call me meow

You don't have to be a jerk about it. The most effective yet civil way of dealing with harmful "humor" is just pretending you don't get the joke and asking them to explain. "I don't get it, what's girl math? What's a girl dinner? What do you mean by you're just a girl? Can you explain the joke to me?"

If you don't care for another user's vibe or you really dislike a certain #shiptag, it is your responsibility to block the user and the tag.

You do not go into strangers' inboxes and bully, harass, or intimidate them about how they shouldn't be using the main fandom tag. That's toddler behavior. All of us, no matter what we ship, have a right to tag our posts and organize our blogs.

You are responsible for everything you see on Tumblr.

"Butbutbutbut this user doesn't tag their po—"

Block the user.

"This user ships something disgus—"

Block the user. And block the ship tag to remove the temptation to interact with it. Still interacting with things that upset you? Maybe it's time to talk to a parent or guardian about limiting your Internet access until you're mature enough to participate in online communities.

"Butbutbut I have to look at—"

No you don't. You literally don't. You are not a captive. Your eyelids are not held open. Tumblr gives you all the tools you need to prevent this. Use them.

"But I'm tired of crossovers showing up in my—"

Bock the crossover tags and filter for the offending fandom.

"But this person NEEDS to be run out of my fandom!"

sometimes I’m reminded that there are still people who don’t know ao3 was literally created by incest shippers — and the site’s sole purpose is to 1. be completely against censorship and 2. host all kinds of dark, taboo fics that are banned on other platforms — and the first ever fic that was posted on ao3 was a fic about an incest ship from supernatural.

you are in the house that was created by freaks. for freaks (affectionate). every disgusting thing you can think of is rightfully allowed and welcomed on ao3, because they are exactly the reasons why ao3 was created in the first place.

ao3 was created because its creators got tired of censorship, they got tired of dark and taboo fics getting banned on pro-censorship platforms, and they wanted a place that was safe for ALL FICS THAT WERE DARK AND TABOO.

ao3’s main principle is being against censorship and being proship / profic.

there are some things in fiction that make me uncomfortable, but instead of shaming people who are just minding their own business and not harming anyone in real life, I choose to curate my own internet experience by blocking/muting what I don’t want to see. ao3 has excellent tagging system, so instead of being a bitch, use their tagging system properly and you won’t see the things you don’t want to see.

it’s your job to curate what you see. it’s not other people’s jobs or responsibilities to censor themselves for your personal comfort. the world does not revolve around you.

also you cannot censor “only the things you personally hate” without expecting everything else, that isn’t of conservative beliefs, to be censored too. because censorship is a slippery slope and a fascist tool. I promise you there are people who think “why do tags for queer love even exist on ao3? they’re grooming children”.

if you allow the things that you hate to be censored — because someone with enough power gets to control what other people can and cannot create/consume, it will not stop at the things that you hate.

Phantom, frowning: I think I keep shorting Cyborg out. I don't know why, the rest of the tower seems to be fine, and he was fine up until recently! But suddenly everytime I'm around he runs away saying his systems are on the fritz! What if its my fault? Or I'm hurting him on accident?

Starfire, genuinely concerned: That is the serious problem.

Robin: Oh no...

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Beast Boy: Dude, you need to stop avoiding him, you're gonna make him think you hate him.

Cyborg, hanging out of his car engine: I know, but this is all new to me! I've never liked a guy before, at least not romantically, and we live together, I'm having a hard time coming to terms with it!

Beast Boy: Ah so that's how it is.

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