♱﹑ ⸝⸝Adair

Fandoms are made by and for weird nerds.

Fandoms are suposed to be weird, fandoms are suposed to be cringe, fandoms are suposed to be horny.

Fandoms are inherently proship, as in, "ship and let ship" always was basic fandom etiquette before the normie invasion.

Fandoms aren't suposed to follow canon, fandoms aren't suposed to be pure, clean, sanitized or marketable.

Fandoms are for self-shippers, bad cosplayers, rule 34, bad fanart, strange headcanons, crackships, darkships, edgy fanart, bad fandubs, bad ocs, AMVs, rps, askblogs, confession blogs, cringy memes, random gore, fucked up re-imaginings and most importantly fandoms are about FUN

I think we were a little too kind letting the normies in while they were bored out of their mind during quarantine, because now fandoms are being destroyed by puritans who don't understand what fandoms are to their core.

“you are disgusting,shipping two relatives together”MY BROTHER IN CHRIST THIS MADE ME HEAL AND ACCEPT MYSELF.

shame and taboo is what really kills you…

(sorry about my english,I’m a non-native speaker)

Tell your parents you like to harass people.

Tell your parents you like to tell people to kill themselves.

Tell your parents you like to tell people "you deserve your trauma"

Tell your parents you like to tell people "you deserve to be abused"

Tell your parents you like to tell people "you deserve to be raped"

Tell your parents you like to tell people "you should be abused"

Tell your parents you like to tell people "you should be raped"

Tell your parents you like to tell people "you deserve to burn in hell".

Tell your parents you like to tell people "go watch real CSEM instead of shipping a 'problematic' fictional couple"

Tell your parents you like to call people "monsters" for liking some fictional content.

Tell your parents you care more about fictional characters being shipped than you care about real people's emotions.

Tell your parents you care more about fanfic/fanarts of fictional characters than you care about actual real life problems.

being a proshipper isn’t exclusive to only “enjoying a ship that would have been morally unacceptable in real life”.

being a proshipper just means “being against online harassment”.

you can be a proshipper and be disgusted by some specific ships at the same time, as long as you don’t harass people who enjoy them.

being a proshipper literally just means you know how to scroll past / ignore / mute / block things that make you uncomfortable instead of “attacking people for enjoying these fictional things”.

It is OKAY to have content preferences and to be uncomfortable with certain ships or topics, controversial or not. It is OKAY to distance yourself from such content and block certain tags or creators.

Because AO3 is that site. Because AO3 was that site long before you decided AO3 was better than the sites you bullied us off of before, and I can promise you if someone somehow comes up with a fanfic site you like better specifically for the 'gross stuff' you'll try to bully us off that too so you can benefit from it.

AO3's specific core purpose is to preserve fanfiction, yes, but it was also instigated as a host site for the fanfiction that kept getting yeeted off other platforms like Wattpad. Its designed to preserve all fanfiction, not just the fanfiction you, personally, think is 'allowed' to be written.

AO3 is the site for all the gross stuff the freaks make. We've been there just as long as you. We've been funding it just as long as you have. AO3 has specifically said you have a place here. The timeline was literally:

Wattpad/FF.net/LiveJournal purge fanfics > AO3 is born > The people who's fics got purged moved over to AO3 > AO3 gains popularity as the best functioning site > The people who pushed for the fics to be purged off Wattpad move to AO3 > The same people try to push for AO3 to purge fics.