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Jan. 27th, 2021 10:16 amSometimes it confuses me that the people who say "if you don't like the content on AO3, make your own archive instead of trying to change this one" are on the opposite side of the political divide from the people who say "if you don't like the content in Dungeons and Dragons, make your own game instead of trying to change this one." They seem like the same argument.
(Then again, the people who liked D&D the way it used to be made their own game. It's called Hackmaster, and you're welcome to it, but I ain't touching that with a ten-foot pole.)
(Then again, the people who liked D&D the way it used to be made their own game. It's called Hackmaster, and you're welcome to it, but I ain't touching that with a ten-foot pole.)
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Jan. 22nd, 2021 09:09 amThe thing about AO3 discourse is that AO3 isn't meant to be THE archive. It's the archive that doesn't purge stuff, and it exists separately from archives that do purge stuff. Those archives can have a separate value. So when you argue that AO3 should purge stuff, you're not just arguing about AO3 itself. You're arguing about whether it's wrong for there to exist any site at all that has AO3's goals.
Thinking about AO3 discourse
Dec. 4th, 2019 01:50 amThere would be plenty of material for an AO3 equivalent of Safebooru. If you look at the My Little Pony fandom, for instance, there are a lot of folks who see a cute, wholesome show and want to make cute, wholesome fic in the same style. But just like how a lot of children’s cartoons have boys who kiss girls (and do nothing more than kissing), a lot of the wholesome My Little Pony fandom content involves girl ponies kissing girl ponies. And even on the sites that allowed all manner of NSFW content, there were people who went apeshit about “promoting homosexuality.” So does your child-safe site allow gay kissing? Does it allow straight kissing? Who legislates the ensuing arguments over whether a romance is “child-inappropriate”?
Eventually, the folks who feel their fics are unfairly rejected will want to go somewhere they won’t have to argue over every post. You know, some sort of archive of their own.
