my favorite thing about all this ao3 discourse are all these people going “we don’t care what you write sweatie we just want you to write it somewhere else, why can’t you go make an archive of your own to post all your nasty fics on?” because the level of ignorance in basic fandom history shown right there is just astounding.
y’all realize that nasty fic writers already did that, right?
y’all realize we already made our own archive to post what we want without fear of another strike-through happening to us, right?
y’all realize that archive we made is literally ao3, right????
by demanding that the people who ao3 was l i t e r a l l y made by and for stop using the site and go somewhere else you’re pretty much performing the fandom equivalent of being invited into someone’s house and then five minutes into the visit screaming at them to get out of your home and find somewhere new to live.
that is what y’all sound like.
#i mean i know they don’t realize it because that would require them to have self awareness #but i’m just saying #if you hate the site that much??? leave? #i literally don’t understand how you can claim to be so morally and ethically opposed to a site #and an organization and yet #continue to support them when it is WELL within your power to stop doing that #if i actually believed any of the shit these people said about ao3? i wouldn’t use this site point fucking blank #if they were guilty of the shit these antis claim they are? #you could not pay me to use ao3 #but y’all apparently have such strong moral convictions about this and yet… #you’re willing to compromise them for what? access to fic? #you claim this site literally facilitates the abuse of children but #your need for fic is prioritized over that? #i don’t get that mindset AT ALL #i don’t get how you can ACTUALLY believe even half of what y’all are saying about ao3 #and continue to use the site #i sure as fuck would not be able to
Exhibit no 5786737 in the ‘a lot of these people don’t actually believe the majority of the shit they spew, they just fling fuckery at the wall until something sticks’ collection. They crave social power, they’re obsessed with getting their hands on it – and the easiest way to do it, they’ve found, it to bully other marginalized people out of fandoms and take over entire social-spaces with their unhinged shrieking. Most of their accusations are purely the method through which they accomplish that.
They crave social power, they’re obsessed with getting their hands on it – and the easiest way to do it, they’ve found, it to bully other marginalized people out of fandoms and take over entire social-spaces with their unhinged shrieking.
Antis in a nutshell. Thank you.
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