I am consistently confused by people treating Archive of Our Own as a regular algorithmic social media site, to the point that they delete fics when they decide to move fandoms. Its your work to do what you want with, but why publish on an ARCHIVE with no intent of archival.
i yearn for a full length movie from the aita post where the straight guy is so concerned and worried hes homophobic to his roommate but grows to realise hes not homophobic hes jealous and wants to be the boy his rooommate likes
this boycott thing will never work until we LITERALLY make them see the money they give to hybe being used afterwards to build a b0mb and hit an innocent person in the middle east.
boycott hybe for EVERYTHING: from zionism to mistreatment
In 1948, James Peterson was lobotomized for being gay. His parents committed him after discovering his love for another man. The asylum labeled it "sexual perversion" and "treated" him with a transorbital lobotomy-ice picks hammered above his eye sockets into his frontal lobe. It took just 15 minutes, but it erased his vibrant, artistic spirit forever. The doctor assured his parents: "Your son's perversion is corrected." What returned was an empty shell. no desires, no passions, not even for life. Entry wounds above his eyes, a vacant stare where intelligence once shone.
The doctor notes: "Patient calm, no deviant interests. Success." But that "calm" was brain damage; the "success" was personality murder. James never painted, laughed, or loved again. He lived 46 more years in a group home, a hollow routine without preferences or joy, dying in 1994 at 74. His parents visited once, saw the void they'd created, and never came back. To them, a son who was nothing beat one who was gay. This event wasn't isolated. Churches offered their own brutal
"treatments" to "fix" homosexuality. In the 1970's, Brigham Young University (BYU), tied to the Mormon Church, subjected gay students to electroshock aversion therapy—zapping them while showing same-sex images, conditioning pain with desire.
Other faiths pushed exorcisms to cast out "demons," or intense prayer sessions claiming to pray away the gay, often leading to self-harm or suicide. These weren't cures; they were trauma disguised as salvation.
We've come far-conversion therapy is banned in many places, and love is increasingly celebrated. But remember James and countless others: their stories fuel our fight for dignity. No one should be "treated" for being themselves.
can tell y’all are new bc back in 2020 and 2021 the site would be taken down every time that one fucking Minecraft fic updated lying through your teeth making an ass of yourself
📚 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.
A 🧵of basically everything (guidelines, b0ycott lists, donations, etc) I could find to help support what's currently happening in west Asia.
If there is anything I missed or anything you'd like to add, I heavily encourage you to comment it here too.
no sé cuál de ustedes fue la que dijo que deberíamos estar preparadas porque es probable que ao3 deje de funcionar en cualquier momento por la antigüedad del sistema pero quiero que sepa que por su culpa me voy a ir dormir cagada de miedo porque sin ao3 yo ME MATO