THIS IS THE BEST DOCUMENT IN ALL OF HISTORY. Basically, it has a script in it that has a “Post to AO3″ option and it will go in and fill in ALL the HTML you need – italics, bold, paragraph breaks, you name it!
It has directions in it for how to use it, but it’s real simple. You just always chose “Make a Copy” when you start writing to make a new document that you can then re-name. Change the language to American English (or whatever language you use) and type away. Then right before you post, click the button, get all the code in there, copy, paste, AND POST.
It is literally so, so glorious and I want to tell everyone.
(Also, the AO3 Cool FAQ page has some other cool stuff too!)
REBLOG TO SAVE A LIFE
this thing changed my life
Fuck where was this when I started writing Common Place?
Ywah we’re bitter because theres people who try to diversify their style and still get the door slammed on them while people who make same face/body over and over again become “professionals”
Hold on just a minute.
Do y’all really think sakimi prefers drawing the same thing over and over again? She does it because that’s what the market wants and responds to, and so what pays her bills. I’m sure Sakimi started by drawing a shit ton of other things that also never got noticed.
Just because your super original style or experimental idea didn’t get the notes you wanted doesn’t mean you get to shit on artists who found and stuck to a formula that works. Your lack of success is not a popular artist’s fault.
So I just want to add, because it’s not on this particular version of this post, but those 3 were picked very purposefully to attempt to make a point without even linking to her pages where you can clearly see she does a hell of a lot more than just these which are still very beautiful btw. Not to mention that even in those 3 shown the only similarities are in skin color and maybe body shape literally everything else is unique and requires a tremendous amount of skill and effort. Also I know I don’t really _need_ to add to this post but I’m going to anyway.
So yeah if you don’t care for her stuff, sure fine whatever that’s your deal. But don’t be a dick and spread half-truths and misinformation
for real people need to stop being bitter
okay i gotta reblog because WOW those are amazing?? WTF?
Simply beautiful holy shit
artist: *draws beautiful art with an incredible level of detail*
tumblr: lmao…u think ur fucking special??? just because you can do something??? wait until the internet hears my Funny Post about this ur career is over u fuckin hack
So…I just learned that tumblr has a newish policy. New blogs are hidden from tags. So….say you make an ask/rp blog and then put out a post to get attention for it………no one can see it. until you ‘seem human’ through re blogging and commenting. Which ask blogs rarely do. also sideblogs cant like things
this explains why bots have taken to rebloging peoples posts and commenting on them. To get around the policy and seem ‘human’
So if you made a new blog and feel like it was ignored…..its not your fault. Its tumblrs shitty system. im testing getting around it by pming friends through the blog,,,so we’ll see if that works
100% due to shipping/fandom discourse. People originally started by calling me a pedophile apologist because of ship discourse and I guess that’s losing it’s effectiveness so they’re moving on to straight up calling me a pedophile — which is absolutely disgusting to me as a CSA survivor and hilarious as someone who has always been attracted to people who are significantly older than I am, never younger and very rarely actually in my own age range. I wasn’t attracted to kids when I was a kid and I’m certainly not now.
I wrote a post about a similar ‘callout’ I received here:
which discusses my opinions that frequently get me put on these callouts and has plenty of links to go through.
But that accusation and any accusation of me being a pedophile apologist is absolutely baseless. I’m just another person in a long, long line of other people getting put on a smear campaign over stating that fiction and fictional ships are not reality and not on the same level as actual abuse experienced by actual people.
I agree that fiction isn’t reality, but consider this: a person with sexual feelings towards minors reads a fiction where a pedophile is described in a positive light. If they get the courage to go rape a minor because of said fiction, isn’t the author of the fiction partially to blame?
No, they absolutely are not.
If someone who fantasizes about murder watches Hannibal and goes out to kill someone, are the writers of the show to blame?
If someone who fantasizes about robbing banks watches a movie about Bonnie and Clyde and goes out to rob a bank, is the writer of that book to blame?
If someone who fantasizes about going on a violent crime spree plays Grand Theft auto and goes out to enact those fantasies, are the creators of the game to play?
The answer to all of these questions and yours is, of course, no because the only thing and the only person responsible for a person’s actions is that person. Reading about something happening in fiction does not cause people to do those things. It does not force them to do those things. Fiction does not posess the power to compel a person’s actions even if the person fantasized about before, no matter how romantic that fiction may be, because they have to CHOOSE to act and fiction can not force them to make that choice.
This is not a line of reasoning I’m pulling out of my ass, either. This is a subject that psychologists have studied for years – questioning whether violent video games or horror movies cause violence and similar lines of questioning have been asked, it’s been studied, and the conclusion has always been a resounding no: fiction by and large does not cause people to be violent and it does not cause them to commit crimes. And on the rare occasions it does, the person influenced has either been in a state of mind where they could not tell the difference between fiction and reality OR they already planned to commit an act of violence and the fiction only gave them an idea for how they wanted to do it.
Denying this, saying that anyone is responsible for an abuser’s actions other than that abuser, is also an incredibly dangerous line of thinking. It opens the door for abusers to deny responsibility for their actions, to blame them on something other than their own choice to harm another person when – again – it is absolutely a choice. No matter how much a person fantasizes about something, no matter how much they write about it or read about it, the point when/if they decide to act on that and make their fantasies real is something THEY have to actively choose to do. That is on THEM.
Pedophiles who abuse children make the choice not only to act but to take the most harmful action – rather than seeking counseling, rather than turning themselves in to the police, rather than moving to the middle of nowhere and isolating themselves away from people, rather than even killing themselves, the action they CHOOSE is to harm a child for their own gratification out of a million and one other possible actions they could have chosen instead.
Fiction is not responsible for that.
Writers are not responsible for that.
They are responsible for that. It is 100% on them. That is the choice they made and they do not have any right whatsoever to reduce their own culpability for their own behavior and their own choices by trying to pin even a sliver of the blame for their actions on anyone else.
This is a good and lucid post that explains very clearly the way that anti logic benefits abusers.
someone could watch babar and then want to go poach elephants even if nothing bad was in the show, this is what antis don’t understand
the fact that antis think people are mindless and just do whatever they see on TV/think whatever they see/read/play is A-OK just shows how inexperienced they are in the real outside world
Fandoms years ago: your kink is not my kink and I’m personally squicked by some of the things in your fanfics so I’m not gonna read them, but I’m gonna be civil to you anyway
Fandoms now: I’ve read your 18+ fic even if I’m a minor and I ignored all your tags and trigger warnings. The fault is still yours. I don’t know you personally but your kinks are Bad so you are also Bad. Kill yourself and pee your pants.
you disliking something someone is doing doesn’t excuse you telling them to kill themselves
Incest and pedophilic ships harm people dumbass it’s not my personal preference.
who *in real life* do they harm
and even if they DO harm someone telling people to kill themselves is never okay
Did you just fucking ask how PEDOPHILLA harms people?? Are you shitting me?
oh my god, how does shipping a fictional thing harm real life people you fucking moron
Pedophilla triggers people who have trauma?? Oh my god?? Incest is the same?? Don’t act like fiction doesn’t effect reality??
So don’t read it if it triggers you.
Should war histories be banned for triggering veterans? Should movies portraying coca cola be banned because some girl was once beaten with a bottle of coke and get flashbacks when she sees people holding them?
I will never cease to be confused by “I have PTSD, therefore people must make it the case that i must never encounter things that trigger me, ever. OH BY THE WAY, I am going to devote large chunks of my online time to yelling at people who make the things that trigger me.”
??????
imaginary stories of the dynamics of underage fictional characters in an also fictional relationship isn’t pedophilia and the insistence of tumblr to call it such actually makes it hard for me to do my job as a social worker because i deal with real breathing living children who are being abused like i was
hey everyone. i’m back and i will start here. i took a break because well, teens on tumblr were telling me to kill myself because i disagree with them about things, mostly about… my own rapes! luckily i have a good support system. people who actually care about helping survivors.
story time yall massive trigger warning for everything below
i don’t want to say i was in a cult but. my family was part of a cult in the 80’s and 90’s. all my childhood and adolescence. this cult had a trade system. this cult had pedophiles. i mean real pedophiles. real ones. real ones doing real things to real kids. when i say pedophiles i mean adults who routinely and “for business” sexually assaulted prepubescent children, real prepubescent children, knowingly and for their own entertainment.
a young adult reading and producing harry x draco or, i don’t know what the kids like these days, naruto x sasuke, voltron whoever the heck fan content is not a pedophile. in fact, to call them a pedophile and to call such content pedophilia feels like a spit in my face
let me be really clear and direct at the risk of sharing some really personal things:
there were tapes of me and my siblings and the other children in our church. and photo albums. this was mostly in the 80’s and 90’s, remember so we did not have tumblr. we were real children being exploited and traumatized. this was pedophilia.
and now i hear all these young teens on tumblr insisting that fanart = pedophilia and the fanartists = pedos. you are wasting resources for your own personal gain and popularity and wokepoints on fictional people while i, having now become an adult, am a therapist, social worker and activist. i use my experience as essentially a child sex slave to help others recover and process and to help law enforcement when i feel that intervention is necessary to prevent someone from being harmed more
do you know how hard they would laugh if you tried to shove gay teen anime boys at them and call it pedophilia? do you know how hard some of them would cry and tell you to stop wasting their time? an officer i talk with regularly had to take months off because he was so shaken by one of the cases. shit like this affects all of us deeply.
a fan liking the way two characters mesh is no more pedophilia than a writer writing a murder scene is an actual murder.
and don’t use “grooming” as an excuse/weapon. you know what i was groomed with? uwu purity christ worship and sock puppets. stickers. care bears. know what i wish i had access to growing up? fanfics. or just sex scenes in movies. hell even teen nick shows about normal stuff like crushes. even just sex talks on sitcoms. SOMETHING to let me think about what was happening to me in a context outside of “this is what the lord made me for” and “we must be pure pure pure even if it means harming our own” something to help me think about real life through the lens of characters who might be very different or very similar to me
not once has an anti ever spoken to me as a human. they treat me like i’m “the wrong kind of survivor” because i’m not part of their crusade to suicide bait and call for the murder of perfect strangers because of imaginary things.
the worst part is that as a therapist who specializes in csa related ptsd….i have so many young kids thinking they are evil for wanting to fantasize about their assaults in contexts where they are in control. let me repeat, a lot of the survivors like to fantasize about what happened to them as an “au” where they were in control, or aged up, or even enjoying themselves. sounds pretty fucked up right? well that’s the brain for you. for a lot of us, it’s the only way to process some of it.
you do harm when you equate a drawing or a fiction to the actual violence we endured.
please. i am begging you. please stop. you aren’t helping. i can’t get people to take me seriously about csa as an issue when i talk about it online in professional settings. because they think i’m a crazy purity wank asshole when literally my job is to help others like me. please. please. please. we cant take it anymore. you have turned pedophilia into a scary buzzword to drag people with instead of a word to describe something real that we are trying to fight.
i already lost a friend to tumblr. you lot convinced her she was evil and perpetuating her own abuse because of a fucking voltron ship. you told her it was her own fault for being raped and that she was the same as her attacker. you know who you are and you’ll have to live with it forever. may whoever meets you in the afterlife have pity on your misguided souls. you’ll have a lot to answer for. all the people you told to die, to “piss yourself” (ableist as fuck).
please please please go outside and get a grip on reality. if you can’t, then stop pretending you care.
if you cared and if you really believed it was bad enough to wish death upon people you would be saying that people are murderers for drawing or writing about death because how would you be able to excuse death? murder is a huge problem all around a world. so why isn’t fiction featuring murder held to the same standard, as “normalizing” murder and “romanticizing” death and “triggering” people who have lost someone to murder or who have almost been murdered.
don’t you dare say death is better than being a survivor. don’t you fucking dare.
Minors: why are you personally attacking me personally?
Adults: ….????????…………
Minors: I know you want to fuck children
Me: *looks at fic with one character that’s in his 40′s and another that’s in his 50′s, with no children in sight*
Me: ………please get out of my house
(I still get a lot of responses to this post calling me a pedo and I am t i r e d of this bottom-of-the-barrel quality discourse)
* this obviously doesn’t apply to all minors, and to all those minors (like me, when I was your age!) that manage to enjoy and participate in fandom without calling everyone a pedophile, I appreciate you.
Adults: we want to write/draw porn of these fictional adult characters.
Minors: that’s not appropriate for children.
Adults: yep! that’s why it’s tagged as explicit and has a warning for mature content and also is tagged for various sex acts in case you’re not into that.
Minors: that type of content makes me uncomfortable.
Adults: we totally get that but that’s why the tags and warnings are on it.
Adults: look you even have to agree:
This work could have adult content. If you proceed you have agreed that you are willing to see such content.
Adults: so if you’re not into that type of thing then you can just skip over it.
Minors: it make me uncomfortable.
Adults: ……then… don’t… read it?
Minors: no.
Minors: you should stop writing it.
Adults: no.
JUST FUCKING SAYING
Friendly reminder that it is not the job of EVERY ADULT IN EXISTENCE to monitor your children on the internet 🙂
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