Sorry if it sounds like I was mandating that fics be a certain way. I’m certainly open to the possibility that a fic featuring a noncanonical pairing can be plausible if done right, but from what I’ve seen, they’re almost always just self-indulgent wish fulfillment fantasies. I have been banned from a certain subreddit just because I dared to criticize the nonsensical aspects of many noncanonical shipfics and so this is a pet peeve of mine. I literally saw a post on that same subreddit that claimed there was a “hetero agenda” that “needs to be stopped” and it got over 10 upvotes! This is practically a call to arms against heterosexuals and makes me wonder what is wrong with these people that they think these attitudes are OK.
I literally just had another fic of mine deleted from AO3 for bogus reasons so of course, I had to write an expose about censorship on AO3 which you can read here if interested: https://freespeechhub.blogspot.com
Out of curiosity, I followed the link. It was way, way funnier than I could’ve predicted. I was expecting some sort of right wing conspiracy nut job, but this is way better.
If you came here looking for a post about censorship of fanworks on Archive Of Our Own, well, guess what happened? I got a takedown notice for it and, although I can’t view the request to verify this, I’m sure you can guess who (probably vindictively) submitted the request. I’m obviously disputing the takedown as being without merit but they force people to take down the post until the dispute is resolved. So maybe bookmark this page and come back in a week or two? Since I have no way of knowing which part of the post is allegedly infringing the DMCA since I can’t view the takedown request and since I don’t believe any of the post was actually infringing, I can’t just repost part of it. Thanks for your understanding!
Whatever they posted, it’s bad enough that the host server forced a take down. 🤣
Or they’re just lying. Heh.
Did anyone watch this nonsense go down in realtime?
earliest Wayback copy of that URL is not early enough to have anything that might have been there before the post quoted above
BREAKING NEWS
They are, of course, on Reddit.
I really, really have to go run errands, but the rest of you rubberneckers, feel free to go look at their sad, sad experience with being “censored” even there.
Man… is it 2002 again? I haven’t seen one of these in the wild in a long, long time.
It’s a Brokeback Mountain troll fic, the summary has been doing the rounds on Tumblr. Behold:
And the A/N is all “ao3 is full of people ignoring all the beautiful precious canon pairings to write nonsensical m/m dirty porn!1! BECAUSE THEY’RE HETEROPHOBES!”
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