#can you block people on ao3?

[tciddaemina]

sort of hate people who leave negative stuff in the bookmarks of a fic tbh. like sure yeah you have no obligation to write anything, but if you are going to write something why the fuck would you make it a bland as list of all the things you disliked about the work

like bro, you could just keep it in your head. say it out loud even. write it on a post it note if you must. but like damn why the fuck would you ever write a laundry of your shitty little peeves somewhere that the author is able to see it. authors can and do browse peoples comments in the bookmarks of their works bc people sometimes leave really touching heartwarming stuff there

just like. jesus fuck. if you have nothing nice to say then youre honestly free to shut the fuck up and move on

#short #oh i suppose it was maybe alright #just fucking salty bc some asshole was like #*sips wine snootily* oh i suppose ot was fine but certainly nothing mindblowing of course #*squints at 110k of pure acts of service and glowing devotion* i see no romance here but maybe later #hmm i feel no connectoon between the characters at their first meeting i suppose the author cannot match canon #can you guess which fic im talking about? #bro why the fuck would you write this and leave it out there for me to see #also like fuck you a lot do you know how much fucking time goes into writing? #100k+ is not #bitch people call a 50k fic long #i just #urg #can you block people on ao3? #i literally just never want this person to be able to read one of my fics again #of if they do not be able to comment or write anything in their fucking bookmarks #like man i dont expect every person who reads a story to like it or to fall over themselves with compliments #but insulting a fic in a smarmy backhanded way of is just shitty #fuck that guy in particular #or girl #fuck them #no more fic for you #note in a box

[liquidstar]

look this site really is awful for ppl with OCD so i just wanna reassure anyone that you are not Tainted Forever for consuming a piece of media with questionable content. the fact that youre able to recognize it speaks to your critical thinking skills, which is good, certain depictions should be critiqued. but you dont need to ruminate on it to the point where you begin to feel guilty for simply witnessing gross or creepy writing choices. you dont have to vindicate yourself to the fictional tumblr discourser inside your head, saying that youre now a bad person bc you watched the wrong anime. your actual response to it still matters of course, but thats that and this is this. just seeing it is neutral, you didnt commit a thought crime. its literally fine.

IF YOU ARE USING THIS POST TO ONLY FURTHER YOUR STUPID PEDANTIC BLACK-AND-WHITE DISCOURSE TO GET A "GOCHA" OVER THE OTHER SIDE YOU ARE THE PROBLEM. DON'T USE OUR DISORDER TO VINDICATE YOUR BEHAVIOR. THOUGHT CRIMES ARENT REAL BUT ACTIONS STILL MATTER. PEOPLE WITH OCD ARE CAPABLE OF THINKING CRITICALLY ABOUT OUR ACTIONS AND RESPONSES, EVEN WITH INTRUSIVE THOUGHTS AND RUMINATIONS. TREATING US AS IF WE CANNOT, ONLY TO FORCE US TO USE YOUR STRINGENT UNNUANCED DISCOURSE OPINIONS ABOUT "PURITY CULTURE" (TRIGGERING TO THOSE WITH OCD) AS THE ONLY REASONABLE GUIDE DOES MORE TO EXACERBATE OUR OBSESSIONS THAN HELP US. YOU ARE THE ISSUE AS WELL. YOU ARE ALSO THE TUMBLR DISCOURSER INSIDE OUR HEADS. DO NOT USE US FOR YOUR DISCOURSE. WE ARE PEOPLE, NOT HYPOTHETICALS TO USE TO EXPLAIN IF YOUR FROZEN INCEST FANFICTION IS OKAY OR NOT. TREATING US AS IF WE CANNOT AUTONOMOUSLY HAVE OUR OWN OPINIONS ON WHEN MEDIA IS TANGIBLY HARMFUL IS ABLEIST. FORCING US TO ABIDE BY YOUR IN-GROUP'S SET OF UNEQUIVOCAL MORALS IS ABLEIST. ACTING AS THOUGH THE ONLY SOLUTION FOR US IS MINDLESS MEDIA CONSUMPTION IN WHICH "EVERY DEPICTION OF XYZ, NO MATTER HOW POORLY DONE OR EXPLOITATIVE, IS ALWAYS OKAY AND IF YOU DISAGREE YOURE ACTUALLY AN EVIL 'ANTI'" IS ABLEIST. THOSE ARE THE SAME BLACK-AND-WHITE MORALS THAT SEND US INTO OBSESSIVE SPIKES, BUT FLIPPED. A SET OF MORALS IN WHICH QUESTIONING THE IMPACT OF A PIECE OF WORK MAKES YOU AN "EVIL CONSERVATIVE PURITAN "ANTI"" DOES NOT HELP MORAL OCD.

YOU ARE THE DAMN TUMBLR DISCOUERSERS MAKING THIS SHIT WORSE FOR US! YOURE THE EXACT SAME BUT WITH FLIPPED BUZZWORDS! YOU'RE MISSING THE WHOLE DAMN POINT!

#the fictional tumblr discourser inside your head is like the opposite of critical thinking its just extremes #blocking that helps you form better thoughts and come to a better understanding of why said content can be harmful in said depiction etc et #and to be clear shutting off all critical thoughts is not the solution either bc then you end up with.... Those People #the ones who jack off to lolicon on ao3 and think its the same artistically as lolita x_x #this post is not a vindication for that sort of thing. or say like actively supporting an openly bigoted series or author #those are different things because they are actual choices and actions. you chose to respond that way #thats what i mean when i say your actual response still matters. as in your actions surrounding it

[otrtbs]

i delete any hate comment on ahb! that i see bc i’m not the one except for the for the very first hate comment ever. which came directly after i uploaded the final chapters of that story. ironically, the person who left it was the first person to read the whole fic in its entirety (ouch! but i digress). i keep the little hate comment up as a relic. the first hater ever if you will. imagine there’s a gold frame around it.

#and now they bear the weight of standing in for every ahb! hater #every now and then someone will comment smth like #‘fuck you. u worthless person’ #and i’m like 🧍‍♀️ jesus what did i do now? #but it’s just them responding to my first ever hater #i blocked them on ao3 tho so they can’t comment on my fics lmfaooo but people can still reply to them 😭 #it makes me giggle #anyway ao3 user DARKRISE if ur out here on my blog on the tumblr-sphere what’s up? #lmaoo

[girlcalledwhatsername]

🍂This user is always happy to see ao3 surpass their donation goals btw.🍂

This user is glad to see publically-funded archives of all kinds and especially those with a history of standing against censorship, especially fully volunteer-run ones with artists generously sharing their works for free, especially well organised ones that I respect the hell out of.

#it's that time of the year where i block people for putting anti ao3 stuff on my dash and revealing themselves to be pro censorship #(oh oh sorry. pro censorship only when they can have final say on what does and doens't get censored because they're tootally leftist tho) #/s #anyway i am grateful to ao3 and to any artist sharing their works safely tagged and free to access #whether that be original works by amazing writers on here or fanworks on ao3 #and i respect ao3 for curating this space and having clear terms and such an organised system #and for the technicians and lawyers over at otw #love you guys ❤️ #ao3 #otw #fanfic

[ronancebyler]

why do people hate eddie so much?

like what he did to lucas was very very shitty. he acts all anti-conformist and then created this whole nerd vs jock mentality, but i kind of assumed it was because he was bullied by jocks so he has biases. i didn't think he was irredeemable because of it.

i need to know, im new in this fandom. what did he do?

same thing with steddie. why do people hate it so much? is it not just any ship that didnt have that much screentime but became weirdly popular? that's pretty commonplace in fandom culture. i dont see nearly as many people hating on buckingham (except for the people who hate noncanon ships but yk what i mean).

#eddie munson #not tagging this steddie bc i feel like people who can explain probably have steddie blocked #i dont like how it overshadows ronance but thats not really the ship or eddies fault mainly the tagging really #you guys 'minor ronance' is a tag that exists on ao3 additional tags pls use it #i have seen the best of queue and the worst of queue and i choose both #virgil shut up challenge

[drawnfamiliarfaces]

Since this is currently my most active blog with some followers, just wanted to say a few things:

It's so incredibly depressing to see tumblr sellout to the whole AI shit and try to pacify users by the opt-out toggle option when it mostly likely won't do jack shit. Tumblr has been doing shitty things for awhile now, but out of all old social media it was a last shabby bastion for various weirdos, including a fandom weirdo like me.

I'm just an old silly hobbyist artist who badly draws fanart of old cartoons, but even the idea that my stuff will help train AI to be better to stealing desirable art of actual artists, whose work is their livelyhood is fucking maddening. Opting out won't help (Sources say data is already available to companies). Deleting stuff won't help (tumblr have access to deleted blogs and reblogs put your stuff in reach too). Using Nightshade and Glaze is not a viable option for me (my old laptop's specks is not up to support those programs, and I'm too afraid to try and accidently fry it and than all my shit would be lost) and even those doesn't solve the problems of all of my old stuff across like 7 sideblogs+my old tumblr account's 2 blogs.

Of course, maybe all hope is not lost for tumblr. There may be solutions and decisions later down the line. But for now I probably won't be posting any new stuff for a bit while I decide if I want to stay on tumblr and be complicit in feeding the insidious and insatiable AI machines.

And as alternatives, I created new account for bluesky, and consider pillowfort and cohost to share my random silly art. Even dusted out my old tapas and newgrounds accounts, and consider webtoons and comicfury to post and archive my few comics. Hopefully I will share links in my pinned post when I set whatever I decide up, even if all of it is so exhausting and depressing.

And hey, if you read this so far - just a reminder:

Opt out on that 'share with third parties' toggle like explained here! - it may do jack shit, but its better than nothing.

Write a polite disagreeing feedback to staff like suggested on this post. - remember not all staff had a hand in this, so no need to be rude, but make sure to have your voice be heard.

Use Nightshade and Glaze to poison your art - if you are an artist and are able to do it unlike me. It may not be sure proof way to stop/kill AI, but it sure shows that artists will fight back.

Use ArtShield - an online lowtech alternative to Nightshade & Glaze, puts a stamp/watermark on your art, invisible to humans but supposedly makes AI think its unsuitable to train on. (edit)

And please, take a moment for yourself. Because it fucking sucks.

So, I'm gonna go take a step back and burrow into some hole and cry for all of those who AI fucks over. I won't be gone forever, but for now I'm too frustrated and dissapointed to do anything.

and ALSO just to be fucking clear

🇺🇦 I STAND WITH UKRAINE 🇺🇦

🇵🇸 FROM THE RIVER TO THE SEA, PALESTINE WILL BE FREE 🇵🇸

🏳️‍⚧️ TRANS RIGHTS ARE HUMAN RIGHTS 🏳️‍⚧️

🚫 AI CREATIONS ARE NOT ART🚫

fuck you shitty side tumblr I wish you all a fucking hammer car explosion

#[personal.] #i dont usually share my opinions on my fanart blogs i usually share my rage on my main but fuck it #i just wanted to let people know my fucking stance #because i spent all day in a daze and so fucking frustrated. I just got into fucking groove on tumblr posting #it was my one simple joy in this shit of the current world but tumblr had to poison all of it just like that #also just so you know if you disagree with any of the last four u can unfollow me or i can fucking block u. either way get out. #now im gonna crawl to AO3 to write my comfort drabbles for my immortal soul because i lost all motivation to draw

[moreclaypigeons]

No like seriously ARE we ready to talk about the misogyny in fandom spaces

#or more so like. the disparity. of depictions of men vs of women. i #and like. dear god. it's dire out here sometimes #um. anyway i dont say this to like invalidate anyone and i worry that by even saying this it feels terfy? #but its like no u can talk about misogyny while including trans people especially bc of the overlap. heterocissexism. is ghat a word #like . ugh i just. its never like an individual thing i have beef with u know #like if someone tends to prefer male characters or writing men loving men im never gonna shit on em yk #it just . bothers me how large of a trend it is #especially in comparison to f/f... #like jave u see the differences on ao4 #ao3* #or the differences in how people talk about men vs women here #obviously theres room outside that binary and i fucking hate it as it stands anyway but it does stand and we should talk about it. #like i dont think this is just a cis issue at all. we should also talk about how we talk about nonbinary or gender non conforming characters #but its also like can we be normal about women too. and not prioritize men always . um #hey guys . rambling in the tags is all to say. this post explicitly includes trans people. i will not tolerate any #transphobic rhetoric on any responses to it. you will be blocked. #sierra speaks #misogyny in fandom

[itsmeimcathy]

Maybe it's just me, maybe i'm just being an unsufferable old woman, but if I opened a book and the first pages were "trigger warnings" and "dicktionary" (list of chapters with smut to look for or avoid) i would simply NOT buy/read the book. How can you not find that cringe?? It's a book! For adults! Not a wattpad fanfiction of one directions buying teenagers!!!

#like the cringe really slapped me in the face #but what can you expect from booktok #won't even post that video because i blocked the account but i suppose it's not hard to fins #i mean... dicktionary?? really??? #not everything needs an essay of tags and triggers as if we're on ao3 i think #how can these people survive outside the internet? genuinely worried #just needed to be bitter for a moment and take this off my chest. ugh. anyway #text

[optiwashere]

For AO3 I always recommend muting users(since most people forget about it). Like I am going through the Shadowheart/Original Female Characters tag then I see the [REDACTED] ship there, I mute all those users, and voila I have a cleaner page where I can easily see the new stuff. It sucks you have to use it, and if the person you muted writes something you would like you will be missing it. But that usually doesn't happen and the peace of mind you will be getting from not having to scroll all those fics will be far worth it.

Oh absolutely, I liberally use the mute and block features! That's a good shout, anon 💜

They're my favorite thing on any site tbh, and I think more people should get used to curating their own spaces like this. It's good for everyone to just avoid the things you don't want to see, you know? I'm sure we all have that one ship we get tired of popping up, and the Shadowheart/Original Female Character tag is really rife with it in a terrible way sometimes.

Still don't understand how all the vampire boy/OC fics wound up there, but even so...

Can 100% concur with anon on this, mute is a blessed button and I heartily recommend it. You can find it on any author's profile/dashboard at the top right. I also use AO3 Savior to get more granular and block tags I don't want to see, and I've only good things to say about it.

#hey you can ask me things! #random fandom thoughts #and yeah it's just how things go - I'm fully aware that people mute me but that's their business lol #also to be clear: i only mute people on ao3 when they abuse ship tags tbh #ao3 savior blocks the tags I already don't want to see

[simplepotatofarmer]

when people come to me to complain that all my fics are basically the same it's like, sir, this is the 'c!rivals duo cuddle and heal together' blog, what were you expecting.

#i have one idea and i'm throwing it at everything and y'all can't stop me! #anyway. i'm glad you can block people on ao3 now don't make me turn on comment moderation #loyal talks about stuff and things

[awakefor48hours]

I hate proshippers, all proshippers should be banned from posting on the internet. That's why I support people who will get rid of them. The world will be a lot better without proshippers. Wait, what do you mean I can't post my tododeku fic?

#the tigers that eat faces will eat every face #i cant stress that enough #i understand not liking certain ships #but in public settings like ao3 or tumblr #it's your responsibility to avoid interacting with people who write/make art of ships you don't like #(the block button is your cute friend) #if you try to ban these people #you're putting rules/limitations on what types of relationships can be posted on these platforms #and they never stop where you want them to #sure you banned those people who write age gap relationships #but now you've opened up the floodgates #and made it easier to ban biracial relationships and/or gay ones #in a private setting however like a discord server #go nuts and ban anyone there who breaks the rules

[master-gatherer]

It's fascinating how in reaction to the crab day idea half my dashboard is like "Tumblr is awful do not give them one red cent let the motherfucker burn" and the other half is like "let's save the rec center 🙂"

#do crab day dont do crab day #itll be a nice boost to the site but like its been pointed out it wont completely solve tumblr's money woes #but also it is $3 for crabs #like... no one's asking you to drop big bucks on this #hell you can just say no #this is like how every year ao3 does their fundraiser and people come on to scream about how its a waste of money #and how you should be giving it to someone more worthy #as if those donation posts arent passing the same $5 around to get by #or when the importan blue checks came out #people spending $3 on crabs would probably spend that $3 on something equally dumb or not at all #sorry #just dont participate #and make plans to lift stakes when tumblr finally goes under/starts really sucking b/c theyre gonna keep doing shit like this #until they go under or turn a profit #thats capitalism #and even if we get our glorious communist revolution social media will probably not make it to the communes #locked it down since crab day originator found it and well its out that theyre a pro-life terf so 🤷 blocked #anyway congrats on reblogging a godless heathen #your idea was cute anyway #update: i had an idea and now its rebloggable again #fyi: i block hard 🙃

[oops-prow-did-it-again]

I am blocking on sight anyone that puts any fucking discourse over "moral" fiction or whatever the fuck on my dash. I have blocked 5 people in the last month. I don't care if I've been a mutual with you for years, if you engage in this kinda shit, especially on the side of believing that certain fiction shouldn't be allowed, then you are someone I have no respect for.

Unless someone is actually straight up committing a crime (I.E., posting *actual* photographs or videos of REAL LIFE PEOPLE, not fictional/drawn people, REAL PEOPLE, being harmed/sexually abused) I Do Not Care what other people read or write or watch or make. I Do Not Care. I do not trust anyone else's, especially on the piss on the poor website, to be able to determine if a text is "glorifying" something or if they are just uncomfortable with the subject as a whole. You people all suck at media comprehension and I am just flatly not interested. I keep seeing posts of people making good points and then people ripping them apart in the most bad faith possible. "Someone else's media consumption doesn't hurt you" "yes except for when abuse is portrayed as love, or-" no. shut the fuck up. You Missed The Point. You DO NOT KNOW, and you CAN NOT KNOW, why someone else wrote or created something nor can you know why anyone chose to engage with it. Also, sometimes the fucking point of a story is to portray something bad as good, to serve a narrative purpose. that doesn't mean the author thinks it IS.

I Do Not Care about icky feelings. If you can't tell fiction from reality, that's a you problem. Leave us writers/artists the fuck out of it. And if your knee-jerk reaction to this is "oh, you're just making excuses For The Freaks" you are part of the problem and I also have no respect for you.

FWIW, I am an abuse survivor and I find everyone's moral panic over shitty fanfiction stupid at best and upsetting at worst. You people freak out over fictional bad things happening to fictional people, to the point you waste the resources and time of people that actually hunt down predators by sending them loli fanart? You make me feel like you care about fictional people more than you care about the victims. Also, you'll be fucking fine if you hear about weird art or fic happening. Just don't fucking read it yourself. But knowing it exists won't fucking hurt you. You know what does hurt you? ACTUAL ABUSE. Like the kind so many of the creators you demonize go through, bc like I said before, you can't know why people make the art they make and you certainly can't know whether someone's a victim or not. And people shouldn't HAVE to disclose their victim status for you to make sure you're only attacking the "acceptable" people.

Maybe just don't fucking attack people over some fucking fanfiction or fanart. period. go the fuck outside.

You crave ruthless, vindictive justice more than you crave to help people. You are after the high of feeling good about putting people down, the "right" people.

And I Have No Respect For You.

#discourse #fanfiction #fic discourse #ao3 #ao3 discourse #Hopefully this is the only post I make about it #bc anyone that tries to argue with me is just getitng blocked and their comments removed #I Do Not Care. Make it easier on me so I can make sure I'm only interacting with adults that understand how fiction works #and to be blunt. I understand most of the people writing this shit are teenagers #and god forbid kids younger than that #and to that I say #why the hell are you in this discourse to begin with. stop looking up weird shit on ao3. stop talking to people online that talk to you #about kinky fanfic and fanart. them exposing you to this to rile you up is what's weird. #not people talking about it or doing it but that your online space is encouraging YOU as a child to do so #people should just be intelligent and not share certain shit with children but people are assholes and online is a hellscape #block anyone that constantly exposes you to outrageous fanart or fanfic just to show you how 'terrible' it is #especially if they're an adult! bc they should know better!! you shouldnt be worrying about this shit this young #Carving your own space on the internet goes two ways. Im not saying you can't DISLIKE weird fanfic or fanart. just don't make it everyone #else's problem. block tags #block users #and move on #and if you are over the age of 20 and you feel it is your moral duty to go on a crusade against shitty or dumb fanfic/fanart #maybe consider why that is. and maybe leave kids less than 15 years old the fuck out of it you fucking dipshit #What worries me is literal children contemplating if all the adults around them are fucking pedos. that's the bullshit mindset discourse #addled adults encourage and that's what makes MY blood boil #anyway Ill shut up now. Im just upset at having to block yet another mutual bc they reblogged stupid fic discourse shit

[thepapernautilus]

my ascended astarion hot take is that i am the type of person to write an ultimate bad end for my favorite "good" characters so I'm simply ecstatic larian did it for me and how!

I want to write him at his absolute best and absolute worst. I want to crawl inside his brain like a tadpole and map out every wrinkle.

(and as for everyone else writing him differently for different reasons: great! have so much fun! 💕)

#dare i tag this #ascended astarion #bg3 #and as for the “you are only allowed to write him as abusive & morally bankrupt” crowd #my ao3 bookmarks are largely unapologetic noncon/dubcon dead dove #people can write or depict him however they please #die mad about it! #i will block with very little provocation 💕 #for the record i don't feel like these things even need to be said #but its the entire goddamned tag and I'm sick to death of seeing it so #consider these rent-lowering gunshots

[byemizumikahago]

Mizumi deleted the AO3 version of her anti-komahina essay.

I can tell by cross-referencing it to other places where she posted the essay, like on reddit: https://www.reddit.com/r/danganronpa/comments/x80ksb/why_komahina_and_kamukoma_isnt_canon_and_never/

She first posted the essay in early September of 2022. However, as you can see in the screenshot, there is a large gap in-between other fics she posted, indicating either a long hiatus between posting, or the deletion of something that came out in-between it.

As of this point, I haven't been able to guess exactly why she deleted it. One answer I've come up with is that she finally listened to all the people telling her to stop posting in the komahina tag, but that's hard to believe, given how badly Mizumi still tries to defend that choice to this day.

But the AO3 version of the """essay""" isn't the thing I'm actually interested in. Rather, it's the comments ON the essay I wanted to see.

I made a post a while ago that contained screenshots of @officially-christy breaking off her friendship with mizumi. That conversation took place ON mizumi's ao3 essay, and now, with the essay deleted, it's no longer possible to actually SEE the comments themselves.

But that's not all. Mizumi made two posts on reddit, this one, and this one, about one or some of the comments she received on her ao3 essay. But now, tracking down the source of what she's talking about is practically impossible. Take for example, the second reddit post. A bingo card of all the insults she allegedly received on the essay. Without links or screenshots of these comments, how does she expect anyone to trust her and take her word seriously when she doesn't even have the sources to back up her claims?

Or with the first reddit post. How are we supposed to find that commenter's account and click on their profile to see if they're an actual person (cuz, yeah, some people in fandoms ARE crazy enough to fake having DID), OR just a sock-puppet/Mizumi's friend made for the express purpose of farming internet pity points? (especially since you can make a valid case for the commenter talking with the same speaking style as mizumi; same poor grammar and spelling, same feeling of superiority to others, etc.)

This is just one problem with mizumi; how willing she is to just... delete her old content, without bothering to back it up or archive it. It's such a waste, especially since it makes it impossible to actually track down and debunk/verify her claims of being "harassed and insulted" (Although, given mizumi's track-record, I highly doubt any of the people in the comment harassed/insulted her, and am more willing to believe it was the other way around, but, oh well, looks like we'll never know).

If anyone out there has a link to an archive of the ao3 version of the essay, comments and all, then please let me know so I can update you all on it.

And Mizumi, if you're reading this (I know you lurk on this blog), I'm only gonna say this once: if you actually want other people online to believe your claims of being harassed or whatever, then STOP DELETING THINGS THAT WILL ACTUALLY HELP YOU BACK UP SAID CLAIMS WITH SOURCES!

#mizumikahago #mizumi kahago #danganronpa #reddit link #ao3 link #link #ao3 fanfic #archive of our own #ao3 stuff #srsly I don't understand how are someone could be THIS stupid?! #this is the most blatant example of someone not realizing that once something is on the internet it's there forever #you cant just delete it like it never existed #it's always gonna crop back up #so what's even the point in TRYING to delete it?? #and yes mizumi one day people WILL ask you to back up your claims of being harassed #don't think you can just lie about everything forever #when the time comes and you have to defend youself and NO ONE will be there to back you up #you're gonna wish you hadn't deleted all the evidence #your friends are all slowly leaving you after they find out what a monster you are #christy and violetta already blocked you #eventually you'll have no one on your side to fight your battles for you #so best to stop deleting and start archiving instead now

[mishapen-dear]

I read that same fic earlier and I just straight up muted the person so their works don't show up for me anymore lmao

there was also another one like that posted yesterday because the person was mad at something qBad did a couple of days ago while not at all in his right mind and amnesiac, it was odd (not shitting on the person just confused and slightly concerned)

yeah there’s. a lot of misconceptions around qbad rn lmao. It’s one of the reasons Im so obnoxious about him, tbh, so that it’s not JUST the negativity that gets spread. He’s a really good target for the hate rn, because he has a smaller fanbase and his pvp playstyle + lore lead him to all that antagonizing during purgatory, and that gets vented out into fics.

It’s genuinely really interesting, the dichotomy that seems to exist between tumblr and twitter regarding him. Ive heard nothing but slander about bbh from twitter (again, he is not faking his illness, that is a lie), but he’s got a solid enough foothold on tumblr that ive seen more hate towards the fans that the cc, here. which makes sense, given how we take over the tag almost ever day when he logs on. genuine o7 to people who find that obnoxious but thats one of the reasons i overtag so much, for blocking purposes.

anyway i think all the bbh mischaracterization means that we just need to write about him more >:D please this is a call for more bbh centric fics from people who do not hate him/know a little bit about his lore. blease he’s such a fun pov to write i promise

#mishapen answers #discourse #<- discussion of it anyway #idk maybe people are spreading lies over here too but i block anyone who doesnt filter their neg/go out of their way to make bad faith #arguments. #i think ita REALLY interesting how seeing all the hate towards bad had me finding myself saltier towards other fans/creators too #so i can understand why these vent fics are being put out yknow sometimes its just really fun to hate a guy #but that’s what neg tags and bashing [character] tags on ao3 are for #on tw/itter where a lot of this gets spread you dont really. Have that #dont mind me ive just been ruminating on this a bunch the past two weeks #ive never been so active in a fandom where discourse had the opportunity to actually reach me #its been p interesting to observe how thats effected the way i say and clarify things #<- rhats the main point of my other post ig because if my gifter is someone who has been seeing nothing but bbh neg after bbh neg comes her #*here and sees me swooning about bbh’s ‘only egg protector’ and ‘no one helps him’ complexes Getting Worse during the end of purgatory #then they dont have the context that im doing so strictly for fun and not putting it on other characters/blaming them for not also swooning #we have media literacy in this house i promise #i would like more characters to have flaws and feel alone and commit incredible sins #anyway. excusez-moi im verbose when im tired and procrastinating #anonymous