#and you have to curate your own internet experience

[chaoticlovingdreamer]

I mean, isn't this what fanfic is for? To imagine possibilities that are different from the source material? Who am I to tell someone else what they can or can't write or draw or create? If you don't like it, block it. Block the tag, block the author, learn how to make a custom AO3 skin to hide the work/story/art. You curate your own Internet experience.

Who are any of us to yuck someone's yum? Just because you think something, doesn't mean that everyone else thinks the same way. If someone wants to give this man a zuko style redemption arc, who are we to stop them? Like, this is why people do fanfiction, because they wanna tell a different story!

LET PEOPLE TELL DIFFERENT STORIES!

Let people make this man a found family! Let people torture him with his emotions and his guilt!

BUT IF YOU'RE GONNA BE A HATER, DON'T TAKE IT OUT ON OTHER PEOPLE! LET OTHER PEOPLE HAVE THEIR FUN AND WRITE WHAT THEY WANT TO WRITE!

Here are some tutorials to help you curate your own experience, so the rest of us can have a good time without you making people doubt what they wanna create.

https://archiveofourown.org/faq/tutorial-creating-a-work-skin?language_id=en

https://archiveofourown.org/admin_posts/18864

Curate your own Internet experience. But don't be so harsh to the people who just want to create, regardless of accuracy or source material.

Everytime I see the Parental Miguel tag on a fic my skin itch. (Especially a Miles or Hobie centric fic)

HE BEAT A 15 YEAR OLD INTO THE SIDE OF A TRAIN HE NEEDS TO BE LOCKED TF UP 🗣️🗣️🗣️

[babblingeccentric]

what does being proship mean for you?

I don't give a shit what people ship as long as they tag appropriately. Furthermore I don't think shipping something is a moral action.

I think everybody has the right to write, draw, or make whatever fucked up art about fictional characters their little heart desires, including non-con, underage, and incest. If you see something you don't like the correct response is to hit the back button. Not to try and get that art banned or start a moral crusade or bully the artist or whatever.

[naomiknight-17]

Interacted with a blog via one of my side blogs then looked at their DNI and it was several paragraphs like

"If you ship ANYTHING, DNI. If you post NSFW/NSFT in any main tags, DNI. If I think you're problematic in any way DNI"

And they didn't elaborate on the last one

Honey. What does that mean

I'm a big fat loud queer with a history of making NSFW art including stuff some would deem problematic. I don't shy away from politics. How am I supposed to know what you think is problematic? Maybe you're fine with people like me and maybe you're not!?!?

But all you've seen of me is my cat blog so. My cats are not problematic (except when they get into the recycling bin or similar shenanigans) so I guess you're just gonna have to deal with me

[aromanticannibal]

ppl really b acting as if there's only one specific ship that has weird shippers that will complain about ppl not shipping their otp. it's literally always the case you either get fucked over for liking a gay ship or for liking a straight ship or for liking a toxic ship or people just start going "oh there's nothing wrong with the ship but the shippers💀" and you don't fucking know what they're talking about. like can we all just chill. the weird shippers r everywhere it's called some ppl are assholes sometimes. it's not fandom specific

[lesbiansanemi]

Every now and then someone will follow me and in their ridiculously long DNI it will say “Renkaza shippers do not interact” and in that moment I always just. Have so many questions

[spaceorphan18]

You know, every time I worry about having too much of one thing on my blog I remember I have every single tag of @slayerkitty's blocked and still love her to death and won't ever unfollow her.

[lem0nademouth]

am i the only one who thinks the Minors DNI trend is part of the problem re: purity culture in left leaning/“progressive” spaces

[castielsprostate]

if i put transmascs dni n my bio you would shit yourself screaming abt transandrophobia but it’s okay for someone to put women dni in their bio???

i literally do not care what DNI you put in your bio. you could be putting "pope dni" in there, you could put "feminists dni" in there, you could put "dutch people dni" in there. do whatever you want

just draw a singular line that if one is okay, most, if not all, are okay too. most DNI's are fucking stupid to me, including men dni and women dni, but if that's someone's boundary then it's someone's boundary that i try to respect when i can because i try to be a decent human being. trauma is not exclusive to a singular group of people, stop trying to make that happen

you are a tar pit, and you are not entitled to someone else's space online.

[thatswhatsushesaid]

“i don’t have to tolerate [x thing that is actually harmless/group of fans who like x harmless thing] in this fandom just because it’s fiction”

i mean. you do, actually. you do have to tolerate us, just like we suck it up and accept that you aren’t going anywhere either. that’s the fandom experience in a nutshell.

[spotsupstuff]

ur grading people and if they get an f theyre blocked? my main you aint a kindergarten teacher this is a microblogging platform

yeah, that's why there's that function called blocking! :) cuz this is a microblogging site! that's what microblogging platforms have! :) so you don't have to put up with people's shit! :) interesting that kindergarten teachers where you live are capable of blocking people in real life, hope you had fun with that

[freefallingup13]

“Unalived” “r4ped” I’m losing my mind

There are children out there that understand death as a concept, stop treating us lesser than them by assuming we can’t even handle the mere MENTION

[redwinterroses]

Cleo found the poll themself and told everyone, apparently, that's how the CCs know

As I understand it, Cam found and passed it on, because Cam is Cleo's not-so-secret agent, but either way nothing in my tags or in OP's post changes.

Moral of the story: Cleo is the queen and long may they reign, and still don't shove fandom content in CC's faces. they have just proven my point about how if they're into it, they'll find it themselves.

[tianhai03]

In one server I lurk in there's a very pissy cis woman who seethed and whined about you "pushing" your trans hcs for Dante and Vergil. So just saying you're doing everything right

lmao i always knew something like that must be happening in places i cant see, glad to finally get some confirmation on that

listen. to the people who are mad at me drawing top scars on the sparda boys. i never once tried to push my hcs as the truth, and if i sounded like i did i apologize for that. but if you choose to spend your day looking at my art and getting angry about it in a private group chat, i'd just like to remind you that i literally cant see the things youre talking about and so i will continue on my day drawing things that make me happy, while you continue to ruin your own day over some lines on a digital canvas. if my art and my mere existence pisses you off so much, maybe you should stop thinking about me so much. you'd be a happier person that way. ty and have a nice day.

[ssawboness]

Here is the threat you wanted: Actually kys

i could never send anon hate because in my mind it's the most embarrassing thing ever. you're gonna tell me to kys but not put your face on it? come on. tell your followers you're incapable of blocking someone. take your fuckin pants off and tell me to kill myself like a man. i'm waiting

[giraffeter]

I often see posts about curating your own online experience that make the point, “content creators aren’t your parents.” And, yes, that is absolutely true! And I try not to be like “as a parent,“ but as a parent…

EVEN PARENTS ARE SUPPOSED TO ENCOURAGE RESPONSIBLE READING/VIEWING BEHAVIOR. NOT filter everything ahead of time for their kid.

When my kiddo was 5, his pediatrician was asking him the usual Well Child Visit questions (“What are your favorite foods? What do you do to get your body moving? Do you know what to do if you get lost in a public place?” Etc.) and she asked, “What do you do if you see something on TV that scares or upsets you?”

I piped up like, “Oh, he doesn’t watch TV without one of us in the room,” which was true at the time and is still largely true now. She said, “Yes, but that won’t always be the case, so make sure you’re talking to him about what to do if he sees something that upsets him.”

So we started talking to him about that, and the answer is simple: “Turn it off or leave the room, and talk to someone you trust about what you saw and what you’re feeling.”

The answer is NOT “Ask your parents to make sure you never see anything upsetting again,” because that’s just not possible — and ultimately that would be doing the kid a disservice, since sooner or later he’s going to be out in the world where we can’t control what he watches or reads. That doesn’t mean we don’t try to make sure he’s watching/reading age-appropriate stuff, it just means that’s not the only safeguard he has — and that’s a good thing.

So yes, content creators aren’t your parents and aren’t responsible for making sure you never see anything you don’t like — but also, your own parents should have taught you what to do when that happens. So if they didn’t, take it from me, your internet mom:

Turn it off.

Walk away.

Talk to someone you trust about how you’re feeling.

And leave the person who created the thing that upset you alone.

[littlemissadams]

I'm going to have to stop following you because you ship incest in batfam

I can handle many things but I draw the line at incest ESPECIALLY batcest

They many not be blood brothers but they are adopted by the same man which makes them brothers

While I did enjoy some of your content, I have huge trama with incest and its a big trigger for me, so I will not be following you anymore

Ok. You're responsible for your experience on the internet. While I am truly sorry that some of my content triggered you, it's not my job to cater to what may or may not be traumatic to you or others.

Good for you for looking out for you and your mental health. I really mean that and I wish you the best.