Villainous Thing

From The New Anecdota Americana, 1944

diversity win! this farmer is poly

from NINETEEN FORTY FOUR

You’re not a burden in your f/os eyes even if you need comfort or reassurance frequently. Your f/o loves taking care of you whether that be by listening to you, talking to you, spending time with you, helping you out, or simply reassuring you that everything is going to be okay. It puts them at ease to know they can make you feel even just a bit better in any way they can. ❤️‍🩹

saying ao3 needs to censor certain content is like saying a museum can't have still life art that includes strawberries because you don't like them.

these are not real strawberries. you do not have to, and in fact cannot, eat them. no one with a strawberry allergy will be harmed by looking at them. no migrant workers were exploited in the picking of these strawberries. there were no questionable farming practices or negative environmental impacts from growing or transporting them.

because - and i cannot stress this enough - they are not real strawberries.

if you don't like strawberries, you don't have to look at the paintings. in fact, you can get a map of the museum that lists what works are in what rooms and just. not go in there. if you see one by mistake, you can look away. just keep walking. there's plenty of other stuff to see.

yes, real strawberries can cause real quantifiable harm to real people.

but again. these are not real strawberries.

you may have whatever feelings you like about strawberries, and so can i. you can draw and write about whatever fruit floats your boat, and so can i, even if that happens to be strawberries. and we can hang our art side by side in the same gallery, provided you understand that my strawberries are not about you (and your kumquats are, shocker, not about me) and that - and this is true - neither are real.

and when the fascists break down the doors and grab all the strawberry paintings and heap them in the street and set them on fire, please know that they are coming for your kumquats next.

so if you want a place where you can show off your beautiful kumquat art safely, you're gonna have to tolerate having some strawberries in the next room.

and that's okay. because the strawberries aren't real.

AO3 is great for writers. They can post whatever they want and no one can do anything to make them stop.

On the other hand, this is actually terrible for readers. Finding even a single one-shot worth reading can mean wading through literally thousands of postings of really bad porn for the most degenerate niche fetishes on the internet. Frankly, I would call AO3 practically unusable for anyone that just wants to browse fanfiction. Outside of word of mouth or curated recommendation/bookmark lists finding anything worth reading is simply not worth the trouble.

What Archive of Our Own demonstrates is that without filters 99% of what people produce is simply shit.

I have not had any problems filtering out the "really bad porn" at AO3.

Of course, some of that is probably a matter of taste. I like the really good porn, and some people are going to disagree with me about what that is.

But I use filters extensively.

I still have to scroll past some things I don't care for. But I have rules for that - if there's spelling or grammar errors in the summary that make me flinch, I skip the story. If I can't read the intro without getting distracted by bad punctuation, it doesn't matter how great the plot and characterization are; I won't enjoy the story.

My to-read list is longer than I have time for.

Saying A03 is bad for readers because you have to scroll through a bunch of things you don't like unless you use filters is like saying a bike is a poor form of transportation because you have to carry it everywhere unless you have wheels.

The filters are the goddamn point. The whole concept is built around tagging and filtering.

A03 put you in charge of your user experience. And it takes ten seconds or less to filter out E rated fics if that's not your bag.

Ao3 has THE best filtering system I have ever used bar none. It is the absolute gold standard of filtering.

Do you know how frustrated I get on other websites that don't have tag wrangling or 'search within results' or a fucking EXCLUDE filter?

If you don't want to read 'degenerate porn', just hit the magical check box that excludes Explicit rated fic. Want to avoid fic with any sex in at all? Filter out all the categories for sexual relationships (M/F etc). Want to avoid any Icky™ content at all? Filter on No Archive Warnings Apply, and then probably the Gen rating to be really safe.

There are so so many ways ao3 is set up to allow people to avoid fic they don't like, FOR FREE - because remember ao3 is staffed almost exclusively by volunteers - that you coming in and complaining about 'wading through literally thousands of postings' is, frankly both obnoxious and sort of pathetic, ngl

Especially given that you're on Tumblr, the notoriously broken site, I suspect the issue is less the filtering system and more the fact you don't like AO3

Also, OBVIOUSLY AO3 is better for writers than it is for readers.

It was created for writers.

It was created as an archive.

it was created to be the last safe haven you could put your fucked up fanfiction when every other website would take it down randomly.

Readers are incidental.

AO3 is for writers.

oh my favorite trope? two people who go through something so unique and agonizing and entirely beyond words that they have no choice but to create a bond that transcends all other types of love, thus acting as the sole point of understanding for the other person in a world that cannot fathom what they’ve been through

I think movies need more sex and i also think that actors need to be uglier and less in shape

Do you hate children yes or no

Yes

*slowly reaches for the popcorn*

Phantom of the Paradise Out of Touch THURSDAY

@dgcakes

twitter stuff

lalala *fantasizes abt violent murders cutely*

calling the police... these four guys from jersey are hurting me deeply....

calling the police…

these four guys from jersey are

hurting me deeply….

Beep boop! I look for accidental haiku posts. Sometimes I mess up.

I have decided to be a freak forever

SIGH

Happy buff wano loof

The whumpee had always had heaps of potential waiting to be nurtured, yet the whumpee refused to harness this. The constant denial of what they could be angered the whumper, the whumpee in their eyes was wasting their gift- so really, by capturing them they could finally teach them how to properly settle into their role. The whumper will mold the whumpee into what they were truly meant to be, whether the whumpee wants to or not.