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The Green Beast of Konoha 😤💗

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Periodic reminder that you are not immune to reactionary radicalization through fandom.

We all know the “jokes” about how old bronies either came out as queer or became fascists - except they’re not really jokes, and a lot of the queer ones admit to having been in the pipeline before they came out (some in a way that implies they never totally got out of said pipeline and don’t understand the gravity of it),

GamerGate was an entire right-wing reactionary movement that was - and this is not hyperbole - partially responsible for turning fascism into a “legitimate” position by the American Overton window, composed entirely of people who feared losing their fan spaces,

We’ve had terfs right here on tumblr dot com BRAGGING about how useful fandom is as a recruiting space,

TJLC was a big pipeline for acephobia on this hellsite in particular, when people argued that headcanoning Sherlock as ace was inherently homophobic because it was denying a TOTALLY GONNA BE CANON (while the creators were promising that it wasn’t going to be canon) gay pairing, and puritanical, and just HAVING that headcanon was saying that people COULDN’T ship Johnlock, all in the interest of a “fake” sexuality and “pretending to be oppressed” and oh whoops there you went,

We see people who all but center their fandom activity and identities around figuring out which people in predominantly queer fandom spaces are SECRETLY PEDOPHILES AND GROOMERS, acting consciously or otherwise under the assumption that predominantly queer fandom spaces are just massively infested with them in a way that other spaces are not for SOME reason, who twist the definition of “pedophilia” in these spaces until it covers shipping a 17-year old fictional character with an 18-year old fictional character, or a 30-year old with a 45-year old, or including an autistic character in a ship, and drawing two 17-year old characters kissing constitutes “child porn”, and who unironically say we should bring back the Hays Code and Censorship Is Good Actually And Our Problem Is We Don’t Do It Enough and this often becomes a pipeline to “sex ed is child abuse; people shouldn’t even know what sex is until they turn 18; you need my consent to wear certain outfits in public if I see them as sexually charged, and Pride SHOULD be an assimilationist sideshow for our corporate overlords family-friendly party with no sadness or anger or ESPECIALLY acknowledgement of sex allowed”,

We’ve seen otherwise progressive people defend literal hate symbols in fanart when pushback against the above brand of reactionaries gets corrupted into zero-nuance “it’s us vs. them so anything they don’t like is Good”,

Even outside of those examples some of the most vicious, unapologetic, blatant queerphobic abuse I’ve seen in recent years hasn’t come from right-wingers but from LGBT+ people, dressing their deep, violent, seething hatred for queer people who aren’t exactly like them in a thin veneer of progressive language, who have become so convinced that they’re the main character of the fucking universe that they think writing or enjoying a queer story that doesn’t resonate with them is more queerphobic than sending a queer person who writes or enjoys such a story countless rape and death threats and denying their identity,

We’ve seen these examples again and again and again, and we keep seeing it again and again and again, so I am once again on my knees BEGGING people to recognize that this is not Something That Happens To Other, BAD People, or Something That Happens To People In BAD Fandoms, or Something That Happens To People On The OTHER Side Of Perennial Drama; this is something that CAN happen to you.

These things are the result of the fact that fandom is, by nature, a place of heightened emotion and if you don’t know what to look out for that is very exploitable; you need to know the methods people use to do this, simply Being In The Right Fandoms or Liking The Right Ships is not enough.

So, if you see someone trying to convince you that you have the ONLY valid approach to any specific character, or ship, or show, or whatever, that your ship is activism and your fanfics are praxis, and liking something else or liking the same thing differently is Only For Bad People, that is the single biggest red flag that YOU NEED TO RUN, THEY’RE TRYING TO SELL YOU SOMETHING THAT YOU DO NOT WANT

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My skinny scientist guy of choice

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me opening my WIP after weeks of neglect and trying to remember the plot:

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Fanfiction isnt enough i need to sit in the cuck chair watching them fuck

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I don't know who needs to hear this, but as a creator -

I am fine with "the audience" -

downloading my fics

printing my fics

copy/pasting or screenshotting my fics

sharing your saved copy of my fics with anyone else who might want them in the unlikely but never impossible case that my fics are no longer available on ao3

making a book of my fic(s) and running your fingers across the pages while lovingly whispering my precioussss

doing these things with anything I create for fandom, such as meta, headcanons, au nonsense like 'texts from the brodinsons,' etc

I am not fine with "the audience"

doing any of the above with the purpose/intent of plagiarizing my work or passing it off as their own in any capacity

feeding my work into ai for any reason whatsoever

Save the fandom things. Preserve the fandom things. Respect the fandom things.

Enjoy the fandom things.

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oh no my pornography is turning into an angst-filled character study

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look i think a lot of booktok smut is silly and there's stuff to criticize for sure but oh my god i am so tired of reviewers who are Shocked and Traumatized by the fact that a smut book involves a kink they don't have or lines that sound weird. yeah its fucking porn. omgggg this erotic book for adult women features breeding kink? the love interest gets called daddy? should we get you a fainting couch? should we call the pope

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Story of my life

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JAT :- the shit show that happens every donation drive for ao3 all the posts go like this

"Now that super evil corporation ao3 is running a donation drive while there is a crisis *the donation drive is always at the same time* we all know that all the degenerate pedos are paying thousands of dollars *read:five bucks* to keep the porn sight running *op has sex positive in their boi* while *either 1 - some systematic problem that won't be solved by money 2 - their own problem 3 - world crisis* is happing , ao3 supporters are selfish *op has netflix and pays money for their hobbies that cost more than 5 bucks* anyways fanfiction isn't real writing *wrong* *after calling people pedophiles they link their go fund me*

Every fucking time listen I donate alot of money to charity but my money goes to people I know are struggling or charities where I know where my money is going , I don't donate to random gofundme I don't know anything about the person , they could be lying it happened to many times hell I've used to known people who scammed people pretending to be in need and e begged on tumblr so no unless it is a mutual that I know really well I'm not donating its not personal

Also it's just rude imagine if people went

"While people are paying hundreds of dollars for crochet supplies their are people who can't afford to eat it's all the crocheters fault for all the worlds problems they are probably racist too I hope they all die anyways please donate"

that is how stupid the argument sounds I'll start taking the anti ao3 crowd seriously when they start being against gaming , crochet , Netflix subriscription , aka any hobby or earthly indulgence and start donating all their money for charity and live in a sack in the world because how dare they feel happiness while there are people suffering in the world

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love going on callout posts for "thinks cnc is okay" and seeing people talk about how us freaks need the electric chair. fantasizing about violence is okay as long as its not sexual, funny that

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Trying to write the next chapter of a fic like ‘hmmmmm, this has quickly veered off in a strange direction. Should Kankri be this horny for the piercer?’

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This seems to be what I've learned.

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Time has brought your heart to me 🦋

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Comfort Him!!!!