@ArcaneCheshire@xForest_Ghoulx Eeer i dont see how those two things correlate ? There’s a big difference between looking at your employer and being like “yo I like mpreg” vs 11 million people having access to the website that has mpreg. My original statement is just bout ao3 being hard to legally take down lol
@jasperl0ver calling original works ‘fanfictions’ when posted on sites like ao3 or wattpad has been around for 10+ years. I get what you’re trying to say, and technically you’re correct, but ppl like to use fanfiction as a shorthand to classify stories posted on these sites for simplicity
@nahiqdw When I was in middle school (like 9 years ago now omg), I remember believing my friend was transphobic for being Pan and I yelled at her for excluding trans ppl from their own gender. I was also transphobic myself so idk man I really don’t know
@lesmandkiss I think self shame has a role in it. When Wattpad purged their fics, a lot of wattpad only readers had to face the fact that they enjoy darker or taboo topics since ao3 proper tags them: step-siblings is gonna be tagged as incest, sexual coercion will be tagged as noncon, ect
@jpadlovely Ngl this Normie discussion both baffles and cracks me up. It’s not that serious, and yet everyone is acting like new fans are pure evil. Like people lacking social decorum is not new or unique to any one group — acting otherwise is just a slippery slope that only ends in division
@serpenteskin Companies have also started using shipping as a form of marketing as well, like HBO saw how big shipping became inbetween season 1 n 2 of the pit and started liking n releasing their own huckleberry edits. Like its in everyone’s best interest for ao3 to stay up lol
@KoharvDrmz It’s a term that originated from fans of yaoi mangas specifically, obv it’s been repurposed to including anyone who’s into mlm content as a whole. If you never left the shipping space back then, I’m not surprised you haven’t heard of it tbh
@theguywhatknows Me lol I do kudos and bookmark every fic I read, but I have no interest in talking about my hobbies to anyone. I just really like reading and collecting my own personal library T^T
@JankyBone Bro I’ve been trying to wrap my head around ppl saying how they don’t like it when a “reader fic is just an oc fic in disguise” like the author doesn’t know you? It HAS to be either an SI fic or an oc fic, like right ? Like does the reader insert just have to be really boring ??