Preparing a big fat donation to ao3 for being the last bastion of the free internet in these ridiculous puritan times

just found out you can do more than one thing each day. i was just doing the one

this literally isn't true please stop spreading lies

has anybody else noticed that the classic sci fi novel Don’t Create The Torment Nexus features a Torment Nexus? that’s pretty problematic of the author

the main character eventually recognizes the torment nexus is bad but by that point I had already stopped reading the book because I don't condone the torment nexus, the narrative really should've condemned it outright :/

Me, who is only now hearing of the apparent WattPad migration and the deluge the Ao3 volunteer team are needing to put up with (that seems to be a lot of complaints about things that tie back to ao3 being fundamentally against censorship of any kind and newcomers being confused about that):

Thanks Ao3 Team, we appreciate you

Every time someone comments on my old fic, i feel like I'm an old actor getting paid residuals. Appreciate you, old-fic-commenters. Key source of emotional income, tbh.

I don't think people who come from wattpad after the purge and now want ao3 to have its own official app understand that one of the main reasons behind the recent wattpad purge that drove them to ao3 was due to pressure from appstore demanding wattpad to be more strict and follow appstore's policy. wattpad complied in order for its app to be able to remain on appstore. thus the wattpad purge.

ao3 doesn't have an app because for it to have an app, appstore will have to approve it first. and if, hypothetically, ao3 needs appstore to approve it, it will also have to abide by appstore's pro-censorship stance and start banning dark and taboo fics, which is against its own core principle of being completely against censorship.

ao3 doesn't need an app. it works more than fine without an app. the reason ao3 can allow dark and taboo fics, the reason it can allow the most disgusting and shockingly vile fics, and be completely against censorship is because it doesn't need appstore's approval. it stands on its own as a non-profit organization with functioning site and a team of lawyers protecting its platform, its users, and every single fanwork on its platform.

everybody say thank you ao3

AO3 does not, will not, has NEVER had an app. If you think that you found “the ao3 app,” that’s not the ao3 app

no, you cannot report the most disgusting and shockingly vile fanfic on ao3. ao3 will not do anything about the fic, because ao3 explicitly allows it to exist on their platform.

being completely and utterly against censorship is the main core principle of ao3.

ao3 was created specifically to host and give a platform to fics that were banned on other platforms.

therefore the most disgusting and shockingly vile fanfic you find is the exact reason why ao3 was created in the first place.

another thing I’d like to add is that if you “hunt down several fics under specific tags just to report those fics” ao3 CAN consider your action an abuse of their terms of service and mark your action as harassment, then they will take action against YOUR account.

also mass reporting the same fic is impossible on ao3. if a fic has already been reported and you or someone else tries to report that same fic again, ao3 will tell you that the fic has already been reported and is under their review. therefore any new report does not go through.

ao3 will only remove a fic if it’s actually against their terms of service (if it mentions money/donation/commission, if the work section of it is not actually fanwork/original work) but the site will NOT remove any fics for being dark and taboo, no matter how disgusting you think the fic is.

we really should be calling it fanworks, not content

I'm here for fun and community not to rp a mega corporation's underpaid social media intern

EVERYONE WRITE MORE HURT/COMFORT OF KAWORU NAGISA NOW!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

EVERYONE WRITE MORE HURT/COMFORT OF KAWORU NAGISA NOW!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

I'm making this post on the behalf of Hamza and Sami Al-Khalili, who are currently trying to raise money to help their large family in Gaza.

The situation there remains dire and opportunities for food, medical care, housing, and work are small. Please consider donating to their fundraiser here.

(guy who can draw horses and hands easily but can't draw hugs or kisses to save his life) yeah I just like it when the characters are just standing next to each other. no need to make their adoration too obvious you know. and I turned this one into a centaur,

A local man is dealing with a scary situation 😳

reblog this and tag it with roughly half your url + half of prev's url. GO

Give Lilly Wachowski Her 10 Fucking Million Dollars To Make A Movie What The Fuck Is Wrong With You You Stupid Cunts Like Hello She Made The Matrix Are You Dumb? Do You Not Like Good Shit?

When people bitch and moan that conservative comedians are getting “cancelled” I want to grab them by the throat and scream at them that the Director of The Matrix One of The Most Successful Action Movies Of All Time can’t get funds for another movie because she’s transgender.