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I compare tags to allergy warning.If you give me food without an ingredient list, I’m not going to eat it, because I might get ill. I’m used to being left out of meals, because I don’t demand everyone not eat peanuts because it makes me ill. I think fiction should be the same way, I don’t think you should read it unless you are sure it’s safe for you. If you aren’t sure something is safe, find something else.And if you are making a piece of fiction I think you should try and make a very thorough list to give people the best chance of avoiding it if it will make them ill.

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I think that people should read things that challenge them.

I think they should read things that are contrary to their views.

I think that they should read things that make them uncomfortable.

I think they should read things that make them question their worldview and their experiences.

And I think that people should read these things by choice, and not be forced into it or surprised by it if they don’t want to be.

I absolutely think it is every person’s right to know what they’re going into when they read a piece of fiction, watch a movie, etc.

We tend to get triggered easily, so we often check ‘does the dog die’ or skim wikipedia for spoilers when we engage with a new piece of media that we’re not sure will be safe for us, and when we are not ready to be challenged or upset.

We watch and read a lot of upsetting media by choice, but we like to know that going in, and we like to be able to decide when we are and aren’t ready for something.

There’s this fic I’ve had bookmarked since it first got published, and it’s one of my favorites! Recently, I’ve been thinking about leaving a comment just to express to the author how much I enjoy their work, but I’m not very good with words, so I don’t really know what exactly I should say.I know this is a bit of a silly question, but do you have any advice on what might qualify as a “good comment”? 😅

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What counts as a “good comment” varies from author to author, but here are some types of comments that almost never go wrong.

  • “I love this so much.”
  • “thank you for writing this.”
  • “this fic makes me feel (your emotion here)”.
  • “I’m re-reading this again.”
  • “I loved this part! (Paste line or section here.)
  • A string of heart emojis.
  • "I wish I could kudos a second time.”
  • “I love your writing ”
  • “I don’t know what to comment but I wanted to let you know how much I enjoy your work.”

I hope this helped you out, anon! I know your author will be really happy to receive any comment you give!

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On Tuesday, May 29, 2007, LJers – users of the then-popular blogging site Livejournal – woke up to find that their Friends lists were showing a large number of names that had been crossed out, or strikethrough ‘ed.

It turned out that LiveJournal had permanently suspended over 500 journals based on the users’ interest lists. Interests that were likely to get a journal banned included but were not limited to: child pornography, incest, pedophilia, rape, domestic violence, BDSM, prostitution. Journals that listed things like murder, crime, drugs, cocaine, theft, tax evasion or election fraud among their creators’ interests were not banned: interests related to sexual crime were the targets.

Among the deleted ljs were RPG journals, book discussion groups [1], rape survivor blogs[2], and fannish groups, including the large and popular Harry Potter fanfiction community Pornish Pixies, which was an age-restricted community for adult HP fanfiction.

Please read about strikethrough and boldthrough if you are not already familiar with them.

These mass-censorship events destroyed whole fanfiction and rp communities, and were the major motivating events behind the creation of Archive of Our Own and Dreamwidth.

One of your posts was tagged “ao3 shadow ban”???? Is everything okay????

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AO3 has been apparently removed from search engine results in Germany due to a complaint to Google that it may be illegal under German youth protection laws.

This is exactly why its important for AO3 to be hosted on its own servers, hosted in the USA, and for the OTW to continue to champion the legal rights of fan creators.

r/AO3 – Is AO3 blocked from being displayed in Google in Germany?

You know, if they really cared about rpf of minors on platforms, then maybe they should, idk, advocate to have fanfic be included with the visual representation law as well. Because you can’t get mad at AO3 for following US law to a T and not question why the US law has made visual CSEM/CSAM illegal(of real breathing minors), but didn’t include the text form of that as well. Just saying, AO3 isn’t the flawed one here for being within it’s country of origins law, look at the country of origin itself for not thinking this through.But you know what they say, just because it’s the law, doesn’t mean it’s always right. Which is what you told them, but they didn’t listen.

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Why get into the serious world of political advocacy when what you really want is an excuse to be mean and nasty to people online?

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tim-drake-is-a-mood:

littledead-ridinghood:

Jason as those AO3 authors who have the worst tragedies happening to them and yet still continues to pump out his new chapter every week

Some poor, unbeknownst Gothamite: “My favorite fanfic writer hasn’t posted or updated any of their fanfic in like four years. I don’t want to bug them but I’m always hoping for them to come back. I hope their okay 🙁 ”

Jason, in between cutting off right hand mens heads and antagonize black mask, like Really Living It Up: “hey, sorry, guys! I know it’s been forever! I literally died and clawed my way back from zombiehood, but I’m back now! Hope you enjoy this new chapter!”

The fucking TAGS tho

Jason seeing Bruce standing in his apartment staring: wtf how did you find me?

Bruce: your pride and prejudice coffee shop AU updated from this location six hours ago

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masteryaddleisagilf:

I got curious, so I did a bit of “research”

The most popular fic in English is an NSFW (incredibly raunchy, wow) Guardians of the Galaxy fic with 128.179 kudos.

In Mandarin, it is a mature RPF fic of the actors from The Untamed that resulted in AO3 being blocked in Mainland China. It currently has 26.916 kudos

For Spanish, the prize goes to an explicit omegaverse & mpreg The Scum Villain’s Self-Saving System fic with  3.245 kudos

Indonesian gives us a BTS college AU with 1.569 kudos and French stays on the bandom vibes by giving us an explicit One Direction dystopian story. But the band rpf award goes to Filipino, with their first page (sorted by kudos) being all Kpop (ENHYPEN, EXO & SEVENTEEN) and no-fandom.

(For those curious, Korean has a low amount of Kpop rpf on their first page. I assume they publish it somewhere else)

Egyptian Hieroglyphics (which, yes, is an option on AO3) gives us a beautiful song translation with an impressive 495 kudos. I really recommend everyone check it out; it is incredible. Welsh (160) and Old English (222)  also had their most popular work have an English translation. Latin (124), on the other hand, is just fully in Latin. There are a few translations, but they are provided by other people and not the original author.

Greek has a lot of Greek political RPF. Like, a lot. 

I was incredibly surprised by the fact that you can write fanfiction in Quebecois sign language. I was not surprised at all by the fact that Sindarin was an option.

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A few of the languages had their most popular stories not be in that language and just be a case of mislabelling (or, in some cases, people using less-used languages on AO3 as dumping grounds for tests or personal notes.) Also, there were a couple of languages with no stories at all. 

If you have been thinking about writing fic in a language other than English, take this as a call for action. There are a lot of people out there reading in all sorts of languages. Even in languages with only a couple kudos, those are a couple of people who are incredibly happy to find a story of a media they love in a language they love too.

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a site that allows works that profit off their oppression

This is a meaningless and incorrect statement. First of all, AO3 doesn’t profit AT ALL. Second of all, hosting fanfiction doesn’t profit on anyone’s oppression. Other people’s fanfic is not about you.

And no, I am not talking about porn of fictional children, although that is also repulsive, there is nsfw content of actual fucking minors on there.

You may find RPF to be gross and in bad taste, but it’s still not illegal.