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On this week’s edition of “I’m a writer, I swear”:

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I already added this to my pinned post, but here’s my Team Fossil card :)

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F2U ARTFIGHT THUMBNAILS!!!

600x600px ^^^

200x200px vvv

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I picked Team Fossil but unfortunately almost all my mutuals picked Fossil as well :’) I probably should’ve gone with Crystal but Fossil just looks so cool to me

Anyway, to my mutuals—expect friendly fire as soon as I get done attacking my crystal moots :P

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Can’t believe I had a panic attack as soon as I woke up from my anesthesia :/ Fucking figures

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wow this shit is so ass

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wearing my hatsune miku socks to wisdom teeth surgery

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"Alice of Human Sacrifise"

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The other night husband and I were watching a documentary about the yeti where they were doing DNA analysis of samples of supposed yeti fur, and every one of them came back as bears.

Anyway, the next night we watched a thing about some pig man who is supposed to live in Vermont. People said it had claws and a pig nose but walked upright like a man. Now, I happen to know that sideshows used to shave bears and present them as pig men. So every piece of evidence they gave of this monster sounds to me like a bear with mange.

So now the running joke in our house is that everything is bears. Aliens? Bears. Loch Ness monster? Bear. Every cryptozoological mystery is just a very crafty bear.

Bears. They’re everywhere. Be wary. Anyone or anything could be a bear.

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if you're writing and find yourself thinking 'this is too weird/gross/offputting/esoteric/ambitious/catered to my specific interests + sure to push away a broader audience' that is the devil speaking and it is a lie. you are already firmly on the right path and you need to double down

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Taking a small break from my current hyperfixations to introduce MY FUCKING SON, I drew him today and I already love him 😭😭

This is Armorous, I tried to make a good guy with a god complex because I’ve never seen that done before, but I ended up accidentally making him a victim of circumstances instead…

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One day while traveling blindfolded because of an injury, Armorous stumbled upon an old woman belonging to a struggling village. He used the healing magic he’d been training with on the sick and injured, even helping them propagate their farms so they could get back on their feet quicker.

What he didn’t expect was that he’d become worshipped like their old god for helping save their village. So now he’s stuck there because he feels responsible for the lives of the people in that village, and has unfortunately grown attached to them.

Despite the fact that if they see he has red eyes they will execute him on the spot, because apparently red eyes are the symbol of the god who killed their previous god… That’s so great for him isn’t it! ✨

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idk who needs to hear this but if you have been putting something off bc it doesn't need to be done until the end of the month. we are almost done with the teens we are approaching the big numbers (the twenties). that date shall dawn upon you swiftly and without mercy before you know it. psa for everyone except me i got plany off time

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How about this: no *explicit* material involving minors under 15 on AO3. That seems reasonable. If you admit that teens get around age restrictions AND that abusers can groom with them, then something has to change. That involves placing a fair chunk of stories under more stringent lockdown. Yeah AO3 can't go, and you fandom vets are always harping on about how censorship sank previous spaces, but goddamn is there no way to protect the the more vulnerable fans without raising your hackles?

1. How do you define explicit? Does this mean no depictions of child abuse, even for the purpose of telling a story about how wrong it is and showing a victim’s recovery? Can younger teens have realistic sexual encounters in stories so long as nothing is shown on page, or is it wrong to imply explicit goings-on even if they’re not depicted? Where, exactly, do we draw the line between heavy petting and sex? Can a character have a wet dream or masturbate? Can a character think about sex in detail, even if they’re not depicted having it? I’m not trying to be difficult: I’m just trying to make it clear that what you’re proposing, even when you phrase it simply, is inherently difficult to implement. Stories would have to be vetted and actively moderated, a massive undertaking that AO3 isn’t equipped to manage, and any such process would still ultimately hinge on individual judgement, which means you’d still have people dissatisfied with the outcome.  

2. Teenagers who choose to ignore age-ratings and warnings for the material they consume are responsible for their own experience beyond that point: it is not the job of authors or the website to say, “Okay, we know this content is explicitly meant for adults, but let’s make it less adulty just in case a teenager gets in here.” You can’t protect people from their own bad judgement and its consequences without making their lack of responsibility someone else’s responsibility, which is decidedly unfair. 

3. Abusers groom victims with a wide range of material and arguments, and have done so long before the existence of AO3. Whenever this happens, we blame the abuser, not whatever story they used to justify themselves. This is also why, when murderers or other criminals take their inspiration from crime fiction novels or psychologically darker works, as has happened on multiple occasions, we blame the criminals, not their taste in fiction. Locking down on what can be written about child abuse won’t get rid of paedophiles, but it will make things more difficult for victims who use fanfic as catharsis.

Here’s the thing: tagging works on AO3 is how we protect vulnerable fans, by giving them tools to navigate away from distressing themes or content. Taking something away from one person so its mere existence doesn’t upset someone who was never going to read it anyway isn’t a protective act, but a judgemental and dismissive one. To use an analogy, there are plenty of people in the world with deathly nut allergies, but that doesn’t mean we ban an entire food group: it means we label things that have nuts in them, even trace amounts, so that nobody gets hurt. Do accidents still happen? Yes! Are some people assholes about food allergies and dietary restrictions? Yes! But does that mean the solution is to ban nuts entirely? No! And it’s the same with fanfic.    

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It’s so demoralizing to wake up to 2 notes on an artwork I just posted, both from the same bot account :’)

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I finally finished another ref sheet, after weeks of putting it off 😅

This was my first time drawing Primula, and the thing making me procrastinate the most was having to come up with an outfit. I finally ended up with this, though it’s very likely to change/evolve as I draw Prim more and flesh out her backstory/plot.

In any case, I’m finally done with her, meaning I only have 1!!! ref sheet left to go before I’ve completed all the characters I wanted to before art fight begins.

Primula’s Art Fight page:

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Art style stay consistent for one fucking minute challenge (impossible) (gone wrong)

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Just realized I went from being a young teenage Cavetown queer to an older teenage/young adult Mother Mother queer. Both very important phases