Hilarity's Shenanigans

Dont’ Like, Don’t Read

or DL; DR

You are responsible for curating your own online experience.

If something upsets you, makes you angry or queasy or triggers you, stop reading/looking at it. Avoid things that might make you feel that way.

Learn to use the Sort and Filter function on AO3, especially the Exclude tools.

On social media, block and mute accounts / tags / words when necessary.

If you hated something, you don’t need to tell that to the creator or start pointing fingers at them publicly.

The Back button is free. Use it.

Addendum:

Yes, for this to work, creators need to tag their works accordingly, so that people know what sort of content they are about to engage with and can nope out if necessary.

I will probably make another PSA about the importance of proper tagging later.

Ship And Let Ship

or SALS

You are allowed to ship whatever you want.

Everyone else is also allowed to ship whatever they want.

You are entitled to dislike or even hate a ship. If you want to do this online, in public, don’t use the ship tags for hate posts.

If you see someone posting about a ship they like and you don’t, there is no need for you to start arguing with them in their replies / comments / QRTs / reblogs. Don’t throw your hate in their face.

Do not harass fan creators or fans for shipping something you disapprove.

All of this also applies to liking / disliking an individual character.

Addendum:

”I agree with this, except when…”

No, then you are NOT agreeing with this.

Let me make this VERY clear. There are NO exceptions. None.

You don’t EVER harass real people over pixels.

If you disagree with this, kindly block and move on.

Your Kink Is Not My Kink

or YKINMK / YKINMKATO

The longer version is ”Your Kink Is Not My Kink And That’s Okay”.

People have different tastes. Not everything is for everybody.

Even if you don’t like a specific kink, other people are still allowed to use it in their creations.

You are entitled to dislike kinky content and think that it’s ”weird”.

Don’t kink shame or judge people based on their kinks.

This goes both ways: your kink is not someone else’s kink, so don’t push it onto those who are not into it.

Be Kind

or Don’t Be An Asshole

Focus on the things you like instead of the things you hate.

Create and unite instead of destroying and dividing.

Don’t harass real people over fictional things.

Stop stirring up petty drama just to get some attention on social media.

Stop trying to ”win”. Fandom is not a competition.

No one owes artists anything.

You will grab a buddy and make silly voices into your iPhone mic reading fake quotes like God intended.

You will imagine it in your brain and not have a way to share it with someone else except for badly explaining the concept like God intended.

You will write the self-insert fanfic with 9000 spelling and grammar errors like God intended.

I still don't know how to feel about this ship- HOWEVER! If you decide to make fan art, a story, or whatever! Please take this..

me and a friend have a very silly headcanon that star beings reproduce asexually using eggs. and since kerian was introduced and has flirted with lunar, i had the even more silly idea that he would use this to his advantage to try and manipulate lunar to be with him, with no regard that he brought a life into the world, meanwhile lunar is wondering how this even happened

a very kerian thing to do imho (even though he's only been in like. 3 videos i can sense he would do that)

/silly

Kerian could say that with the nature of his powers, he could reproduce 'with Lunar' through marking him, and using Lunar's whole thing of finding him kinda hot to manipulate Lunar into being his.

Unfortunately that would leave the child either with only One loving parent (despite enitially not wanting the kid, Lunar shows them love and affection. Further trapping him in the relationship) or even sadder, two parents that don't love them with only one trying to hide it (Kerian actively ignores the child, whereas Lunar treats them how he does the kids at the daycare)