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Apparently an antishipper wants to become a staff member of AO3 (Tiffany), and want to add censorship on a website made exactly for the contrary. Also, she talks a lot about the "public image" of AO3 even though it is a non-profit run website, it sounds extremely corporate.

If you can vote for the election in AO3, do it and vote for someone who does not want to add censorship on one of the rare fanfic site we have where we can write EVERYTHING.

Please.

Have a nice day.

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If you donated to ao3 you should vote! You can read the reddit thread here.

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❗VERY IMPORTANT INFORMATION ❗

Hello, my fellow fanwork creators. Sorry to interrupt, but there's an important information you all should pay attention to.

In short, everyone who is eligible to vote for the election of OTW (they run AO3 and Fanlore), should vote against the candidate Tiffany G. If you have donated over 10$ to AO3 in the past year, you are eligible to vote for yourself, and for us, for every Archive of Our Own user, especially the creators in China. This is a very serious question.

In Tiffany's statement, they want to build a more strict censorship policy in AO3. They also talked about limiting the adult content so this website would "have a better image to public". And they said China banned AO3 because of "pedophilic content" but as a Chinese myself, we all know it's just because my country prohibits any sex-related website. So basically, if this Tiffany succeed to get a seat of OTW, AO3 will face more strict censorship, limited adult content, and for we, for Chinese users, the result would be more catastrophic.

Tiffany G also mentioned that they work in a governmental organisation in China. Just consider why a pro-censorship, fandom newbie(Tiffany said it themself), and government staff wants to run for the election of an organisation that is holistically against their agenda. In my personal worst imagination, once they got the seat, they will immediately pack all the information of Chinese users in AO3 and report them to the Government. The consequence will be horrible.

Please, vote for yourself, for us, and for the future of our favourite fanwork site. If you are not an eligible voter and you wanna do something, please let more people receive this information. Thank you.

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I just find it funny how nowadays fandom just

Like when did we let this happen.

Yes, people can get uncomfortable all they want with something but bringing this weird moralism into fanfic is just so weird to me. Also the way they think of themselves as "not delusional" and "morally superior" simply because they click exclude on the enemies to lovers filter.

It's... Kinda fucked up how performative this feels

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Shipping 10 Years Ago: YOUR SHIP IS BAD BECAUSE MINE’S BETTER AND YOU’RE A STINKY DOO DOO HEAD FOR LIKING IT

Shipping 5 Years Ago: hey guys let’s just ship whatever the hell we want and leave each other alone about it all right? cool

Shipping Now: Please write a minimum five-page feminist critique of your ship, examining any and all problematic aspects through the lens of queer and marxist theory, double spaced, 12-point font, MLA style citation, and wait 7 to 10 business days for council approval before shipping the thing

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HEY!

AO3 is in danger of becoming CENSORED. if you have donated $10 or more BEFORE june 30th, PLEASE exercise your right to vote (as you should have received an email to) and VOTE AGAINST TIFFANY GU, who is PRO-CENSORSHIP and PRO making AO3 “palatable” for outsiders and antis.

this is one of the few places dead dove writers/illustrators have to post our content, which is NOT illegal, immoral, or a threat to society. however, CENSORSHIP IS.

if you have the opportunity to vote, PLEASE TAKE IT.

KEEP AO3 WONDERFUL! THANKS!

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Not every story is about seeing yourself in it. Sometimes it’s about learning to see other people too.

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this might just be THE funniest thing i’ve ever seen anyone say on this website

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My AI Chloe portrait attempt.

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Absolutely batshit creatures lurking in my mind but is tails and sonics dynamic similar to Sam and dean from supernatural

sometimes i will feel like sitting and crying a bit cause movie! tails, knuckles, and sonic found a permanent home. they found people who looked at them and saw them as children in need of love and safety and were provided with it. Tom and Maddie didn’t have to do that - in fact they could have just let Sonic walk away at the end of the first movie and remained just his friends but they gave him a ROOM. THEY FED HIM. A space in their family. I know people complain about the humans in the movies but Maddie and Tom are so important to Sonic, there’s no way to separate them from his narrative.

anyways this post brought to you in part by me realizing that at least one sonic in the universe does not have to shoulder the responsibility (though he did it willingly) of raising tails by himself as they wander through out the world. knuckles isn’t isolated anymore. tails gets big brother figures and parents who wanted to keep him around.

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I know that this will never happen in the 3rd sonic movie in a million gazillion years BUT WHAT IF

Individual images under the cut

@niyana-the-ambiguous-mobian @movie-robotnik-positivity

@welcome-to-green-hills

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the best term of transportation, via brother

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tape casette recorders are compatible with literally every. single. thing. im out here living in 2095.

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Credo by Neil Gaiman.

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Having moment where I think so hard about fictional character but there is no new content and I don’t feel like doing anything so I am just sitting here vibrating at maximum speed rotating said character in my mind

^Visual representation