As Far As The Audience Goes, Ao3 Is Also A Space Where People Who Enjoy Reading Whatever Ridiculous Kinky

As far as the audience goes, ao3 is also a space where people who enjoy reading whatever ridiculous kinky nonsense they want won't be constantly wondering when the next purity purge will kill 90% of their favorites list. It's a space where people who find comfort and community in darkfic - for reasons that are none of anyone else's business, as they often have to do with highly personal shit that you're not entitled to hear and examine before you deem someone else Acceptable for reading Those Things - don't have to worry that any day they could wake up and find that, once again, the stuff that speaks to them has been deemed gross and unnacceptable, and purged from the fanfiction site.

It's a space that acknowledges that the stories that speak to you might not be the stories that speak to someone else - but both of you can read and write the stories you want to see, without either of you being censored for it.

Things that you find unpleasant or damaging to read might be very important to someone else for reasons that have nothing to do with the things you find harmful about it.

And equally important: The stories that you find most important and comforting and meaningful to you? They might be unpleasant or boring or gross or harmful to read for someone else, for reasons you didn't even notice and aren't obligated to notice, just because someone else doesn't like those stories.

Just as the people who like the stories you find most gross and upsetting aren't obligated to engage with what you don't like about them, if those stories bring them comfort and meaning that they need.

But both of you get to read and write and post your stories, and even if there aren't great tags you can still choose to click out of a story you've started and move on to something else that better suits your taste, if you happened to click on the wrong one first.

no but how much audacity and sheer entitlement do you have to have to tell people they need to stop posting their darkfic and porn fic and any other fic you don’t like to ao3 so you can have a safe space when ao3 was literally created as a safe space for writers to post their content without fear of it being randomly wiped out by pro-censorship assholes with an agenda like what has happened to plenty of other fic archives before?

“but a lot of us see ao3 as a safe space to get away from that kind of nasty content” - lol you can see the middle of a busy interstate as a safe space all you want too but that doesn’t mean that you get to walk into the road and scream at all the cars going by that they’re the ones infringing on your safe space either

ao3 is not, has never been, and will never be a site meant for nothing but children’s stories. you can “see it” like that as much as you want but there’s a difference between fiction and reality and that view of what ao3 is like is as fictional as the stories posted on it.

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