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My new favorite act of warfare is going on Instagram and commenting babygirl on posts involving Billy Hargrove. As we speak I have 16 pending message requests from positively incensed white girls.

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.

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?

The sequel ‘Skull Measuring for beginners’ is scheduled for 2025.

You cannot expect people to curate their own online spaces if you're too lazy to give them what they need to do so.

Tag your content. Use content markers and warnings. Appropriately warn for things and use trigger warning and statements.

You cannot expect people to be able to avoid your content if you're not giving them the functions they physically need in order to be able to. Its like telling someone who's allergic to peanut butter to just 'not eat any' then refusing to tell them which things have peanut butter in them.