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Give me a fictional character and i will say:

Favorite thing about them:

Least favorite thing about them:

Three things i have in common with them:

Three things i don’t have in common with them:

Favorite line:

brOTP:

OTP:

nOTP:

Random Headcanon:

Unpopular Opinion:

Song i associate with them:

PS: I have an ask box. Don’t need to put the ask in the reblog.

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Because apparently it needs to be spelled out, I’m writing out some of the unwritten rules of AO3:

Don't like, don't read - you can have your own opinions but if you don't like it just scroll past, it's that easy. Let it be.

Read. The. Tags. - the tags are warnings of what the story will include. That is your guide. If there is something you're not comfortable with in the tags then scroll past. The AO3 tagging system is genius and lets you filter out the things you don’t like, so you don’t even have to see the stories you might not be comfortable with if you don’t want to. Use the tags.

Do not spread the stories outside of fandom spaces - fanfiction is for the fans. Especially when it’s RPF it is not to be referenced or brought up to the people who it is about. They are all very aware that it is made but that doesn’t mean they want to read it or know about it. I don’t care what you say, it is unavoidable and as long as it is not widespread and stays in its own space it is not harmful. It is up to the fans to respect that. (That being said if the people who the RPF fics are about search them up or reference fics themselves that’s a bit different and the rules change a bit.)

Respect the authors - the authors spend their own time writing stories, many of which are genuinely incredibly written and well thought out, for absolutely nothing in return. You get to read pieces of work for free by authors who are doing it for free. Do not go to the comments and complain or say they should have done something else or report because they wrote something you’re not comfortable with. And respect the authors wishes when they say not to share their work anywhere else.

Basically just respect fandom spaces, keep them separate from reality, and mind your own business. It’s so easy.

It seems that the First Lady outright wants Discord banned saying it doesn't do enough to protect children. This happened after a 13 year old killed herself after being encouraged by a Discord channel.

But as critics are saying, the stream wasn't even aired on Discord. It was an Instagram live that was also aired on Discord, but Discord became the main scapegoat, especially around frightened parents, and the discourse around it is so toxic.

Like, yeah, we need more government regulation, and children need to be more protected online, but what the government is proposing is almost akin to government surveillance.

Over all the world we are seeing more and more intense regulations that not only fail at their goal to take away social media companies impunity, but take away more and more people's rights to anonymity, and freedom of speech and freedom of expression.

Why do I have to give my iD to social media companies? Why do basic terms like murder, suicide, genocide, have to be constantly censored, even we talking about seriously topics? Why is nudity and sex content constantly censored even in sites that at least in theory shouldn't be available for minors? Why do I need to constantly censor myself just because of the vague hope that a child may be in places where they don't belong?

And I hate how this discourse is exposing people who aren't Left wing, just opportunists supporters of the current administration.

Right now the Brazilian government and its supporters are going "If you are against this, you are just a fascist and a right wing supporter" or that "Don't you care for children's safety", and honestly, this is such a disgusting way to silence opposition to a stupid idea.

Fuck Discord. Fuck social media companies. We need more regulations, of course, but this hysteric, government overreach, this insane censorship it's absurd.

The Left shouldn't embrace this type of rethotic

If you are between 13 (or the minimum age) and the age you legally become an adult where you live, you can only use Twitch if your parent or guardian is supervising you and agrees to this contract.

Sure, there's kids under 13 using it, and I'm sure the majority over 13 never have parental supervision. But that's because they have shitty parents. It's not Twitch's, or Discord's or Instagram's fault that you don't care about your kids. It's not their fault you are allowing your kids to expose themselves to harm and then acting accordingly. And it's not your kid's fault either, because they're a kid. It's yours.

This is a long rant

Mind you, the girl didn't kill herself just on Discord. She killed herself on a Instagram live that was also aired on Discord.

Why is this Discord's fault? Simple, because the whole thing became a moral panic and culture war issue and the government needed someone to blame, and it was easier to go after Discord than any of the large social media companies.

Now Janja, our first lady, wants to BAN Discord from the country. Not just fine them, or penalize them, but to BAN the app from the country. The current administration is arguing that Discord is just too dangerous for children and teenagers. Supporters of the current administration are going after people who were against the ban, calling them pedophilles and criminals. On social media they are calling all Discord users "pedophilles", "nazis", and "fascists" and that the app must be banned.

I had to read on big newspapers that according to analysts, cybersecurity, cyber anonymity, and freedom of expression were LESS IMPORTANT than protecting children and teenagers.

Meanwhile me, a tax paying, working adult, need to lose a platform I innocently use to hang out with friends, be treated by the governm as a criminal, and deal with stupid fear based legislation that ask me to give even more of my personal data to big data, just to "protect the children".

I'm not even against legislating social media companies or penalize Discord, but I feel like me and many other users are being unfarly penalize with a vague "Won't someone please think of the children" reason.

What kills me is the smugness and self-righteousness of the current administration. "We are right, we won't listen to you, and if you disagree with us, you're just a right winger."

Mind you, we will gone have national elections in just a few months. I'm a Leftist. I voted for Lula, our current president. I won't vote for some right wing just because Discord, especially since the current Right just want to sell Brazil to Trump. There's too much at stake. But I hate how a center-left administration, because even Lula himself told that he wasn't Left-wing, transformed a policy issue into a moral panic and a culture war issue, and then are acting like they have a moral hight ground and everyone that is againts the measure is evil.

Fuck, the right winger assholes are already propagadizing young people, saying the Lula administration took away what they liked dearly and is calling them pedophilles for simply speaking out against it. And technically it's true.

Why am I, a working adult need to be constantly penalized and censored because some asshole parents can't control their children online? We will loose even more of our online privacy rights just because some folks think setting up 1984 is easier than just paying attention to what their children are getting themselves into.

And what makes me more mad is that is not like we don't need a few more internet regulations. Currently we have bet sites sponsoring everything from Insta influencers, soccer teams, and even big network channels, and the Lula administration refuses to do anything about it. It's statistically proven that the Brazilian people are getting into collosal debts because of debts from bets. People are killing themselves because of it. Each week has a new report about it. But the government won't do anything because these bet sites movement a lot of money. And it's easier to go into a cynical "Protect the children" bullshit that won't challenge the big players and that will make a lot of firghtened parents feel better about themselves.

But the thing is... this happened long before social media. One of the girls I knew when I was eleven back in the 90s was bullied at school and ultimately took her own life. Sure, she didn't livestream the event, but only because the tools didn't exist at the time. And did her death cause an uproar? No, there was a single announcement at school and then that was it. Nobody took her death as a cause to do something about bullying, and it's self-evident that nobody has done that with this girl either - they want to ban Discord, not do something about the actual bullying.

Because that's the real issue: they don't give a flying fuck about the girl who is dead, they care about being confronted with her death. They want to go back to when she died alone and unobserved, discovered hours later and mourned privately. Banning the entire Internet won't stop more children from being bullied to the point of suicide, but getting rid of these livestreaming sites might keep the politicians from having to look at the result.

I will conclude with Eartha Kitt's message to another first lady, which was considered so 'shocking' that she ended up blacklisted and had her career significantly curtailed. There's not a single lie in it, nor a single rude word, but it confronted that first lady with the ugly truth of her husband's policies:

You send the best of this country off to be shot and maimed. They rebel in the streets. They will take pot, and they will get high. They don’t want to go to school, ’cause they’re going to be snatched off from their mothers to be shot in Vietnam.

The "think of the children" is obviously just to induce a moral panic. The "parents' rights" is a fig leaf-shaped dog whistle used to distract from the fact that this control is actually being taken by the government.