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Queue: you can’t follow a q with a e, you need a u in between. in french u gotta

Queue: the eu sound is actually not like how you say q at all, it’s a french e sound but it’s longer (also distinguishes from the word que)

Okay, here’s the problem.

You either have an Any Works Permitted fandom situation or you don’t. Because the moment you amend this statement to Any Works Permitted but,  what you are doing is placing on the field the weapon by which any reader, for any reason, can go after any author or fic that they don’t like. 

Whether the work in question actually violates the but  is not really in question. If you teach the kids that “these are the magic words you can say to make the thing you don’t like go away,” they will use them, over and over until any kind of inherent meaning becomes destroyed. 

That is what we got when we attempted to play “Any Works Permitted but  not the pedo stuff.” We got definitions of “pedo stuff” that distorted to include any two people with any age gap, any two people with a size or height difference, any two characters who are of an age group with each other  but the author  is of a different age group, any character who is a teacher with any character that has ever been a student – it went on. It still  goes on.

My argument is not that anyone who claims “this fic has this problematic element” is lying. Many fics do  have problems and many people pointing this out are quite justified in doing so. My argument is that there is no way to distinguish between people who make these objections in good faith and people who are weaponizing them against fics which are: for a pairing they don’t like. About a character they don’t like. Include  a character or pairing they don’t like. Written by or for a person they don’t like. Contain an element they don’t like (even if not the one ostensibly being objected to.) Made them feel a way they didn’t like.

When you have an Any Works Permitted fandom, you are going to get some stuff that is trouble. You are going to have some fans who do not, cannot feel welcome sharing a space where this content exists. I think that sucks, I really do. But the alternative is to have a fandom where any reader can, at any time, choose to go after and destroy any creator they don’t like. The alternative is to have a fandom where creators can be hounded out of the fandom, or off a social media platform entirely, because some people took a dislike to their stuff and had access to the Correct Magic Words. 

“WHAT THE FUCK STAY AWAY FROM THE ROCKS.”

it’s very, very American. While there are certainly antis who aren’t American, many of them are.

I have a lot of theories as to why this is, but a lot of them are covered in this post: anti-shipping as the cool new trend (while it’s mostly about the age bracket of anti-shippers as of June 2017 (this time last year), it’s an americentric post talking almost entirely about US phenomena).

tl;dr version? anti-shipping is:

the natural result of growing up both LGBT+/queer and marinated in American-flavored Puritan Christianity/purity culture 

with a side order of valuing safety over freedom 

b/c you’ve always had freedom of information 

but you’ve never known a sense of security 

thanks to lifelong internet access 

paired with post-9/11 paranoia.

add a dash of radical feminism/exclusionist thinking

never being taught how to think critically, and

zero education on sex of any kind, and

someone* added these tags to their reblog of this post, which, uh: this is literally the basic, standard fandom anti-shipper position on ships.

 Whether you call yourself an ‘anti’ or not, this is precisely what a fandom anti does: ‘throw down’ if they think someone’s ships are ‘abusive’, ‘pedophilia’, or ‘incest’ (generally with widely expanded definitions, hence the scare quotes).

it’s a pretty solid example of how this works, though:

tag op is 21: too young to remember a world before 9/11 happened or remember a world without internet access

tag op’s strong feelings about fictional ships suggests they flatten fiction and reality to equal levels of potential danger: classic black & white thinking structure that is strongly encouraged by American Protestant Christianity

tag op didn’t read this post with self-awareness and/or application of critical thought, much less click the link that the tl;dr list references

tag op feels justified in limiting other people’s freedom to use fictional ships to explore certain social/romantic/sexual dynamics, threatening to throw down over it.

this is because those social/romantic/sexual dynamics are not safe or healthy in real life.

even though ships are fictional, the safety of censorship is more important than freedom of expression or thought.

the concern is always about ships/sex fantasies: never violence/fantasies about harming others. this is the combined effect of purity culture and radical feminism in a society that glorifies and normalizes violence.

tag op will fight you for bad ships, because it is okay to fantasize about fighting people but not okay to fantasize about unhealthy fictional relationships

Anyway. 

I have a lot of sympathy for antis because I think their lives often set them up to favor censorship and abhor education-as-inoculation, but that doesn’t change the fact that they’re being jerks to fellow fans on the basis of assuming things about the core of their person because of what they ship.

fandom policing of this sort is assumptive, presumptive, and deeply damaging, both to the victims of anti-shipper cyberbullying and the anti-shippers themselves, who are encouraged in this abusive cycle hellhole behavior by emotional manipulation and coercion.

(I want to end this with a joke about how American this is, but assholes are everywhere tbh. Americans are just especially susceptible to the thinking patterns established by fandom antis at this precise moment in history because of the factors listed above.)

The overt, performative denunciation of Bad Content has become the “shibboleth” for modern fandom, as managed by the increasing influence of antis. Why is that every time one of these posts come around people so inescapably feel the need to add “but of course I don’t condone the pedo stuff” to their reblogs? Do they have reason to assume that pedophiles are so universal and normative that any reasonable person would assume they were, unless they explicitly state otherwise? Of course not – it’s a passcode. A performance of cultural acceptability.

And as the anti movement is hugely American, that means that the passcodes and rituals are also firmly based in American culture. Why all the focus on who is and isn’t eighteen? That’s the age of legal adulthood in America. There’s no magical transition in America where you go to bed on the eve of your 18th birthday an infant and wake up the next day magically transformed into an adult, any more than this same metamorphosis occurs at 16 in the UK, or at 20 in Japan. Concepts like the age of adulthood are entirely arbitrary and culturally defined – but the only acceptable metric, among antis, is the American one.

All the other Unacceptables are equally foggy as soon as you step outside the USA boundaries. Are relationships between adopted siblings considered incest? What about non-blood related people raised in the same creche? Childhood friends? Step-siblings? Classmates? Second or twice-removed cousins? Ancestors or descendants? Different cultures don’t all answer these things the same ways (nor is there any reason that they should,) and that murkiness provides plenty of foothold to launch an attack from, when someone else is shipping in a way that Just Doesn’t Seem Right to you.

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この頃は下総実装直後ということもあり ちょっとした一人リンボカーニバルでしたが 彼の活躍はまだこれからで、今は大事な時ですので 現在は新作落書きの公開は控えております。 彼の物語がひと段落したら、落書きを再開いたします。

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