BlackHeart Biohazards

marshemillow:

Oh my god, we’re really doing this again? Are we? Are we really doing this again?

Anon, I am tired. I am so fucking tired.

I’m really sorry, whoever this is, I don’t even know you, and you may be asking this question in good faith, but I’m unloading anyway because I am sick and tired of this fucking question. Feel free to tell me if I read more hostility in your question than you intended, because I’ve done that before, and I apologize if I have.

That being said, literally think about the moderation you are suggesting. Where do you draw the line between talking about bad things and romanticizing bad things? Wattpad said that it would remove all fiction that romanticized rape, but in practice it actually just banned everything, including threads where survivors talked about their experiences. Sometimes, the line between simple depiction and endorsement is extremely thin, and everyone has different ideas for where that line should be.

In fact, it wasn’t just Wattpad. FF.NET went through a similar purging, and so did LiveJournal, where Strikethrough occured. Millions of stories were simply wiped clean, including stories where people overcame their challenges and found a way to heal. Even if you actually did find the line between depiction and endorsement that more than one person could agree on, how could you reasonably enforce that over thousands or millions of stories? The only way is to read them from start to finish and then decide based on your own interpretation wether or not it actually broke that rule. Even then, plenty of stories leave the moral up to interpretation on purpose! How could you get an entire moderation team to agree on the correct interpretation fast enough to actually moderate an entire website!? Do you know how impractical this solution actually is!?

And don’t even get me started on terms like “written cp” or “pedophilia porn” as if comparing fiction to real people getting assaulted is not insulting enough already. You people seem to think that written underage fiction is the same as (or at least encourages) illegal photos or videos of real children being abused and exploited, so you think that CSEM is illegal because it’s gross or romanticizing abuse. That is so fucked up, I don’t even have words for it. Think about hated child vlogging youtubers like Daddy of 5 and the Ace family, people who are rightfully hated for making money off of exploiting their children, but nobody seems to have a problem with writing fictional children getting verbally and psychologically abused. You wanna know why? BECAUSE FICTIONAL CHARACTERS ARE NOT REAL AND CANNOT BE HURT.

Have you ever actually been in a library before!? Probably not, because you think this only exists in fanfiction and not in published fiction, so Steven King can write a child clown orgy and get away with it scott-free while tiny teenage AO3 users recieve death threats every fucking day just for daring to write a sex scene between two consenting 17-year-olds, as if that is far more of a sin than the child orgy.

Jesus Christ, it’s like antis just heard from someone popular that “written cp” is just as bad as real abuse or exploitation materal, so they turned their brains off to clog up the cyber tip line with false tips, ignore examples of real child exploitation, act like AO3 is worse than public libraries when you aren’t even technically allowed on the site til you’re 13, act like making them uncomfortable is enough of an offense to have media censored, ignore real CSA victims who are insulted that they compare what they went through to cartoon drawings, and send death threats and suicide baits to people who did nothing wrong!!!

The modern day proshipping phenomenon is really just people who are sick and tired of having their fanfiction censored because some harpies with internet access want to bring back the Hays Code. I know you probably have good intentions sending me this ask, but personally, I’ve had enough.

“keep it to themselves if thats what they get off to” as if that’s not the same as saying, “Victims should suffer in silence, and victims who can’t write aren’t allowed to cope at all.”

Don’t assume that something you don’t like is just meant to be porn by default. Also, don’t assume that fandom is full of kids anyway. Kids shouldn’t even have unsupervised internet access. I would understand this ask if it was sent in like, 2007, back when googling “my little pony” was basically the reddit 50/50 challenge, but for god’s sake, tumblr is rated “Mature 17+” on the google playstore, even after the porn ban.

It’s not my job to babysit you. If you don’t like things in the main tag, then learn to block tags you don’t like, or ask your parents to do it for you. This is a space made by adults for adults, and it’s not our fault that children and teenagers invade our space and ignore layers of warnings put in place to keep children out just so they can complain that we aren’t “family-friendly” enough.

We get one site, ONE SINGULAR SITE, that allows this kind of problematic fiction, that allows queer fiction, that allows cope fiction, etc. We got our spaces decimated one by one, from Wattpad to LJ to FF.NET, and you guys want to take that away too, because it makes you, personally, uncomfortable.

Because yes, every time a fandom purge like this has happened, it has led to very predictable results. SFW queer fiction is censored too, because our existence is explicit to the vast majority of the world right now. I don’t know if you noticed. Non-religious and Anti-Christian sentiments are censored too. Some people are killed for even hinting at opposing Islam. Etc.

The only way to avoid censorship altogether is to allow all bad fiction, except in very specific cercumstances where real people were harmed.

And I have my own opinions about what kind of fiction should be permissable, but that’s a different discussion; One we can’t have until we stop playing this pointless game of offense.

In conclusion anon; Let people write what they fucking want. Video games don’t make school shooters, so fanfiction can’t make a child predator.