transformativeworks: In this month’s newsletter, OTW’s Board offers updates on AI, Terms of Service discussions and the work of their Diversity Consultant Research Officer; Fanlore’s bingo challenge is underway; our volunteers were at Eurocon & TWC is looking for submissions.[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Working on our personal fic archive and punched in the mouth again and again by how convenient and well created AO3 is.
I guess I respect the balls on this person to both be in favor of machine generated output and also completely recognize that what the machine turns out is unreadable dogshit. But wow I hate that.
Look, I’m going to be honest, I don’t care whether people feeding other fans’ fanfiction into AI is “legal” or “illegal”. What it is, is rude, entitled, and disrespectful of your fellow fans.
It is not any other fan’s job to appreciate a character that you like and find compelling and interesting. Sometimes a canon fails to make a character compelling and interesting for the majority of a fandom of that work. Often[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Hi friend! I’m happy to tell you that you, like many other people are misinformed. Original fiction is absolutely allowed on Archive of Our Own. There is in fact, a canonical works tag for it that you can see right[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
warlock-with-a-spear: Your daily reminder that writing all kinds of fiction is okay. People write for different reasons and it is just false of people to accuse you of being something simply by judging what kinda fics you like/write. As long[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
warlock-with-a-spear-deactivate: Your daily reminder that writing all kinds of fiction is okay. People write for different reasons and it is just false of people to accuse you of being something simply by judging what kinda fics you like/write. As long[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Hell yeah, anon! That’s amazing! Good vibes to all rarepair and crack shippers! 🙏🙏🙏🙏 darkheart-despairs
Hell yeah, anon! That’s amazing! Good vibes to all rarepair and crack shippers! 🙏🙏🙏🙏
dear-ao3: darkheart-despairs https://ift.tt/PgBuSAs
hussyknee: Shout-out to the brazen AO3 smut crankers posting the nastiest, most unholy filth I can only save in private bookmarks. Y’all’s cojones are solid brass. The international sexual deviant community thanks you for your service darkheart-despairs
hussyknee: Shout-out to the brazen AO3 smut crankers posting the nastiest, most unholy filth I can only save in private bookmarks. Y’all’s cojones are solid brass. The international sexual deviant community thanks you for your service
Day 3 reminder that tumblr is now banning blogs that include posts with: victims discussing their experiences of child sexual abuse suggestive art of characters who are drawn in a soft, chibi, or kawaii style. suggestive art of characters who[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
I love AO3. All websites should be on that level of based. They set the bar way higher for what just enjoying fiction in peace is supposed to look like. –Satou We could only wish. 🙏 I fear we may[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Can tumblr go back to “go nuts show nuts” please? It will never happen again. At that time, tumblr was created and run by a single identifiable person, who had personal ideals and goals for the site. now the site[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Reminder for those just joining us: the new development on tumblr is that it turns out they are strictly enforcing a ban on any depictions or discussions of underage people in sexual situations: including all fanart, fanfiction, and discussion of[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Absolutely true. Not in every case obviously, but in general the less you reveal about yourself the safer you are from being harassed about fucked up fic. Context link Source: xxblackheartbiohazardsxx
Yeah things like “abuse” and “harassment” are pretty easy to define in simple legal terms. Unlike, say “childlike proportions” or “problematic.” Source: xxblackheartbiohazardsxx
Oh hell… anon, I’m so sorry that you and your friend are going through that. That’s awful. That’s hell. My advice: Both of you, delete all of your social media accounts (NOT your AO3 accounts). Create new tumblr accounts. Ditch[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
:c context link Source: xxblackheartbiohazardsxx
Absolutely great observation unfortunately, anon. 😔 context link Source: xxblackheartbiohazardsxx
sadly, I’ve had the same experience. I honestly think people are scared, and the ones who aren’t scared are just entitled I think, as the last anon was alluding to. context link Source: xxblackheartbiohazardsxx
I think you’re spot on with this about “content” and expectation. I have been making a concerted effort to take “content” out of my vocabulary and use “media” and “works” or “fanworks” instead. context link Source: xxblackheartbiohazardsxx
Honestly I think this is a large part of it. I know anecdotally I stopped commenting on things on tumblr for a long while because I was terrified that someone would be offended somehow… context link Source: xxblackheartbiohazardsxx
Let’s talk about how much comment culture has changed in the last 20 years… In 2002-2003 I was writing a multi-chapter longfic for the fandom X-Men: Evolution. The fic was OC x canon and the canon character was Toad– one[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Antis, I beg you to genuinely examine this question: Why do you believe that violent or abusive sexual fantasies are more difficult to resist than other violent or abusive fantasies? Please explain it to me in a way that doesn’t[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Fun conversation on r/ao3 today about whether or not the sub should ban antis who come to complain about the “pedophilia” on the site. Source: xxblackheartbiohazardsxx
I do remember, and it was shameful behavior on the part of those doing it. Not unexpected from fancops, though. Source: xxblackheartbiohazardsxx
I think that people should read things that challenge them. I think they should read things that are contrary to their views. I think that they should read things that make them uncomfortable. I think they should read things that[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
What counts as a “good comment” varies from author to author, but here are some types of comments that almost never go wrong. “I love this so much.” “thank you for writing this.” “this fic makes me feel (your emotion[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
On Tuesday, May 29, 2007, LJers – users of the then-popular blogging site Livejournal – woke up to find that their Friends lists were showing a large number of names that had been crossed out, or strikethrough ‘ed. It turned[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
uh-oh-its-bird: Putting this here for those smart enough to not have a Twitter account (I envy you) ^ Latest post just now at 5:12pm CST
AO3 has been apparently removed from search engine results in Germany due to a complaint to Google that it may be illegal under German youth protection laws. This is exactly why its important for AO3 to be hosted on its[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
sl-ug: Yep! It’s almost as if they know it’s not CSEM and just want a reason to complain. Not liking sexualized fictional minors is fine and all, but don’t call it something that it’s not, and reduce the harm that[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Why get into the serious world of political advocacy when what you really want is an excuse to be mean and nasty to people online?
tim-drake-is-a-mood: littledead-ridinghood: Jason as those AO3 authors who have the worst tragedies happening to them and yet still continues to pump out his new chapter every week Some poor, unbeknownst Gothamite: “My favorite fanfic writer hasn’t posted or updated any[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
masteryaddleisagilf: I got curious, so I did a bit of “research” The most popular fic in English is an NSFW (incredibly raunchy, wow) Guardians of the Galaxy fic with 128.179 kudos. In Mandarin, it is a mature RPF fic of the actors from The[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
a site that allows works that profit off their oppression This is a meaningless and incorrect statement. First of all, AO3 doesn’t profit AT ALL. Second of all, hosting fanfiction doesn’t profit on anyone’s oppression. Other people’s fanfic is not[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Antis are used to sites that let them bully others, so they’re shocked pikachu face when AO3 has ACTUAL moderation.