Go, Zodiac Rangers!

Team Rocket sapphic longfic (Jessie/Cassidy, Matori/Matori Matrix member). Rated T. 33/33 chapters posted. 170k. Now completed.

Summary: Once upon a time, Cassidy was an ambitious, dedicated Team Rocket member with Jessie as her beautiful partner and girlfriend. They tried to rise through the ranks but found progress slow, failing both to gain power and maintain their relationship. After a series of professional and personal breakdowns, Cassidy eventually left it all behind, not seeing any benefit for herself in continuing to go along with the organization's antics.

When Team Rocket's new micromanaging secretary Matori picks from an abandoned task, Cassidy finds herself drawn back in. Even if wanting to stay alone, connections to both the dangerous organization and an even more dangerous pokemon remain. And even if wanting to deny it, there's also been much left lingering with Jessie. I've been working on this for a while, posting chapters for almost a year, and the final part was just dropped today, giving the Team Rocket fandom a massive dose of sapphic goodness and awesome character focus in general. Expect not just romance, but humor, drama, action, lore.... There's a lot that went into this.

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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 rude, instead of asking why the world doesn’t revolve around your personal comfort, 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.

this and also the only difference between fanfic writers and writers who sell their own original works as careers is that fanfics aren’t monetized. that’s all.

being a “professional” writer doesn’t mean your works are inherently better than fanfics. I’ve read so many fics that are more professionally written than some published books.