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Ngl I totally forgot fandom discourse was a thing. I don’t care man, I have car payments

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If you're fifteen or older an still sleep with a stuffed animal please reblog this.

My friend is embarrassed and thinks she’s the only one and I said id prove her wrong.

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This user supports AO3

This user is anti-censorship

This user believes in “don’t like, don’t read”

This user believes in “ship and let ship”

This user believes that fiction tastes and preferences do not dictate moral character

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Like to charge reblog to cast

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If I ever knit, tat, or crochet something for you, just know that not only are you getting the item I made, you are also getting a piece of me. I mean that in the grandiose metaphorical sense and, unfortunately, also very literally. I apologize for the hair.

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just as a PSA, because apparently some people need reminders: TAGS EXIST FOR A REASON

is your post about a specific ship?—tag it! tag the characters too!

your post is not about a certain ship?—don’t tag it! don’t tag other characters either, no matter if you think it will help engagement or whatever. we don’t want to see that, sorry.

your post is a hate post about a character?—DON’T TAG THEM! or, and i cannot stress this enough, appropriately tag: character name hate, anti character name, etcetera.

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omg sooo true bestie! *camera pans over to reveal im talking to the silent, whithered corpse of god*

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"You could get up early and do it before work" I could also wait for a magic beanstalk to start growing in my living room LMAO. Let's focus on things that happen in the real world

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It's true that like once you start having ambiguous gender feelings it's a little bit of a free for all like yes I'm a woman but I'm also male and I like being called a boy but I'm not a man like sorry I'm on Advanced Gender nuance now but also my gender is that stuffed fox on a chair.

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t shirt that says if you do not give me written instructions i will kill myself

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Thought this might help others who struggle when writing. I know I get in my head too much.

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i'm--

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it came to me in a vision

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This is a Moving Forward PSA for everyone using AO3. I am witnessing the results of a culture clash and communication failure. Not a lack of communication, but a misunderstanding caused by changes in fandom culture.

Before fic tagging was common, fics weren’t tagged. You had a pairing, if applicable, an author’s note about genre or general content, and if they were feeling charitable, a vague content warning. There are even a few genres of fic where even vaguely tagging literally spoils the plot and impact (such as horror, psyche thriller, in which the likely content is implicit to the genre). As a result, there is a basic category tag that permits this, as a courtesy to “old-fashioned” writers.

“No Archive Warnings Apply” means the fic is PG13 at worst, probably fluff, totally safe.

“Choose Not to Use Archive Warnings” is the polar opposite. It’s a glaring Enter at Your Own Risk billboard. It means: a shitload of warnings apply but I ain’t telling because this story requires shock value. It’s very important to read the author’s notes for those fics because they might be using that older format from above.

But without the context of fandom culture that generated AO3, it’s understandably easy to conflate the two categories, given their similar wording.

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Sometimes an episode of M*A*S*H will be a heartbreaking journey, where you watch Hawkeye lose a friend and try desperately to save someone else as penance for failing someone he loved. An episode where everything is taken away from him; even mundane comforts denied by a universe uncaring.

And then two episodes later his longjohns get stolen and passed around as currency