Ao3 Is Actually Massively Culturally Important And Very Very Good At Being What It Is. I’m So Serious

My final message. Goodbye.

Periodic rent-lowering-gunshots:

Fiction is not reality.

You can enjoy things in fiction that would be awful in the real world. Like playing a murderhobo in a game! In the real world, being or supporting a murderer-thief would be pretty damn awful, while in the game it's just good fun. Same with anything else you choose to do with the pixels on the screen, like kinks that don't affect anyone real, so they're okay in fiction, but would be pretty damn bad in real life.

No one else is responsible for your online experience. They are required not to harass you, but they are not and never will be obligated to not post about ships, kinks, or tropes you dislike just to avoid you seeing them. It's up to you to blacklist words or phrases, block tags, or even block users as needed to avoid seeing content that upsets you.

No one can force you to read anything against your consent. Any content you don't like seeing can be instantly avoided by closing out of the offending post/fic.

You are not owed an online experience free of discomfort.

Nothing that happens in your imagination can ever make you a bad person. Words you write or read about fictional characters will never make you a bad person.

The claim that media consumption influences real-life behavior is intellectually dishonest and serves only to excuse the behavior of real offenders.

Fiction is a safe way to explore horrifying or confusing concepts. Therapists agree that fiction, even (or especially) about taboo topics is a good coping mechanism, especially, but not exclusively, for trauma survivors. Fiction is to adults what play therapy is to children. This doesn't stop being true if the work in question is of a sexual nature.

Sex isn't an inherently worse or better motivation than anything else. A work written to create feelings of arousal isn't dirty, shameful, or in any way less pure than works written to entertain, provoke moral questions, or for other reasons. And worth noting is that multiple purposes can exist in the same story, especially fanfiction.

You aren't entitled to an explanation for why someone reads, writes, or otherwise enjoys certain works, kinks, tropes, ships, etc.

this is actually insane my GOD😭😭😭

i have no words

their oc or whatever is making my eyes twitch

please i hope this is satire 💀

heyyyyyy girlies just a reminder that ao3 is by proshitters, for proshitters and your puritanical anti rhetoric isn’t welcome there byeeeeeee ship and let ship forever 🫶

(This is from the official AO3 TOS update btw)

Reblog daily for health and prosperity

Autism Speaks Canada is "concluding its operations" on January 31st 2025!

My biggest pet peeve is when a fandom treats a villain like a real guy who’s done real life harm. Like he’s the problematic member of an old boy band or something that must !!!! not be named !!! Sorry I can’t act like I’m scandalised by a guy who literally does not fucking exist

Quit virtue signalling and have a real discussion for once, cowards

CUTE

I MADE A PROSHIP BINGO CARD!!! yippee yippee yippee :3c

selfship templates i made! all i ask is that you don’t remove the credit in the corner ^_^ i’d love to see what you make so tag me if you want!