AlienObserver - screaming in a house in the woods

Marion. Wannabe artist. Autistic Ghost. Love Star Wars, Star Trek, super heroes & animals, especially round ones. Also FATM stan. Pronouns: she/her.

[AlienObserver - screaming in a house in the woods @alienobserver21]

Btw I am an adult. And while I try my best to keep my twitter sfw I can't guarantee that this will always be the case, especially not when it comes to the language I use at times! Just so you know 😊

[AlienObserver - screaming in a house in the woods @alienobserver21]

@_Cavalierious_ Do These people truly never click on the authors name when they loved their fic to see if they wrote more that could interest them? 😭😭

[AlienObserver - screaming in a house in the woods @alienobserver21]

@spacephobos Hm sometimes I think I just am too attached to canon but I like Vulcans looking the way they do. 😅 and since we aren’t all bright red I am puzzled why people would think green blood would make you green 😂

[AlienObserver - screaming in a house in the woods @alienobserver21]

@HarshedMyVibe @spacephobos I do remember the olive tone (yikes about the way the makeup was called) but to go from this to green and stick to it and for many people doing it over and over? Just very odd. Especially as a hill to die on when learning it’s bad.

[AlienObserver - screaming in a house in the woods @alienobserver21]

@ca_gelphie I don’t know what kind of tags you usually see but I see stuff like “and they are dumb” “I love my weirdos” “they deserve a hug” etc etc and then eventually important things 10 tags down

[AlienObserver - screaming in a house in the woods @alienobserver21]

@ca_gelphie But I’m talking about those. And apparently we cannot because any restriction of even the most morally repugnant topic will lead to restriction of everything on your view. I said my thoughts and now I’m going to bed.

[AlienObserver - screaming in a house in the woods @alienobserver21]

@ca_gelphie So I get it, anything must go because we can’t fight homophobia and transphobia in any other way. Warning explicitly = censoring. Restricting access in any way = censoring. Any reflection upon content = must always lead to discrimination. It’s pointless to continue this.

[AlienObserver - screaming in a house in the woods @alienobserver21]

@ca_gelphie No, video games aren’t gonna make you violent but I think it’s fair to warn people before they play a video game that has the content to let’s say rape people that this could be triggering to play!

[AlienObserver - screaming in a house in the woods @alienobserver21]

@ca_gelphie I’m not saying written. I’m saying “please stay aware what you write be a bad thing to read for some people for logical reasons and so please focus your warning tags accordingly and maybe these sites should put more warning before people read it”

[AlienObserver - screaming in a house in the woods @alienobserver21]

@ca_gelphie And no, I’m not talking about triggering homophobes, don’t even take that into this direction. I beg you. Because then you sound like people I doubt you wanna be grouped with.

[AlienObserver - screaming in a house in the woods @alienobserver21]

@ca_gelphie No one is silencing anyone by kindly asking to think about people you might trigger.

[AlienObserver - screaming in a house in the woods @alienobserver21]

@ca_gelphie are you trying to argue that F/F and pedophilia and rape are comparable? Like are we really going there? 😂

[AlienObserver - screaming in a house in the woods @alienobserver21]

@ca_gelphie Fiction can affect those who read it. Period. Claiming anything else is just a defence mechanism by those who don’t want to think about potential effects their writing could have. Is fiction reality? No. Does fiction influence readers? Yes. It does. No question.

[AlienObserver - screaming in a house in the woods @alienobserver21]

@ca_gelphie If you first have to read through random tags that are half a chatroom of the author to find the relevant tag … that’s not user friendly.

[AlienObserver - screaming in a house in the woods @alienobserver21]

@ca_gelphie When I was having this discussion about a certain ship, what was being posted were torture artworks and stories that glorified handmaids tale AUs, and there I do think better warning should be a thing, sorry.

[AlienObserver - screaming in a house in the woods @alienobserver21]

@ca_gelphie I am not talking A\B\O … I’m talking about writing uncritically about a few things that are legit breaking the law and harm people for life if you actually did them outside of fiction.

[AlienObserver - screaming in a house in the woods @alienobserver21]

@ca_gelphie But it’s clear you are part of the group whose priority it is that people should post whatever they want and I’m in the group whose priority it is to ensure a safe user experience for everyone, not just writers of extreme type of stories.

[AlienObserver - screaming in a house in the woods @alienobserver21]

@ca_gelphie Everything should be user friendly. If you miss a tag among 25 that’s not on you, that’s a messy tagging system. Also imo there should be a default setting that stories with certain archive warnings don’t appear when searched unless you actively click that you wanna see them.

[AlienObserver - screaming in a house in the woods @alienobserver21]

@ca_gelphie So yes, I wish authors who write things that can clearly be triggering to people should be accepting of that and should also accept that more precautions could be taken for people not to accidentally read or even find their stories.

[AlienObserver - screaming in a house in the woods @alienobserver21]

@ca_gelphie I don’t know why in this discussion people keep jumping to “harass people” “demand this shouldn’t exist” er… I can’t demand things shouldn’t exist. However I can discuss whether how things are being done is good or not. And I do think people’s comfort matters always.