#i'm just sick of this purity culture bullshit i REALLY am

[callie-flower]

"proship dni" this, "comship dni" that, "neutral dni" unfortunately the people you don't like are still human and deserve comfort. my fucking god shut the hell up you're just as annoying as they are and protest WAY too much about it. go unlearn your purity morality shit

[mint-mumbles]

Gonna use this image any time someone says something low key sexist about Sable (ie "she's showing too much skin" regarding a fucking bathing suit 😭🤦)

I don't hear you complaining about Spirit 😭

[coridallasmultipass]

Can I vent a minute about how fucking stupid Tumblr's censorship is????

If I don't tag my post with trigger warnings, it shows up in the tag just fine. Everyone is subject to seeing whatever is posted and untagged. But heaven forbid I try to think of the children when I put "adult only" on my tags, bc any other "NSFW" word replacement automatically purity bans your post. Even if the post itself is in full compliance, it was just a warning.

The fucking "selfie" tag is ripe with offenses and untagged nudity. (Somehow Tumblr recommends that tag for me in the "your tags" section of the mobile dashboard, even though I've never followed the selfie tag and I don't want to. I can't unselect the word selfie. So that part of my mobile dashboard is 90% nudity. It's so dumb.)

And yet, if I make a post that says a banned word, no one will ever see it lmao.

God I fucking hate this site. I hate censoring words. All it does is make that content be forced onto people who don't wanna see it.

Can I also vent about how Tumblr changed their policy while I was gone? Apparently nudity is fully allowed on here now. No more "female n1ppl3s" ban lmao. So people are posting nude selfies all over the place and yet, my one little post that had NOTHING explicit in it at all, is invisible. Not even flagged, so I can't contest it. It just doesn't show up because it has a banned word in it that I don't know about. Because I was tryna be a decent human being and represent what was on the other side of the link, so people who don't want to view it know to pass on my post.

I fucking hate this shit, man. Let me post my forbidden words so people who don't want to see it are able to filter it out. I don't want to show adult only posts to people who don't like that. It makes me feel horrible. And yet, I have like no where else to go. Lmao. Fuck this hell site. I haven't forgotten why I left in 2018. Fucking bullshit banning the adult only content. God damn, I'm still so mad about that. I used to love this site so much. Now it just makes me miserable still. But where else am I gonna find this flavour of queer fandom content. I never stopped hating Twitter even tho I still use it, Reddit is just annoying and boring because there's no way to make friends on there, Insta is pure garbage algorithm bullshit, Pillowfort isn't big and active enough, and not enough space to interact with people.

It's this site I want. I'm just sick of not being welcome anywhere I fucking go because I want to enjoy the content of adults. Fuck purity culture. Fuck censorship. Really beating me down and making me feel like a horrible person for being human.

Fuck, man, even Only Fans has completely arbitrary rules, like I can't post anything kin./ key there now. Some of my old posts got taken dowm because I put a candy cane... nevermind.

Just. Why can't I exist as an adult online. Why can't there be fandom friendly adult spaces in social media. I hate this so much.

[kira-sucks-lawlipops]

@drowning-in-dn-hell has asked for more info on the 2012 purge of ff.net. I'm always glad to talk fandom history :)

It actually started in 2002, when ff.net enacted a new policy prohibiting all NC-17 material. There was a mass deletion of all stories with any kind of violent or sexual content, darker themes, swear words, or fics that were inspired by songs (miss me with this arbitrary bullshit.) There were huge protests at the time and a lot of fans left and moved to other sites with less restrictive policies, such as adult-fanfiction.org

Fast forward to 2012, and I actually know what is going on because I am now 18 and participating in fandom. The same shit happens again. The site moderators did a massive purge and deleted all of the stories they could find with mature content (more than 60,000 fics.)

This time, the purge was started because a group of fans called 'Critics United' were harrassing the staff. They would read fic looking for content/themes they didn't like, and when they found something they would post wave after wave of bad reviews/comments, send the author messages telling them to remove their stories, report the stories, message the mods and demand the story/author be removed.

SOUND FAMILIAR? This is the kind of crap that purity politics grew out of. It's just censorship and a desire to control marginalised voices dressed up as moral superiority and the claim of being all about 'protecting the children'.

Anyway, eventually I guess ff.net got sick of dealing with it and granted their wish. Mass deletions. Years of work lost. Authors shutting down their accounts. Fandom spaces destroyed. Congratulations, you did it. You saved us from ourselves.

So basically everyone who wanted to write fic with mature or explicit themes moved their work to Ao3 - the ONLY website which offers a safe space for writers of ALL kinds of fics, not just whatever adheres to the changing moral alignements of the moderators.

It's right there in the title: 'Archive of Our Own'. This place belongs to US, the writers, the fans, and the work there is protected from sudden deletion because of personal taste or individual moral standards. It's up to readers to curate their own consumption of content, because as long as what you are writing is legally allowed to exist (and tagged appropriately) it will not be removed from Ao3.

So why is this important right now? Well, gather round boys and girls, because I fucking shit you not, the EXACT SAME SHIT is happening AGAIN. For the THIRD TIME. And this time I have absolutely zero tolerance left.

Fanfiction (and fandom spaces in general) have always been about creativity, expression, and the exploration of themes and content that the mainstream media will not touch. This has allowed for a culture that validates female, queer and poc voices and stories. Which is fucking awesome.

But sometimes that exact same culture spawns stories where the themes are dark and the content is stuff that you personally find repulsive. That doesn't mean that it shouldn't be allowed to exist, or that no one should be allowed to access it.

Here's a really hard lesson that everyone should learn: even the worst fanfic has cultural value and (most importantly) it does NO MEASURABLE HARM.

If you want to tear all that down and destroy the very things you claim to love then frankly, you can get fucked.

Ya’ll really gonna try and get Ao3 taken down?????

really? that’s really happening? in 2018, ya’ll are taking your fucking purity politics bullshit and making it the FBI’s business? trying to get the godamn government to attack the organisation of transformative works? that’s great. what a great idea. attack the very fandom spaces that allow you to connect and express your idiotic opinions. did you learn nothing from the purge of ff.net in 2012? know your fucking fandom history before you try to tear down everything we have built. i am so done with all of you fucking petulant children.