I like stuffing gay turtle butts.

Fictional characters are objects.

Stop telling people to encourage the cop inside their head.

How you treat fictional characters, given they are entirely objects of fiction, does NOT necessarily speak to your own character, and you do not need to be "careful".

It is not dangerous to imagine dark things happening to fictional characters. It does not mean you are secretly a bad person. It does not mean you unconsciously want to hurt people in real life. It is not a "slippery slope" to doing bad things to people in real life. You cannot damage your brain or turn yourself into a bad person by consuming "dark" fanfic.

The author and the audience are both choosing to be there and can revoke their consent at any point by putting the book down. The characters are not real, they are not being asked to make a choice because they have no ability to choose, but you do and you can leave at any time, for any reason. In most cases you as the author or audience also have context that tells you things will turn out alright in the end, or a reason to think they shouldn’t for this character. All the real people involved can expect a satisfying ending, and are not at any point being kept captive in a situation that will harm them.

"that character is irredeemable" that's why I love them

Then I grew up and realised that all of that is bullshit. You don't just stop existing when you hit 20, and your interests and hobbies don't just suddenly vanish either. There's no magic switch that gets flicked. Being an 'adult' still means being a person, and a person is allowed to have interests no matter how old they are and no matter how 'childish' they might seem to other people.

Also, a wake-up to the young people just getting started in fandom--you don't own fandom. Fandom isn't for minors and has NEVER been only for minors, no matter what the subject matter of the fandom actually is. It's for EVERYONE to enjoy. You're not special.

Ship And Let Ship

Your Kink Is Not My Kink And That's Okay

Don't Like, Don't Read/Dead Dove: Do Not Eat

The Golden Rule - Treat others the way you wish to be treated.

Antis aren’t people who dislike a ship

Antis aren’t people who have notps

Antis aren’t people who only enjoy fluff

Antis aren’t people who discuss issues of social justice in fandom

Antis aren’t people who analyze and criticize problems in media

Antis aren’t people who point out racism or other forms of bigotry

The prompt list for Kinktober 2022 is here! As always, we will be creating an ao3 collection, closer to the event. Prompts are just suggestions; feel free to mix or match any days, shuffle the order, or even do your own ideas. The main point is that you get out there and create something in the month of October.

1, This is not a restriction that any writers in any other venue have to deal with, wtf, or the entire YA genre would be banished; 2, Excuse you, children of Tumblr, no one is thinking about you.

If other people in fandom are older than you, by definition, they have been your age. When fans write about younger characters, we’re not peering through a keyhole at young people now and creeping on them.

We are drawing on our own experiences, thoughts, feelings and memories of what it was like when we were that age.

No one has the right to ask older writers to cut themselves off from their own past just because young’uns don’t want to acknowledge that people in their 30s, 40s, 50s, 60s, 70s, 80s, 90s, all of them, were also young once. I’m 41, but I remember vividly what it was like to be 14. If I write a high school AU, it’s about my high school experience, even if I were to set it in the present day and decorate it with some (probably comically out of touch) Stuff The Kids Are Into Now. If I write a high school AU with sex, it’s because I remember that too! I’m not thinking about kids today, why would I– I have my own experiences to draw on. And honestly, sometimes there are things about being young that you don’t really understand until you’re much older and have some perspective– and that’s worth writing about.

1) We’re making them uncomfortable by writing teen characters

2) there are all these adult characters we should be writing about instead

3) they’re here for escapism and don’t like being reminded of ‘things like that’

To which it must be said:

1) if you’re uncomfortable, stop reading it. It’s not our job to babyproof fandom for you. It’s your job to recognize personal boundaries and protect yourself. Fandom is a shared space. Get used to it.

2) we write about the characters we find interesting, same way you do. Age has very little to do with that. I know you don’t believe me now, but I also know you’ll understand when you’re older.

That’s it, that’s the thing that gets me the most.

Here’s one small example that I recall from years ago: someone barely out of their teens raided an adult artist’s private account after gaining their trust, deliberately found adult erotica of animal characters, and shared it with other teenagers claiming it was to protect them and that the artist was dangerous. Then a bunch of these teens fabricated accusations, doxxed the artist, nearly got them fired, and began harassing, bullying, and threatening similar artists. The private art had been properly tagged. It would have had to have been a deliberate act with malicious intent to hack them, steal the art, and then expose it to minors. The bullies backpedaled when caught and decided to double down in the name of “it’s gross and making us uncomfortable so the artists deserve to die.”

That seems to be a trend: Threatening death and cartoonish physical harm to anyone who writes, reads, and even doesn’t mind sexual content, particularly if the characters are attractive to the antis themselves. “If I can’t have these fictional characters, nobody can” taken to a new level. They don’t seem to want to redirect their energy toward reporting actual predators, many of whom are in their own community.

Doxing, making accusations of pedophilia, making false statements to employers - anything with real world repercussions - is ILLEGAL. It is defamation, and if your target wanted to, they could have an attorney track you down and slap you and/or your parents/guardians with a lawsuit.

Because a lot (not all, but a lot) of the people behaving this way are underage, they may not understand what can happen to them. You do not have the anonymity of a site standing behind you if an attorney presents a court order demanding to know your real name.

Do NOT call yourself a TMNT fan if you think only one version of the turtles is valid and spend all of your energy trying to destroy other versions. It is absolutely okay not to like something. It is not okay to actively try and kill what others like.

I have been a fan of TMNT ever since they first came on the scene in comics waaaaaaay back in the ‘80′s. I have certainly loved some versions more than others, but I have never and will never hate on any of them. The diversity of universes keeps the franchise fresh and alive.