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Good morning! I’m salty.

I think we, as a general community, need to start taking this little moment more seriously.

This, right here? This is asking for consent. It’s a legal necessity, yes, but it is also you, the reader, actively consenting to see adult content; and in doing so, saying that you are of an age to see it, and that you’re emotionally capable of handling it.

You find the content you find behind this warning disgusting, horrifying, upsetting, triggering? You consented. You said you could handle it, and you were able to back out at any time. You take responsibility for yourself when you click through this, and so long as the creator used warnings and tags correctly, you bear full responsibility for its impact on you.

“Children are going to lie about their age” is probably true, but that’s the problem of them and the people who are responsible for them, not the people that they lie to.

1) chosen to go onto AO3 in the first place

2) chosen the fandom you wish to read about

3) had the chance to filter for the things you do want to see like a specific pairing or a specific AU

4) had the chance to specifically filter out any tags you don’t want to see like, oh I don’t know, incest and non-con and dub-con and paedophilia

5) had the chance to set the rating level if you wish to remove any explicit content at all

6) have read the summary of the story, which aren’t always great but are the only indicator of what the story will be like writing wise so something about it was good enough for you to click on it.

7) have read the tags of the story which will tell you what is actually in the story. If you have used filters to remove stories with things you don’t want then there shouldn’t be anything in here that’s a shock to you but maybe there is. That’s why the tags are there for you to check for yourself.

8) Then you have to actually click on the story. You cannot see anything other than the summary or the tags without personally deciding that you are going to open and read this story.

9) Only here, at step number nine, do you get to the adult content warning pictured above. You have been through eight different steps, the last six of which have also been opportunities for you to see that this has adult content. And AO3 has *STILL* stopped you to ask one last time “are you sure you want to read this because it has things that only adults should see in it”.

If after this point you are reading incest and paedophilia then it’s probably because you specifically went looking for it.

Like let's be serious guys, we never saw her kill an innocent person, even when my friend saw the show he is not a fan of Arcane but he saw a lot of comments about it and I also urged him to watch it after all the excitement around it when I asked him about his opinion on the show and especially the character of Caitlyn he told me, he expected after all the posts and comments about her that she would go to Zaun and kill people with her gun he didn't expect that she just wears a costume that looks like a vampire and looks tough and mean, she would get this much hate. He even asked me why people don't talk or blame Ambessa isn't she the main reason behind most of the problems in this season and also Singed or even Silco and his allies?

I couldn't answer him except that people have double standards and are hypocrites because their criticism of Caitlyn's character is not because she did one bad thing but because she is from Piltover and an enforcer. I'm sure if Caitlyn was from Zaun and did worse things they would sympathize with her and love her, so their criticism is so hypocritical and has double standards. In short, their criticism of a character is not because she did bad things, but because of who she is and where she is from.

They forget that silco and his allies kills a lot of people and children, mainly people from the undercity, even kids and he was pay enforcers to kill anyone who opposed him. And in LOL have put a mini game on the clien and there you could find out that Silco use kids as lab rat to test the chem tanks.

If you're really mad at Caitlyn for her bad actions, so why do you sympathize with these criminals??

Btw, I'm glad Caitlyn took them down. They deserved it, for what they did to the Zaun people during Silco's 7 years of rule. He kills an entire family just to control Zaun and flooding an entire city with shimmer.

And I'm sure now someone will come and tell me that Caitlyn used the gas on all of Zaun and killed people with it. Seriously idiot where did you get this? Can you show me a picture from the show that people died because of grey, and if it's true then the characters must are talking about it, that Caitlyn uses grey to kill innocent people. So this claim is not true, we saw at the beginning of episode 3 how Caitlyn used the gas strategically and not randomly and Amanda confirmed that. So she used it to catch gangs there. Bc seriously, 5 people wouldn't go to catch hundreds of gang members that easily, and also if one of the people got hurt Ekko would have talked about it and we know that Ekko is the most loyal person to his people, so even Ekko himself didn't complain about using grey, he and Scar were talking about the gangs that were working with Silco, and they didn't care about gas, why? Because this gas didn't hurt them.

This is clear evidence. What more do you want? The writers confirmed and even in the art book, it is written that Caitlyn used it to take down the Chem-Barons goons and not to eliminate the Zaun people as some stupid claim.

Even if it hurt them and that using it was an evil act, why didn't you say this when Jinx used it on Piltover and injured innocent people, women and children, she didn't target enforcers for example, Jinx use the Grey randomly unlike Caitlyn, but is anyone talking about this? Of course not. And worse when I saw comments saying that Jinx should blow up Piltover again and eliminate the people of Piltover. Like some people have shown their true colors, that they don't care if a character did something bad or good, all they care about is who this character is.

And because Jinx is from Zaun and they have every right to do bad things, but Piltover doesn't even if they do good things they are still bad, what a shallow and ridiculous thinking. some Arcane fandom are probably the most stupid fandom nowadays, to them everyone from Zaun is a perfect angel who never do nothing wrong, everyone from Piltover is a monster with no feelings

The show is not black and white there is not one side is good and another side is bad, that only exists in Disney movies, go and watch it if you are this kind of boring and traditional storytelling.

Arcane proves every day that this show is not for everyone and if you want to enjoy it you have to open your mind well and be open-minded, and most importantly put politics and real life issues aside, and enjoy this fantasy world with flawed characters and good writing. (This show is not designed to solve political issues at the end of the day. It is a show based on a video game)

Martial Law can be declared by ANY government body. Martial Law can BECOME Fascism, but only if emergency powers aren’t released and is used to overthrow the government that put them there, or if there’s no governing body and they establish a Fascist regime.

Martial Law is only declared during civil or external war, civil unrest and collapse of civil government. Martial Law can be put in place when dealing with extreme natural disaster cases to provide humanitarian aid for instance.

Ambessa suggested Martial Law for her own ambitions, leading to her having Hextech and possibly a new nation. In Caitlyn and Piltover’s case, Martial Law was implemented to deal with a terrorist threat, which was Jinx and her supposed forces (Renni and her crew that attacked the memorial with Jinx style flares by Ambessa’s manipulations).

Fascism however is an ideology of extreme control. Militarism is very much a part of Fascism, but it’s used as only one method of that control. Propaganda, brainwashing and selective/tailored education are other methods used. Fascism is an ideal of CONFORMITY, to make sure everyone has a rigid and unswayable role in society. They have a place, and they will stay there and act that role. They must be heterosexual to provide future servants of the regime, they must be the same race as those in charge, and they must not have different beliefs from what the government believes in.

So it’s kind of hard for Caitlyn to be Fascist when she’s literally gay, mixed race, and a shown contrarian for starters.

You can look at how Piltover treats the Jinxers as Fascist, but the intent isn’t actually Fascist. Fascism disallows self expression, individuality and identity, and the Jinxer dressed like Jinx to show their support of her actions, and to show Piltover that they will never get Jinx. However, in the show, Piltover believes that Jinx has her supporters after Renni and her crew attacked the memorial. So the conclusion that Caitlyn and Piltover have drawn is that Jinx has chembarons working either with her, or working for her if she took over Silco’s position. And in Arcane, these chembarons have their crews, and their crews need a way to show who their affiliated with.

They dress similarly and unmistakably like their chembaron leaders. And that is a known fact to Caitlyn when she raided the chembaron HQs and factories.

So the logical conclusion that is made is “The Jinxers appeared after Renni the chembaron and her crew attacked the memorial. So Jinx needed her help to attack the memorial because she needed more people. Since then, Jinx has been gathering her forces, and they have become The Jinxers. The Jinxers need to be questioned, and if they attack, arrest them.”

So by detaining The Jinxers as accomplices of Jinx, the Zaunites are seeing Piltover as squashing their self expression in showing their support of Jinx. They see a fascist regime. However, the truth is Piltover genuinely believes that The Jinxers are working for Jinx, who very much has the power to lead the Chembarons and start a true revolutionary revolt against Piltover.

So long story short, Piltover acted within their reason for executing Martial Law: routing Jinx and her followers. They weren’t acting to suppress self-expression of civilians and take their freedom in an attempt to establish a Fascist regime.

People hate Fascism and for good reason. However if you don’t know the difference between Fascism and Martial Law, and you keep misleading people about what it means to be Fascist, you may be inadvertently redefining the word and that can cause further issues. It may incur panic if Martial Law is applied in your democratic country to deal with an extreme State of Emergency like a natural disaster. That could lead to misguided protests and subsequent arrests. But for now, it’s affecting your ability to understand the media you are watching, which CAUSES these debates online because people are quick to be angry, but have misunderstood what they’re watching.

Analyse first before you go about throwing out your genuine belief that a character is fascist when they’re hunting down a murderous terrorist that only has your favour because you’ve seen their tragic backstory. Also check your own biases before you post. I’ve said before, and I stand by it, that most people hate on Caitlyn because she’s rich and has the ability to enact revenge against someone who wronged her without recourse, unlike common people. People are also biased because they hate cops. Most of those people are American to be fair - their cops have caused many an issue. However, that doesn’t reflect the opinion on cops as a whole across the globe, and hating someone for their profession is, in my opinion, a weak reason to hate someone.

SO HERE IS THE WHOLE STORY (SO FAR).

I am on my knees begging you to reblog this post and to stop reblogging the original ones I sent out yesterday. This is the complete account with all the most recent info; the other one is just sending people down senselessly panicked avenues that no longer lead anywhere.

IN SHORT

Cliff Weitzman, CEO of Speechify and (aspiring?) voice actor, used AI to scrape thousands of popular, finished works off AO3 to list them on his own for-profit website and in his attached app. He did this without getting any kind of permission from the authors of said work or informing AO3. Obviously.

When fandom at large was made aware of his theft and started pushing back, Weitzman issued a non-apology on the original social media posts—using 

his dyslexia; 

his intent to implement a tip-system for the plagiarized authors; and 

a sudden willingness to take down the work of every author who saw my original social media posts and emailed him individually with a ‘valid’ claim,

as reasons we should allow him to continue monetizing fanwork for his own financial gain.

When we less-than-kindly refused, he took down his ‘apologies’ as well as his website (allegedly—it’s possible that our complaints to his web host, the deluge of emails he received or the unanticipated traffic brought it down, since there wasn’t any sort of official statement made about it), and when it came back up several hours later, all of the work formerly listed in the fan fiction category was no longer there. 

THE TAKEAWAYS

1. Cliff Weitzman (aka Ofek Weitzman) is a scumbag with no qualms about taking fanwork without permission, feeding it to AI and monetizing it for his own financial gain; 

2. Fandom can really get things done when it wants to, and 

3. Our fanworks appear to be hidden, but they’re NOT DELETED from Weitzman’s servers, and independently published, original works are still listed without the authors' permission. We need to hold this man responsible for his theft, keep an eye on both his current and future endeavors, and take action immediately when he crosses the line again. 

THE TIMELINE, THE DETAILS, THE SCREENSHOTS (behind the cut)

To prove something to a friend, please

REBLOG IF YOU THINK ASEXUALS BELONG IN LGBTQ+ SPACES