The person who suggested ‘reader tags’ needs to get their head out of their ass and live in the real world. They should be thankful works on AO3 are tagged as much as they are. I work in a bookshop, and because we don’t believe in censorship, we sell a lot of problematic stuff, including ‘The Turner Diaries’. We never put warnings on books, because i) who gets to define what’s offensive and ii) it’s not our job. Readers should educate themselves and figure out how to cope with troubling content.

bitransautisticproud:

ardwynna:

bitransautisticproud:

golbatgender:

ardwynna:

And also stop expecting their fandom experience to be a pastel-colored glittery rainbow land full of only sunshine and smiles. There will be ugly things here. Everybody stumbles upon some of it now and then. Use the back button, make a polite tag request of the author, and move the fuck on. I get coming to fandom to escape the world, but we all have to do our own legwork to reach our happy place.

Also, like…I don’t get how anyone doesn’t realize that the internet will try to give you porn when you don’t want it. Probably it’s all those stupid parental controls that started coming out about 10 years ago. These kids were raised on a sanitized internet, and now they freak out at the idea that the ground might have dirt in it, so to speak.

… Do you really think it’s nbd to show people porn against their will?

Excuse you, are fic writers coming into your house, tying you to a chair, holding a gun to your head and making you click on works tagged with things you don’t want to see? It’s your choice to ignore tags, or throw hissy fits that the tags even exist.

Develop some self-control. Stop clicking on things you know you don’t want to see. Stop freaking out that fandom is not sanitized down to kindergarten level content for your pwecious convenience. We’re trying to help you out here but it’s time to learn how to wipe your own ass.

I’ve moved the discussion with golbatgender to another post, as you requested elsewhere. However, you seem to be under the impression that every reblog of a post you made constitutes a message to you personally, and I’d like to tell you, to spare you a lot of drama in the future, that’s not true. Replies on tumblr posts after the first in a thread aren’t directed at the original post. They refer to the previous comment in the thread.

You’re the one who misconstrued what the discussion was about and took it off topic. I decide what I field my inbox and you are now personally not welcome in it.

a-rinna:

a-rinna:

“people on ao3 can’t be trusted to properly tag their own fics so we need the ability for everyone to tag everyone else’s fics however they want because obviously giving these people who can’t be trusted to properly tag their own work the power to improperly tag everything else on site is a good idea” 

that’s bad logic, babes!

and lol here’s another thing:

i’ve seen the people demanding this kind of “users should be allowed to tag other users’ work” feature being told multiple times that they can already do something like this by either

  • a) bookmarking fics and adding tags to their bookmarks
  • or b) setting up an rss feed for whatever fandom/character/ship they want on tumblr and adding whatever tags they want on that

but they have categorically refused to do that because of reasoning that boils down to “that’s too much work!” and “i can’t be expected to do all that”

and yet i’m supposed to trust that these people who can’t be bothered to spend 20 seconds bookmarking + tagging a fic or like 20 minutes setting up an rss feed can be trusted to actually take the time to read other users’ fics, think about the themes and content in them, and make an unbiased decision whether they need to be tagged with racism/homophobia/whatever? 

because i don’t. let’s be real, y’all will take one look at the pairings on a fic or the author’s tags and have a knee-jerk reaction of dislike to them and slap all sorts of bullshit tags of your own onto it without even reading the fic just so you can ‘punish’ the authors for the perceived injustice of writing something you don’t like. 

this kind of feature on ao3 would be getting abused right out the gate.

lines-and-edges:

PSA: How (and how not) to elect a third-party candidate

I’m seeing some concerningly timed posts going around instructing people to be suspicious of the Democratic party and vote third party, so here’s a quick reminder:

  • The candidates you are currently widely seeing lawn signs and stickers for are the ones that have a chance.
  • YES we need to break out of the two-party system – but any successful attempt to do so will need to be staged and mounted well before October of an election year.

~

If you can already name your local third-party candidate and your neighborhood is covered in their signs – that’s great, vote for them if you like their policies!

If not, vote blue and then do the work to make this happen next time.

It’s not impossible but it takes at least a year of concerted effort to make a candidate feasible.

Last-minute pushes for third-party candidates are almost always backed by Republicans because they know they can write a thinkpiece, pick off the POC and LGBTQ+ voters who are (rightfully) disaffected, and elect more white supremacists.

And this makes it even harder to actually break out of the cycle because people blame third-party candidates when this happens.

Don’t let them do it.

wilwheaton:

“You’re trash. You’ve always been trash. When liberals were polite, you were trash. When liberals got a little rude, you were still trash. Now that we’re tired of your shit and treating you like the trash you are, you’re mortally offended and blaming us for being trash? Get the fuck out of here. You laugh at sexual assault victims. You cheer Latino children being tortured. You get off on police murdering unarmed black men. You mock the disabled. You send death threats to high school students opposed to guns. You call for the murder of homosexuals. You. Are. Trash. I know it’s hard to look in the mirror and realize that you’re the worst that humanity has to offer but you made that choice. No one forced you to be a garbage person. You did that. You. You can stop any time you want, too. But you won’t because deep down inside, you like being trash. Own it. That’s why you love Trump so much. He told you that being trash is OK and you thought you could come out of the shadows and walk tall as a garbage person.”

— Dear Republican Voters: Stop Blaming the Left. You’re Trash. Own It