#burnbtds

let me tell you a thing about your fandom history. back in the good ol days of livejournal, strikethrough/boldthrough were a series of purges done on livejournal blogs and communities done out of a moral panic raised by a right-wing internet watchdog group. in fact, one of the main reasons behind the founding of the organisation for @transformativeworks and the archive of our own is because of this -- because fandom needed a space free from censorship.

fandom also left livejournal for this blue hellsite because of strikethrough and now, ten days before the 10 year anniversary of strikethrough, that entire shitlist wank has gone down in yoi fandom. 

anyway

i just wanna say i would be totally down to do something on the 29th. to commemorate the 10th anniversary of strikethrough, i suggest we all post a fic to ao3 that day that specifically features at least one of the shitlist criteria.

the Real Reasons why i’m on the shitlist:

maple syrup ice cream bashing

viktor nikiforov being a skin-stealing bag of dicks

commenting on viktor-victor wank and hug-or-kiss wank in the text of the fic

yuuri not returning for 4 months

yuuri being a bland mary sue and viktor being the manic pixie dream boyfriend

making readers despair for a happy ending

“not having a realistic grasp of human emotion”

and most definitely not

otabek and yurio making out in the back seats of the theatre (in chapter 6)

otabek and yurio holding hands in the library with the intent to use the stacks to make out (also in chapter 6)

otabek and yurio being banned from the library when seung-gil catches them making out in the stacks (this isn’t in the fic but @hannicanny and i definitely believe this happened. seung-gil and georgi meet to commiserate over otabek and yurio’s tendencies to make out at their places of work)

otabek winning yurio a stuffed tiger so big it wouldn’t fit on his bed (in chapter 7)

otabek and yurio keeping in touch after the summer and really getting to know each other as people (in chapter 8)

otabek and yurio sharing a bed over christmas (in chapter 9)

otabek and yurio reuniting the next summer to spend another summer being disgustingly cute together (in chapter 12)

I think the original intention for including mental illness on the list was because people tended to portray mental illness insensitively -- I know my friends and I have had many a salt about fics that portrayed things such as clinical depression, suicide ideation, and dissaociative identity disorder incorrectly. But the way the entire list was phrased meant that all the fics, no matter their angle on the portrayal of mental illness, were lumped together as “shit”, and therefore made sweeping generalisations about the contents of various fics based on what’s in the tags. 

It’s a shitty, generalising list that does not stop to critically examine the content of the fics it deems “shit”, which then leads to double standards when fics that do fit shitlist criteria in one way or another nevertheless still get recced on that blog. This is the problem with attempting to censor something broadly -- in the end it only comes down to one person generalising their personal tastes and utilising that to dictate the reading choices of many people. 

haha, there’s a set of anti blogs who are dedicated to promoting only ~ideologically pure~ (read: fics that cater to their specific likes which they take to be the only things Good and Pure) yuri on ice fanfiction and they think my fics are problematic because i often have background otayuri in them (and also i guess the princess diaries au was problematic too because it’s otayuri -shrug-), therefore i’m on the shitlist.