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For all your discussion needs.

Ground rules:
- Try to keep it loosely trash party related, or at least Cap fandom related.
- Disagreement is fine, nastiness is not.
- Being offended is not carte blanche for nastiness.
- Trashmeme ground rules apply. Read at your own risk, no romanticizing your noncon garbage, no wank about the moral acceptability of noncon kink.
- Body shots, sniper shots, and tetanus shots are all available at the open bar. Party like it's 2014, kids.

Comments

Re: Littering on ao3

[(Anonymous)]

Most fandoms have their sick and twisted corner, and they're all posting stuff on Ao3. Why are we the only ones who shouldn't?

And I disagree strongly about Ao3 being a terrible system. It's far better than say, Tumblr. On Tumblr, links disappear if the person you're linking to changes their URL (which people do with seriously annoying frequency), and you can't just read someone's fic, you end up embroiled in their personal life. Tumblr can't be locked down to prevent unregistered users from looking at your fic (well, it can, but you have to decide that when you start your blog and you can't friendslock individual entries). It's also a huge pain to read long entries on Tumblr, and you can't use HTML for things like italics. DW's got some features Tumblr doesn't which is nice but the potential audience for your fic is so much smaller. Like a lot smaller. Like a lot, a lot smaller. People are much worse at tagging on both those sites than they are on Ao3.

Those just aren't good places for a permanent archive of any kink. Ao3 is the best setup fandom's ever had. It works if people use it correctly. Not everyone knows how to do this, so of course reading fic can still be like playing Russian Roulette but that's the risk you take.

What you want, if I understand this, is to not ever have to even see the summaries. For it to be as if those fics simply don't exist. Because even knowing that they do is "triggering".

So what you're saying is, other people should damage their fan fic writing "careers" by deliberately not posting on the most popular and user friendly site, because they write stuff that makes you uncomfortable.

Sometimes, people who write in controversial fic genres already feel pushed out and pressured not to post said fics. They can' ask for it anonymously, they can't post it in their personal spaces, now you don't even want them to use public archives.

You don't want this happening at all, that's the truth. Don't pretend you're okay with it if it stays in its own space. Because that space will just get smaller and smaller and *smaller*.