"Why Can't The Freaks On AO3 Just Go And Make A Site For All The Gross Stuff And Leave AO3 Alone."

"Why can't the freaks on AO3 just go and make a site for all the gross stuff and leave AO3 alone."

Because AO3 is that site. Because AO3 was that site long before you decided AO3 was better than the sites you bullied us off of before, and I can promise you if someone somehow comes up with a fanfic site you like better specifically for the 'gross stuff' you'll try to bully us off that too so you can benefit from it.

AO3's specific core purpose is to preserve fanfiction, yes, but it was also instigated as a host site for the fanfiction that kept getting yeeted off other platforms like Wattpad. Its designed to preserve all fanfiction, not just the fanfiction you, personally, think is 'allowed' to be written.

AO3 is the site for all the gross stuff the freaks make. We've been there just as long as you. We've been funding it just as long as you have. AO3 has specifically said you have a place here. The timeline was literally:

Wattpad/FF.net/LiveJournal purge fanfics > AO3 is born > The people who's fics got purged moved over to AO3 > AO3 gains popularity as the best functioning site > The people who pushed for the fics to be purged off Wattpad move to AO3 > The same people try to push for AO3 to purge fics.

AO3's source coding is open-access. You go make a polished, strict, rigid site where nothing 'icky' is allowed. You go make a site where you can control what is hosted. We already have our space.

Information and action are the parents of change.

You cannot fight what you do not know. This is why the sharing of accurate, blatant information is so important. This is the true value of freedom of speech. This is why we fight for unblocked social media platforms and independent press and for our private conversations to be protected.

You can't act if you don't have the information. How can you challenge something you don't even know about? How can you fight for the correct side, the correct outcome, if you don't understand it and know what, exactly, you have to fight for and whom you should be fighting?

You need information in order to take action. And you need information and action in order to make a change.

The reaction to Harry winning a Grammy literally just proves that people hate him because he's Harry Styles. Its the whole 'resent what's popular' thing in real-time. Beyoncé still made history. She still won, just not that category, and she's still now a literal record-holding POC female artist and you're still not happy because a queer white boy who's ~mainstream~ won something.

Heckling him while he's on stage at an award's ceremony and making him feel guilty for the fact that he's a talented artist who rightfully won an award (because him being friends with someone in charge means literally nothing, Harry's lost out on awards before regardless) is honestly just childish and frankly embarrassing.

I'm not a fan of certain artists. I don't have a good opinion of others. But you don't see me trashing their hard work and their efforts and any well-earned rewards. Beyoncé literally did not "lose out" on anything. She wasn't snubbed from anything. She put her album up for consideration and lost. That's it. If she had been snubbed she wouldn't have attended or been up for anything in the first place.

Imagine this:

You live in a town. There is a park that allows both people and dogs. You live in this town and decide dogs should not be allowed at the park. You complain and push and get dogs banned from the park.

The town builds another park for the dogs. Now there is a dog park and a people park. You see the dog park and think it looks better than the people park. You, a person who neither owns a dog nor likes dogs, begins to use the dog park.

That's okay. The dog owners don't mind sharing their park. Its a nice park. Its definitely better than the people park.

You like the dog park better, but you don't like the dogs, so you tell the dog owners they're not allowed to go there anymore. They're not welcome. Its a dog park, but you personally don't like dogs, so they're not allowed to bring their dogs here anymore. You start harassing the dog owners and trying to bully them out of the park.

"Just go to a different park!" you yell at them. "Go build your own park if you want to bring your dogs in!" you cry.

You are an anti. The dogs are works of fiction. The park is AO3. Your perspective is as ridiculous as the above anecdote sounds. AO3's entire existence was founded on you encouraging sites like Wattpad to purge and ban fanfiction that didn't fit certain, bias-flexible criteria. AO3's core purpose is to host and preserve fanfiction.

If AO3 did not want that kind of fanfiction, it would not allow it. Simple. AO3 itself dictates that fanfiction has a place there. You cannot storm in and demand its not allowed to host it because you've finally realized sites like Wattpad fucking suck, and not just because of their content regulations.

You're a guest in AO3's park. Act like it. Don't like the rules? Their code is open-source. Build your own park.

hi while idc abt all this antiship bs i do know that kodogender is knowingly dating an abuser and an actual rreal life pedophile who hurt multiple ppl v close to me. jsyk

But that wasn't the point of the call-out post, nor the information given. The post wasn't calling the user out for being a known pedophile or causing harm to people. In fact, there was actually no mention of that in the post or the tags. It was just another "ew icky proship" callout post which have been proven, time and time again, to be subject to extreme bias and encourage harassment.

I mean Harry does say homophobic things and gets excused because people think hes part of the community.

It's cool of he doesnt want to claim us but he should maybe chill it on the 'ambiguous" answers he gives in every interview, block the question like most celebs do. And also stop talking about us

An excellent way to prove the entire point of my post, thank you, anon.

Re; "not claiming us." We're not a cult. The LGBT+ community isn't regimental. People can choose to live ambiguously, in the closet or as out and proud as they please. Someone choosing to be ambiguous or to remain closeted does not devalue their identity or mean they're against the community. People who are ambiguous or closeted are still as much LGBT+ as people who are out, and are still as deserving of their identities as anyone else. We also need to bear in mind that Harry grew up under the strict management of a company known for being extremely controlling, manipulative and bigoted.

He's been harassed, called a faggot, speculated about, demeaned, ridiculed, sexually harassed, touted as a womanising sex symbol, stalked and physically attacked.

If he wants to maintain his privacy and not declare a label, he had every right to do so. I reiterate; every single person has the right to not proclaim their identity.

Secondly. I can promise you if Harry started blocking questions you'd immediately start branding him as homophobic or accusing him of once again baiting the general public by wearing dresses but refusing to tell anyone why. Its a no-win situation for him, as it has been for many, many other celebrities. He doesn't have to answer those questions and as and when he chooses to, he can answer them in any way he chooses. He's earned that freedom. After years of having what he says controlled, edited and manipulated, he's earned the right to answer questions on his own terms, with his own words.

"And also stop talking about us." Again, refer to the above point. Within weeks you'd been trashing him saying he's another ignorant Hollywood bigot that refuses to acknowledge the LGBT+ community. There's no middle ground.