And other fanworks, for that matter, but let’s talk about fic: When AO3 was proposed, it was in response to Strikethrough and other similar events. Livejournal deleted a lot of accounts without bothering to distinguish between actual pedophiles, survivor support groups, and 100% consensual fantasy fandom activities being done by adults with other adults (most of which involved RP accounts for 16-year-old Harry Potter characters anyway).
I helped write the first AO3 Terms of Service and set up the Abuse committee. AO3 was always intended to be welcoming to all kinds of fic, no matter how dirty, sick, socially unacceptable, bizarre, or out of fashion. During those initial TOS talks, we specifically discussed grotesque RPF snuff porn as the test case for something all of us on the committee found distasteful but would nonetheless defend because, by defending it, we created a space where all of our own favorite things were protected too.
Policing fic content is a slippery slope. Even if you only police the “worst” stuff, you create an environment where the more sensitive authors and no few of the ones “shipping to cope” are no longer comfortable posting at all. Attacking people for posting fic about rape/abuse/etc. is demanding that all survivors disclose. No amount of whining and backtracking will change this fact. It is a disgusting behavior that drives people from your fandoms and creates needless misery while adding nothing of value to the community.
If you want to kick certain kinds of content off of AO3, you do not belong on AO3 in the first place.
Just adding a link to the Archive’s Terms of Service.
If you have an account, you signed up to these.
That means that you agreed NOT to bully or harass someone because they created content you don’t like, or to encourage other people to go bully and harass them.
Perhaps it’s time everyone who thinks that they have a right to police what people create on the Archive go and have a really thorough read of the ToS again.
And if you can’t abide by those rules, then LEAVE.
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psa: if dylan o’brien does come back for sdcc please refrain from asking him about his injuries. i know you’re curious, but have some tact. it was probably a very traumatic situation to be in as well as a traumatic recovery process. it is none of our business what happened. if he chooses to share on his own unprovoked then that is his choice. he probs has a lot of anxiety about coming back into the public eye. i know you want to see him and you want to see what he is well but please refrain for his sake. do better for him. your curiosity is not worth more then his mental health.
what he says: I’m fine
what he means: Honestly the idea of men not being able to have emotions other than anger is really upsetting and an issue that needs to be addressed in our society. The hyper masculinity in our society that we teach to male children starting right as they are able to speak is an issue, we should be teaching kids that feelings are okay and that they should be able to express themselves in a healthy manner instead of bottling it up because “crying isn’t manly”
Virgin shaming and slut shaming piss me off in equal amounts. There’s nothing magical or special about being a virgin, and same goes with having sex. You know what’s magical? Shutting the fuck up about people’s personal choices.
I noticed the other day that girls usually adapt to their bfs hobbies like if they enjoy idk surfing the girls will start learning facts about it and buying cute things related to it for them and being so proud of their bf like they’re a star even if they aren’t that great at surfing just out of pure love and joy ….. But men never fucking adapt to their gf’s interests like they can’t possibly care less about makeup for example or they’ll just complain about them taking too long to get ready instead of sharing the passion for it and watching them create something beautiful and being interested in why is it that it makes her feel better to do her makeup. Men are so used to not trying at all fuck that tbh!!!!
literally me & super smash brothers melee
Anyone who says you can’t give flowers to boys clearly hasn’t tried it. Seriously, give a boy some roses, they get adorably flustered and go all red. It’s the most precious thing.
Give more boys flowers.
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About Brexit and the defeat of the European left.
It’s sad to see how the debate about
brexit has been reduced to two simple and wrong positions. On the one
hand, we have the anti-EU speech, presented as a right-wing option,
supposedly motivated only by xenophobia and the desire to
anti-immigration policies. On the other, the position defended by the
liberals, a position that urges stay in the EU as the least bad
option. The reductionism promoted by the mass media has led us to the
conclusion that support for the breakaway option is equivalent to a
xenophobic position and here lies a serious error of analysis.The exit of the EU is not a right-wing
option. It isn’t something bad, terrible, the end of the world, the
beginning of the apocalypse for UK. Quite the opposite. The EU is an
oppressive organization established by European capitalists just to
facilitate their transactions and increase their profit, is an
organization which snatches sovereignty away from its member states
to make the economic impositions that favor bourgeois elites. There
is no possibility of social policies within the EU, you can’t avoid
the neoliberal policies imposed so far. At least, no while you remain
as a member of the union. Greece and Syriza prove it.The break with the EU only hurts the
interests of those who own the means of production, letting the
people of UK recover some of its lost sovereignty and national
independence. The ‘Yes’ to brexit is a victory of the English
working class and a partial defeat of the European bourgeoisie.
Nothing terrible will happen to UK. Its currency will reset, trade
agreements will be signed, the market will continue its relentless
pace and the break with the EU will be an obvious benefit at medium
term. All the apocalyptic scandal that the media are selling now is
nothing more than a tantrum of the bourgeoisie.The problem is not the ‘Yes’ to the
brexit, the really scary thing here are the arguments that have
defended it. Because the anti-EU position has not been born from a
left rupture with the neoliberal policies that stifle the working
class, but from a xenophobic right who want to use the separation to
harden the immigration laws. And this is something to worry about.
The ‘Yes’ to brexit is a victory for the workers, but a crushing
defeat for the European left, a missing, nonexistent left, so
minimized and forgotten that it has been unable to assume social
discontent and direct it towards a true opposition to the
insufferable capitalist policies .Today in Europe the majority left is
nothing but a watered down version of the right, a left that fills
its mouth of nice words but says nothing about the economic system
that is the basis of everything. It is an useless left that not
doubts about implementing right-wing policies, unable to affront the
reality we face. A left that has nothing of left. Because if we are
realist, the European left is dead. It doesn’t exist. The liberal
position has been to defend a monstrous EU that has not hesitated to
apply really harsh policies, drowning the working class, closing
their borders to refugees, doing en masse deportations. An EU
organized by and for the capitalists. This left has defended this as
something good, liberal, the basis of our stability, rather than
attack it and reject it. There has not been a real left, able to pick
up the popular discontent and direct it toward a breakaway but social
attitude, and that vacuum has been taken by the extreme right,
leaving all the necessary anti-EU speech in its hands.The present moment is vital. Without a
real left that offers an alternative to the system and points out the
bases of the problem all the popular discomfort generated by the
crisis of the capital will be taken for xenophobic and fascist
oriented positions, as has happened in the UK. Social democracy,
always allied with the economic elites, is unable to perform any kind
of opposition to the system, it is merely a tool that only paves the
way for fascism. We need a left with clear and firm stances, a left
that points and attacks the problem directly rather than trying to
reform it to make it more pleasant. A left that seeks the total
elimination of oppression, not makes it more bearable. But now we are
far from it, facing a bleak picture which is going to be very hard to
leave.Very dark times are coming, a wave of
xenophobia, the resurgence of fascism, perhaps another war, and for
now there is no one, absolutely no one, who seems willing to stop it.
The left is lost and disorganized, demonized and almost annihilated.
This is the defining moment. Or we start to work to build opposition
now or we will regret it soon. Brexit is not a mistake, the mistake
is to use xenophobia to defend leaving the EU, the mistake is taking
as a liberal and leftist position to defend staying in this
unacceptable EU.This has just been a warning, but a
very serious warning. If we don’t move now we are going to pay very
expensively our motionlessness. It’s now or never.
full offense but if your response to a crisis in a foreign nation is to talk about how much better your country is you really need to learn how to shut the fuck up
Please do not vote in the EU referendum just on immigration. This is about so much more than immigration (which isn’t actually 100% bad anyway and we actually benefit from), this is about our economic future, our ability to travel and work abroad, our social security, our ability to maintain living standards, security of jobs, security of wages, and our ability to be a strong, influential country in the world and Europe. So yes you may think immigration is a big issue but please look at all of the other issues which are actually more important and will have more impact on us. Don’t crash our economy and our future because you’re worried about immigration. The EU isn’t perfect but it’s seriously better than the alternative.
Okay but Stiles and Derek’s first time and stiles is trying desperately to be quiet and focused because people always leave when he starts talking too much and he doesn’t want derek to ever leave. Meanwhile derek who’s so comfortable with stiles’ noise and chatter and loudness doesn’t understand what he’s doing wrong to make stiles not talk to him which leads to misunderstanding, angst and eventually mind blowing sexy times
can you imagine it though? derek agrees to date stiles and stiles is so ecstatic, he’s so happy because it feels like he’s loved derek forever and it’s finally leading to something, like finally someone might love him back and he almost can’t believe it
sometimes quite literally, sometimes he just stares at derek for a while and wonders if this is real or if he’s hallucinating it too.
luckily derek always seems to catch those moods, because he always comes to stiles and kisses all fives of his finger tips until he knows this is real and not some last ditch attempt his mind made to protect him from the abuse of the nogitsune
and you know they’ll take their relationship oh-so-slow, still dancing around each other, feeling for landmines that they don’t want to accidentally step on.
and look these two boys break my heart, because they’re both so broken, they both need so much attention and maybe they’re edging closer and closer to having sex (”making love, stiles” “urgh”) and maybe they’re bantering with each other, getting handsy with each other, going further than they’ve ever been
and derek says “shut up” to something stiles said and it’s not mean, not at all. it’s teasing and fond but something in stiles’ brain clicks and he just- shuts up and starts wondering if maybe that’s what derek really wants. for him to be quieter, for him to just shut up god stiles shut up this is why your mom doesn’t love you anymore
it’s stupid because stiles knows derek, knows that derek wouldn’t leave because of how much he talks, but- but what if he does.
stiles doesn’t think he could survive that, so he starts getting quieter. not so much for just anyone to notice, but enough for derek’s senses to catch, and then for derek’s senses to start setting off all kinds of warning bells when stiles definitely gets quieter when they get sexual and he’s worried.
did he do something? is he somehow pushing stiles into doing stuff with him? is he no better than kate or jennifer? is he hurting stiles? is stiles with him only because of some sense of obligation?
and this kind of goes on for a couple of weeks.
until this one day they both forget themselves because they’re so happy. even though the air between them has been kind of suffocating they’re so happy, and maybe something good just happened. like scott getting married or isaac coming back or something.
they’re so happy that they’re kissing and they forget themselves, and stiles is being smiley and bantering and burying his laughter in dereks neck before he bites it, throwing quips as derek tries to distract him as best as he can with his tongue and it’s going so well that derek thinks they’ll be okay, that maybe it was just some sort of weird funk and that they’re good and-
and stiles gets quiet suddenly and derek could cry because what did he do wrong, how is he fucking this up
his body is still responding like it should but he’s quiet and there’s a edge to him, something decidedly uncomfortable, so derek pulls back which is not the right move because stiles panics because derek is leaving, he didn’t even open his mouth and derek is leaving
so of course stiles goes after him, clutches at his arms says something like “sorry i’ll be quieter, don’t leave” and that just-
that just breaks derek’s heart because no, why would stiles even think he’d want him to be quieter? how did he fuck this up enough that he let stiles think stuff like this?
and he has to know, he has to know how he fucked this up ‘cause he’s so sorry, so fucking sorry god
“why would you ever think that? i love it when you talk”
and stiles would snort derisively because “no one loves it when i talk derek”
and okay no because “i do. i love every part of you, including when you talk, especially when you talk. i love all of your rants from the jumble of mathematical theories i understand nothing about to evil butterflies. stiles please what did i do?”
and well that kind of breaks stiles’ heart because derek the idiot, of course he’d think this is his fault, god that one and his martyr complex. ridiculous really
so stiles has to reassure him and derek has to reassure stiles and they end up sitting pratically in each other’s laps, talking it out, reassuring each other.
stiles tells derek he didn’t do anything wrong, could never do anything wrong, how good he is, how good he is for stiles in particular and running his hands reassuringly up and down derek’s arms and shoulders because derek is a tactile person
derek tells stiles he loves him, in every capacity, all of him, even his annoying habbits, how he could never hate anything stiles would do, how he won’t leave stiles unless stiles gets tired of him or something kills him.
and they dont have sex right away because their hearts are too heavy with all of their insecurities that they didn’t dare speak until now.
but they do fall asleep clutching at each other like lifelines, like letting go means falling apart.
and when morning comes and the sun filters through their window and rudely wakes them up, warms them up, it feels everything like reassurance and then they do make sweet sweet love to each other (”urgh, derek seriously”) with stiles babbling and derek trying not to get too distracted with how beautiful he is
and now i’m a mess and i want to cry i just- they just love each other so much what have you done to me nonnie
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