HEARTSTOPPER Season 2 + "bi/bisexual"

This is a Moving Forward PSA for everyone using AO3. I am witnessing the results of a culture clash and communication failure. Not a lack of communication, but a misunderstanding caused by changes in fandom culture.

Before fic tagging was common, fics weren’t tagged. You had a pairing, if applicable, an author’s note about genre or general content, and if they were feeling charitable, a vague content warning. There are even a few genres of fic where even vaguely tagging literally spoils the plot and impact (such as horror, psyche thriller, in which the likely content is implicit to the genre). As a result, there is a basic category tag that permits this, as a courtesy to “old-fashioned” writers.

“No Archive Warnings Apply” means the fic is PG13 at worst, probably fluff, totally safe.

“Choose Not to Use Archive Warnings” is the polar opposite. It’s a glaring Enter at Your Own Risk billboard. It means: a shitload of warnings apply but I ain’t telling because this story requires shock value. It’s very important to read the author’s notes for those fics because they might be using that older format from above.

But without the context of fandom culture that generated AO3, it’s understandably easy to conflate the two categories, given their similar wording.

thought they needed a little reminder that they still have far more to lose if they double down on this stupidity. spread the word, it seems they're... very forgetful about this.

BRB, I’m gonna scream

Stray, so awesome.

"Is there anybody out there, who is lost and hurt and lonely, too? Are they bleeding all your colours into one? And if you come undone, as if you'd been run through some catapult, it fired you, you wonder if your chance'll ever come, well, if you're stuck in square one."

Credits to the artist: Kirokaze // DeviantArt https://www.deviantart.com/kirokaze

snail foods (snoods)

Nothing to see here, just fire + floods + climate change

the first org sympathises with copservatives

the second org is planning a violent mass execution of everyone earning more than $500 a month

the third org is just right. sad that it don't exist.

trying to find a good leftist org is like

cult

cult

maoist cult

dsa

book club

people who think the ussr still exists

anarchist org with the most rancid polycule drama of all time

I raise you the giddy feeling of beginning to watch an episode of Board Game Club

In case you ever wanted to feel like you just finished watching an episode of house rules