#in which nia is angry and tired and can’t do anything but make rant posts on tumblr about it

[malachitezmeyka]

So... since the government passed a law banning all LGBTQ+ ‘propaganda’ (read as: any positive representation in any form, ever), the only Russian fanfiction site, Ficbook, is in the process of creating a sister site called Slashbook where all mlm/wlw/anything other than gen and m/f fics will gets transferred in order to keep the OG site from being banned, which is... fucking insane

Also known as: y’all have no fucking idea how special Ao3 is. The mods spend so much time and money fighting court cases and and lawsuits to keep your slash and femslash fics from having to be posted on a separate, hidden site like fucking contraband. I’m lucky in that I only go on Ficbook when I run out of content for certain pairings on Ao3/want fics about russian media/am actually desperate. I’ve never posted anything on there nor do I follow any long-running fics. My fluency in English gives me access to Ao3, while a lot of others only have Ficbook to rely on for fandom content

I don’t know what my point is, I’m just so damn angry at how much control the government has over what it’s people do or enjoy in their spare time, and if I see one more person hating on Ao3 someone is gonna catch these fucking hands