#fandom police

[bebx]

“this ship is not canon” babe, they’re fictional characters. they’re not real. they’re literally dolls we play with. we don’t care about whether or not these fictional characters’ love story is canon in this piece of media that is also entirely based on fiction. I mean, sure, canon would be lovely, but it’s a bonus. it’s not necessary. what we care about is the fun of talking about these 2 idiots being in love.

we don’t give a fuck if they didn’t kiss in “canon”. they had raw sex in thousands of fics about them though. and I’d say that’s more than enough to make people who ship them happily ship them even harder. happy shipping!

[curiositysavesthecat]

additional comment from the anon: this mostly applies to things like smut or nsfw art. I see a lot of blogs that are 18+ and I’ve always wondered if people actually listen to "minors dni (do not interact)" or if they just ignore them.

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Edit: tap here for a poll in regards to this one, but with more thorough details (in which 'view' and 'interact' are two separate things).

[allthingswhumpyandangsty]

a writer who writes about taboo subjects doesn’t owe you any explanation as to why they write what they write

an artist who draws dark, macabre art doesn’t owe you any explanation as to why they draw what they draw

a writer who writes about taboo subjects doesn’t owe you any explanation as to why they write what they write

an artist who draws dark, macabre art doesn’t owe you any explanation as to why they draw what they draw

a writer who writes about taboo subjects doesn’t owe you any explanation as to why they write what they write

an artist who draws dark, macabre art doesn’t owe you any explanation as to why they draw what they draw

hope this helps 🥰

[wowbright]

Periodic reminder that Archive of Our Own was created to be a repository for all written fanworks without regard to inherent worth, morality, ethicality, artistic merit, or intelligibility. As long as the posting of the work does not violate US law, falls within fair use standards, and does not directly harass individuals, it can be posted on Archive of Our Own.

Efforts to further limit the scope of what can be posted and stored on Archive of Our Own will fail, because Archive of Our Own is a repository much like the internet or the Library of Congress pre-21st century (back when it kept a copy of every publication printed in the United States). As long as you are able to find objectionable material on the internet or in a library, you will be able to find objectionable material in Archive of Our Own.

People get upset with the lack of moderation on Archive of Our Own because they view it as "the place to go to read fanfic." But when it was created, there was no goal for Archive of Our Own to be a destination fanfic reading website. Most people who first used it would publish on other sites (LiveJournal, fanfic.net, message boards, and various fandom-specific sites) to be read and commented on, and add a backup copy to Archive of Our Own so that it would be preserved in case it was ever removed from the original website/the original website went down. In other words, it was used as an archive, just like in the name.

AO3 can still be used this way! You can do your primary fanfic reading and writing on other sites, then back up your own works to AO3 for safekeeping.

Even better, if you object to the content that you find on AO3 and don't want to use it to find fanfic, or don't want to post there because you feel that posting there would be tantamount to endorsing AO3's mission, Archive of Our Own will hand you the tools you need to create your own site with more restrictive guidelines!

How? The software Archive of Our Own runs on is open source and the entire code is posted on github, along with advice for implementation.

Not everyone is comfortable searching for fanfic on Archive of Our Own for fear of encountering triggering or objectionable content. By creating more fanfic sites and repositories with their own focuses and guidelines, we can create the safe spaces in fandom that people are looking for without endangering the archival mission of Archive of Our Own.

[mywitchcultblr]

Terf/Conservative-lite bingo

Bingo or signs that someone might be terf/conservative leanings (even if they claimed to hate terf or conservative) if they match a LOT or ALL points below

Hates pansexual people

hates xenogender

kink critical, spending too much goddamn time ranting about people's sexual preference and what consenting adults do, overall being sex negative

hates asexual/aromantic people

Puritan about fanfic/fan art and shipping also they are anti-ao3, spending a lot of time policing fandom

Trying to instigate a fight between bisexual people against pansexual people

Doesn't want the term 'queer' to be reclaimed or used in any way

Dismissing the plight/suffering that trans men endured

Instigating a fight between trans women and trans men

Obsessed with media purity

Exclusionist and trying to divide LGBTQIA+ community

Overusing the term 'biological woman' too much to uplift themselves and to demean trans women, just another way to say "i'm the real woman and you will never be a woman" to trans women

Ranting about how women enjoying yaoi/mlm are homophobic and evil or fetishizing gay men (this mentality is common amongst sexist queer men, terf-men and terf woman) not caring with the fact that media consumption is not always reflect people real morality, also a lot of yaoi enjoyer/fujo are queer themselves

I often see blogs that match all of those specifics points above (from their dni/bio) and yeah they are not pleasant people, its like every goddamn time, its like a pattern

[madamefeu]

“You can’t create OCs based on yourself!” fuck you, I can do whatever the hell I want. If I wanna write a fic where I’m BFFs with Alastor, I’m gonna do it. What are you gonna do? Call the fandom police?

[hasattory689]

Kinda ironic how the ace attorney fandom, who has the word "ace" in it, is packed full of aphobic lgbt+ exclusionists.

Headcanoning a character as asexual, aromantic or as aroace is as valid as any other queer headcanon. Even if some here have the IQ of a rock and cannot comprehend that.

[coockie8]

It's so painfully obvious that it's just a puritanical, anti-sex thing, 'cause if antis actually believed their own logic, if they actually believed what you enjoy in fiction reflects what you want IRL, horror fandoms wouldn't be overflowing with them.

They're perfectly capable of understanding that watching someone get split open by a monster doesn't mean the viewer wants to get split open by a monster, but as soon as *gasp* sex comes into the picture, suddenly every person on the planet has the moral backbone of a zygote and can't tell the difference between fiction and reality.

They know exactly what they are doing. They don't actually think loli porn makes people pedophiles, or that incest porn will make you fuck your mom or something, they just want the entire internet to cater exclusively to what they want to see, and everyone else can drown.

[deranged-fandom-quotes-archive]

This just in! Local MHA psycho thinks calling people out over objects is acceptable! Further dehumanizing children, claiming that they are nothing more than objects by making such a comparison! Oh wow, are we ever surprised! Shock! Horror! Antis think children are objects!

[mafaldaknows]

never thought you’d be reblogging from chaneladdict since she’s gone off charmie, timmy, and armie. have you given up on them too?

Hello, Anon:

I am merely an observer in the Charmiesphere. I look for signs of Charmie IRL. So there’s nothing to give up on, imho, since nothing has been unequivocally proven to me to exist between beyond a close and beautiful friendship, by either of them.

Charmie lives in my heart, but whether or not it actually exists in real life remains to be seen, hence the focus of this blog. I also understand and appreciate that there exists a definite distinction between a fantasy ship and the real and private lives of real and private people.

Until such time as they are able to declare their truth out in the open, whatever that may be, I’m just another hopeful fan noticing when TheUniverse™️ winks in the Charmiesphere, and speculating on what might be, not declaring what is, as that’s not my lane. That’s just a fact.

Thanks for your question. ✨😏👮😉✨

[inactiveblog2023]

fandom service announcement

reminder to anyone it applies to: just because you don't like or agree with certain ships, or think they're 'wrong' or 'weird' or 'gross' or whatever, doesn't mean you can dictate how other people interpret characters and who they choose to ship. and it certainly doesn't mean you have the right to shame others for enjoying those ships.

shipping fictional characters hurts no one, but you know what does hurt people? ostracizing them from a fandom on the basis of some arbitrary moral high ground.

so can we please all just be nice to people no matter their shipping preferences? thanks

[bebx]

people making “hot takes” about fictional villains and/or other problematic fictional things and then going deep in details into analyzing why this fictional villain is bad and why liking them makes you a bad person in real life, or why shipping x and y together makes you a walking red flag, and then thinking they did something and that their post made such Cultural Impact will never not make me laugh because my brother in christ, they are Not Real. it’s fine if some people don’t like this thing. and it’s fine if some other people do like said thing. there’s nothing to analyze about because the entire existence of the topic you’re crying over is fictional and shouldn’t be used to determine and measure someone’s moral compass. people can be a hardcore fan of slasher movies, in which fictional characters got cut to pieces in the most brutal way, and be a total sweetheart who’s against violence in real life. also this is the same as blaming video games and horror movies for bad things that happen in the real world and, as a result, completely dismissing the actual roots of the problem by blaming it on something that’s fictional (because it’s easier to blame video games and horror movies than to discuss the real problem and its actual roots that aren’t video games or horror movies).

so your “hot take” isn’t actually a hot take but a cry for attention and validation from your fandom at best, a pathetic excuse and a means to stir drama out of nothing just so you could harass other real people over something fictional in the name of being “morally superior” at worst. the only person you’re exposing with these hot takes of yours is really just yourself. cheers!

[curiositysavesthecat]

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[allthingswhumpyandangsty]

personally, I think people are allowed to ship a “toxic ship” as long as it’s fictional and they can separate fiction from reality. shipping a fictional “problematic ship” doesn’t mean you’re “abuse apologist” in real life. the same way people who enjoy fictional villains are not “murderers” in real life.

it’s okay if you think this ship makes you uncomfortable and so you personally dislike it. what you can and should do is avoid their contents and refrain from interacting with people who do ship them. that mute and block buttons are your friends.

what you shouldn’t do, though, is harass people who ship them and brag about how they’re “red flags irl” and how you’re “morally superior” simply because of fictional characters.

I promise you, minding your own business and not caring about what ship strangers on the internet ship will make your fandom so much less toxic and a whole lot more enjoyable.

[darlingshane]

reminder that you can't police fandoms. if you don't like what someone posts you CAN ignore, unfollow, block and move on. if you don't like a tag, blacklist it. let people enjoy media however they like ffs.

[stardust948]

Bro someone literally just accused my fics and other mutuals as being AI. Seriously? They're all Zutara shippers too.

Do better antis. Or at least give more creative accusations.