Guy wearing "I ❤️ Arson" Shirt: Let me redecorate your house.
Voters: Okay.
Voters, later: Oh, no, the house is on fire!
Firefighter: I can put it out but you need to kick out the arsonist guy.
Voters: Whatever! Do it!
Voters, later: Ew, the house smells like smoke!
Firefighter: Okay? It was on fire earlier. I'm still dealing with it.
Guy wearing "I ❤️ Arson and Killing Firefighters" Shirt: Let me back in and I'll fix the smoke issue.
Firefighter: Don't! He will literally set your house on fire again. He brought a whole crew with matches and cans of gasoline with him.
Voters: I'm pretty sure those are paint cans.
Firefighter: It says gasoline on the cans!
Voters: Get out, I'm gonna let the previous guy in.
WOMEN IN SUITS, I REPEAT WOMEN IN SUITS
sometimes i struggle with the fact that i actually may be a stone bottom, a pillow princess, never wanting to top or dom. im afraid i’ll never be seen as enough by any partner i have, that i’ll be labeled as lazy or selfish for not “reciprocating” in a way that’s expected. i’m scared that i’ll be treated differently for not being able to keep up with expectations or things i had said in the heat of the moment. what if i’m not enough? what if i can’t make you cum the way you make me cum? what if i can’t fulfill a desire you have? i don’t want to wear a strap, don’t want to be the one in control, i can’t be. i don’t want to disappoint but i can’t change the way my brain is wired, can’t change the desires i have that need to be understood too.
Need to have the stress n sadness fucked out of me RIGHT NOW.
the fact that lesbians can't cum inside each other is a damn crime
Strap from a lesbian who is going to tell you that they're gonna breed you and get you pregnant and they fuck you like they're trying to put a baby in you!
"Why can't the freaks on AO3 just go and make a site for all the gross stuff and leave AO3 alone."
Because AO3 is that site. Because AO3 was that site long before you decided AO3 was better than the sites you bullied us off of before, and I can promise you if someone somehow comes up with a fanfic site you like better specifically for the 'gross stuff' you'll try to bully us off that too so you can benefit from it.
AO3's specific core purpose is to preserve fanfiction, yes, but it was also instigated as a host site for the fanfiction that kept getting yeeted off other platforms like Wattpad. Its designed to preserve all fanfiction, not just the fanfiction you, personally, think is 'allowed' to be written.
AO3 is the site for all the gross stuff the freaks make. We've been there just as long as you. We've been funding it just as long as you have. AO3 has specifically said you have a place here. The timeline was literally:
Wattpad/FF.net/LiveJournal purge fanfics > AO3 is born > The people who's fics got purged moved over to AO3 > AO3 gains popularity as the best functioning site > The people who pushed for the fics to be purged off Wattpad move to AO3 > The same people try to push for AO3 to purge fics.
AO3's source coding is open-access. You go make a polished, strict, rigid site where nothing 'icky' is allowed. You go make a site where you can control what is hosted. We already have our space.
Go, my chaos gremlins! FLY, MY PRETTIES!
>>>>>this
i just want to have incredibly possessive sex. pls own me. i’m yours
You won't get media with messier, more nuanced, more realistic queer characters if you keep flying off the handle the second a fictional character has sex, does drugs, swears too much, or acts vaguely like an asshole.
You won't get more diverse queer media with wider stories if you can't handle it when queer artists make art that is raunchy, crude, edgy, and gross.
You won't get more diverse queer media if you shut everything down the second it does something you, personally, get squicked out by.
You will never get more diverse queer media if you contribute to the way queer media is picked apart, raked over the coals, and held to unreasonably high standards.
You will never get what you want if you keep tearing queer artists down for their weird experimental art instead of learning how to say, "this isn't for me, that's fine, and I'll be over here in my own space."