ardwynna:

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They want to be able to dogpile and harass people off the site in the name of ‘looking out for the children’.

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.

yourbrothershotfriend:

foxy-mulder:

this is the most powerful image on the internet.. reblog to join the circle

Reblog to destroy all evil energies in your life

jumpingjacktrash:

elfwreck:

gallusrostromegalus:

moonblossom:

hiddenlacuna:

saathi1013:

hiddenlacuna:

hobbitystmarymorstan:

styleandpanachee:

yall ever heard about ao3s next of kin policy

..hmmm..

Who wants to be executor of my smut?

…is this supposed to be considered weird? I don’t get it.

I think it’s more that it was an unexpected feature. I’m glad it’s there.

Yeah I actually found it while prepping for brain surgery, and was incredibly relieved that it was a built-in feature and not something I’d have to leave convoluted instructions about or whatever. It’s a bit morbid, sure, but it’s a great feature.

…an unexpected but very appreciated feature.

This is a feature designed by women who’d been in fandom for decades, and who had faced the issue of, “X is dead, and we know she loved fandom, so… can we reprint her stories? Who can decide? Her family knows fuck-all about fandom. Who was her best friend? Do they know if she would’ve liked her story to be reprinted in the Best Of OTP Fic zine?”

Running across that once doesn’t make you think about a policy, but by the time it’s five to ten times, and then you’ve seen people vanish from the internet (might be dead; might just be not interested anymore) and nobody knows whether it’s okay to collect their fic in an archive or transfer it to a new one….

Yeah, the FNoK policy is one of the awesome things about AO3.

i’m considering spinal surgery, i should designate someone.

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