As far as I have seen, the creator’s ACTUAL demands are just that they want people to properly tag their NSFW so that younger fans won’t see it.
Slap a “mature” tumblr community rating on it, or mark it E for Explicit on AO3 and bam, you are respecting the creator’s wishes.
Fancops seem to be saying that the creator doesn’t want anyone to MAKE NSFW fan work (which would NOT be a reasonable request) but I haven’t seen anyone provide proof that this is the creator’s stance.
I absolutely agree that there should be an additional tag that nswf content creators in the fandom use to tag their work, additional to the main tag.
This allows anyone who wants to filter out the nsfw to do so by blocking just the nsfw tag, and allows people who want to filter out all the content from the fandom to do so by filtering the main tag.
Back in the day I would have agreed that there should be a separate space for it as well– a dedicated horny forum.
But nobody uses those any more. People just use public social media.
And it cause messes like this.
Reasonable asks of a fandom:
Unreasonable asks of a fandom:
🔹 No one deserves to be bullied, harassed or threatened over the contents of their fiction or art, no matter what.
🔹 No one deserves to be bullied, harassed or threatened over fictional ships, no matter what.
🔹 No one deserves to be bullied, harassed or threatened over who they self ship with, no matter what.
🔹 No one deserves to be bullied, harassed or threatened over their presence in fandom, no matter what.
We’ll be in and out for a bit– we have some unpacking to do! (literal moving unpacking 🤣)
Absolutely.
I never thought “you can’t control how other people feel about fiction” and “you can’t control the things other people do” would be something I had to tell people over and over.
I guess there are a lot of jealous, possessive, controlling people out there who never learned this stuff.