neil-gaiman: ruffboijuliaburnsides: lilykep: littlethingwithfeathers: ruffboijuliaburnsides: mumblingsage: oopsabird: sugarfey: nottonyharrison: nottonyharrison: Idek if this is serious or ironic honestly #like…why use this baby word when you can just say how you feel about it Found this in the original post tags[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
“Queer coded” is when a writer deliberately uses subtle but obvious cultural tells to inform the audience that their character is meant to be queer, without openly stating that they are queer. This is done to present a queer character[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
So much of pro-censorship fandom (so called “antiship”) culture seems to boil down to finding a reason for any ship with more spice than mayonnaise or more chemistry than distilled water to be considered morally reprehensible, and considering the people[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
I wish more people in fandom understood (or would make the distinction between) a character who is queer coded, and a character they have a queer reading for. I think that many fans do understand the difference, but insisting that[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Listen, I am a huge slash shipper, but you need to understand my biggest pet peeve about the Ace Attorney fandom. A large part of the reason that slash shipping came to be a dominating force in many circles of[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
curiositysavesthecat: if you are (or were) in a fandom, were you ever cancelled or deemed problematic by your own fandom? yes no I was never in a fandom *this poll was submitted to us and we simply posted it so[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Literally because I said censorship was bad, and that we shouldn’t ban the reading or writing of fictional stories even when they’re about distasteful and unpleasant topics like child molestation. Here’s the post they were reacting to.
brutallyboned: mikasslime: : You. Don’t. Own. Trauma. Some stranger drawing something isn’t drawing “YOUR TRAUMA” and if anything it’s probably their trauma. You are not nearly that important to random strangers for them to write or create content about your[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Thank you so much for your words of support. 💖 We’re never gonna stop.
are you harassing people with “proship DNI” in their bio and going out of your way to interact with them instead of avoiding them? Try not doing that, and blocking people you don’t agree with instead. Being “proship” (which means[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
It’s always so funny to see someone who believes that they, and only they are capable of writing taboo fiction in the “right” way and everyone else is a “freak” who’s had their “brain rotted”. This is so pathetic and[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
skinwretch: ‘don’t get inspired by my style’ is such a funny thing to say. do NOT let any art i make have any lasting impression on you. only view my work if you are going to men in black mind[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
OOOOOH, now it all makes sense. They’re a TERF.
blackheartbiohazards: bookish-bimbo: david-goldrock: the-oddest-inkling: How fast smut has inflitrated books, mostly bestsellers aimed at young girls and young adults is very concerning. Back in the day it was mostly just to be found in fanfics and doujinshis and stuff like[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
bookish-bimbo: david-goldrock: the-oddest-inkling: How fast smut has inflitrated books, mostly bestsellers aimed at young girls and young adults is very concerning. Back in the day it was mostly just to be found in fanfics and doujinshis and stuff like that[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
💖 You don’t have to write for a specific audience. 💖 You don’t have to write for any audience. 💖 You don’t have to write for mass market appeal. 💖 You don’t have to know who your audience will be.[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
distr3sso-m0de: Some thoughts on Dune, media literacy and the way we interact (and do not interact) with difficult topics in fiction…. Buddy, imma say this with kindness in my heart…. If this gets you ‘tweaking’ then you aren’t gonna like[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
evilwriter37: heatwavesintheuk: evilwriter37: Saying “this niche, properly tagged, warned, and rated piece of fiction could theoretically hurt someone” is not a good argument. This properly labeled cookie with the allergen information at the bottom that contains gluten could theoretically harm me[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
distr3sso-m0de: Some thoughts on Dune, media literacy and the way we interact (and do not interact) with difficult topics in fiction…. Buddy, imma say this with kindness in my heart…. If this gets you ‘tweaking’ then you aren’t gonna like[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
evilwriter37: lifblogs: evilwriter37: lifblogs: What actually makes my ships problematic? Are antis making up the rules as they go? They are absolutely making up the rules as they go. Changing a character’s age to support your purity argument does not[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
majorpepperidge: maskysgirlfriend: maskysgirlfriend: maskysgirlfriend: yall gotta be nicer about m/f bc sometimes u guys like the blandest gay sutff ive ever seen in my life gonna add onto this you all gotta stop acting like m/f is just cishet when[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Moderation is only relevant in a setting where rules of moderation are imposed. For example, no one in the publishing industry is forced to publish a book that doesn’t conform with their rules. That’s moderation. However if the government attempted[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Stop using the word “criticism” as a shield to excuse yourself when you attack and harass writers on a personal level. Saying “you, the author are a monster, and your fiction is destroying society” is an attack, not a literary[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
As much as people like to parrot “ACAB” and consider their job done, most people– especially people raised with evangelical values– have not done the work of unlearning legalism and understanding morality through the lens of actual harm. To these[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
damnfandomproblems: Fandom Problem #4690: kids come on here talking about “be gay do crimes!!” “ACAB!!” and then say people should go to jail over uh “"illegal ships”“ uh sure, good luck with that one kiddo lol
problematic-faves-appreciation: ────── ────── ────── The perfect responses to people who insist creators “must” write all stories, even those aimed at adults, like a 1980s cartoon PSA and spoon-feed their audiences everything — or else they’ll be accused of being “irresponsible”[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Speaking as fictionkin and a fictive system member, I am so tired of seeing kin and fictives trying to police and restrict how other people interact with and discuss fandom, and the fanfiction and art they create and share. Your[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Listen. I don’t believe that seeing acts of evil glorified or romanticized in fiction causes human beings to choose to do evil. But even if I did believe that, I still believe that any amount of censorship of art and[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
lukmarc10: i’m very grateful for the fact that the creator of TCOAAL had the balls to even create it and release it in the first place, because its mere existence has really painted us the perfect picture of the current[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Indeed. And we use that option frequently. You never see 90% of the hate mail we get. When we do publish anon hate its because we have a response to it that we feel that the person sending it might[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Do you genuinely believe that people should be allowed the choice to do good or to do evil? Or do you actually believe that people should have no choice but to act in a way you personally consider moral. Because[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
xxlovelynovaxx: birble-bobble: legsdemandias: legsdemandias: The other thing about uncomfortable, awful, terrible, ~romanticized~ fiction that gets lost in censorship conversations is the fact that in your regular non-academic life you don’t have to read it. “I’ve experienced x so I don’t[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
“Censorship of some topics in fiction and art is good and I would be happy if it were to be enacted in a way I approved of” and “some things should be banned from ever being written or read about[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
I hope that anybody who goes through our tumblr or ao3 looking for “evidence” that we’re a “pedophile” is really embarrassed when all they find is sad, pining queers, erotic violence between buff men, enemies to lovers, and aggressively normal[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
To these people anyone who promotes freedom of artistic expression is a pedophile. Because there’s no reason in their mind why someone would not want to censor art and media containing things they think are bad, unless its because they[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
You know, when you say these things about a middle aged trans guy who lives with his spouse and cats, and sits on the internet all day promoting freedom of speech and writing stories about imaginary middle aged war criminals,[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
You cannot blackmail writers and artists into creating the way you want them to by holding your approval hostage. I mean both: you have a social obligation not to attempt to blackmail writers and artists into creating the way you[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Sometimes when I (♦️🌺) get particularly annoyed at people online when I’m scrolling through, I make a point of blocking them even if I don’t expect it to be an issue again. And when I block them I imagine taking[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Uhoh! Popular fandom headcanon makers have fallen for the front the character puts up! Hundred dead, thousands injured.
There is no reason to hold fanfiction to an imaginary moral standard of censorship that doesn’t apply to published media. Any horrible, twisted, taboo material you can find in fanfiction, you can find in published novels, movies, games, etc. You[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
xx-slug-xx: Antis in the furry fandom are really a big problem right now. As y’all’s eyes on the inside, I just want to kinda fill people in on what’s happening. Pup hood discourse is running rampant rn, which is ironic[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
The only people who pro-censorship fans will give the permission to write problematic fiction are the people who are too powerful for them to bully and harass.
Get a load of this. post i made in reaction to this conversation original post context link
Here’s the thing about the argument that fiction the argument that “fiction that portrays bad evil wrong things as good will result in the audience believing that bad evil wrong thing is good in real life.” When fiction impacts us,[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Actually you do not need to respect the creator or their intentions for the characters when writing fanfiction or shipping. That’s kind of the whole point of fanfiction and shipping– doing what you want with the material without regard to[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
✨ Write and read the stories that you want to. ✨ Write and read the horror and violence that you want to. ✨ Write and read the romance that you want to. ✨ Write and read the ships that you[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
People who use the term “proship” to describe themselves use it to mean “ship and let ship.” People who use the term “proship” to describe themselves use it to mean “I ship what I want to ship, and I don’t[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
we are happy to help! <3 we personally stopped using the terms “proship” and “antiship” entirely, exactly because no one can agree on what they mean and they only cause confusion and misunderstandings. I tend to use the terms “pro-censorship[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Okay friend, I see that you’re a little confused, so I’m going to help you the best that I can. “Proship” is not an objective term that you can use to describe a ship. It’s not actually *supposed* to be[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
“anyone who has nothing to hide has nothing to fear” mentality. They think that censorship won’t affect the people that they consider good and right-thinking, because they assume no good and right-thinking person would ever write something that they personally[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
There is so much to unpack there.
the fandom pro-censorship crowd LOVES to lean into infantilizing themselves and denying their own agency and culpability.
The world is never worse for having your fiction writing in it. Every story you choose to tell and share improves the world a little bit.
If you see a post promoting freedom of artistic expression and denouncing censorship and your first instinct is that OP must be a pedophile and that you need to attempt to discredit their post with the same kind of ‘child[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Here’s the thing. Fandom has always, always, always had big pockets of haters and negativity in it. There used to be whole blog communities dedicated to “sporking” and “wank”. But what social media has done is made those haters and[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
☝️ Writing in fiction about an evil, disgusting, immoral or illegal act does not mean that you believe it is good or should be allowed in real life. ☝️ Reading in fiction about an evil, disgusting, immoral or illegal act[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
drcrispy93: Homestuck antis are a true testament to how little people actually read Homestuck and comprehended it. You’re an anti into HOMESTUCK? The very same Homestuck where the funny grey aliens are forced to fuck their brothers and sisters by[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
iamnmbr3: Some People: You can’t ship Blorbo and Mr. Evilkiller McMurderface! It’s so problematic. There’s an age gap! Me: … Mr. Evilkiller McMurderface killed Blorbo’s entire family, blew up his planet and ate his best friend in front of him.[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
♠️ I believe in your right to create fiction that I don’t enjoy. ♠️ I believe in your right to create fiction that I think would be better if it was different somehow. ♠️ I believe in your right to[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Toko (😼🔪) was SO excited for [that fandom] years ago when it started being announced/worked on. We bought early merch! But there was just so much fucking bitching and wank and drama both in advance of it and now that[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
What’s killing comments in fandom? The decline of comment culture is something I talk about a lot, however, I didn’t expect a personal rant about the subject to blow up into a 20k+ note post. However, that same post blowing[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
It’s so deeply comforting and gratifying to hear that our blog has had a positive influence on people. Thank you so much for taking the time to share your feelings with us, it really makes our day to hear this.[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
As we were recently discussing re: togafuka; pro-censorship fans in the danganronpa fandom have some really outlandish ideas about what makes a ship unacceptable.
It always seems to come back to pro-censorship fans believing that they and they alone are the only moral and enlightened enjoyers of media in the world, and that everyone else is a disgusting pervert who only engages with media[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Speaking of queer coding… Deeply frustrated with some western Ace Attorney fans willfully obtuse insistence that the main AA characters are all deliberately queer coded– while ignoring the fact that all the actually queer coded characters in the series are[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
moved-to-piersgender: It’s all “be gay do crimes” “cringe culture is dead uwu” until y’all lay your eyes upon someone genuinely weird/transgressive like nonhuman-identifying people, or kinky people, or even neurodivergent people who can’t mask to your satisfaction and suddenly y’all[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
“Queer coding” exists because for a long time it was unacceptable or outright banned to depict characters who were states to be, or implicitly queer. Therefore authors had to sneak depictions of queer characters in through coding with plausible deniability.[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
dachshun: ^ I’ve made this into a new post because OP instantly blocked me after getting caught out for defending p3dos. That means it won’t show up in the notes, and people will continue to reblog the post innocently thinking[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
necrobarbie: actually deleting last reblog bc i dont like ops language but in general: ppl over identify with the term proship and try to make it a coherent community when it is, at most, a baseline of interacting with fiction[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
runs-red: Some anti-shippers really act like proship means “dangerous offending paraphile who is deeply perverted and cant’ be good in any way and should be kept away from society” instead of just like “person who doesn’t give a flying fuck[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
sarenhale: I hate how fandom rules made it so people don’t even dare to admit they don’t like a character anymore, but choose to make up shit about said character instead, like ‘she’s abusive/she’s a creep" and shit like that[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Hate how fandom purity culture has made character age discourse so overwhelming and loud that that those people will tell you it’s inappropriate to speculate on who characters who are canonically children might date in a fanfiction set it the[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
elizabethminkel: Lots of People Make Money on Fanfic. Just Not the Authors As promised! I wrote about the illegal fanbinding that’s led to writers deleting their works recently, how that connects to the current pull-to-publish wave, and what happens when[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Seeing all the people tag/reblog our post with some variant of “I’m too anxious to leave comments” is very validating about our thesis for why people have stopped interacting with fandom. I think this comment sums it up nicely. And[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
hadeantaiga: incendiarybomb: askinfresh: hadeantaiga: nope-the-weeb: hadeantaiga: I really think everyone needs to truly internalize this: Fictional characters are objects. They are not people. You cannot “objectify” them, because they have no personhood to be deprived of. They have no humanity[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
❣️ “Shipping” characters means that you are interested in the idea of what it would be like if characters were involved in a romantic or sexual relationship with each other. ❣️ Shipping something does not mean that you think that[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
actually, no one last gripe and then I’m off– It’s really telling how we get hate mail on tumblr from people who don’t read our writing but *assume* that we write something filthy nasty that they disapprove of and hate.[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Morally bad ships are bad and wrong to have in the fandom all about morally bad people doing crimes. 😭😭😭😭
But its canon, not fanfiction that means that it’s totally morally pure and only there to show how bad and awful it is. Certainly not a nasty, dirty desire like all fanfiction absolutely always reflects. THE ABOVE IS SARCASM. Seriously[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
“But why would you want to imagine, read or write about a relationship that wasn’t healthy, good or desirable to you personally?” I genuinely don’t know how to explain the concept of fiction to you.
I wish I understood why pro-censorship fans think that its normal and okay to treat “shipping” as some kind of sacred moral space away from other types of fiction where only good and pure and desirable things can happen. I[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Actually, friend, freedom of expression does mean that it’s okay to ship anything you want. It’s imaginary. It’s not real. ☝️ You’re not obligated as a writer to exclusively write about healthy, normal relationships and sane, moral actions. ☝️ Fictional[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
If that person comes back at me and says the pedo thing is about Paz and Kaz, I am going to out them as a fake metal gear fan because it’s revealed in the game that she’s introduced in that[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Anon, this may shock you but the word “pedophile” has an actual definition which does not involve “writing fanfiction about war criminals.”. Anon, I am begging you just to call me a pervert. Not for my sake, but for the[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
IDK what to tell you, fam. We ship clones and incest here. 🤷 We also ship people who knife fight one another, torture each other, and hold each other captive for weeks on end. Healthy relationship is not the goal[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
evilwriter37: Hello, fandom. Please do not demonize others that enjoy something in a different way than you do. Oh, that’s too hard? My bad.
Holy shit! First of hell, hell yes king of game trilogy congrats on your crown my liege! Second– dare I ask what game this is??
sam-at-hogwarts: From what I have seen it’s a couple fandom, I’m partial to the wizarding world a few of the popular ones have been deleted and several others are mentioning that they plan on taking their stuff down soon due[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
profiction-anomalocaris: problematic-faves-appreciation: whathihello: blackheartbiohazards: You know, it occurs to me that I don’t actually even know what fanfictons pro-censorship fans are objecting to when they say “it’s okay to write about it but not okay to romantcize it.” Because in[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
rnorningstars: no offense but some of y’all should really consume more weird media ok some of y’all are ready to clutch your pearls at the mere sight of the slightest offbeat concept in speculative fiction and this can’t go on
frozen-strawberry-cow: i hate it when antis “”“fix”“”“ darkship/comship art to make it ”“"wholesome”“” and say the original artist has “”“wasted talent”“”. like just because you dislike what a creator makes doesnt mean you have to “”“fix”“” what they made. art[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
ALRIGHT FINE. It looks like we’re going to have to turn on logged-in comments only on archive of our own. Spam has ruined it for everyone.
They’re an SCP files blog?????? child you would not have survived 2011 SCP files we would have eaten you for breakfast.
ieaturanium: blackheartbiohazards: You know, it occurs to me that I don’t actually even know what fanfictons pro-censorship fans are objecting to when they say “it’s okay to write about it but not okay to romantcize it.” Because in pretty much[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…