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Obtio - [about to make a risky move]

Kakashi - be careful. There’s a lot that could go wrong here and you could get us all -

Team 7: Disaster team. Just a wreck. God, so dysfunctional. Went through 4 members and like a dozen teachers just to end up back with the og group. Why are they like this

InoShikaCho: Actual siblings. Constant squabbling and bickering but they always go out for dinner at the end of the day so. Protective older siblings except it's all of them. Always underestimated. They're bad bitches and you can't kill them

Team Kurenai: softtt. Supportive and a lil weird but they got good hearts and it shows. Therefore very scary when they're pissed. Kurenai is mom. Nobody fucks with mom.

naruto good

naruto bad

Aries: A young king who bears the weight of an impossible legacy. Evenings in the necropolis, quiet meditation on matters of state before the sarcophagus where his mother sleeps. 

Taurus: A bandit. A mercenary. A raider. He wears no crown and holds no keep, but make no mistake. These lands are his. 

Gemini: A philosopher king. Scholars sent to the corners of the earth. A library citadel built high in the mountains. A thirst to learn, to know. Whispers from the old step well. 

Cancer: Stories of war from the retainers. Starry-eyed and swelling with pride at the mural of his grandmother’s conquests. Foolish, short-lived dreams of imperial glory. A humble twilight.

Leo: The old temple sealed. No more orders from a supposed sleeping god. No longer shall the gods be hidden from his people. His husband in holy gold and blood, the new cult of the god-king.

Virgo: A queen determined to heal the scars of war. Dignitaries to the pale foreigners. A college, constructed on a barren rock in the strait between the empires. The Greatest of its kind.

Libra: A lineage of wealth and power. Courts and parties and marriage abandoned in favor of theorems and graphs.  Evenings on the veranda studying the stars with a childhood friend. 

Scorpio: A father who cut short so many royal bloodlines. An eldest son born with an ancient mark of kingship. A toddler on shaky legs, chatting to the birds and foxes in the garden.

Ophiuchus: The tomb of an ancient king, buried in seclusion, far from the royal valley. The wall of stories left blank. Hundreds of nameless sarcophagi of impossible sizes, all with strange feline features.  

Sagittarius: A simple life guiding traders across the dune seas. Though she does not know it, she is the last of an ancient bloodline. The sole inheritor to a legacy swallowed by the dust she fords.

Capricorn: A young princess. She spends her mornings in the great stone aviaries, tossing mice to the serpents as they warm their feathers in the morning light. 

Aquarius: The holy king to a kingdom in duress, supplicant to a supposed holy empire. All a farce. Secret stone temples. Wicker effigies of the old gods stalk the royal wood.

My primary reason for donating to AO3 is the value they have added to my fandom life. They work extremely hard to create a platform that is searchable, stable, and allows me to post and read fic. I have over a million words stored on their servers. I am happy to contribute a bit of rent for those servers.

I also fundamentally disagree with you.

I believe people should have a right to create and consume reprehensible media as long as it does not cause direct harm to other people. Child porn is evil and should not be allowed because a child was involved in the creation of it and that child is harmed in that creation. Someone writing about child porn is something I find disturbing but no child was involved in the creation of that writing and it is therefore not something that causes direct harm. I don’t want to read it but it isn’t my job to stop anyone from reading it.

If reading about child porn or slavery porn or visceral torture scenes harms you then you need to take responsibility for not reading it. AO3’s tagging system does more to make that possible than anything in mainstream media and for that we should all be thankful.

Some examples:

I like weird ass monster porn. Someone else might find that reprehensible and disgusting which is cool but them finding it gross doesn’t change anything for me.

You can disagree but in my opinion, the extensive tagging system on AO3 is a fantastic solution to reprehensible fiction. I can filter out the stuff I find reprehensible without having to police other people’s definitions.

Similarly, I find graphic depictions of rape and the emotional fallout of rape aftermath super disturbing to read. On AO3, I have the option to explicitly avoid that by using the tagging system. But I’m currently reading a novel where the main character was raped in his teens and it doesn’t come out until nearly 2/3 through the novel. I did not have a good time with that scene. AO3’s tagging ethos would have given me the chance to skip it or brace myself for it because I would have known going in.

Should I go off on a purity wank rant against the author because I don’t like that scene or that subject matter? Nope.

It is not his responsibility to police what I read. It’s mine.

It isn’t AO3’s job to police what you read either.

It’s on us to manage what we read.

I believe in their mission. I believe hosting reprehensible stuff doesn’t make you reprehensible and creating or consuming reprehensible stuff is sometimes a necessary part of processing your issues. And even if it isn’t, it isn’t my business.

My rights end where yours begin.

You have a right to not read porn. But I still have a right to create it. You have a right to avoid nasty stuff like slavery porn. But someone else still has a right to create it or read it.

Even if you and I agree about what is or isn’t horrible, we aren’t the boss of anyone else. We aren’t the purity police. I am glad to live in a physical country with freedom of creation and thought laws and I am not comfortable existing in digital spaces that are more restrictive. I’m glad I don’t live under a regime with purity police either online or in physical space.

Are you also launching a campaign against all of Penguin Publishing for the Captive Prince books? Or Random House for the childporny elements around Claudia and Mona in Anne Rice’s books? (The Mona sex scene bothered me so much I still remember it pretty vividly. I read those books as a teen and she was younger than me and explicitly screwing her cousin in her first scene and ugggggh).

Reprehensible fiction is all over the place.

Even more to the point, there is no perfect definition of “reprehensible” and so you must set that definition yourself and police it yourself.

You have to be responsible for the media you consume.