"thought crimes aren't real" is free speech absolutism for the woke left i see
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"thought crimes aren't real" is free speech absolutism for the woke left i see

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i’m not the first person to say this and i won’t be the most eloquent to say it either but for all their posturing about how the “anti-ao3″ crowd are puritans or conservatives or whatever i personally have found “proshippers” to be much closer to right-wing (either conservative or neoliberal) in politics than myself and my peers
you complaining about that hug therapy fic by astolat is so fucking ridiculous. imagine clicking on a fic marked explicit and then crying when the explicit scenes come up. seriously what did you expect?!
you know what, i'm bored, so i'll actually answer this one at length
let's set the scene. i'm fourteen years old and i have just seen the avengers for the first time and am getting into fanfiction, which i hadn't read much of before.
i sort the avengers tag on ao3 by most read, so i can read all the popular ones. i avoid most of the nsfw works except the ones marked "crack" or "humour" or something because to be honest i was uncomfortable with straightforward porn at age fourteen but was okay with comedic or silly stuff.
also, being someone who first started reading on ff.net and shifted over to ao3, whether something is labelled as explicit isn't something i particularly cared about because those labels aren't accurately applied on ff.net.
i am consciously avoiding triggering topics like sexual assault because i don't want to read that, and i'm fourteen, and also because a close friend of mine had been assaulted as a child and this had ripple effects on me.
i am reading any ship including loki/thor (although i am now deeply uncomfortable with works featuring incest) because the fandom line at the time was that since loki was adopted, they weren't really brothers (very much untrue, by the way)
this is what the listing for Hug Therapy looks like:
the first half of this fic is a silly work about thor deciding he needs to hug loki no matter what because hugging it out is important.
the second half of this fic contains a violent sexual assault which, while tame by the standards of some of the horrific shit i've seen on ao3, was pretty upsetting to me as a kid.
i mentioned this in my essay not because it was nsfw or even because it was incest (although this fic does go out of its way to make it clear that thor and loki do regard each other as brothers, which i found upsetting but should have expected given that it is tagged) but because the sexual assault is untagged.
i was deliberately going out of my way to avoid works with sexual assault and one of the founders of ao3 didn't care enough about the tagging system to use it to help people use the website effectively. for a website that brags about how versatile and useful the tagging system is, i found this one moment a great illustration of the reality of ao3.
you can laugh at me for being a kid and being upset by being exposed to sexual assault in fiction if you like. but i guarantee you this happened to a lot more people than just me, and brushing it off does kinda make you look like a huge cunt
-Mod Daft
your post about how shit the ao3 tagging system is makes me think of the whole “dead dove don’t eat” thing that pro shippers love to shit out. “dead dove” implies any of the shit they make is accurately tagged at all, instead it’s more like if you think you’re eating a cake and you find out there’s a dead dove in it halfway through.
sometimes you're walking down the street when a dead dove is lobbed at you from a building window and all they do is smugly say you should have ducked
My apologies that I rarely answer asks on this blog. I do read every ask I get and I appreciate your words of support and empathise with the shitty things a lot of my followers have been through. It's just a little much for me to answer everything and I'll only usually answer if I have a specific point to make. Thanks for understanding
-Mod Daft

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I was reading your essay and saw the bit about getting revulsion to fucked up shit back and just felt like, "oh. oh my god i can DO that." Got some hope for my recovery from some shit! One of these days, I'm gonna be there too. I won't feel numbness or that it's par for the course, but that it's a really disgusting thing. Thanks for running this blog! I think it re-railed my train of thought into a better mindset.
It's definitely possible and I'm glad I can help! One thing that helped for me was going over what had numbed me to x thing (in some cases I could name specific fanfics I read that had this effect) and reevaluating it from a more objective outsider perspective. I wish you the best for your recovery.
-Mod Daft
I think the cruelest and most insidious thing I've seen while running this blog is the assertion that kids deserve what happen to them. This idea that kids who are too curious, or too scared to assert boundaries, or too precocious, deserve abuse online and they (or their parents) are the only people to blame, not the people who actually harmed them, and not the systems that facilitated this harm.
It's harmful, and it's victim-blaming, and you can have a conversation about internet safety or freedom of speech or whatever without implying that abused children deserved what happened to them.
what i’ve been saying for ages is that even if you leave aside rowling’s transphobia, the racism and antisemitism baked into the world of harry potter is awful, and people have been pointing this out for a long time
if you’re a white and/or goyish LGBT person who still stands by the harry potter books by citing death of the author, then i want you to really think about why a book series widely disliked by marginalised people for its discriminatory content regardless of its author still appeals to you