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Okay.

I tick almost all your boxes. So how are you helping me? How are you fighting for my rights, my safety, my dignity or my freedom?

I am poor. How are you helping me? By encouraging me to prostitute myself. You're telling me it's a job like any other, better even, because I will be my own boss, be empowered and sexually liberated, if only I let men I don't know nor desire penetrate my body for money. For some reason it's not a job you are very keen on doing yourself. But it could be a great opportunity for me. That's it. That's all you are doing. You've never volunteered at your local food bank, you've never donated to a homeless shelter, oh but you know how I can get out of poverty. By letting men fuck me.

I'm disabled. How are you helping me? By drawing shitty cartoons of naked women in wheelchairs singing "all body types are beautiful". I don't give a damn about that. I care about getting a job despite my disabilities. I care about getting financial support to deal with my disabilities. I care about not being assaulted by men because of my disabilities. Meanwhile you're sharing photoshoots of amputees in lingery to prove we're all fuckable.

I'm bi and gender non conforming. I've been harassed and beaten for it. I've been called "sir" or a "dyke". I've struggled with dysphoria for the better part of my life. I need people to stop assuming femininity = womanhood in order to be safe. And how are you helping me? By calling me a que*r relentlessly, no matter how many times I ask you to stop. By telling me I'm not a real woman because I don't fit gender stereotypes. By claiming I have a male brain and people like me will probably end up committing suicide if we don't get injected with artificial hormones. By telling me I'm a bigot if I don't agree to date men, no matter how they identify.

I struggle with PTSD and depression, like a lot of women. How are you helping me? By sending me private messages telling me to commit suicide for the opinions I just shared. By cheering men on, when they send me graphic rape and death threats. It seems mentally ill women can actually go fuck themselves in your very inclusive feminism.

I'm often mistaken for an "arab", a "muslim", and treated accordingly. How are you fighting racism and helping me get equal opportunities and safety? By using people of colour as talking points on the internet. By waving them like props. By drawing shitty cartoons again and turning us into your token woc, putting words in our mouthes.. By calling basic worldwide feminism "white feminism". By calling feminists of colour "nazis". By calling ex muslim women who risk their lives speaking out "islamophobic". By claiming white men who use they/them pronouns are oppressed by us. By chanting that we should be hanged. By saying that if we allow black women to play sports with white women then surely we should accept men. By being completely ignorant about what happens in non western countries and not caring one bit because you're too busy advocating in favour of the most racist industry of all; pornography.

I have many friends who've been in the sex industry. I see how you treat them. Yes, I see how much you care for sex workers everyday. I see how you fight for their rights... by throwing your fists in their faces. When you beat them up at feminist protests for carrying a sign that says prostitution harms women. I see how central they are to your feminism, when you declare that what happened to them, what left them with PTSD and disabilities, should be legalized. When you call them "sluts" and "whores" against their will. When you intimidate them into keeping quiet. When you interrupt their lectures. When you shout "listen to sex workers!!!" only to turn your back on them the minute they don't say what you want them to say.

TL;DR: In which JoJo gets pissed at an anon who doesn’t know how to read: please reblog and like your favorite creators’ works. I emphasize on reblog, and it’s highly suggested that you make a side blog just for reblogging because no one would even know it’s you — that’s the beauty of the whole thing.

I’ll admit that it took me a whole day to figure out how to reply to your ask. I assume you’re referring to when I reblogged Lyssa’s ask about how few notes writers get nowadays. I absolutely adore the way you go head-first into sending an ask to my inbox; I have never gotten an ask this length before, so I applaud you for your audacity to send an award-winning length of an ask to my askbox. After seeing this ask, I only wish that my followers would be able to send me asks this length about my fics, but I guess I’m stuck with anons like you who are too cowardly to come out of your anonymous asking to stick with your opinion. 

Let’s not play the victim game here. From what I read, you said, “I mean, every time I see hate anon posted by a writer, I message them to make sure they're okay, but every time one of you posts something like that, I feel like it's just useless and yeah.”

I’m sure you are a wonderful person for checking up on the authors you follow only after they get hate anons. Do you know why hate anons affect us so badly? It’s because they always outnumber the positive asks we get in every way — in word count, emotion, and impact. 

The thing is, if you go to someone in the aftermath of something, you seem like you’re throwing them a pity party, and they’ll just look at you like why didn’t you come before this happened? because honestly and truly, you should have. You should have started commenting “I love this fic and everything about it” or “I enjoy your writing because of so-and-so” and reblogged our works long before it even happened.

I digress, but I hope you realize that you comforting someone in the aftermath of something shows how you’re willing to wait for the right moment when in reality, there is no such thing as the right moment. We cannot wait for something to happen and then say oh, this is our time because that’s selfish of you. 

Berating you is not the point here. I’m making a different point because you didn’t even read my reblog at all. I was not talking about hate anons; I was using it as an analogy for the fact that as readers, you only care about yourselves and never our writing. 

For example, you said, “You all make it sound like it's our fault Tumblr is going shit.” Let’s consider this, ignoring the grammar and punctuation inconsistencies in your statement. You chose to use a possessive plural adjective, showing how absolutely self-obsessed you are with yourself. “You all” shows informality and disrespect against writers all because you don’t care to understand or read the implications of my reblog. 

You have ignored every single part of my reblog: we want reblogs to signal boost our fics and everything. Likes don’t do much because the likers don’t share our writing. When you reblog, we have the chance for our fics to be seen elsewhere.

I discussed the reasoning behind why posts need likes and reblogs. If you look at the ratio in posts in this fandom, for every 1K likes, there are only 100 reblogs. It is quite a crappy number, and frankly, it doesn’t reflect what we deserve as a whole. Looking at your comment, I think you’ve overlooked the very fact that we don’t get money for this. Most of the time, we don’t even earn money for our work, and I’ve seen how many Ko-Fis some of the bigger writers in this fandom get — and it’s sparse. As writers, we deserve the recognition for the hard work we put into our writing. By reblogging, you give us a chance to be seen elsewhere; by liking, we remain unnoticed and unseen by others.

Hell, you could even make a side blog for reblogging every time you saw a fic you like, and no one would even notice or care to track you down — that’s how easy it is.

Why should you be intimidated, anon? That’s what you stated at the beginning of your ask, and I’m curious as to why. Are you intimidated by the truth? To hell with your “I'm not trying to argue” statement because it’s very evident that you’re trying to pick a fight with me the moment, and you knew that there would be backlash from me the moment you sent it to me through anonymous asking. 

Even at your end of the statement, you didn’t quite understand what I was trying to say: “Every time one of you posts something like that, I feel like it's just useless and yeah.” It’s not useless to comfort us, but if you continue to support us throughout our whole writing journey through asks, likes, and reblogs, that’s what makes it completely worth it to stay on this platform.

Ending this, I’ll remind all of you that reblogs and likes are essential for us to keep writing. Without them, lots of us will eventually disappear from Tumblr because of the fact that we can’t handle this lack of true support. I’ve been told by others that relationships take effort on both sides. Us writers have made the effort, but it’s up to the readers to meet that effort.

Please read this once more and reflect on what I’m trying to say.

“this is so fucking true, and i’m just so tired of this. you’re willing to spend time on hating people, sending them hate anons, when all we want are just nice anons who genuinely love our writing and comments reminding us that we’re not doing this for nothing, that someone out there has noticed us for who we are and what content we create. one day, you’ll complain about why there isn’t content for any of your fandoms, and this is why: all of you have your heads stuck up your asses because you didn’t even try to reblog or like any of our posts.”