fandom-is-for-pleasure:

It’s been said before, but we honestly need an AO3 equivalent online space for fan-art / overall fannish communities, with the same policies of maximum content inclusiveness as AO3. It needs the following: 

• 18+ across the board. Sorry, but it’s precisely the presence of minors that led to the current meltdown on Tumblr. I’ve seen multiple statements that the ‘C/P images unable to be matched with an FBI database’ were effectively minors posting NSFW selfies of themselves in tags, with cosplay tags bearing the brunt of this nonsense. A fannish site that explicitly requires content-holders to be eighteen at minimum before making an account isn’t going to completely stop shit like the above, not when people can blatantly lie about their ages, but it’ll certainly make it easier to get rid of, when people slip up, reveal they lied and get their accounts purged. 

• adherence to US law, in terms of what fictional content is permitted, with accusations of ‘literal C/P’ needing to fulfill the ‘indistinguishable from a real, existing minor’ criteria. I’m not a US citizen myself, but this is one of the few areas where I view the Americans as having the sane approach, one that doesn’t result in effectively extending human rights to goddamn anime characters. 

• punish the ant-created mass-reporting of users with a three-strikes system for people sending in the malicious reports, with their accounts being nuked the third time they report fictional content as being ‘harmful to mi/nors’ or whatever the fuck else. 

• the ability to make moderated, members-only communities, where the mods can vet all membership requests and where non-members can’t see the content inside. This was how more sensitive fannish subjects such as RPS / RPF or incest ships were handled in the LJ-era, where all the potential caterwauling over ‘how dare you make me see this with my own two eyes!’ was nipped in the bud, on account of almost all sensitive content being locked-down in comms or friends-only journals. 

• suitable payment-methods. Large payment processors are notoriously hostile toward adult content, regardless if we’re talking about mainstream porn of Asa Akira or fan-art of whatever M/M ship is popular. The site would need an adult-entertainment-friendly processor (which could still be prone to knee-jerking, on the basis of ants shrieking loudly enough at it) or a donate-by-cryptocurrency option (up to and including offering users the clearly-stated option to use their own GPUs to mine crypto for the site, if they don’t want to go through the hassle of buying it). 

• establish a US-based non-profit organization to run the site, the same role that the Organization For Transformative Works fulfills for AO3.