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xenon-demon · 1 year

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actually that post about not leaving rude comments on fics you don’t like is making me think. we need to reintroduce the term “squick” (or at least the concept) to fandom. you should be able to say “this trope/fic/concept/whatever is a no for me for whatever reason, but I’m not saying it’s Inherently Evil or you’re Bad for reading/writing it it’s just Not My Thing”. plus it definitely used to be the norm that you wouldn’t give people criticism (even constructive criticism!) about their fics unless they explicitly asked for it - idk why some people abandoned that attitude.

#charlie.mp3 #ao3 #fandom etiquette #this is one of my fav hills to die on #I think ‘old fandom’ (aka the 2000s and earlier) had a lot right in terms of allowing people to coexist without it being a major moral issue #but maybe that’s just because I cut my teeth in the bandom/fob & mcr cinematic universe fandom #which meant engaging with a lot of fics and fan content from the 2000s #I was going on LIVEJOURNAL. in 2018!!! I never even HAD a livejournal I felt like an archivist #(I realise this makes me sound super young so apologies in advance to anyone I’m ageing with these comments lol)

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