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- FREE PALESTINE - ANTI ZIONIST - anon asks currently off - Queer/trans, it/he/they, neurodivergent - current fandoms: Avatar/Atwow- asks are open! -

this is going to very different from my usual content, but it needs to be said now, loud and clear.

while I'm not going to get up on some soapbox and talk politics, cause they are quite frankly not my thing, it makes my head spin and I would surely misspeak like an idiot and make a fool of myself, if not do harm with my lack of political knowledge.

what I will do is say I stand with Palestine with no if's and's but's or exceptions of any kind, and if you don't stand with Palestine in that manner do us both a favor and block me now.

no one, not a single soul on this earth, deserves what Palestine has gone through in the last few decades, much less the last few weeks.

what Israel has been doing in just the last few weeks alone goes so far beyond sickening I don't have words to describe it. they're bombing innocent people, civilian homes, schools, hospitals, and ambulances of all things. targeting people fleeing on the route they told them to take, forging 'evidence' of heinous crimes that never took place, spreading horrific propaganda, the lot of it. not to mention this has been going on for decades, that barely scratches the surface of it all.

they are calling Palestinian's animals, cutting off food and water and power, cutting off the internet to silence them and it is sickening.

Palestine deserves to be free, they deserve peace and prosperity, they deserve to live and if you disagree with that, you are a monster. Palestine has done nothing to deserve this, nothing to deserve decades of apartheid, mass bombings and violence, having the world turned on them in their greatest time of need, it is sick.

this isn't some fancy speech, I know, this is just the thoughts and feelings of some stupid young (white) american who is for all intents and purposes unaffected by this genocide outside of how its tearing my heart to shreds. I don't know everything, hell I don't know anything, but my feelings stand, no one deserves to be genocided, especially not Palestine, and they need every ounce of our support.

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

young arthur and mary

and... dutch

"arthur you're such a good soul you wouldn't leave us would you we're your family my boy loyalty should come before everything else we're counting on you you're the most special one there’s no one like you arthur after all god made the earth in seven days and on the eighth day he created you ARTHUR WITHOUT YOU WE'LL ALL STARVE TO DEATH YOU'RE GOING TO STAY WITH US INSTEAD OF THAT YOUNG LADY AREN'T YOU???"

Apparently some people still need to hear this so: using an 'ai checker' is still using ai. If you are feeding someone's fic to one of these checkers, you will still not be sure their fic is ai because they are not 100% accurate, but you can be 100% sure that you are using ai. For fic. Furthermore you are doing the work of an ai scraper for them. You are, personally, feeding the machine. There is no actual excuse for using an ai checker on fanfic as a hobby. YOU are the problem.

If you think a fic is ai, mute it and move on. That's it. That's all you do.

The irony of this new breed of self-righteous AI hunters on AO3 is that they're all just copy and pasting peoples fics into AI detectors, which are all operated by AI and therefore THEY are feeding people's work into the algorithm without their consent and in some cases no doubt circumventing the locks people put on to avoid getting scraped...

Don't copy and paste anyone's AO3 work into third party websites, you're not the good guys in this situation?

The irony of this new breed of self-righteous AI hunters on AO3 is that they're all just copy and pasting peoples fics into AI detectors, which are all operated by AI and therefore THEY are feeding people's work into the algorithm without their consent and in some cases no doubt circumventing the locks people put on to avoid getting scraped...

Don't copy and paste anyone's AO3 work into third party websites, you're not the good guys in this situation?

Meanwhile, people online be debating whether or not John is Jack's dad...

Look at the mouth thing!

I love thinking about Eva Stratt pirating the entire internet. Girl did you figure out how to do that yourself. Fucking amazing. Did you approach some poor government official and force them to do it. That’s fucking wonderful.

Why he light skinned?

Because Martin Luther was white and German.

did…

did someone confuse Luther with Jesus omg

I suspect they confused him with Martin Luther King

I mean, I get mixing them up based on names alone, but I’m concerned about the people who think Martin Luther King Jr. routinely wrote with a quill or dressed like a Renaissance man.

At that point it’s your own damn fault for making that kind of mistake

but why is martin luther the fastest sold playmobil figurine

protoindoeuropean

Protestants be shoppin

Trainwreck of a post

so let me get this straight

wattpad essentially banned smut, triggering a lot of users to flood AO3 seeking a new place to enjoy free and uncensored fanfictions

only for some of them to report fics they deem "unethical" and "inappropriate"

am I

am I getting this right??

ok my actual "hot take" about the whole ao3/wattpad situation is that the Internet needs to stop coddling teenagers. not to say their youth shouldn't be considered or that they shouldn't be protected. but as a former internet teenager, our hands were Not held like this. in fact, your age was not meant to really be a factor. you weren't a teen in an adult space. you were just a person, and with the Internet safety lovingly passed down from elders of the space, you were supposed to, more or less, police yourself. you were expected to act right and behave in online spaces according to that spaces etiquette. and if you didn't, if you were an asshole, you were rightfully told the fuck off.

this whole "oh but they're teenagers" thing is... it's irking me. like yeah, sure, some of them are. they're also leaving Wattpad to continue reading the smut they were reading beforehand. and they're harassing and bullying people. they can handle being told that they're fucking annoying. they can be told off in reply to their comments. they can be lectured as to why their behavior is harmful.

I think the incline of coddling teenagers led to a good chunk of the current issue. they don't know how to act anymore. not saying I did at their age either, but I learned to be better cause it was expected if me. I knew I wouldn't be let off for my behavior over my age, because that went unknown to and widely not considered by a majority of people around me. I was accountable for my actions and navigating away from content that I didn't like.

while there are some benefits to it being less of an open secret that there are teens amidst the Internet and it's various websites, platforms, and archives (mostly putting barriers between adults access to vulnerable teens), it's also led to a damn near free for all. we're losing the community driven ways to these platforms that protected and informed all that browsed it. it wasn't a foolproof system. shit still happened. but it was far more contained and less threatening to the entirety of a site.

Imagine being a normal regular normal eridian scientist. And one day rocky saviour of erid, freak of a rock but still saviour so I guess it's ok, comes to you and asks you to find a way to make a better xenotite suit, one that's skintight and soft so that one would be able to feel touch through it, and stretchy too especially in the abdominal opening. And you start to cold sweat because what the fuck. And then rocky saviour of erid say it's for fucking the alien grace. What the fuck. And then Adrian, sweet clever composed respectable citizen, mate of rocky asks for one suit as well.