yourshipisfine:

magnusbene:

yourshipisfine:

magnusbene:

honestly I don’t even care why ao3 was created, if you defend their policy of not deleting horrible works, or are otherwise completely uncritical/forgiving of their mistakes because “but they’re by fans for fans”, you’re a piece of shit

horrible tropes and abuse have always been a part of fandom and fanworks, but it’s super gross that a bunch of fandom elders (who are most likely at least in their thirties) continue the tradition of citing “don’t like don’t read” as a good enough excuse to write child porn, abuse, rape, sexual slavery, etc. AND they collect thousands of dollars each year to fund this through donations

like. they are literally putting money into abusive content being published on their site. where people of any age, even pre-teens, can access it. for example, I could never report people posting alec/women stuff despite it being homophobic, because it doesn’t violate their terms. I can’t report pretty much anything, because as long as you’re not plagiarizing, it’s all good

yeah, ao3 is great as a concept, but allowing abusive, homophobic, racist, etc. material to be published on your site because “fuck the pc police/moral crusaders” is appalling and fuck ao3 tbh. not to mention they’ve had really disgusting people as members on their board, so it’s pretty obvious what kind of people are in charge of this site

If you do not like AO3′s policies, don’t donate to them, don’t publish your fic there and don’t read fic there.

AO3 was created because people were unhappy with the policies of other websites and fanfiction archives.

If you are unhappy with AO3′s policies, there is nothing stopping you from setting up a fanfic archive of your own where you can decide on the policies. 

As for pre-teens accessing the site and reading porny fic… yeah. They’re gonna do that. And you know whose responsibility that is? Those kids’ parents.

If I post explicit fic on AO3, it is my responsibility to categorise it as mature/explicit, to tag the relationships and to mention in the tags/summary that it contains sex. That’s it. 

lmao I’m not talking about minors reading porn fic. I read porn fic as a minor, and it was a way for me to exposure sex and sexuality. that’s not an issue to me

I’m specifically taking about fic that depict pedophilia and other forms of abuse in a positive light. and kids reading these things and being influenced by them, because they don’t have the ability to know those things are wrong and it’s not okay if someone treats them like that in real life

so maybe don’t do that selective reading thing and pretend like I’m complaining about age limits

My reply still stands. It is not my responsibility to teach kids that an abusive relationship isn’t okay (or what an abusive relationship even is). It is not my responsibility to teach a kid what is right and what is wrong. That is the responsibility of the parents. 

My responsibility as a writer posting to AO3 is to use the categories, tags, author notes and summary to make it clear to the reader what they can expect. I do not control who reads my fic (except for locking it to members-only), and I do not control how they interpret my fic. 

Once again, If you don’t like AO3′s policies, don’t donate to them, don’t publish your fic there and don’t read fic there. 

Once again, you are free to create your own fanfic-archives and moderate it as you choose.