By The Way, Being Anti-censorship Means I Believe You Should Have A Space To Speak Your Mind And Create

By the way, being anti-censorship means I believe you should have a space to speak your mind and create content, not that I am obligated to give you my space to speak your mind and create content.

Fandom confession blogs are an instant block for me because 99% of the time they are solely created to create and fuel fandom drama and intra-community arguments.

"I just want to give people a space to speak honestly!"

No. You want to watch people argue with each other and spew controversial opinions that cause even more arguments. You're peddling conflict as entertainment.

Just know that all the time you take typing out huge hate rants on my posts is wasted on me. It takes me less than 10 seconds to delete it and I never think about it again.

omg so true about the 911 thing!! don’t they get exhausted?? I’m certainly exhausted by seeing them blast fics they don’t agree with continuously

I can honestly say its reached the point where if I see a discourse post about 911's fans and fan content, I know its a Madney blog before I even look at the URL.

Its perfectly fine to generally disagree with what someone has written, or to dislike what they have written. But the solution to that is to simply move on and not read it. Everyone would happier that way.

Fanfiction is like food. Its personal. Everyone has different tastes. If someone is eating food or making food you don't like, you are under no obligation to eat it and you certainly have no right to demand that they stop cooking/eating.

No, because this time you've actually made an interesting and worthwhile discussionary point. Amusing petulance aside.

The language used in the post is not intentionally invasive. Its a reflection of actual terminology and laguange used by people of a similar opposing mindset to you. AO3 is the 'freak website.' The place where 'everything is gross.' Where you automatically must be suspicious or a degenerate if you're found to be using it.

"Why are the freaks taking over AO3" is a common complaint point amongst people who oppose specific types of content and subjects. The point of the post I made, and the language used, is to correct the fact that the 'freaks' have always been there. The actual creator of AO3 writes Wincest (an incestual ship from Supernatural) and specifically created the website in order to protect fanfiction from censorship.

Not least, if you're going to insist on calling people like me freaks, I'm going to brandish that label proudly. Its no different to reclaiming insults and slurs aimed at you. You want to call me a freak and call my content gross and icky and wrong? Sure. I'm a freak that writes gross, icky incestual monsterfucking smut.

And by god, I'm proud of it.

The language used in the post was intentional only in regards to being structured to reflect the types of complaints and false information and opposing posts that I see often. You're welcome to interpret it otherwise, but in any case, in order to appease you, here:

AO3 is actively and intentionally a safe space for people to create fictional content, regardless of what that content might depict, including rape, bestiality, incest, pedophilia, grooming, monsterfucking, necrophilia and so forth.

AO3 is, has been, and will always be the site for those people. People who are not automatically pedophiles or 'evil' because they wrote a fictional scenario. People who engage with the right to creative freedom.

People the law has actively sided with. Because, might I remind you, the FBI has actively told people to stop reporting fanfiction and fanart because it does not violate the law.

People have questioned lawyers, solicitors and local police services and have all been told that it does not break the law.

(And, yes, something can be both legal and still immoral, but fictional crimes can't be immoral because they don't actually exist.)

Not least, AO3 is the literal physical dead dove bag. AO3 actively warns you that, in using it, you understand and agree to the presence of specific content types and subjects. By using AO3 you're actively saying you agree to co-existing in the same space with it/them.

Its like me walking into a sushi restaurant to order pork udon and being pissed off because someone on the table next to me is eating sushi.

If AO3 was breaking the law with what it was hosting, it would simply be shut down or forced to remove the content. As it stands, guess what? It isn't and it hasn't been.

It is a pretty interesting subject, though. Your original point, I mean. I did digress a little, I apologise. However; the main point is that the language used in the post was merely an active response to that exact language being used in posts opposing AO3 and its rules on anti-censorship. Because its explicitly ironic that you're demanding a website solely structured on anti-censorship to... Censor itself.

Its like going to a steak house and demanding they only serve vegan dishes. (Which is another restaurant simile, sorry, but I went to an amazing sushi restaurant today and now they're on my mind, so.)

TL;DR: If you call me a freak and use 'gross stuff' as a pipeline to try to dictate what people can and can't write (because yes, people have actively said you can't write about twinks because its 'basically pedophilia') I'm going to tell you I am happily a freak and you can pry my 'gross stuff' out of my cold, dead hands.

No but everything you said about that part of the 911 fandom is true. My friend had a very bad breakdown due to how they (and anonymous others after then) treated her for the past year. Diagnosed with depression and anxiety and everything. (Im saying this with her permission, obv.) All of it could have been avoided by people just blocking and moving on, instead of attacking and inciting discourse because of a difference of opinion of one scene. Etiquette just thrown out the window…

Unfortunately, its something I've noticed is heavily prevalent in fandoms where the source material is based on reality and realism. The majority of fans are incredibly rigid in how they interact with the source material and how they police other people's interactions and interpretations.

I can understand how fans of a mixed couple and a POC character would feel protective over preserving the canon state of the relationship and characterisations, but when it comes at the expense of the well-being of actual people, that's where I draw the line.

Witch-hunting users, creating "private" servers to trash authors, inciting harassment and witch-hunting online are all behaviors I've seen and I've seen prominently. And I'm not saying they're the only culprits within the fandom, but there is definitely a significant amount of them partaking.

Its unfortunate because honestly, if they didn't try to burn everything they dictated unworthy, people would be a lot more willing to just leave them alone. There wouldn't be half the spite-written fics and retaliations. Its an endless cycle.