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You Can't Fly if You Never Try

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✧Eliza✧ 24◦PA◦♀◦♊◦Pan◦Single. I write, I cosplay, I fangirl. Usually found crying over fictional characters and unfinished costumes. Cosplay/Multi-fandom blog. WARNING: Weeb trash. #bethgreenelives Will be giving this place an overhaul and get back to updating soon.
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ephemra

                          “ Believe in the light, and the darkness will never defeat you ”

                ↳ March 28th: Happy XIVth Anniversary, KINGDOM ♕ HEARTS!

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Fandom Policing

I really, really hate fandom policing. I hated it when I was twelve and was so afraid to read slash because OMG DICKS TOUCHING WHAT and I hated it when I was fifteen and was smuggling the yaois under my mattress so I would always have a supply of top notch garbage to read, and I am 24 and I hate it now.

Here is the thing: YOU CONTROL what you take in. I am not responsible for your consumption of Hydra Trash party noncon, I am not responsible for your consumption of pegging smut, and I am not responsible for your consumption of fluffy sickfic. I am not responsible for you consuming anything. 

I might be responsible for writing that noncon or pegging or sickfic, but I did not make you read it. I did not hand it to you, I did not give it to you. I created it, and made it available for those who want to enjoy.

If you don’t like it, if you don’t want it, then you don’t have to read it. 

That choice made, the choice not to consume a type of fic or art, also means you don’t get to drag the person who wrote it. 

That is a damn slippery slope. 

Fandom is a “safe space” but not in the way that it protects you from things that you don’t want to see or don’t like or are offended by. Fandom is, and has traditionally been, a space for people to create and explore with out being told “no” by outside media. Fandom is where you can find out if you don’t fit in the boxes society tells you to, or it you just really, really like reading about Bucky getting repeatedly rammed in the ass by Hydra agents sans lube. 

And no matter how well-meaning you are, you don’t get to tell other fans what they can and cannot write, or draw, or enjoy. 

When you start telling people what they can create or enjoy, you invalidate the purpose of fandom, and create a situation where instead of free exploration, we have something similar to mainstream media in which certain tropes or topics are not allowed. This limits the free expression, exploration and innovation so highly prized in fandom.

Maybe what they draw is illegal in five states, and highly restricted in several countries. Maybe it’s offensive, maybe it’s inaccurate, or just plain bad.

It doesn’t matter. 

You don’t get to tell fans how to enjoy fandom. You mind your own path, your write your own fic, you write meta on why x trope is offensive/problematic/bad but you do not tell other fans how to enjoy fandom.

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ozhawkauthor

“Fandom is a “safe space” but not in the way that it protects you from things that you don’t want to see or don’t like or are offended by. Fandom is, and has traditionally been, a space for people to create and explore with out being told “no” by outside media.”  

THIS!!! THIS is the TRUE definition of fandom as a ‘safe space’. It is a ‘safe space’ for creators.

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pheuthe

“You do not tell other fans how to enjoy fandom.”

This needs 99,999,999 notes.

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hoursgoneby

There comes a point where you, not your teachers and not your parents or guardians, are responsible for what media you consume. It’s not for others to censor themselves to protect you from what you don’t want. Heed warnings. If something doesn’t have warnings, either don’t read/watch/listen to it or search out reviews that will tell you if it’s something you would be OK reading/watching/listening to. Descending on a creator or creators and demanding they not create something or shaming them for doing so because you don’t approve is censorship and furthermore, it’s hubris of the highest order.

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1lostone

I fill like this should be added to the Terms of Service on all fic hosting sites, that there should be periodic quizzes and tests on this material.

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qinnih

YEs THIS! also, there’s a reason why tags and/or descriptions exist. 

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I guess… I’m getting scared. Sometimes…when I’m with all of you… I…feel like we’re on the same wavelength…you know? But when the battles start happening, it’s different. Everyone’s tempo seems to pick up and… I get left behind. I try to catch up, but it’s no use. How far is everyone going? I can’t hear anyone… Once I catch up, I wonder… Is everyone safe? Will they welcome me with open arms?

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They tricked him into coming along by saying they were going to attend an “Educational convention in which volleyball captains could learn and discuss proper teamwork and communication skills” He began to suspect they lied to him after insisting he put on the custom made t-shirt.

I would be seriously surprised if this joke hasn’t been made before, but I have just been having a lot of captain feels lately.

BTW, they all fell asleep during the fireworks. (except for Daichi who sent the picture to literally everyone)

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