Hi, I Saw Your Post About Ao3 So I Figured That You May Know More About This Than I Do. I'm A Bit Conflicted

Hi, I saw your post about ao3 so I figured that you may know more about this than I do. I'm a bit conflicted about continuing to use and support it, cause I keep seeing people say that the creators of it are pedos? And that we shouldn't support them, but I haven't been able to find any evidence for this. So I just wanted to know if you have any ideas about this because I don't. Thank you.

Alright buckle in as I yeet myself into the inferno

The people calling the creators of AO3 pedos are basically toddlers stomping their feet because the siterunners aren’t engaging in censorship at their demand. AO3 hosts content that depicts pedophilic relationships, and the only time they step in is if a work hasn’t been tagged with warnings properly.

The toddlers are cranky about this because they don’t think they should be responsible for their own internet experience, and they think they ought to be allowed to dictate what people can and cannot read/write. So they make attacks against the PEOPLE who run AO3 because they know it’s much harder to disprove those sorts of accusations than it is to do any real work on their own internet experience.

Here’s the thing: these people who don’t like that AO3 doesn’t censor content? They could run their own archive! AO3’s parent organization, the Organization for Transformative Works (OTW), has made the code that AO3 is based on completely available to the public!! That’s the tagging system, the site skins, everything. But the angry anti toddlers don’t want to have to spend money and work to build their own sandbox, they want to be the tyrant in OTW’s, stomping around destroying people’s sand castles.

So essentially these are purity police who think that anyone who creates or consumes content that is problematic are instantly monsters. This is a failure of critical thinking. Real adults are able to tell the difference between fiction and reality, and can enjoy something fictional without enacting it in reality.

Now if you’re thinking “well idk why AO3 wouldn’t want to ban pedophilic works” let me put this little thought exercise down for you: Say AO3 does make said content a bannable offense. What’s to prevent antis from abusing the reporting system to go on personally motivated crusades against specific authors, or specific tropes? What’s to prevent homophobic fans (and I guarantee they exist) from using that reporting system to brigade against all slash fic?

The Archive and the OTW would either have to create a bot that would probably not work very well to evaluate these reports, or they would have to find scads of volunteers who would be willing and able to slog through every report sent to the system.

I’m not very good at coming to conclusions but essentially this boils down to “don’t like, don’t read” (aka MIND YOUR BUSINESS) and “the back button exists for a reason, as well as every warning the archive allows authors to use.” If you have another question and you don’t mind the way I answered this one, please feel free to ask!

Just a thought

sometimes you need to keep reminding yourself that just because it’s a storm out there does not mean it will never be alright again. 

Nothing is permanent or eternal. And you might not see the benefit or purpose yet but that does not mean that it has none.

identity crisis

all these years I have been good at academics and didn’t have any other hobby or extra-curricular that I pursued, well except for my love for reading novels ( now web-novels or fanfics). Somehow it became my identity, always my name and the comment, “she is good in studies”. 

Now everybody expects but I find myself drained. Now when the most important exam of my career is here, my drive and determination is gone. I am so damn scared that it has paralysed me so much so that I am running from my studies. Once the raven who fought so hard for her right to study is actively avoiding it. I find myself lost and alone. 

I know there are many like me who were defined by their academic achievements and perhaps now without it, are floundering. I don’t have much words to say to you, what can I say when I myself am....now even the words fail me. 

I let the people get to me, their words building me up or tearing me apart. Their opinions embedded in me, shredding my soul. Sometimes darkness creeps into me, I find myself guarding the light in me. Everyday is a battle. But it is a battle I intend to win. 

There are things I need to do, places I wish to explore, hope and faith is keeping me going. I don’t just want to survive. I want to live and live and live. 

Once you’ve accepted your flaws, no one can use them against you.

Tyrion Lannister (via quotemadness)

The bravest man in The Untamed is actually this guy right here casually rocking up to Jiang Cheng and poking him in the stab wound.

How to say I love you: a guide by Jiang Cheng

Threaten to break their leg when they do something dangerous

Never say that you care about them

Give them a lovey dovey smile when you are sure they are not looking

Activate zidian if anyone says anything bad about them

Threaten them with your sister's soup

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