DO NOT STOP TALKING ABOUT THE EPSTEIN FILES.
Does anyone else notice that no matter how many folks are posting about the Epstein files, it never trends on X?
Sex is normal
Nudity is normal
Being interested in sex is normal
Being not interested in sex is normal
Artistic nudity isnโt always sexual
Okay thanks I hate โpurity cultureโ๐
people nowadays would have PERISHED in old fandom. "don't like, don't read" was the rule, and anyone who tried to yuck people's yums was shamed right off the internet.
learn how to curate your feed. block, mute, filter tags on AO3, and most importantly DO NOT ENGAGE!!
Shipping is literally meant to be smashing Barbie dolls together and going insane over made-up scenarios with your friends, but everyone on here treats it like a goddamn civil war
We worked on the aang movie for years with the expectation thatโd weโd get to celebrate all of our hard work in theaters.. just to see
people unceremoniously leak the film and pass our shots around on twitter like candy.. (1/3)
๐ Archive of Our Own etiquette 101
ao3 has been under a lot of pressure lately. more users, more traffic, more reports, more confusion. which is great in one way because fandom is alive and people want stories, but it also means we all need to breathe and remember how the site actually works.
this is for everyone. old readers, new readers, writers, lurkers, people who just discovered fanfiction last week, and people who have been here since dial up.
let us talk about how to exist peacefully on ao3.