Dining on Turtle Spooge

It is not hard to link to your Tumblr or Twitter with a vague message like, “If you’re looking for my other works or other ways of supporting me, go here: link.” I have had people buy me coffees after enjoying my fic and asking where to support me. I threw up a link to my Tumblr and people cared enough to follow it. They were fully understanding when I explained in the comments that they could not commission me and I could not link them directly to any donation platform, but they could go to xyz link to read more. And they did! Nobody has to put AO3 directly on the firing line.

Go ahead and commission independently. Just do it anywhere else except on AO3. And then don’t come crying to the community when you, personally, get a C&D from a massive corporation.

AO3 is our bullet shield. Tumblr will pull your shit down. Wattpad won’t fucking protect you. LJ and FF.net already sold our asses for one (1) corn chip. AO3 is trying to protect us, you goddamn lemmings.

If you cannot follow the rules that protect fanspaces, you do not belong in our fanspaces.

1. Go to the main tag of the fandom, where I’ll sure you see lot of “no turtlecest” tags popped up by antis who are very willing to talk about “brotherly love” and all the horrible things they’d like to do to strangers

2. Go to the “Exclude” section of the page.

3. Look for the Rise of the TMNT tag with an X next to it. Click on the x, then sort and filter (yes, even if you’re a rottmnt-only fan. There’s nothing wrong with that, you can go back soon).

4. Look at the new tags. Notice right aware that Turtlecest is the most popular tag by far.

The thing antis won’t admit is that the anti-tcest movement is very recent, blooming only with the rottmnt era. Tcest is the bedrock of this fandom, back when we were all comfortable being freaks and weirdos without having to judge each other. 

Sure, it was far from perfect, and there were plenty of assholes–don’t let nostalgia blind you–but the vast majority of people were okay with tcest. And today, a shit ton of people still are. 

Most of the creators who’ve been here for a while, the ones who will be here long after most antis have ruined the experience for themselves and their friends, are okay with shipping. Please make sure to remember that.