean, if you're so opposed to AO3 and its policies and its literal purpose, instead of spending all your time trying to infiltrate it and report it and push everyone 'icky' off of it... Surely, you'd instead put even half that effort into supporting and creating a fanfiction site where none of the stuff you oppose is permitted?

Someone had to make AO3. Someone had to design its policies and consult with legal teams and create a business structure and pyramid of duty. Its evidently possible to do so.

So.... Why haven't you done it yet? I genuinely am curious.

For all the discussions I see from 'antiship' people about AO3 itself and how it needs to be purged or removed or changed or what have you, I don't think I've ever actually seen even a fraction of discussions revolving around either supporting another existing website, or creating an entirely new one.

Honestly if anyone tries to tell you the racism and antisemitic overtones in the Harry Potter books were accidental, remind them she is a fan of Matt Walsh.

As in, Matt “women are most fertile at 16 and teen pregnancy is only an issue because men aren’t responsible enough to marry them” Walsh.

Matt “abortion is evil and arranged marriage is great” Walsh.

Matt “besties with Ben Shapiro and part of alt right news site The Daily Wire” Walsh.

That guy.

JKR isn’t a feminist. She isn’t even a lib. She’s an alt-right Tory.

The film she’s referring to is Matt Walsh’s “What Is A Woman” which if you’re so unlucky you may have seen trailers of the past couple years on YouTube. It’s more or less just him asking queer people to define what it means to be a woman and getting mad at the answers they give before cutting to him narrating why this is delusional nonsense destroying western society or whatever. The whole thing is predictably disingenuous as you may expect, but what’s most important here is this:

“What Is A Woman” is a film you can watch only on the daily wire’s website, and (at least at the time these tweets were made) was only viewable if you were a paying subscriber.

Let me say that again with emphasis,

JKR is, or has been, subscribed to at least one alt-right propaganda site.

You don’t just accidentally stumble upon that, and even if you did, you wouldn’t stay there long enough to pay them money if you were a feminist because half the weirdos who post on the daily wire post anti-feminist garbage, and I’m not even just talking about the forced birth whining or whatever, Brett Cooper has stated before that she would rather lose her right to vote than lose the right to own firearms. Ben Shapiro is a rampant slut shamer. Jordan Peterson spews incel rhetoric CONSTANTLY.

So can we, if but for a moment, stop pretending the ONLY criticism of JKR is that she’s transphobic. It’s not. It isn’t. This isn’t even the only alt-right creep she’s on friendly terms or even openly a fan of. If you want a full commentary on JKR flirting with the alt-right, there’s a video here with screen shots and such. Most if not all of the tweets are still up if you want to verify that this guy didn’t just make them in photoshop.

And if you want some specific examples of the blatant racism, fatphobia, pro-authoritarian, transphobia, homophobia, and good old fashioned misogyny in the Harry Potter books that you can point to the next time a TERF starts a tirade about how JKR is actually GIRLBOSS FEMINIST or whatever to remind them that she isn’t JUST transphobic, there is a very long and extensive video that covers the basics so you don’t have to re-read all of the books just to prove to yourself you didn’t imagine all of that bigotry.

I was actually going to make a compilation of all of this myself before I happened upon these videos in my recommended list on YouTube, I won’t look a gift horse in the mouth here.

[neither video requires looking at the screen as it is just audio commentaries with any images included just being supplemental]

(By full shift I mean think of the werewolves from Twilight as an example.)