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➡️ Content warnings on fiction are a courtesy. 

➡️ Not every medium of fiction and storytelling has or is expected to have content warnings or extensive tagging.

➡️ Print novels do not traditionally warn for content in any way.

➡️ Until AO3 came along, fanfiction did not traditionally warn for content in any significant way.

➡️ An author is only obligated to warn for content to the degree mandated by the format they publish their fiction on.

➡️ Content warnings beyond the minimum are a courtesy, not an obligation.

➡️ 'Creator chose not to warn' is a valid tag that authors are allowed to use on AO3. It means there could be anything in there and you have accepted the risk. 'May contain peanuts!'

➡️ Writers are allowed to use 'Creator chose not to warn' for any reason, including to maintain surprise and avoid spoilers.

➡️ 'Creator chose not to warn' is not the same thing as 'no archive warnings apply'.

➡️ It is your responsibility to protect yourself and close a book, or hit the back button if you find something in fiction that you're reading that upsets you.

➡️ You are responsible for protecting yourself from fiction that causes you discomfort.

Royals in White Dresses: Queen Alexandra (then Princess of Wales) painted by Richard Lauchert, 1863, Empress Elizabeth of Austria painted by Franz Winterhalter, 1864 and The Princess of Wales (then Duchess of Cambridge) photographed by Paolo Roversi, 2021.

Robert Sterling

I blame the education system for goyim who think Israel is a colonial

All we learn is Europe was the colonizer. Not even Europe just mostly England

We don’t learn about the Asian colonizers such as the Mongols, Japanese, Chinese and Arabs/Turks.

Both Asia and Europe were big colonizers in history

Absolutely! I remember spending a few weeks on non-European historical empires in my high school history classes, but the focus was always on the colonizers, never the colonized. We never learned about the violence required to build and sustain the Mamluk, Mughal, or Ottoman Empires. I probably never would have known about all the indigenous ethnic groups who were persecuted and in many cases nearly or completely wiped out by these Asian empires were it not for my Jewish education growing up, where we learned about the Muslim Conquest of the Levant and the history of Jews in Islamic empires, and my Russian and Slavic history courses in college, where we learned about the effect the Mongol invasions had on Russian history in ways that are still felt to this day. And this isn't even getting into the empires that existed in Africa or South America before European colonialism. When you limit your concept of colonization something that white people do to people of color, you erase the experiences of marginalized peoples all over the globe who have been fighting for freedom and dignity in their ancestral homelands.

Emily Schrader

Over three months later and nothing has changed.

Aviva Klompas

BREAKING:

The “few bad apples” line pushed by the UN has just been obliterated. The Wall Street Journal front page is reporting that an estimated 1,200 Unrwa employees in Gaza are actual “operatives” of Hamas or Palestinian Islamic Jihad, and about half have close relatives who belong to the Islamist terrorist organizations, according to Israeli intelligence estimates shared with the U.S. government. 

The report said 23% of Unrwa’s male employees—the agency has a total staff of 12,000 in Gaza—took active part in the Hamas organization’s military or political framework, a higher percentage than the average of 15% for adult males in Gaza. 

The information in the Israeli intelligence reports is based on sensitive signals intelligence as well as cellphone tracking data, interrogations of captured Hamas gunmen and documents recovered from dead terrorists.

Nearly half of all Unrwa employees—an estimated 49%—also had close relatives with official ties to Hamas and other terrorist groups. 

The Oct. 7 intelligence reports seen by the Wall Street Journal identified an Unrwa Arabic teacher who was also a Hamas terrorist commander and took part in a terrorist attack on Kibbutz Be’eri, where 97 people were murdered, and about 26 people were kidnapped and taken as hostages to Gaza.

Another Unrwa employee, described in the dossier as an Unrwa social worker, played a role in absconding with the body of a dead Israeli soldier, which was taken to Gaza, the reports said. He also coordinated trucks and munitions distributions for Hamas before being killed.

@cjkeller8 &

@davidluhnow

@WSJ: https://wsj.com/world/middle-east/at-least-12-u-n-agency-employees-involved-in-oct-7-attacks-intelligence-reports-say-a7de8f36

once again, to the people charging money for fanfiction: be more freaking careful before you get us all taken down?!?!?!?! you shouldn't be doing that at all because you don't have any right to make money off someone else's copyright, but making noise about it risks legal repercussions even for people who don't charge! STOP THAT.

and DEFINITELY don't be advertising it on AO3

Joshua Davis

Every time I think that surely we've hit rock bottom I've been swiftly proven wrong. I am disgusted.

the fact that most (young) internet users’ politics boils down to “whatever is popular online” for over a decade at this point is not lost on me, and also not on the people who exploit it.

A Gazan woman surprises Al Jazeera reporter and tells him that Hamas is taking all the humanitarian aid to its terrorists in the tunnels. The reporter tries to convince her otherwise but she continues to attack Hamas. As she also said she can be kidnapped,murdered ,but she has to tell the injustice done by HAMAS to the Palestine muslim helpless children,women,old aged people of the entire Humanitarian Aid sent for Palestinian muslim Victims was never delivered to the palestinian Victims and robbed by HAMAS. HAMAS wants to create more Jihadi's from small children,Palestine victims suffering under Hamas ruled Palestine as their suffering will be more harsh and even death. HAMAS will sell all the HUMANITARIAN AID sent by the whole world for the Palestine victims and buy more arms to fight theJews

It’s still shocking to me that people completely ignore the fact that Hamas took fucking hostages. They admit to this war crime, but nobody cares.

And to those saying “but they were treated well! They said so!” If someone is holding more of your family/kin hostage, are you going to badmouth your former captors in public? You may as well put a gun to a hostage’s head and tell the terrorist to shoot.

Chana Marelus | Fall/Winter 2023

One of my biggest nitpicks in fiction concerns the feeding of babies. Mothers dying during/shortly after childbirth or the baby being separated form the mother shortly after birth is pretty common in fiction. It is/was also common enough in real life, which is why I think a lot of writers/readers don't think too hard about this. however. Historically, the only reason the vast majority of babies survived being separated from their mother was because there was at least one other woman around to breastfeed them. Before modern formula, yes, people did use other substitutes, but they were rarely, if ever, nutritionally sufficient.

Newborns can't eat adult food. They can't really survive on animal milk. If your story takes place in a world before/without formula, a baby separated from its mother is going to either be nursed by someone else, or starve.

It doesn't have to be a huge plot point, but idk at least don't explicitly describe the situation as excluding the possibility of a wetnurse. "The father or the great grandmother or the neighbor man or the older sibling took and raised the baby completely alone in a cave for a year." Nope. That baby is dead I'm sorry. "The baby was kidnapped shortly after birth by a wizard and hidden away in a secret tower" um quick question was the wizard lactating? "The mother refused to see or touch her child after birth so the baby was left to the care of the ailing grandfather" the grandfather who made the necessary arrangements with women in the neighborhood, right? right? OR THAT GREAT OFFENDER "A newborn baby was left on the doorstep and they brought it in and took care of it no issues" What Are You Going to Feed That Baby. Hello?

Like. It's not impossible, but arrangements are going to have to be made. There are some logistics.

How I know that the Free Palestine Movement has zero idea what where and how Palestine was? How I know that all that drives this engine of hate is pure antisemitism decorated in watermelon juice?

Because they call for the destruction of Israel but have ZERO words to say about the existence of Jordan.

That's how.