I kind of hate how the term “hyperfixation” & “special interest” have been shifted online to mean any interest you are passionate about.
Hyperfixation is exclusionary intense focus & can be disabling to the point that it interferes with your ability to complete necessary tasks.
Fictional characters are NOT made to be seen as real people. They are made to tell a story.
Feeling sad when a character dies is a result of being impacted by good storytelling. It is NOT the same as mourning the death of a real person & equating the two is frankly dehumanizing.
You have FOUR photo slots to memorialize his life, and you couldn't fill ANY of them with photos of him NOT from his childhood fame and mistreatment?
He lived 70 years, honor him beyond the age of fifteen.
R.I.P. actor Björn Andrésen (1955-2025), known for his role Tadzio in Luchino Visconti's DEATH IN VENICE (1971)—a role which garnered the actor the title of "most beautiful boy in the world" and catapulted him into stardom in Japan.
Maria (top right) is a transfem OC by a trans artist. She is drawn the same way the artist draws cys women.
Maria reflects her artist's unique style. She is drawn in the same manner as the cys women OC's by the artist (ex: red-head, bottom right).
"Annie" is a hate fetish.
Watching fragile cishet men have breakdowns over the reason Tom Holland is trending is sweet wine to me. Oh honey, you realize that he's an ACTOR, right? He's not ACTUALLY Spiderman. He can take any roles he wants, yes, including queer ones. Now breathe deeply & touch some grass.
You owe the very EXISTENCE of fandom to women shipping Kirk and Spock and sharing their fics, art, and headcanons with one another.
So no, we are not going to "denormalize" the bedrock of fandom culture.
You can learn to "normalize" scrolling past ships you don't vibe with.
Can we denormalize shipping. I'm not talking about proshipping. I mean shipping just in general, it shouldn't have so much drama around it and arguments when like... It's just head canons. That like. They could keep to themselves. And should. It's head canons, HEAD. Mental.
Queerbaiting is a media term.
Real people cannot queerbait.
Harassing an 18yo kid until you force him to come out is ABHORRENT.
Heartstopper is a cute queer show.
Kit Connor is a PERSON who should NEVER have had to defend himself against queerbaiting accusations in this way.
"homophobia is okay if it's for religious reasons"
NO!
Queer people are not "bigoted" for calling out religiously-motivated homophobia.
Jesus Fucking Christ, y'all are going to hand our rights over to Conservatives with a smile because you'd rather be oppressed than "rude."
Ao3: *posts their entire budget*
Some folks, every year: OMG it's a money laundering scheme! How could it possibly take MONEY to run a free website without any ads! Who would even donate to that? So silly! Anyways, my mom pays for Netflix, Hulu, Amazon Prime, and Disney+.
-___-
Removing tags will only make the content unable to be filtered.
Ao3 is an ARCHIVE founded explicitly against ANY censorship. It was formed after writers saw how quickly other sites devolved from, “We just want to ban the problematic fics,” into mass targeting of queer art.
i cant hold in anymore, yall gotta stop pretending all types of censorship is equal. Theres a difference between blocking lgbtq content and removing the fucking “rape kink” fics and the shota/lolicon tags.
Queer people making queer art (including sexual/explicit art) is not fetishizing.
Even cishet people can make art (including sexual/explicit art) of queer characters that is NOT fetishistic.
Fetishizing requires dehumanization.
Queerness exists outside of "wholesome" bubbles.
This is a ridiculous lie.
Hbomberguy made a meticulously researched video addressing the FACT that James Somerton built his career off of extensive plagiarism, often from smaller queer & BIPOC creators.
He did not “bully” anyone & he’s not responsible for James’s mental health.
We've all been reading "anonymous" fanfic for YEARS! Most fics you read on Ao3 you know NOTHING abt the author!
You get a username and that's it.
No social media link.
No identity info.
Often not even a gender or age.
And idk about y'all, but that's never been an issue to me?
Fandom was built by middle-aged women writing Spirk fanfiction and mailing it to each other.
The "adult" world is a whole lot less "grown-up" than you imagine it. People don't stop being creative or passionate about media they like just because they age past twenty.
Not only am I heartbroken for the woman & baby as being separated from the only mother you have ever known is undoubtedly traumatic, but it horrifies me to wonder how many other families the clinic did this to & it wasn't discovered bc it was done to families of the same race.
People often bash women who read m/m romance, but as a gay man I will FOREVER trust women who read "smutty BL" over women who moralize abt how they only read the "Good Wholesome G-d Honoring BL."
No amount of straight women reading gay smut will ever feel as fetishizing as THIS.
So, are transmascs and trans men allowed to talk about the danger we are facing losing reproductive rights in addition to losing trans healthcare?
Is it "bad enough" yet to listen to us?
Or is it still not our turn to speak?
If you think that putting "pedos dni" in your bio while also broadcasting that you are a minor is a safe thing to do, then you ABSOLUTELY still need parental controls on your devices.
In fact, you should probably have even more.
I am very much on the side of "m/m shipping is not fetishizing gay men," but the way some of y'all talk abt how you can read 100k+words of relationship & character development only to have your experience "destroyed" by the "wrong" character bottoming is starting to cross a line.
Ao3 was created because queer stories were being deleted from other fanfic sites under the auspice of "moral purity."
If you can only read about a ship if they have sex a specific way, filter for the tags you want, and don't read untagged fic.
It's really quite simple.
u guys are the problem cuz fanfiction was always abt couple dynamics and preferences even ao3 was created because of that? i dont care if the writer makes 10k or 300k, that doesnt make them entitled of anything? i care abt the characters being the way i like? 😭
You know you can just call stuff “werid” or “creepy” or even “degrading” and NOT minimize pedophilia?
If you see a weird naked sculpture in a bathroom (of what I’m guessing is a bar or club) and think of kids, maybe the pedophilia is coming form inside the house.
How to Draw G-d Honoring Smut on Patreon: A Comic.
ALT How to Draw G-d Honoring Smut on Patreon.
First Panel -
Stick Figure 1: “Hello, my name is Fictional Character A.”
Stick Figure 2: “And I’m Fictional Character B.”
Second Panel -
Both Stick Figures: “Dear Patreon, we hereby confirm that we are over the age of 18, not related by blood or adoption, and consent to this sexual encounter in an informed anger without drugs, alcohol, hypnosis, or blackmail.
Third Panel -
Proceed with coitus.
Image of two stick figures having sex doggie style with visible erections.
Watermarked by Foxx & Inkwell.
I'm getting really concerned abt how kids & teens seem to think their "DNIs" are a force field that will keep away bad people so anyone who follows them must be "good people."
EX) I saw a 12-year-old w/ a bio that said "pedos DNI."
Someone needs to teach kids internet safety.
There are "proship" folks who filter & block incest/non-con/etc content.
There are "antiship" folks who have been outed as child predators.
I think I will continue to choose who I hang out with based on how they treat real people, rather than what fiction they engage with.
I swear 95% of the time I see folks talking abt not "fetishizing" characters the next thing out of their mouth is something either racist, homophobic, or transphobic.
Y'all aren't fighting fetishization. You're reinforcing the belief that only white cishet ppl can be attractive.
"I don't need to ship characters to enjoy media. I'm a smart and mature adult. If you can't enjoy a show without shipping you're childish."
Oh wow, good for you. Sounds boring. I'm gonna go smash my Barbie dolls together now. Hope you have fun with your superiority complex.
I see a lot of QRTs saying "He talks about LGBTQ+ issues so he should talk about XYZ issue too" & I don't think that tracks or is fair.
He speaks up as a father defending his nonbinary child, not because he's an actor presuming his voice is somehow politically authoritative. 1/
David Tennant on his hesitance to speak out on political issues: “You don’t need to listen to me because I’m an actor, because you liked me in a show, doesn’t give me the right to tell you how to think.”
The way the TERF Brigade is going after a trans man w/Cerebral Palsy claiming he’s a “mutilated child” & “barely conscious” illustrates the horrific extent to which disabled people, especially disabled people whose bodies & voices are outside of the “norm,” are dehumanized.
1/
The children think the internet existed in 1966.
We are losing the ancient texts.
Kirk/Spock predates the Internet.
Learn history, respect your elders, & reflect on why you feel comfortable sexually demeaning/policing women in early fandom just bc you don't like shipping.
Really suspicious of how any time folks express attraction to an actor/character who is not cishet, white, able-bodied, thin, & “conventionally attractive” the “fetishization” accusations start flying.
Feels like y’all are saying something about who is “supposed” to be desired.
I need to dig it up again but somewhere I have saved a PDF from someone who went through and cataloged average marriage ages across several countries in Europe spanning back to I think the 1500s and they are pretty consistently in the early 20s.
Y'all are going to gladly forfeit your fucking voting rights and medical rights and G-d knows what else all because you want to eternally infantilize yourself because you think close-in-age college students so much as THINKING about having sex with each other is "icky."
You didn’t just “name drop” her.
You directly referenced one of the only photos of her pregnancy (where she is nude) & linked her Wikipedia page.
Then when you were called out for exploiting a real child, you accused people of being “proshippers mad they couldn’t wank to CP.”
It’s nothing to do with lesbians and everything to do with the “Why aren’t you making what I want instead of what you want?” attitude. Fanfiction is made for FREE & for FUN by fellow fans and it really rubs the wrong way when ppl complain about what others create for free & fun.
Why do people get so angry when lesbians express the very mild viewpoint of “I wish fandom was less male-centric and I’m tired of men always dominating the scene”
This happening right after the body of Sam Nordquist (a trans man who was abducted, tortured for over a month, and then murdered) was found puts an incredibly sharp point on just how evil this is.
NamUs, the National Missing and Unidentified Persons System, has removed all mentions of trans people from its website. If we go missing they don't want us to be found.
Telling Black bisexual woman that she is the “oppressor” of a white lesbian the grounds that she is “a non-homosexual” is truly the type of reality-disconnected bottom-of-the-ass-crack shit take that one could only ever encounter here on Twitter Dot Com.
First, platonic love and asexuality are not synonymous. Plenty of ace people experience romantic love.
Second, ace people can kiss and also have sex if they want to.
Third, asexuality is a spectrum and demisexual people are here too
Fourth, all headcanons at equally valid.
"An age-gap warning" and the "younger woman" is in her fucking FIFTIES.
Is there ANY age where women are allowed to be autonomous adults capable of making their own romantic choices?
Why do teenagers think that posting an adult’s age is a “gottcha.”
Yes, I am 29 and like most adults on earth I can separate fiction from reality.
Oh, and while we are here, calling OTHER PEOPLE slurs with derogatory intent is not “reclaiming.”
What you call “proship” is the normal, neutral position. Being against harassment & knowing how to separate fiction from reality & understanding that the exploration of dark themes in fiction does not reflect on the real-world morals or desires of the author or reader IS NORMAL.
There are people calling for censorship of things they find not acceptable to write about. Instead of just filtering their tags and understanding that fiction has always been used to tackle problematic and dark subjects.
Teenager: *spams pro-censorship, pro-harassment posts into the Good Omens fandom*
The Fandom: "No cool. Also, the author is anti-censorship."
Teenager: "OMG I'm literally a minor & you're violating my DNIs!"
Teenager: *has no DNIs listed & doesn't put their age in their bio*
Don't go around touching random people, especially not girls. You don't know someone's trauma history. You don't know if someone is neurodivergent. You don't know if someone has a pain condition. You could have just said, "Hey can I get a high five?" instead of touching them.
Adults telling children that they can tell who is a "good person" based on their fiction preferences will always be INFINITELY more dangerous than any kind of "problematic fiction" existing.
Oh, this pisses me off so badly for all of you.
Especially as someone who regularly attends Georgian and Regency balls. These kinds of events CAN be done! And for MUCH less than $300/person. I don't think I've ever seen a ticket even HALF of that.
Y'all were cheated horribly.
The fact that a person is going to DIE bc a group of a-holes took issue w/ a cartoon alien drawing to the point they DESTROYED the artist's life & robbed them of healthcare leaves me w/ less than no patience for ppl who act like proship vs antis is petty nonsense they're "above."
None of these endless "tightening restrictions" have done ANYTHING to curb addiction. All it does is harm people who really need the medications. How about instead of another failed chapter of the "war on drugs," we put money into treatment and social programs?
If this turns out to be true, I'm truly horrified.
That said, the source being a podcast has me in "wait & listen" mode.
How does a podcast seem to have Gaiman's "account" before any news outlet? And the "false memories" thing has "recovered memories" red flags.
Teenagers on Twitter trying to bring purity culture and Christo-fascism back into vogue: "It's actually ILLEGAL to sexualize any Pure Holy Catholic Imagery."
Meanwhile, artists since the beginnings of Catholicism:
Transmascs: "We're in danger and that danger is often dismissed and our voices silenced when we try and talk about it."
A handful of dipshits: "How dare you attack trans women like this!"
Erasing people’s ethnicity and calling them “spiritually white” because they oppose your desire to force fandom into a strict puritanical box while we are literally in the middle of a massive rise of fascism and white supremacy is actually fucking disgusting.
This is just weird. As an actor (nonprofessional, stage) this is weird. Acted intimacy is not real. It's not infidelity. If an actor isn't comfortable with that kind of scene, fine. But to frame it as some sort of moral superiority is just BIZARRE and frankly harmful IMO.
These kids are in for a rude awakening in college when they take a media class & learn that "proship" is the default for ppl NOT terminally online.
Your film professor will discuss sexual themes in horror.
Your lit. professor will study complex toxic dynamics.
This is NORMAL.
bro how could someone type this shit out in a goofy ass font and feel morally superior for making people feel like shit….ON PURPOSE???
like they think they’re doing hero work by saying/doing the most villainous shit imaginable like PLEASE do the world a favor and find a HOBBY!!
Simply wearing a necklace is not “making people unwilling participate in your fetish.”
The OP didn’t even SAY ANYTHING the tattoo artist just happened to know the potential significance of that specific chain set up.
It’s no more involving anyone else than a wedding ring.
This happening right after the body of Sam Nordquist (a trans man who was abducted, tortured for over a month, and then murdered) was found puts an incredibly sharp point on just how evil this is.
Also, the framing of "They shouldn't be anonymous if they're handling XYZ topics," is disturbingly close to what led to authors like Becky Albertalli and actors like Kit Conner being bullied into outing themselves.
If I never see another cis woman make another "stop fetishizing gay men" thread it will be too soon. Karen from Ohio will act like she's the Personal Savior of Gay Men yet speak over actual queer men when we dare suggest that sanitization is a bigger issue than folks being horny.
I don't even go here, but telling fans of a fictional character that they need to "take accountability" for that fictional character's fictional actions is BANANAS.
Abuse is when France's spouse doesn't wear the underwear she expects them to.
Has this woman's spouse even come out as trans? Or is she just having a public meltdown over...underwear.
"Why are you calling a fictional character fictional?"
Uh...bc he's not real.
He has never actually harmed anyone because he is an object used to tell a story as are all other characters he interacts with.
Most of us figured out how this works back in elementary school.
Are y'all really just now discovering the existence of erotica and the fact that people use it to get off?
Also, using Dean of all people to profess shock that people masturbate is...pretty funny.
Self appointed “saviors” of queer men: We must stop these icky girls from fetishizing poor defenseless mlms!
Me, a queer man: I don’t think that’s a widespread problem. Also, y’all keep attacking gay and bi trans men and nonbinary folks.
“Saviors:” SILENCE! I AM PROTECTING YOU!
I am QRTing bc the replies are off & this is a SAFETY message bc you are a minor:
There is a deep-rooted grooming problem in antishipper spaces. MULTIPLE prominent antis have been arrested for abusing & exploiting children.
DO NOT trust adults based on who likes "safe fiction."
"Why don't people write more wlw fanfic?"
*opens up wlw fan spaces*
*gets blasted in the face with raging unmitigated misogyny and homophobia*
Yeah.
That's why.
If you hate that Ao3 for being anti-censorship and anti-harassment why are you having a fit over being banned?
Seems like an everyone-wins scenario to me.
ONE transmasc teenager does something despicable, & you're ready to paint every trans man as violent potential killers.
You're no different than a transphobe who sees a report of a single trans woman arrested for SA & decides that ALL trans women are violent sexual predators.
This just in: People in cosplay are still ACTUAL PEOPLE.
Just as it is not okay to put your hands on them without consent, it is not okay to insult or harass them as if they were actually the character they are dressed up as
Cosplaying as an “antagonist” changes NONE OF THIS.
LOVE THIS!
Also, for those who aren't aware, Coco Chanel was a Nazi collaborator and informer and Karl Lagerfeld's father, Otto Lagerfeld, was a literal Nazi.
For the willfully illiterate:
Completely fine:
– having t/b ship preferences
– not reading untagged fics
– just wanting to read some smut
Consider unpacking:
– equating t/b to personality & characterization
– being "grossed out" by the character you relate to bottoming
I am very much on the side of "m/m shipping is not fetishizing gay men," but the way some of y'all talk abt how you can read 100k+words of relationship & character development only to have your experience "destroyed" by the "wrong" character bottoming is starting to cross a line.
Trump is talking about revoking trans people's updated passports and IDs and some y'all are still out here arguing about bi folks using the terms butch/femme and whether or not transmascs have "male privilege" or not.
Fucking weakest links.
I am a firm believer in "old men leaving young women alone on Twitter and not trying to police how they speak." There was no universe in which he needed to comment on her Tweet in the first place.
Ironically, you're doing a very good job demonstrating the exact anti-transmasc bullshit I'm addressing.
Where a trans man speaks about the issues we face regarding oppression and erasure, and immediately someone like you jumps us to claim we're somehow "attacking trans women."
this might be a shot in the dark but the reason trans women want you to shut up is because instead of just loudly advocating for your own rights, you immediately jump to pushing trans women under the bus & blaming them for you being too timid to speak up 🤷🏻♂️
How did IWTV, of all media, wind up with a significant portion of its fanbase not intellectually mature enough to handle any text darker or more complex than Cocomelon?
Damn, some of y'all wasted no time at all in sliding from "Ao3 needs to Protect Palestinian volunteers" to "Ao3 has Zionist volunteers because they host The Bad Fiction" & straight down into "Ao3 is run by (((Zionists))) who want to force (((their))) degeneracy into our society."
Chinese Fans: *write literal academic-level essays on language, translation, Chinese fiction tropes, queer history, and their own lives*
Antis: "Too long; didn't read, but I found this 15-year-old Chinese-American kid using Google Translate who agrees with me so you should kys."
You should probably unpack WHY you view a character bottoming as “gross.”
It's one thing to have preferences & only want to read certain t/b dynamics in your fanfic smut, but when the idea of a character bottoming revolts you, that is something you should examine further.
I don’t know, I’m a top, and if I strongly relate to a character it actually grosses me out for them to be a bottom. So if it’s one of those types of ships where I strongly relate to one character and basically project on them, it would ruin a fic for me. So I get it.
1. Losing commissions is the natural consequence of their bigotry.
2. Every time someone is called out, they jump right to the claim that they are "getting threats," and yet we never see any proof.
3. There is no such thing as "respectful" bigotry.
the artist is now being losing commissions and even getting threats/hates and reports.
fuck you.
They were respectful and cancelled with a reason they support without even being hateful, they could have just ghosted u.
the fact that cis straight guys are still so insistent that they have to be muscle hunks to get girls when frankly most women i know want a little elf prince, a depressed middle aged father, or a line cook, is so funny
The fucking irony of a Hannibal fan account with “proship DNI” in their bio and then to top it all off, their pinned tweet is about how they want to make more “dark art” of Hannigram.
You’re a fan of a profoundly toxic cannibal serial killer ship.
Welcome to the “proship” club.
Me: As a CSA survivor, while I find loli art to be triggering, I really hate the equation of art I may find it disturbing to my actual trauma and the abuse of real kids.
Some fucker: *DMs me explicit loli art*
If y'all think this is CSEM, why are you saving it and sending it?
I’ve found character policing and identity policing is much more prevalent when writing f/f than when writing f/m or m/m.
A lot of folks give up on writing f/f bc they get tired of being told that they’re not “allowed” to write women in the messy, complicated ways they want. 1/3
As a survivor w/ a LONG muted terms list, the ppl I don't feel safe around in fandom are antis.
The ppl who have repeatedly proven themselves to be dangerous (grooming kids, sending CSEM to a survivor, stalking, harassing, doxxing, etc) are ANTIS.
Y'all are not white knights.
It's not just you; I'm a gay man with a strong personal preference regarding my own sex life, and even I do not understand this idea that a fic will be "ruined" if the "wrong" character takes it up the ass.
Maybe I’m too ace and/or too lesbian for this but I don’t understand top/bottom dynamics because what do you mean a relationship with intricacies and subtleties that took thousands or words to develop is supposed to be summed up in top/bottom?