dave🗑️

I’m happy to field questions about my opinions on site moderation, alternatives to AO3, and other issues with fandom, but the primary function of this blog is to provide a safe space for myself and other CSA survivors to trade information and express ourselves.

For this reason, I’ll be prioritising the ‘safe space’ aspect of this blog, and I’m not really interested in discoursing or debating with people who strongly disagree with my views. I am also largely inactive and may take a long time to answer any asks or comments.

EDIT: I’ve noticed that a lot of the critical anons and replies I get attempt to cover issues I’ve already gone over in the essay I used to launch this blog, and I would appreciate if you read the essay in question before making bold assumptions about my views.

I’ve included a few more links to longer posts I’ve made if you’re interested in the topics I’ve covered here:

“I’ve gotten a few questions about what I would like to change about AO3 culture.“

“Is it bad that I still use AO3?”

“There’s a post going around pro-ship tumblr that proudly proclaims that only 0.7% of works on AO3 qualify as CSEM”

Brandelyn Wiser/akumakawa warning post

Racism on AO3 and in fandom

It’s hard to exclude or blacklist triggering content on AO3

A few simple ideas on improving AO3

Thank you for your consideration,