Reblog if you're kinda irrelevant and don't know a single person who actively uses tumblr
Things that will never happen because everybody who has ever used tumblr is dead :(
hilarious author’s notes I find in the wild ??/???
the watpadd kids crying about seeing stuff they don't like on ao3 are already killing me. if you refuse to use the very easy filtering system, and refuse to choose to hide content you don't want to see, you have zero right to be mad about seeing it. take some fucking agency over your own online experience. I have zero interest in your deliberate incompetence and childish temper tantrums. you're not special. learn to filter what you don't like- that's your responsibility, not anyone else's.
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AND DON´T USE AI.
Edit: if you do use ai... tag it
genuinely I'm so sick of people wanting all fiction to be ethical. can we all just get a little gross with it. the point of fiction is that it's not real. we can be unethical in fiction; same goes with being perverted with fiction, being unrealistic with fiction, and being grotesque with fiction. not all fiction has to be ethical, not every character has to be ethical, and that's okay. can we stop with the puritanism. be gross. be unrealistic. be whatever. if I don't like it it's not my business as long as we're all clear that its fictional.
via ered.bsky.social, the only kinds of unethical fiction:
ALTpeople in the replies are going "what about books glorifying unethical things" and "what if it's propaganda" and you, my friends, are who this comic was made for
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just ask that person out, the worst thing they can say is an esoteric incantation that topologically inverts your body
a million times this. “I don’t like these xyz fics” then don’t read them. THEY ARE NOT FOR YOU!!!!!!! no one forces you to read anything you don’t want to read. no one forces you to consume art you don’t enjoy. it’s so easy to click that mute or block button. instead of insulting fanfics or fan art for not fitting your personal liking, either choose something that does fit your personal liking, or write the fic you want to read yourself / draw the art you want to consume yourself.
fanfic writers and fan artists create as THEIR hobbies. they create for themselves and their own enjoyment. they don’t create for strangers’ approval