Yay It's April Fools I'm So Excited To Spend The Next 24 Hours In A Constant Panic That Everything Everyone

reposting this to let ya'll know that since ao3 is based in the US if this bill passes and ao3 gets banned you will not be able to access it regardless of where you live

internet censorship bill about to pass congress:

ao3 is facing a ddos attack from an overseas right-wing anonymous group because it contains "degeneracy and disgusting things like LGBT and NSFW".

they're not the only right-wing group that is attacking fanfiction sites because of queer & nsfw content. the Heritage foundation, the US right wing think tank that writes laws for republicans, wrote an article about how "big tech turns kids trans" in which they're advocating for the Kid's Online Safety Act to pass because it will give state attorney generals power to sue websites for "potentially harmful content towards minors". in this article they point out websites like wattpad, tumblr, tiktok, twitter as sites that GOP attorney generals can and will target for censorship if this bill passes. all places where fandom, that's mostly queer, hangs out.

if you think this bill has no chance of passing because of all the red flags it poses, think again. it currently has 38 cosponsors in the senate, and is being pushed by the democrats as a "protecting the children!!" type bill.

there are left-aligned orgs in congress rn lobbying for this bill to pass. july is extremely decisive, because if KOSA goes through to markup it'll be bundled with the Earn It act, Restrict, and all the other bad internet bills and passed as a package, completely censoring the internet forever.

if you want to learn more about the bill, go here. also sign the open letter against it here

it's ESSENTIAL that you call your members of congress, specifically Maria Cantwell (you can call from out of state) and tell them DO NOT PASS KOSA. this site here connects you to your members of congress and gives you a short simple script to read off of! super easy and doesn't take much out of your day! please do this now!!

Fight for the Future

Bad Internet Bills

All of the bad internet bills. One website.

Hey y'all, I'd appreciate anyone from the UK signing this petition to allow trans/nonbinary kids to stay closeted from their parents if they're out at school. It's obviously very important that children be able to keep potentially dangerous information about their identity away from their parents, and explore it safely in a school environment.

If it reaches 10k votes the government must respond, and 100k means they need to debate it, but any votes are good for raising awareness and profile.

If you're not from the UK please share this so others see it

Petitions - UK Government and Parliament

Petition: Do not require schools to tell parents their child is transgender/non-binary

There are reports that the Government is planning to introduce guidance stating that schools in England must inform parents if a young perso

the insane amount of unread ao3 tabs I have open 24/7 are coming in clutch right now

ao3 is down on Friday the 13th when I'm stuck on a trip with my family. I'm going insane

barty crouch jr is test smart because when he was younger, his dad made him do tons of tests. He's not very good at most assignments or projects because they require extra work that tests don't. he also just doesn't care about school work as a f u to his dad. But every year he studies like crazy for tests and passes on those only.

Barty 100% had glasses because he was farsighted and had trouble reading but he refused to wear them because they "weren't rebel enough" but whenever exams were near he would have too, so there would just be this alternative dude with little old man glasses wondering around hogwarts and panicking about exams

james "i worship you" potter and regulus "then kneel" black

I can't stop imagining dorcas and regulus dressed as Uma and Harry hook from descendants for Halloween

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I have to prove something.