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If you can vote for the election in AO3, do it and vote for someone who does not want to add censorship on one of the rare fanfic site we have where we can write EVERYTHING.

Please.

Hello, my fellow fanwork creators. Sorry to interrupt, but there's an important information you all should pay attention to.

In short, everyone who is eligible to vote for the election of OTW (they run AO3 and Fanlore), should vote against the candidate Tiffany G. If you have donated over 10$ to AO3 in the past year, you are eligible to vote for yourself, and for us, for every Archive of Our Own user, especially the creators in China. This is a very serious question.

In Tiffany's statement, they want to build a more strict censorship policy in AO3. They also talked about limiting the adult content so this website would "have a better image to public". And they said China banned AO3 because of "pedophilic content" but as a Chinese myself, we all know it's just because my country prohibits any sex-related website. So basically, if this Tiffany succeed to get a seat of OTW, AO3 will face more strict censorship, limited adult content, and for we, for Chinese users, the result would be more catastrophic.

Tiffany G also mentioned that they work in a governmental organisation in China. Just consider why a pro-censorship, fandom newbie(Tiffany said it themself), and government staff wants to run for the election of an organisation that is holistically against their agenda. In my personal worst imagination, once they got the seat, they will immediately pack all the information of Chinese users in AO3 and report them to the Government. The consequence will be horrible.

Please, vote for yourself, for us, and for the future of our favourite fanwork site. If you are not an eligible voter and you wanna do something, please let more people receive this information. Thank you.

Like when did we let this happen.

Yes, people can get uncomfortable all they want with something but bringing this weird moralism into fanfic is just so weird to me. Also the way they think of themselves as "not delusional" and "morally superior" simply because they click exclude on the enemies to lovers filter.

I think, in my best-faith reading, a lot of these people are young people just starting to discover what they want out of real world relationships, learning about more complex and adult understandings of abuse and consent, etc. And this is all a projection of those anxieties filtered through purity culture’s grip on social media.

Highly fictionalized scenarios like Enemies To Lovers have nothing to do with our frameworks for real world adult romantic and sexual relationships. Children have no business dictating like this to each other or other adults about adult relationships and what kind of fiction adults may enjoy. And adults should fully comprehend the differences between healthy real world relationship dynamics, the complexities of sexual fantasy (which can sometimes feature things that exist outside of those dynamics, ex.: “I want my partner to spank me in the bedroom, but they should never actually hit me on any part of my body out of real anger,”), and the excitement of fictional drama (drama is created by conflict, which inherently implies discord created by internal or external factors that impact the normalcy of a relationship).

Adults should know the differences between all of those things and engage with them with that comprehension guiding our actions. Only children have an excuse for not comprehending that, because they have minimal relationship experience and are still forming their moral and social frameworks.

Unless of course, those adults have some concerning an repressive agendas they are not disclosing.

Shipping 5 Years Ago: hey guys let’s just ship whatever the hell we want and leave each other alone about it all right? cool

HEY!

AO3 is in danger of becoming CENSORED. if you have donated $10 or more BEFORE june 30th, PLEASE exercise your right to vote (as you should have received an email to) and VOTE AGAINST TIFFANY GU, who is PRO-CENSORSHIP and PRO making AO3 “palatable” for outsiders and antis.

this is one of the few places dead dove writers/illustrators have to post our content, which is NOT illegal, immoral, or a threat to society. however, CENSORSHIP IS.

if you have the opportunity to vote, PLEASE TAKE IT.

I would like to add to this, even if you never wind up with any ‘problematic’ ships, and you only ever consume the most wholesome of content with 100% healthy relationships and explicit consent to sex that only happens offscreen…I hope your ships are hetero.

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discord call

podcast

documentary

radio and internet radio

music, from any source. without having to download it at all.

music you make on virtual pianos/etc

noteworthy news items (fireside esque, interviews, huge events)

stand-up comedy

rented or borrowed media

any other sound your pc can produce

and with a VCR you could do all of this AND have the visuals as well… but an audio cassette recorder is a good place to start, since they’re small and simple. I would not recommend a boombox, because those are large and nowadays all very, very bad quality.

Now you may be saying “how is any of this helpful, I want a digital file…” here’s the fucking magic. You go into Audacity (free program), and lie to it that the tape recorder is really a microphone. Then you hit record on Audacity, and hit play on the tape, and let it play at regular speed. Trim and export the digital file, and you’re doing gangbusters. You’re cooking with gas. You’re thinking with portals. You’ve won the internet.

Congratulations, you can “pirate”* anything you want, and literally no one can catch you, because you’re not downloading in the traditional sense. You’re streaming to an external device, and that device is recording what it receives. It’s exactly like taping a live tv show to a VHS. This is a very low-key and non-strenuous task for the computer, since your tape recorder does all the work.

So even if they find some way to encrypt the signal sent to the display so you can’t intercept it with a VCR or tape recorder (which would be exceedingly difficult if not impossible), at the end of the day you just can’t do anything about someone pointing a camera at the screen or a microphone at the speaker. Yo ho ho