making visual novels is great if you enjoy the idea of writing a book while also having to put on a puppet show to keep the reader from killing you with their teeth

stop trying to become YA authors we need more good scifi writers

mfers will say "im against book banning in schools and libraries!" and then turn around and say ao3 needs to be censored

The people arguing to ban and/or remove content from Ao3 are completely and utterly convinced that censorship is different when they do it.

hi person with a brain here, if you paid attention to the news you'd see there's a correlation between books that get banned and the specific subject matter they tackle usually topics involving racism, sexism, sexual education and queer/trans narratives. this is for the express purpose of keeping children ignorant in order to indoctrinate them with right wing conservative ideologies and is not comparable to people saying that smut fiction of child actors should not exist.

prince of the gate indeed ✨

— wyll as regé-jean page in that one pic posted by Valc0_ on twitter

There are currently ~2300 works in AO3 tagged with "Created Using Generative AI"

I'll be upfront with my opinion, which mirrors my opinion in regards to my field: using AI will only hasten your own obsolescence. The point of fanfiction is not to crank out fics, but rather to enjoy the hobby and communities of writing and fandom.

Sorry to speak this into existence but the fanfic that’s going to be written for this movie might just be the discourse catalyst strong enough to destroy this site

Children in the pro shipper community are in danger and need to be helped

Dont fucking ignore this post. Children in the proship community are in a community of pedophiles and enablers. We need to extend them a hand and try to get them out of there, because if not, they just might have irreversible damage done to them, if they haven’t already.

YES thank you for this post. I prefer not to talk about my experience because it is personal and still embarrassing to me but as someone who was in the proship community back when i was 14 it is dangerous. it did damage me. these kinds of posts are important because this is the exact image that got me out of there :

Maximus!!

Yt ppl eroticize sexual violence, especially racialized sexual violence, and I wish I could understand why. It isn't just misogyny because they do it to men of color as well, playing out fantasies of dominating or being dominated by "big, black beasts" and "brown savages". It's just. Like, oh my god.

'omg isn't the idea of someone being SOOOO obsessed with you, especially because you're an Exotic Brown Hottie, that they rape you SO hot' ... We need to bring back feminism, we need to call up Audre Lorde; we have to reaffirm that rape isn't about desire, it's about power. we HAVE to bring back feminism.

If I said that white queer people in particular think they're above doing this because they're queer and that they end up causing great harm to queer people of color...

Yt ppl eroticize sexual violence, especially racialized sexual violence, and I wish I could understand why. It isn't just misogyny because they do it to men of color as well, playing out fantasies of dominating or being dominated by "big, black beasts" and "brown savages". It's just. Like, oh my god.

'omg isn't the idea of someone being SOOOO obsessed with you, especially because you're an Exotic Brown Hottie, that they rape you SO hot' ... We need to bring back feminism, we need to call up Audre Lorde; we have to reaffirm that rape isn't about desire, it's about power. we HAVE to bring back feminism.

If I said that white queer people in particular think they're above doing this because they're queer and that they end up causing great harm to queer people of color...

i lied the compliments are very nice too and im in love with you

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Reminder that palestinians don't owe you shit, and that them begging for you to not ignore them is actually not entitlement. If you find a problem with it, the problem is you <3

And if you prioritize your own comfort over the safety and livelihoods of people suffering genocide, then by all means, keep funding AO3 and keep watching Zionist media. Just know that you will never be remembered except in disdain.

losing my mind at this

You won't reach a point where you don't need references anymore 😭

Even artists who freedraw regularly still do studies, refer to their past work, keep character sheets at hand, etc

Please don't impose that expectation on yourself just because of a live demo, tiktok, or timelapses especially

worried that thing you put in your art or writing or game or music is too self-indulgent, too self-referential, too niche for anyone but yourself? fear not! you can do whatever you want forever. and you should.

booktok videos should be categorized as some sort of threat to public health