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snzinite · 5 months

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Mudrock

SNZ STATLINE: 7/10 wetness, 3/10 mess, 7/10 pitch, 6(8)/10 volume

"HUHHESSSCHH(oo)!"

loud, sort of aggressive sneezes when she lets them out

(tries to) only let them out in her suit where she can contain them and clean up any spray or mess (spray is common, mess is not)

emphasis on "contain". she seals the plates inside her suit so that no one hears her and nothing escapes (not that it could i mean look at it)

not super feminine sounding but if they were to hear her it would give her away (headcanoning that she tries to keep her identity a secret if she's in the suit)

sneezes in ones or twos with a few seconds in between, but she's liable to keep sneezing a bunch over a couple of minutes if something's setting her off

if she's not in the suit she stifles. it's quieter than if she let them out but not by much

MUCH girlier though

"Het-(xngh)-choo!"

the kind of stifle that's difficult to spell and that be clear what she's doing, but the 'choo' is more of a vocal tic than an actual let out sneeze

puts a finger under her nose when she stifles, usually as part of extending all the fingers on the hand in a sort of "curtain" between her mouth and anyone else in the vicinity

sneezes in threes and fours when stifling. it just doesn't relieve the tickle as much

can hold back decently well, but not forever, and the tickle never really goes away until she takes care of it

very breathy buildups paired with nostril flaring, but can also just sneeze with very little warning

pretty bad allergies to the grasses of Letha/nien (RIP her movement in Twilight...)

this is actually partially responsible for her silent and stoic reputation in the movement lol, people will be talking to her and she'll appear rock still while sneezing her brains out

speaking of: sneezing too much disrupts her arts because of the sudden concentration lapse. her golems will slush out into mud if she goes on a rapid enough fit

has been known to slip up and sneeze full-force out of the suit sometimes. it's nbd but she doesn't like to do it because it draws concern out of others

if she sneezes a bunch she'll apologize or say "excuse me" in her regular voice (betraying a little bit of the tickle if it's bad enough)

dust makes her SCRATCHY af. however it alone won't make her sneeze that much

now if she came out of a grass field into a dusty library? stifling is a lost cause

#snz #snz kink #sneeze kink #snzknights #snz headcanons #this might actually be my best post yet #dog i did mudrock research and it paid off #wink wink hint hint for the eventual fic #theyre coming i promise

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rosehearrt · 11 months

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Gonna be absent again today, grandma finally had her surgery so I'm gonna be helping her - busy as ever!! I'm going to try to get drafts out today as well though! Crossing my fingers it'll happen. I'm so sorry I've been gone so much!

#*♕ ‣ everything i’ve let go of has claw marks in it — ( ooc. )#i feel so bad making everyone wait on replies for so long gfjdhrfr #THEYRE COMING I PROMISE

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carnivalcarriondiscarded · 10 months

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i have a Scene - a Plot if you will - that backs this as context. y'all are gonna have to trust me on this one <3 or read the tags...

#the song is 'in your eyes' by peter gabriel #boombox serenade lets GO!!!#in my mind immediately after this the others came over to say hi (or in sallys case tell him off)#and at first howdy's like 'oh ofc wallys there that makes sense. sally too? strange but alright'#then eddie appears and ohhhh boy its Jealousy Central Babey and howdy's train just pulled into the station #scribble salad #laughingstock #welcome home #barnaby x howdy #howdy x barnaby #OK CONTEXT I PROMISED CONTEXT #so in my mind howdy is an oblivious dumbass when it comes to his own romantic feelings.#he's so in love with barnaby (its very obvious) but Doesnt Realize It. despite being a god tier flirty fruity motherfucker #so when barnaby - thinking theyre on the same page - confesses #howdy's all like 'ohhh um. gee barn im flattered truly but - i just dont like you like that'#yk breaking barnaby's heart right down the middle #so barnaby shuts himself in his home and wally is hovering. yk Worried #and eddie - who's been helping barnaby come to terms w/ his own feelings & gauge if howdy feels the same - asks sally to check in for him #& sally goes over and Immediately involves herself. she takes personal offense on barnaby's behalf #also she lives for the drama and wants every juice detail Hot Off The Press #so while howdy is having a lil crisis as he slowly realizes Oh My Fucking God I DO Love Barnaby Like That-#barnaby / sally / wally / (eventually) eddie are all having a sleepover where they just play card games and chat #a good ol bitch n' stitch night #and howdy shows up to try and talk to barns (obvs in my head he doesnt have a boombox he just Knocks)#only to get RE-RE-RE-REJECTEDDDDDD!!!! thats how it feels you wormy mf!#bc barnaby is a) having a girls night & b) needs to emotionally prepare for That conversation #aaaaand THATS the context <3

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ephemeralgalaxies · 4 months

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NUREYEV STILL DOESN'T SAY THE LINE RIGHT. IT'S STILL NOT VERBATIM WHAT JUNO SAID. I'M SOBBING.

Juno's version of the line is, "I never want to see you again."

(Juno also says to include the bit about not loving him, but ofc even Peter Nureyev can't lie that well).

Nureyev's version of the line is, "I do not want to see you anymore, Juno." (and later, "I have no interest in seeing you any longer").

Which... it fits more into Nureyev's pattern of speech (as the previous fits more into Juno's), but is still completely changed. Especially when Nureyev asks, "You said it would just take those words to excise you from my life entirely, didn't you?" BECAUSE NO. NO, THOSE ARENT THE WORDS. HE DOESNT EVEN GIVE JUNO THE CHANCE TO THINK ABOUT IT EITHER. IMMEDIATELY STARTS TALKING AGAIN.

After all of that, he comes so close and yet STILL cannot say it to him. The great thief, master lier, professional manipulator, and yet he still cannot force out that little phrase of finite.

Bye y'all, I'm crying for the next month :')

#the penumbra podcast #tpp #juno steel #peter nureyev #jupeter #tpp spoilers #tpp s5 #tpp s5 spoilers #juno x peter #junoverse #I cant with them. I know it's such a little detail but COME ON theyre the monarchs of observation.#juno and nureyev would KNOW. oh shit but Juno probably doesn't remember verbatim what he said #bc he really thiught he'd never hear it anyway #but Nureyev? He hears that every time he sleeps. Every time he chats up a target. every time he cant smile and thinks of the one that #always reminded him how #I AM NOT OKAY (I PROMISE)

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moonsvillain · 2 months

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have been toying with the idea of an au wherein shen jiu, after burning down the qiu household and running away, comes across xie lian rather than wu yanzi poaching him immediately afterwards:

i'd imagine in this verse he runs away to town rather than immediately being found in the aftermath of what he's done. at this point, shen jiu would be too paranoid to consider reaching out for directions to cang qiong mountain even if he wanted to make it there: what if they knew what he did? or figured it out if he did know? (if he even had the mind to think of these things through his panic)

he doesn't want to end up begging on the streets again, though—too alike his childhood and last time he was in that position, shen jiu ended up with the qius in the first place

so he takes refuge in temples that he comes across, stealing food when he can before moving to a different part of the rather large town he's ended up in so there's no clear pattern of when he shows up at whichever food stall

despite not holding that same respect and unwavering belief in gods (how could he, after everything he's gone through? shouldn't they have stepped in, sometime? what god would let him suffer as he did, separating him from the only person he loved?) he knows better than to try them, and begrudgingly thanks them for the shelter (because this he did appreciate, at the very least, if nothing else)

winter hits hard when it does, and shen jiu, after spending so many years in the qiu household, forgot how the cold seeps into your skin and bones without solid walls to keep out the frigid breeze.

he quickly falls ill with nothing to protect him from the elements but his threadbare clothing, and when he grows ill, he becomes slow. shen jiu nearly gets caught stealing, running away before he can be dragged to a town guard for his offence, but earning himself a nasty wound to his leg as he retreated

sickness + the cold + the wound leave him weak and wanting: missing qi-ge, reminiscing on nights where they'd curl up together for warmth, still cold but not alone, the two of them steady against the storm that raged on ahead of them

fever-ridden and teetering close to death, shen jiu wanders into a temple late at night and sinks to his knees, falling to his side, heart-rate slowing. in his delirium, he misses the figure taking shelter from the storm in the corner, watching him

shen jiu wakes up (he doesn't expect to), warm while he hears the wind whistle. he's still in that temple from earlier, but it's considerably... cozier. a small fire warms the inside and his clothes aren't as damp against his cold skin. his fever's broken, too—he doesn't know how long it's been, but he's glad he didn't die: never realized that he wanted to live until he was close to forfeiting his right to

here is where he meets his accidental saviour: xie lian stood over a slowly bubbling pot of stew that smells heavenly to shen jiu—he'd eat just about anything at this point, starved

his immediate distrust of xie lian stops him from being truly excited about his appearance

their relationship is veryyy shaky at the very beginning: shen jiu refuses to trust him and xie lian refuses to abandon this strange child he found on the verge of death

(there's a strange sort of bond built up when you nurse someone back to life, dragging them away from the brink of death and xie lian isn't interested, but he's curious about this kid who stumbled into his temple at the dead of night on a midnight in winter)

shen jiu's torn between distrust and this desire for company he didn't know he possessed; after being alone with no one but the qiu household [before he went on his massacre] he didn't realized how much he wanted to share space with someone who wasn't actively hurting him until he was afforded the opportunity to experience non-violent company with xie lian

his distrust slowly declines when he finds out that xie lian is a cultivator. despite being arguably too old to learn cultivation to the fullest extent he could have if he started a few years earlier, he still desperately wants to learn

xie lian, perceptive as ever, slowly starts teaching him bits and pieces of the basics, teaches him to meditate, takes care to keep his distance when it looks like shen jiu's getting overwhelmed

shen jiu can't help but get attached. he hates it

shen jiu decides to test xie lian before resigning himself to this

he was snappy, impatient, and argued with xie lian, when he came over, one day, waiting for some form of punishment to come, bristling like a spooked cat.

nothing came of his experiment but a slight frown from xie lian, which made shen jiu feel almost bad—xie lian almost reminded him of qi-ge, which made him feel doubly bad because he desperately wants to find him

shen jiu came to xie lian the next day with a pastry [that he stole] as an apology. and a request:

"teach me how to cultivate so i can be a disciple at the cang qiong sect"

xie lian agrees easily enough: he's been around shen jiu to see that despite the late start, he has potential to be great [especially untouched by wu yanzi and his twisted form of cultivation]

shen jiu throws himself into his studies, working himself to the bone

xie lian is concerned by this and after trying to soften the load of his work doesn't make shen jiu slow down, he becomes stern: warns him against trying to chase too much frivolously

this leads to a breakdown of sorts—where shen jiu gets angry, dismissive, before becoming upset. the average emotional depth of a teenager but, like, 4 times worse because of the circumstances

xie lian coaxes the story out of shen jiu here; qi-ge [the first time he's mentioned aloud by name], the qiu household [only the barest of details. shen jiu refuses to dwell], and the night shen jiu made qi-ge leave, as well as qi-ge's promise to come back

shen jiu finishes by telling xie lian he needs to make it back to qi-ge, needs to see if he's still alive, he's been selfish for sticking around as long

shen jiu tells xie lian that he needs to figure out as much as he can, as fast as he can, so he can leave and make his way to cang qiong mountain with some sort of base knowledge to make it in. and that he's not sorry for pushing himself because he doesn't have time

xie lian is quiet for a while

puts a comforting hand on shen jiu's shoulder and tells him he understands; he knows someone who would do anything to make it back to the one they loved, understands the pain that comes when time and distance separates the two

however, xie lian tells him, he can't let shen jiu push himself. he'll only stunt his progress by hurting himself rather than speed things up

shen jiu is ready to argue again before xie lian offers to make the trip with him

shen jiu doesn't believe it at first—who would bother with helping him for this long if they weren't getting anything out of it? he already found this hard to believe, let alone the fact that xie lian would drop everything to travel with him for weeks on end

xie lian doesn't shake in his resolve, though. shen jiu figures out he's being serious and wants to argue, but he's just—relieved

so many people have stood as roadblocks on his path back to qi-ge; xie lian might be the first person actively trying to help them

it almost reignites hope in him; someone other than him believes in them. someone other than shen jiu thinks they'll make it back to each other and succeed in reuniting. xie lian's faith in him is like a gust of wind beneath his wings

he agrees to their road trip

[xie lian makes sure to tell his beloved he'll be away for a while]

[shen jiu doesn't notice that xie lian buys steamed buns off the same stranger in nearly every town they stop by for a night of rest in the following few weeks]

[xie lian notices, years later, when shen qingqiu doesn't recognize him upon their first meeting in decades. shen yuan doesn't know xie lian, but xie lian knows this isn't shen jiu, anymore]

#i've had this idea in my head for a few months now #only just finding the time to write everything out #i'll write this on ao3 eventually! trust me i will i promise just need to defeat exams first #hua cheng stalking xie lian w a forced smile on his face: who the hell is this fraud and why is he stealing my husbands attention #xie lian with a happy lil smile: theyre just like us san lang he's learning cultivation to find and protect his beloved isnt it so wonderfu #hua cheng letting go of the steamed bun smushed to pieces in his hand: ah yeah sounds great. sooo cute gege. come home soon. Please. ^_^#xie lian meeting shen jiu: what a lovely young man #shen jiu half feral and armed with the worst attitude known to man: who the hell is this fraud #svsss #tgcf #mxtx #shen jiu #shen qingqiu #xie lian #hua cheng #svsss au #svsss fanfiction #scum villain #scum villain self saving system #the scum villain's self saving system #heaven official's blessing

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daphnalia · 3 months

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found this in my drafts from march 2023, are the dndadders still alive

#dndads #dungeons and daddies #taylor swift #taylor swift dndads #lincoln li wilson #scary marlowe #dndads s2 #dndads season 2 #theyre so silly #and normal being left out as always #also!! apparently ive got an erin o neil draft as well thta im debatikf posting #we'll see #and uhm. sorry ive been gone??#im probably not coming back so i wont promise anything😭#i still love this podcast but i just dont really feel like posting about it anymore?🤷‍♀️🤷‍♀️ i feel like a lot of u migjt agree

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krissis-averted · 8 months

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and present time, as an even bigger treat.

#meow art #link fanart #lu fanart #lu time #lu time fanart #this mf istg #havent had time for actual paintings but theyre coming i promise

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gentil-minou · 9 months

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Wei Wuxian: Hey Lan Zhan, is there a limit to how many kids we can adopt?

Lan Wangji, currently buried under a pile of children trying to climb his shoulders while 5 more run around the Jingshi behind him: I do not understand the question.

Wei Wuxian: You're right, forget I ask.

#currently thinking about wangxian adopting every orphan they come across and losing my mind a bit thanks #of all the mxtx couples theyre the best parents and i just want to lie down and cry #growing many little children for sizhui to play with like wwx promised #hed be the best big brother ahhhhh i lose it #mdzs #mo dao zu shi #wangxian #wei wuxian #lan wangji #bushy writing

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junimoss · 4 months

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(shouting from the bottom of my dried up yaoi well) aromantic laios in qppship with chilchuck? anyone??

#theyre start out as fwb . and i think as things progress in the story and as chilchuck starts to respect him more they would be qpps idk #gee chilchuck how come ryoko kui lets you have a wife and a boytoy?#idk if i want to main tag this but #chilaios #for the fans....#im Not projecting I Promise 🤞#it talks

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kheprriverse · 2 months

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Did I ever tell y’all Tekoha has kids? Idr tbh but I'm doing that now lol

They’re twins; Tefke and Safiya!

More info in the tags ↓

#Tekoha (Kheprriverse)#rambling mood today #i decided on a whim to work on Tefke’s ref last night as an indulgent thing since ive been working on comic pages all week #and i havent given him or safiya any attention sicne i first designed them #theyre twins but theres no ‘whos gonna take over the throne when the time comes’#because twili just live an incredibly long time. so theyre both kinda doing their own thing #but the answer would be Safiya #Safiya is a researcher focusing on the relationship between tech and magic #Tefke went military mode and trains army recruits--much like his dad he doesnt have very good magic attunement and makes up for it in comba #tefke is also resident little guy #Tefke is gonna be the one with a little bit more spotlight tho coz of the current conflict but i promise Safiya will appear as well #i'll share their wips soon when theyre both done. but if yall wanna see Tefke early just lmk ig

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lindalofbroome · 4 months

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babe wake up new valentines jaslief just dropped

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the-meme-monarch · 7 months

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Imagine if after the fun gang battles strange someone Frisk and convinces them to stop fighting or whatever Ralsei is like. hi um haha i just wanted to say you seem like a lovely person who’s been through a lot, really, but you’re also kind of, um, under arrest? again you seem just delightful, just truly dandy, and I’d like to help you however I can, but you’re also kind of a menace who has made several people go insane so, sorry, um, yeah. i’m taking you to castle town prison, but there are nice things there too! it’s not all bad!

JEHEJAHHDAJ WAIT now I'm thinking. would frisk try to use this as an opportunity to Reform spades king or considering their track record of how them "helping" people turned out would ralsei try to keep them separated

#strange someone frisk #wait also consider. since time evidently passes the same as in the light world ralse #ralsei makes them Promise to come back tomorrow to. go back to jail. bc he doesnt want people to think theyre Missing in the light world #kris and susie are like. hey are you For Real.#but then frisk comes back the next day and every day to Go To Jail. happily #every day spades king is like 'oh son a bitch not That One again'#anyway good worming #MORNING. worming. how did i even get w in there

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axolotlclown · 8 months

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I'm gonna be honest, that aimsey response isn't enough for me. It comes off as deflecting rather than taking the responsibility of having a large platform requires. This rhetoric hurts real people, and as usual these days, trans people are always the center of it. I am very tired of pretending that this rhetoric has anything to do with lesbian spaces. It doesn't.

Who benefits from telling other people what they can or cannot identify as? Who benefits from explicit separation of communities? Who benefits from targeting and attacking fellow queer people?

Please think critically for a moment before regurgitating random opinions you find online. You do not know who made those posts.

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wackulart · 1 year

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Can I request Belos x male alchemist reader who works for Belos and then Belos finds out that he’s human and they grow close 👨‍❤️‍💋‍👨 it’s based of my silly oc I love your writing so much

-Z

Thank you Z!! Hope I can do justice for your OC!

Belos x Male Human Alchemist!Reader

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Working for the Emperor was already quite the honour in itself, who wouldn't want to work for the messenger of the Titan?

Yet you didn't only work for the Emperor, you worked with him.

He frequented your lab often for classified work on his staff and the like. You had a lot of informative improvements to offer and occasionally you would advise him while he would add new features.

Your relationship had been strictly professional.

..Most of the time.

If you didn't count the nights that you two would spend laughing over a scout's mission that had gone wrong in the funniest way possible. The mornings were he would stumble into your lab, clearly not ready to start the day and you would have a drink prepared for him to help wake him.

Then yes, professionalism.

It was nice and would continue to be as long as no one found out about your secret.

There was no easy to disguise your humanity, you had tried illusions and concealing stones but the effects were temporary at best.

Yet you had finally been able to manage by hiding your ears with accessories and clothing. No one seemed to be asking questions so you continued to disguise yourself without issue.

Of course, things never go as planned do they?

Certainly not for you, perhaps the Titan had some vendetta against you that you didn't know about?

You try to recreate Titan's blood one time-

Regardless, you had another issue at hand as the Emperor had been sitting at your lab table way earlier in the morning than you had expected and you did not have your ears hidden.

You both remained in a long silence before you broke it with a yelp as your hands flew to your ears.

"You-" The Emperor stood from his seat. "You're a human."

With no clue what to do, you turn to run back towards the door in hopes of at least stalling the situation. You could hear Belos calling out to you as you shut the door to your room. It had been connected to the lab for convenience, but now you were beginning to see the problems with having both being so close.

Your mind was racing with ways to explain yourself, maybe you could say that it was a prank, maybe you could say it was a side effect of your work or maybe--

"Are you alright?" His voice came from the other side of the door and you froze.

After a sigh, you forced out a reply. "I- Yeah."

How were you supposed to address that?

You fell quiet so he tried to continue on. "Are you really human?" He asked again with a tone in his voice that you couldn't place.

The silence should have been telling enough but clearly he wanted a straight answer so you told him. You told him that you were a human and that you had been trying to hide it for so long, you didn't think that you would have slipped up like this.

You could have sworn you had heard a sigh of relief before he knocked on the door. "May I come in?"

With hesitation, you unlocked the door and he stood in front of you with a gentle smile. His hand lifted your chin to face him since you hadn't been able to make eye contact, worried about his reaction.

"Oh my dear.. we have much to discuss, you and I." Belos had looked at you with such adoration it had caught you completely off guard.

He took your hands and led you out to the lab to sit with him.

Things had changed drastically when he found out you were human and he told you that he was too.

Instead of Belos-- or now that he told you it was Philip, he would show up almost every day. Sometimes it was for improvements and other times it was just to see you.

He would bring you breakfast and just sit, talking with you. You wondered if he knew that you noticed the longing stares he would give you.

You were professionals, even when you had both fallen asleep on the couch in your room with your arms wrapped around eachother.

It was strictly professional.

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k1rameki · 3 months

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me and my beloved @alex-dontknow were busy doodling on whiteboard together and here are some of my many many doodlies feat the entity ladies (amora and nikusa), tabi, agoti, aldryx and ayana >:3

@beans2cheese @appallinnballin (hello appa i hear you enjoy my entity humns so have the ladies plus everyones favourite brothers)

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themoonking · 1 year

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when people bring up the racism, homophobia, transphobia, romanticization of domestic abuse / rape / pedophilia / incest, literal actual written porn of literal actual real life flesh and blood children, et cetera et cetera on archive of our own, one of the ao3 stannies’ main defenses is “you can just filter out the tags if you don’t want to see that!” when that defense has no fucking legs to stand on.

ao3 is not an archive, it is barely even a website: a rant <3 (very long)

ignoring the fact that it’s a problem that all of that is permitted on the site in the first place (i guess child porn and racism are fine, and the people who allow it on their platform are fine, as long as i, personally, do not see it), that defense literally means nothing. it’s assuming that every little thing on ao3 is tagged properly and it absolutely is not, and if you think it is you are dumber than rocks. i mean for fuck’s sake, just touching on archive warnings and not tags, “creator chose not to use archive warnings” is literally a valid option for fic authors to use when it should fucking not be.

if someone is a freak who thinks that pedo shit is hot, they might not tag it as “rape” (archive warnings OR tags). i’ve literally seen underage father/son rape porn with no trigger warning tags but “child abuse if you squint”. IF YOU SQUINT. if someone thinks that domestic abuse is actually cool and sexy when attractive people do it, they might not tag it as “abuse”. if someone is a freak who likes incest, but bends over backwards to justify it by only shipping adopted family members, then they tell themselves that they don’t view it as incest, and might not tag it as “incest”. if someone is a racist, a homophobe, a transphobe, et cetera and they wrote bigotry into their fic (or else wrote a deliberate troll fic to trigger people on purpose), do you really think they’re going to tag it as racism / homophobia / transphobia / et cetera? and some people get kicks out of writing purposefully triggering content and either leaving it untagged or mistagging it so that people will read it unsuspectingly.

even for just general content tags, it’s a mess. people just forget to tag things all the time. people deliberately won’t tag the endgame ship of their fic because “it’s a spoiler heehee”. people use the romantic or sexual “x / y” tag instead of the platonic or otherwise “x & y” tag, sometimes by mistake sometimes on purpose. it’s a joked about issue how people will tag characters or ships that appear in their fic for two sentences.

there’s no standardization of tags, which is a pretty obvious problem. what first comes to mind is the “dead dove: do not eat” tag which should just not be a tag at all because it just has no meaning. depending on the individual fic writer using it, it could mean anything from “literally the most sickening and depraved thing you’ve ever read in your life” to “horror w/ gore”. but it applies to other vague tags too - different fic writers will have different ideas of what the tag means.

in addition to that, what is and isn’t made a filterable tag, what tags are made synonymous, et cetera, is entirely up to the whims of the site staff. as an example, if you’re trying to look for fanfiction of a singular animated disney movie, the infinite crossovers with other disney movies will not actually be counted as crossovers (which they are) because they’re classified as the “disney theatrical animated universe” (which isn’t a fucking thing), so you can’t filter them out the “exclude crossovers” way. if you try to filter out the fandom tag “disney theatrical animated universe”, it’ll show up with zero fics because that tag is synonymous with every disney animated film (regardless of if the fic author actually used the tag “disney theatrical animated universe” or not), thus also filtering out the one you actually wanted to find.

and do not get me fucking started on the “all media types tags”, which also just shouldn’t be a thing because it makes it fucking impossible to find the specific fics you’re looking for. some people use it in place of tagging a specific canon / adaptation when their fic very clearly draws from one specific canon / adaptation, and you can’t filter it out because it’s synonymous with every fandom tag under its umbrella.

as an example of the issues of both the “all media types” tag and mistagging in general: as a fan of the witcher books, it used to be a fucking ordeal to find fanfiction specifically for the books (post netflix show release). some show fans would, for whatever reason, tag their fics with the book fandom tag in addition to (or even in place of!!) the show fandom tag when their fics were unquestionably show-specific, meaning i could not simply search only in the book fandom tag. i could not simply filter out the show tag, because some show fans would, for whatever reason, tag as fucking “all media types”, when their fics were unquestionably show-specific. and alas, i could not filter out “all media types” and the show tag, so that i see only those fics which have been deliberately and exclusively tagged as the book, not only because as mentioned some show fans would tag their show fics with only the book tag, but also because the fucking all media types tag filters out the book tag as well, leaving me with zero fucking fics REGARDLESS of if the author actually used the “all media types” tag. now, thankfully, i’ve thankfully seen this issue in this specific fandom lessen, but it still occurs in other fandoms and i guarantee that it didn’t lessen in the witcher fandom because of any fixing of the site on the part of ao3 staff.

another common defense of ao3 freaks is that it’s an “archive”, and therefore can’t get rid of anything anyone posts, and disregarding the fact that that is not how archives fucking work, they don’t just allow anything and also ao3 DOES get rid of fics... when they say that they don’t like proshippers, apparently, archives have... you know... archivists. they have someone or a team of someones making sure that everything in the archive is *properly fucking categorized*. they have someone or multiple someones making sure that everything they recieve (1) belongs there and (2) is properly labeled and organized. same for libraries. meaning that if ao3 really were an archive and not a sub par fanfiction website, they’d have something like that in place. something as simple as a report button for fics with a review team that will see if something’s been mis- or untagged. they’d have some kind of standardization of tags (especially the warning / trigger tags) and have proper tagging enforced in some way. and then they could also do something like stop being spineless racists, queerphobes, and pedos have the barest minimum of content guidelines saying that you can’t post fucking hate speech.

if something is mistagged or untagged, the most you can do is leave a comment politely asking that the author fix the issue, and then hope and pray that they do that. and if that person thinks [insert form of abuse] is hot, or if they’re just straight up a bigot that wrote bigotry into their fics to be bigoted, or they’re a troll that gets kick out of deliberately traumatizing people by tricking them into reading their mis/untagged fics, they might not! AND if you see a major tagging issue on an orphaned work, or a work that has an inactive author / hasn’t been updated in forever, good fucking luck getting even a negative response.

you can’t permanently block tags (i mean even tumblr.hell has that), meaning that if you would like to search for fic without coming across something troubling, triggering, or just something you don’t like, you have to either (1) do a work around by having a bookmarked link for every fandom you’re in or every character you like with all of your tags already blocked, (2) download browser extensions that do the work for ao3 because they can’t be bothered themselves, or (3) input every individual tag every time you search ao3 and don’t forget that all of those options only fucking work at all when everything is tagged properly, and we’ve already established its not. you also can’t actually block people (you can only prevent them from commenting) meaning that if there’s a specific person you’d like to stay away from your fics or a specific fic author that you don’t like and would like to stop seeing their fics clogging up the tag, you’re out of luck (though for the latter you could insert “-[username]” into the “search within results” box, but then uh oh we’re right back around to having to input that every time or have a bookmark)

their archive warning system is shit. first of all it’s functionally useless because, as mentioned, “creator chose not to use archive warnings” is an option. what’s the fucking point of special required archive warnings if you’re going to allow people to opt out anyway. second of all, aside from “chose not to use warnings” and “no warnings apply”, the only warnings are “major character death”, “graphic depictions of violence”, “rape/non-con”, and “underage”. disregarding the fact that they shouldn’t be allowing porn of underage characters in the first place (but i’m talking to a brick wall on that issue) and that “non-con” (and “dub-con”) as terminology needs to die, it’s just fucking rape lets not use weasel words... this is a paltry list of possible warnings. there’s no official warnings for depictions of: domestic abuse, animal abuse, depictions of racism / homophobia / transphobia / et cetera, suicide, self harm, et cetera et cetera. and we return to the issue of standardization of tags. in your required archive warnings at very least, there should be a standardization of what these mean, but ao3′s own faq is just like “ehh... you decide. we’ll leave it up to you”. what qualifies as graphic depictions of violence? two people may write the same level of violence, but qualify “graphic” differently, and make different decisions regarding their warnings. and we also return to the issue of: if a freak doesn’t see something that is clearly rape as rape, they might not tag it as such.

this website gets a disgustingly large amount of money every year that it doesn’t fucking do anything with. it’s been over a decade and they’re still in fucking beta. features that would actually be useful, like an actual block system, don’t exist. they technically have a report system for abuse and harassment and such, but apparently what they qualify as abuse and harassment is fickle. ao3 defenders seem to be very proud of the legal work they do for fandom / fanfic authors, but they set aside a very small amount of the money they get every year for legal advocacy, and they actually use even less of that, because it’s not the early 2000s “anne rice hates fanfiction” era anymore - you aren’t going to get fucking sued for writing fanfiction in the first place. based on their own self-reported yearly cost of upkeep, they literally already have enough money to run the site as they are now for the next twenty years.

once again: ao3 is not an archive. it is not a library. it is barely a even a website.

#specifically a website run by freaks #who care more about ppl's 'fannish experience' than they do ppl of color abuse survivors and the real children ppl write p!rn of #anyway here's the rant i promised in the coming days since that one post #also i know people will come at me and say that dddne DOES have a meaning its a signal that the reader knows what theyre getting into #so cant be upset if it upsets them #or something along those lines #but (1) we've already well established that the reader very likely doesn't know what they're getting into #because a lot of the shit on ao3 is untagged or mistagged #and a lot of stuff with the dddne tag specifically isnt properly tagged because authors use dddne as a catch all #and just put that down instead of actually properly tagging their work #and as mentioned the authors that use it that way use it for literally anything that might make something uncomfortable #from the sickest shit there is to a little bit of gore #and you can say that those authors (who use it without also tagging what exactly they're talking about) are using the tag incorrectly #but oopsie! that then circles back around to (2) if someone is using a tag incorrectly there's no way to deal with that #other than a comment and a prayer #i speak #anti ao3 #anti archive of our own #fandom nonsense #my monologues

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