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I know I'm in the minority here but I only have so much sympathy for complaints about "fanonization." It's totally fine if you hate to read OOC fic, but at a certain point I'm like, look, these characters are just concepts, man, they're just our neurons firing. Fanonization just feels like a nonissue to me. So someone wants to write Leon Kennedy as a uke femboy bottom getting railed by big daddy Chris Redfield cause it gets their rocks off. There's bigger issues out there. "Why not just write an OC if you're gonna write the character totally OOC" cause named canon character gets more clicks than OC! And there's an audience for uke femboy bottom Leon Kennedy getting railed by big daddy Chris Redfield. No one's committing a sin by grabbing someone else's character and going "mine now." That's the point of fandom. Even if they make the dolls kiss in a way that annoys you, we're ALL making the dolls kiss.

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Avatar the last airbender was a cartoon I really enjoyed growing up. I now unfortunately because of its fans hate it and have an adverse reaction everytime I see anything about it. The fans are like those pretentious types that like the smell of their own farts and are hyper obsessed with canon adherence.

Have you guys ever had something you enjoyed be ruined for you by fan association?

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I’ve been casually looking in on the pro censorship vs pro fiction choice debates online for the past few years in fandom spaces and the disparaging of the pro fiction people used to be, ‘you’re an adult’ full stop but as the anti fiction choice people have gone from minors to early twenty somethings it has become ‘you’re in your LATE twenties/30s’ and it is genuinely so funny to me this really proves there was a weird cult movement around 2019 or 2020 and the kids who were indoctrinated but didn’t age out of it have doubled down in the funniest way because ofc it applies to them too so they have to move goalposts and reframe their talking points

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I feel very sorry for them. Even as in-denial as they are, the big three-oh is going to hit hard.

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I know this is the dumbest pet peeve any human being has ever sent to your inbox, but here it is: I cannot get myself to take the word 'diddled' seriously in a sex scene. It's to the point where it made me quit reading a fanfic because it kept coming up: "moaning, he diddled her pussy harder" "he diddled Veronica's cunt" "Veronica gasped as his fingers diddled her nipples" I just. I can't. I cannot take it seriously to the point where it becomes actively immersion-breaking. Setting aside that the only time I usually hear 'diddled' is referring to children and this woman is 42, I don't think I've actually heard it used in a serious manner in my entire life. It's exclusively a joke word.

I may have to plead ignorance on this one because US English vs. UK English vs. all other dialects are different. Maybe in the US diddled is sexual and raunchy and I'm just being immature by giggling when I read it. I am 100% aware that that might be the case. This is probably something that shouldn't be a dealbreaker. I feel like an immature twelve year old saying I'm bothered by the word.

But it's just so unsexy to me. I cannot convey the word's failures at being sexy accurately. It is to smut as krytonite is to Superman.

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In the US, 'diddled' is exactly what you think: a silly-sounding word and one often used specifically in the construction "kiddie diddler".

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For those who want the technical details.

A question for the AO3 veterans:

I came across a claim I've seen around before, that one can in fact give multiple kudos to a work — in that it will show up in the kudos email the author receives even if it doesn't show up on the fic. And now I'm very curious to know what the level of truth in this is.

Personally I'm skeptical, or at least I can't imagine it being an intended feature. But I'd love to be enlightened if anyone here knows more.

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I dimly remember a double kudos bug a long time ago. I doubt there's a persistent way to send multiple kudos under the same account in the kudos mail.

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Time for a return to ascii art masterpieces, clearly.

A question for the AO3 veterans:

I came across a claim I've seen around before, that one can in fact give multiple kudos to a work — in that it will show up in the kudos email the author receives even if it doesn't show up on the fic. And now I'm very curious to know what the level of truth in this is.

Personally I'm skeptical, or at least I can't imagine it being an intended feature. But I'd love to be enlightened if anyone here knows more.

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I dimly remember a double kudos bug a long time ago. I doubt there's a persistent way to send multiple kudos under the same account in the kudos mail.

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Cute!

A question for the AO3 veterans:

I came across a claim I've seen around before, that one can in fact give multiple kudos to a work — in that it will show up in the kudos email the author receives even if it doesn't show up on the fic. And now I'm very curious to know what the level of truth in this is.

Personally I'm skeptical, or at least I can't imagine it being an intended feature. But I'd love to be enlightened if anyone here knows more.

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I dimly remember a double kudos bug a long time ago. I doubt there's a persistent way to send multiple kudos under the same account in the kudos mail.

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Been in fandom since I was a middle schooler around 2005 and a big change I’ve noticed is the way that fanartists have become influencer like. I’m an artist and an avid fic reader and I always looked at fic writers with awe and love because they bring me so much inspiration to make art. I feel like now artists (maybe because of the youtube art community which is soooooo fucking toxic it’s not even funny) act like fic writers are supposed to be acting like influencers too so they look through their bookmarks the same way artists’ likes are searched to make sure they’re…idk brand safe? It’s all so backwards now.

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A question for the AO3 veterans:

I came across a claim I've seen around before, that one can in fact give multiple kudos to a work — in that it will show up in the kudos email the author receives even if it doesn't show up on the fic. And now I'm very curious to know what the level of truth in this is.

Personally I'm skeptical, or at least I can't imagine it being an intended feature. But I'd love to be enlightened if anyone here knows more.

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I dimly remember a double kudos bug a long time ago. I doubt there's a persistent way to send multiple kudos under the same account in the kudos mail.

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I joined a discord server focused on writing and discovered that it's only for people ages 15 to 28. That range exactly. I saw someone say in their intro that they'd leave the server this fall when they turn 29. Honestly I find it sad more than anything (and will probably not be sticking around for very long lol)

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Begging people to stop letting video essayists think for them. Especially if that's the only knowledge you have of that subject. And, if you are going to let video essayists think for you, please don't come up to people who have actual experience with the subject and pretend you know as much/more about the subject than the person you're talking to. I am so tired.

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I've been watching a fun debunking channel, and it's mostly great... but man... a couple of times I've been like "I know I read someone else's analysis of that, and this video's scriptwriter flubbed their research!" And that's a good channel with a high standard for research.

I'll vouch for the likes of Every Frame a Painting, but yeah, particularly for contentious social topics or any archaeology video that's more than 5 years old, you really need to look at more sources—and that's assuming you've found someone who's even remotely worth listening to in the first place.

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re pretentiousness I feel like if the two sides are at equal level of pretentiousness I'm gonna go with the side that actually understands at least a bit of what they're talking about.

The haters often sound like, say, Chris Stuckmann - they take the standard pop culture mold as the prototype that everything should adhere to, apply it to everything without understanding why a more experimental work may be built differently, and then explain how something doesn't follow the "rules of good plotting" or whatever in this really snooty voice as if they were experts.

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"I think people have trouble articulating why fic is not books because they’re used to thinking in terms of content, and they know perfectly well that Goodreads is full of content that might as well be from a fic."

Time to drop my pet peeve. There's lots of obnoxious discussions about why fanfic is just "different" and is "perfectly valid" without "being something it's not", i.e. being compared to books, but when people actually articulate why it feels different (it sure isn't quality! because published shit sure does exist out there), they end up just describing the effect of... word count.

Ohhh published novels are more "stimulating" and "give you more to think about"? When the average published novel is at least ten times longer than the average fic? You don't say.... *eyeroll*

The main difference between people who read mainly published fiction and people who mainly read fanfic isn't necessarily the level of originality in the work, or the quality, but the latter group will generally read a LOT more short stories! I find that super interesting, and nobody ever seems to talk about that.

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It is interesting because I usually dislike big publisher short stories, but I like shorter fanfic fine. Looking at the non-fanfic short works that I like, I think it probably has to do with how short content with a ton of outside context looks vs. short content that isn't leaning on something else. It's also because fandom is exponentially less likely to use that short length to end with a downer twist.

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This is a complete guess, but as an ace person that fantasises about sex (just not with real people) and considers myself a bottom, I wonder if the reason there seems to be so many more bottoms than tops is because if you've never had sex or don't have sex a lot, and you're AFAB, it's a lot easier to, I guess "try at" being a bottom? I guess you could buy a strap and a pocket pussy and attempt to fuck it. But the focus of being a top when you don't have the parts to fuck someone with your own body is more on "giving the other person pleasure," whereas the focus of being a bottom is more on receiving pleasure. When you're by yourself and don't have a partner to give pleasure to, by pegging, eating them out, fondling, etcetera, you don't have their reactions...it's easier to imagine yourself in the position of a bottom. It's easier to just fondle or fuck yourself. If I did have sex I might find I like topping! Who knows! But without a partner to please, it's easier to focus on MY half of the pleasure, because...there is no other half of the pleasure. It isn't pleasurable for me to IMAGINE fondling or pegging anyone. I don't have any actual reactions. If I did, it might be pleasurable. But I don't. I don't know if any of that makes any sense at all.

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Bisexual Woe, Legend of Korra Edition: Shipping Korra with a man makes her straight. Shipping Korra with any girl other than Asami means you're biphobic and playing into the stereotype of bi women sleeping around. Shipping Asami with anyone else means the same thing. Shipping Makorrasami means you're a filthy bigot fetishizer who thinks bi = threeways or polyamory. Bisexual means eternally devoted to one woman and one woman only.

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I feel like any "potatoes are for white eople and therefore bad" rhetoric is going to have either American classism or European xenophobia for undertones, even aside from the overt racism of taking potatos away from their South American origins.

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I found a fic tagged with hashtags, and the entire thing was ONE tag. #LikeThis#AllOnOne#ActualTagline#LikeThat

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