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System blog @fractal-council-sys
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you are not a "femcel" you are not a "foid" you are not a "hon" you are a woman worthy of respect and taking up space and being happy and the world is yours for the taking you're ALIVE!!!!!!!!! you're a HUMAN!!!!!!! FUCK what they told you!!!!!!
Me @ every self deprecating transfem person out there.
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"mmh did you know that creator you like also posts 🔞 content? did you know that? don't you think that's weird? don't you think we should keep this space-"
no. i don't.
i booked a front row seat to the devil's sacrament and you're blocking the view
just go back to the 1660 new england hole you just crawled out of and eat barley for a week to atone for your sins or whatever
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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
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If people are leaving Wattpad because of the censorship, then coming to AO3 only to beg for censorship what's the point? It’s called Archive of Our Own for a reason, it is ours. For us and by us.
Because apparently it needs to be spelled out, I’m writing out some of the unwritten rules of AO3:
- Don't like, don't read - you can have your own opinions but if you don't like it just scroll past, it's that easy. Let it be.
- Read. The. Tags. - the tags are warnings of what the story will include. That is your guide. If there is something you're not comfortable with in the tags then scroll past. The AO3 tagging system is genius and lets you filter out the things you don’t like, so you don’t even have to see the stories you might not be comfortable with if you don’t want to. Use the tags.
- Do not spread the stories outside of fandom spaces - fanfiction is for the fans. Especially when it’s RPF it is not to be referenced or brought up to the people who it is about. They are all very aware that it is made but that doesn’t mean they want to read it or know about it. I don’t care what you say, it is unavoidable and as long as it is not widespread and stays in its own space it is not harmful. It is up to the fans to respect that. (That being said if the people who the RPF fics are about search them up or reference fics themselves that’s a bit different and the rules change a bit.)
- Respect the authors - the authors spend their own time writing stories, many of which are genuinely incredibly written and well thought out, for absolutely nothing in return. You get to read pieces of work for free by authors who are doing it for free. Do not go to the comments and complain or say they should have done something else or report because they wrote something you’re not comfortable with. And respect the authors wishes when they say not to share their work anywhere else.
Basically just respect fandom spaces, keep them separate from reality, and mind your own business. It’s so easy.
It’s a very under-appreciated thing to have an archive where people can put their work out for the world to see and make art that can be appreciated and easily accessed by other people on a wide scale, and it needs to be protected.
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Reblog to bonk your mutuals on the head every time they start thinking negatively about themselves
specifically this kind of bonk.
Reblonk
Rebonk
Get reblonked moot
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Anonymous asked:
what's your take on "fiction effects reality"?
I have talked about this so. so. many times. so instead of retyping everything, I’m just going to copy and paste the same answer I have given everybody who has asked me this exact same question:
❝ if someone lets fiction affect them enough to the point they believe bad things in fiction are okay in real life, because these bad things are portrayed as good in fiction, then chances are that, with or without the fictional things they consume, they’re already troubled and they need professional help. but their inability to separate fiction from reality is not fanfic writers’ problem or responsibility. fanfic writers are not their parents or babysitters. ❞
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Mandatory executive dysfunction reblog
Listen, kids, don't let transphobia seep into your ideology just because it's being sold to you as activism! Here's a little list to protect you from adopting transphobic beliefs:
-- There is never a good reason to mock someone's gender identity and/or pronouns! Criticize people on their actions, not their identity.
-- "Transfeminism" encapsulates the issues of all trans people, as studied through a feminist lens. There is no way to exclude a whole group of trans people from transfeminism without being transphobic. Anyone who tells you transfeminism is exclusive to one type of trans person is lying to you and possibly themselves.
-- Trans people speaking about their bodies and how those bodies are affected under a patriarchal system are never misgendering themselves.
-- Body parts =/= gender! That's bioessentialism and will always be transphobic and intersexist.
-- No gender identity can be reduced down to one stereotype or one personality type. That's gender essentialism, which will never not be transphobic (and misogynistic, while we're at it).
-- Don't take people who weaponize transphobia against people they don't like as authorities on transfeminism. There is no amount of bad behavior that deserves to be met with transphobia.
Y'all got it?
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Maybe this is a controversial take but honestly, I don't care even if you only mean cis men when you say "kill all men" or "all men suck" because you're contributing to bioessentialism/gender essentialism and generalizing an entire group of people to be bad and even perpetuating the idea that men who do shitty things to them because "they can't help it due to being men". You're not dismantling the patriarchy, you're contributing to it.
