It Is Finished 💃

star doodles I did during class

People who think that AO3 should be censored in any shape or form don’t get it they whatever content they don’t want to see will not vanish.

Ao3 is literally the safest platform to read fics, because you can literally block everything that you find triggering or simply don’t like.

When I first started reading fics at a vERY young age, the site I found to do it had NO tagging system. The only thing we could filter was the ship, and that because the authors would put it either in the title or the synopsis so we scrolled down what we didn’t like (mind you, without attacking anyone because we didn’t like the ship). While there was a rating system (not rated, 10yo, 12yo, 16yo and 18+, if I’m not mistaken), there is a HUGE difference from a story tagged as 18 to a actually triggering story.

But you wouldn’t know until you read it. We had no control whatsoever about what we’d find within those stories and that was it.

If we start censoring AO3 out of whatever content you don’t like (because there won’t ever be a consensus over what can or cannot be there, yall be complaining about same age ships claiming their “sibling coded” as if it means anything), then these stories will go somewhere else and we have no guarantee it’ll be properly tagged and THEN unaware kids will get into this stories much easier.

The thing is my siblings in Christ: this content will always exist, because the internet is an ever growing black hole and there will always be a spot for fanfiction (yk, where there is a screen there is a way). You sound like those crazy people claiming video games cause violence. Just like video games, fanfiction don’t affect real life. Thats it.

The triggering topics didn’t start in fanfiction, they started in the real world, as real life problem that affect real life people, and if we start censoring them out of ao3… THEY WILL STILL BE A PROBLEM ON REAL WORD!!! They only exist on ao3 as a collateral effect.

You aren’t doing ANYTHING. You are not helping ANYONE. But while no one is being harmed in fanfiction (because I’m sorry to inform you, your favourite characters with whom you have a parasocial relationship to the point you cannot differentiate reality from fiction anymore) DON’T EXIST. You cannot harm someone who doesn’t exist.

Besides, all these themes also exist in very well known published media. That some of yall pay for. That sometimes is in the actual original source a fic is based on… but OMG, prOteCt tHe KIdS there is a non-profit story about it now.

Curate your own experience online, don’t consume things you don’t like, block tags before you even start scrolling for a fic. Don’t tell people how they can or cannot enjoy FICTION.

And for god’s sake: put that phone down a bit and talk to real people and live in the real world with real problems!!!!! You’re frying your own brain at this point.

Don’t like, don’t read.

This is random but I saw a person on pinterest with over 50 boards so I got curious with how many mine was.... 61!?? Holy WHAT– when did that happen??

yeah- venti! :3 (sorry been gone for a while, was quite busy)

i am cringe

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