wisegirl25

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Daily reminder that your belief in something doesn’t make it inherently true and people are allowed to be skeptical and approach it the same way as any other concept

Another reminder that people are allowed to criticize things you believe in because again—your belief in it doesn’t make it infallible.

Things don’t exist in a vacuum and I’m tired of people pretending that we should just “let people believe whatever they want��� when their “beliefs” have been scientifically disproven multiple times and continued spread of misinformation regarding these topics can be cause of harm to many people.

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the way jinx pfps often have wonderful, actually nuanced takes, and then caitlyn pfps always have the most ignorant and privileged takes is too perfect lmao.

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Sirius: Guess fucking what? Peter: You killed your parents. Remus: You burned down the Great Hall. James: You shagged Remus. Sirius: I fucking apologized to Regulus. *Everyone Gasps*

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Jinx's iconic entrances always starting with a close up of her boots >>>>>

This is how they'll reveal she's alive trust.

No face reveal. Just the close up of her boots walking into frame and BOOM! episode ends.

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until the bed breaks until the windows fog up until the wall paint peels until the floor collapses

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Face card sublime, no matter the angle.

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The “That’s immoral you shouldn’t write that, we need to get that taken down” discourse on tiktok right now is PISSING ME OFFF

Wdym you want censorship for a literal ARCHIVE are you fucking stupid

Ao3 was literally founded to preserve works that were largely getting taken down due to censorship

Censorship is the opposite of what Archive of Our Own stands for

The TAGS and WARNINGS are there for a REASON. Use them and stop complaining

The universal rule—don’t like, don’t read

It’s THAT simple

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If you clicked on and read a fanfiction that had tags or a description that upset you and you were upset by it, that's your responsibility, not the author's responsibility.

If you were reading a fanfiction and you got to an unexpected part that disturbed you and you kept reading after you were disturbed, that was your choice and your responsibility, not the author's.

No one is forcing you to read fanfiction that upsets you. The back button is your friend.

If you are reading a piece of fanfiction it's because it interests you. Horrified fascination counts as interest. No fanfiction is holding you hostage and forcing you to read it.

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Powder and Ekko introduce themselves as each others partner instead of boyfriend and girlfriend

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i write for myself not for comments but dear god getting comments does so remind me of the joy of writing and sharing something

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The “That’s immoral you shouldn’t write that, we need to get that taken down” discourse on tiktok right now is PISSING ME OFFF

Wdym you want censorship for a literal ARCHIVE are you fucking stupid

Ao3 was literally founded to preserve works that were largely getting taken down due to censorship

Censorship is the opposite of what Archive of Our Own stands for

The TAGS and WARNINGS are there for a REASON. Use them and stop complaining

The universal rule—don’t like, don’t read

It’s THAT simple

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"Now obviously I agree that it’s absolutely disgusting to write explicit material of child celebrities, but censorship is never the answer."

what the hell IS the answer then? please, do tell. i doubt it'll be anything other than "just let them live! they're not hurting anyone 🥺" considering how you equated people not wanting to see that shit to literal fascism.

If you don’t wanna see it get the hell off of ao3??? Ao3 was literally founded to be the space where people could write freely after the great purges of many other fanfic sites (including ff.net)

There’s also an exclude option to filter out anything you don’t like. Ao3 has no algorithm, you’re only seeing shit you search for, if you don’t know how to use the filtration system properly then that’s on you

And they AREN’T hurting anyone. There is no such thing as thought crime or art crime, you can’t apply laws or moral code to fiction it’s not REAL

If you don’t want to see something, filter it out. You don’t have the right to dictate what other people write. Ao3 isn’t made to cater to you, it’s an archive. You curate your own experience.

And censorship is literally the first step to fascism. It’s not a coincidence that purity culture and misinformation is running so rampant right now. I implore you not to fall into that rabbit hole and educate yourself.

This is the internet, unless you’re a child (in which case you shouldn’t even be on ao3 in the first place) you don’t need someone else censoring your experience. Grow up and learn how to use the platform before making it everyone else’s problem that you not only are entering a space made to protect writers’ freedom of speech, but you’re also complaining about that very thing.

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I really don't understand how "without getting kudos or comments a fanfiction author is going to assume that people who clicked their fic didn't like it" became a controversial take.

I don't know why some people think an author should imagine, or guess that people who click their fic enjoyed it it when nobody is telling them that.

If you're re-reading a fic constantly, or leaving it up in your tab so that it re-loads every day for a hundred days the author is not going to know that unless you tell them. They'd love to hear it. It would make their day.

And if you don't tell them you liked their fic, there's no reason for them to assume you did.

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Smut fic on AO3 always seems to have a way lower kudos to hits ratio than non-smut fic; because a larger percentage of people reading feel ashamed to attach their screen name to a kudos on an adult fic.

Which is a shame, really.

If you're posting smut, never let yourself be disappointed in the number of kudos.

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Don’t even get me STARTED on the way the general population view large corporations as some sort of moral authority—they think “well if it was signed off to get distributed to the general public then it must be okay because someone high up thinks so” but if everyone else does it it’s suddenly a crime

When are people going to learn to think for themselves?

I agree with literally everything you said prev

The issue of not being able to remove fiction from reality and understand the subjectivity of morality is a HUGE issue

Same thing with equating morality with legality. Since when do we use the government’s idea of what is right and wrong as a moral compass?

The “That’s immoral you shouldn’t write that, we need to get that taken down” discourse on tiktok right now is PISSING ME OFFF

Wdym you want censorship for a literal ARCHIVE are you fucking stupid

Ao3 was literally founded to preserve works that were largely getting taken down due to censorship

Censorship is the opposite of what Archive of Our Own stands for

The TAGS and WARNINGS are there for a REASON. Use them and stop complaining

The universal rule—don’t like, don’t read

It’s THAT simple

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AHHH yeah I know this debate has been going on forever, definitely since before the time of Ao3, I just think it’s so ironic how the same people who were mad that their precious TikTok was getting banned DUE TO CENSORSHIP are also the ones advocating for censorship in other spaces

Make it make sense

The “That’s immoral you shouldn’t write that, we need to get that taken down” discourse on tiktok right now is PISSING ME OFFF

Wdym you want censorship for a literal ARCHIVE are you fucking stupid

Ao3 was literally founded to preserve works that were largely getting taken down due to censorship

Censorship is the opposite of what Archive of Our Own stands for

The TAGS and WARNINGS are there for a REASON. Use them and stop complaining

The universal rule—don’t like, don’t read

It’s THAT simple

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Dude. Archive of Our Own literally hosts NSFW stories of real life child celebrities. Fucking RELAX with claiming moral panic.

Realll brave of you to post this anonymously

The issue of censorship is that it’s a slippery slope, and there’s never just a BIT of censorship—it starts out that way and then devolves to censoring everything a certain group of people disagree with, generally those who hold positions of power.

Do you know what that’s called? Fascism.

First they censor underage explicit material on the basis that it’s immoral. Sure. Then someone else thinks writing rape is immoral, they ban that too. Then what? There’s people who honest to god genuinely believe being gay is immoral, and if one thing gets censored, almost everything the archive exists to protect will too.

Now obviously I agree that it’s absolutely disgusting to write explicit material of child celebrities, but censorship is never the answer.

You don’t like it, just scroll past. It’s not anyone’s right to dictate what other people write. You curate your own experience.