#purges

[support]

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[stillunusual]

Meanwhile in tankie clownland

Committing genocide is perfectly fine if it helps you to maintain a communist utopia….

[nalyra-dreaming]

hello, can you rec any vc fic on any other side other than ao3? ff.net, ff.de, wattpad? do they even exist on these sites?

They probably do… again.

But no, I‘m sorry I cannot rec any there (maybe others can?).

But nonny…. Anne Rice‘s wrath came down on fanfiction. She had it all taken down. Literally.

That event (and similar purges) actually led to the creation of Ao3.

And because of that there were very few fics on Ao3 while she was still alive. A lot of them are lost, or were hidden, very deeply behind password locked sites.

Anne might have relaxed her stance in the last years but there was a time when she literally came after fans with lawyers. My first reaction when I heard of her death, for all my admiration for her bravery and her work was: relief. And then sadness. She pulled out the fandom from under me (and so many others) back then. And it hurt. I still miss the forum I was in, “The Dark Ecrivains“.

We are so, so, SO lucky to have Ao3, for all its faults and problems. Not kidding.

But that just as a note.

So no, I don’t have recs for other sites, sorry. :/

[aunti-christ-ine]

Just a suggestion:

[mesillusionssousecstasy]

You'll pass through fire, which burns, but also purges.

Baptism of Fire (Andrzej Sapkowski)

[not-mary-sue]

Alright, to ao3's soon to be arriving Wattpad Refugees, a basic guide to general user culture:

1.) Unlike Wattpads vote system that let's you like each chapter, the ao3 equivalent kudos only allows one per work. Everyone is generally quietly annoyed about this. To engage with each chapter, you're heavily encouraged to comment. Trust me, it makes people's day.

2.) Ao3 has no algorithm. By default it's latest updated work first. You can find things to your taste through searches, filters and tags.

3.) 'No archive warnings apply' and 'user has chosen not to use archive warnings' mean two very different things. No archives warnings means the work is free from any content that could require a warning tag (character death, graphic depictions of violence, non-con, etc). User has chosen not to use archive warnings means it could contain any of the warning content, be it hasn't been explicitly tagged. Treat it like an allergen. No archive warnings apply is allergen free. User has chosen not to use archive warnings, may contain traces or whole chunks of the allergen. If you're likely to have a bad reaction, maybe don't take the risk.

4.) Speaking of warnings, ao3 has very few restrictions on the type of work that's allowed. Whatever your personal thoughts or feelings on that are, thats how the site is. You're likely to run across some dark subject matters and a lot of people are uncomfortable with reading that. You're well within your rights not like these works and have your opinion on whether they should be allowed, but harassing the authors of such works (or any works) is more likely to come back on you than them. Ao3 operates on a strong policy of 'don't like, don't read'. Use the tagging system to your full advantage to only engage with the kind of works you want to see.

We look forward to welcoming you all and seeing the fantastic works you create. Happy writing!

[tribalephemeral]

Recent News Events

People move, die, change party identification, and so on. Election deniers want to exploit the cracks in the voter registration system to challenge legitimate registrations, initiate mass purges, & seek to weed the voter rolls of citizens they don’t like.

Ended up adding several more items than originally planned here. The first three and second-to-last were originally planned. The Brennan Center for Justice wrote: Mass Purges Are the New Voter Suppression: Election deniers are trying to get huge groups removed from voter rolls. “People move, die, change party identification, and so on. Election deniers want to exploit the cracks in the voter…

[julianworker]

Darkness at Noon by Arthur Koestler

Apparently, like 1984 and Animal Farm, Darkness at Noon is a powerful work of 20th-Century literature that explores the moral danger inherent in a system that is willing to enforce its beliefs by any means necessary. Nikolai Rubashov is forced through a series of interrogations by the system he helped create. Each interrogation becomes more and more ludicrous and the accusations become more…

[grauline]

with more and more sites & hosting services banning nsfw content, being some sort of pervert becomes a moral imperative

[taikeero-lecoredier]

If you migrate from Wattpad to Ao3....

I'm fucking begging you to actually tag your works properly AND DO NOT CENSOR WHAT YOU WRITE OR TAG !!! Terms like "unalive" "sewer slide" and other censored terms are NOT welcome here, and you wont be punished by the algorithm for talking about death and blood and stuff BECAUSE THERES IS NO ALGORITHM ! Also making place holders IS NOT ALLOWED BY AO3 TOS. It just clogs up the archive for nothing, if you do this, thats a sure way to get your stuff reported. Please learn how Ao3 works, its nothing like Wattpad.

[anime-grimmy-art]

Did I make a whole ass comic just to justify myself drawing Alhaitham with a smile?

Yes, yes I did.

And Im still of the opinion that he'd be too powerful if he used it.

[ghostdeere]

Was feeling hungry then I saw how my stomach looks sitting down 🙃

[aurabora]

i’m being so serious rn if assad zaman isn’t rawdogging eric bogosian on my tv screen in s2 i am going to raise anne rice from the grave and telling her that AMC is writing fanfiction and she needs to sue them

[loveana-11]

literally me when i hear the word diet or weight loss in any type of context

[julianworker]

Darkness at Noon by Arthur Koestler

Apparently, like 1984 and Animal Farm, Darkness at Noon is a powerful work of 20th-Century literature that explores the moral danger inherent in a system that is willing to enforce its beliefs by any means necessary. Nikolai Rubashov is forced through a series of interrogations by the system he helped create. Each interrogation becomes more and more ludicrous and the accusations become more…

[teardew]

vomits blood