@Kayleelmk@EGoldstein12345@wynrosei The men responding to this clearly shows why we have an “it’s all men” mindset. That mindset isn’t because we think all men will attack but it’s because all men could attack us, have the capability of attacking us, might attack us. We are never safe. Even when men say otherwise.
📚 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.
I've been reading fics for years and not even once did I find it difficult to avoid triggering content, so if you continue to repeatedly come across tropes that trigger you, I do think it is a You problem