I miss being 8 and having allergies
claritin was so gas
ALT
guys i just realized that punkflower(or chaipunk, ghostflower, and spiderband) is an anomaly in itself
A note to all creatives:
Right now, you have to be a team player. You cannot complain about AI being used to fuck over your industry and then turn around and use it on somebody else’s industry.
No AI book covers. No making funny little videos using deepfakes to make an actor say stuff they never did. No AI translation of your book. No AI audiobooks. No AI generated moodboards or fancasts or any of that shit. No feeding someone else’s unfinished work into Chat GPT “because you just want to know how it ends*” (what the fuck is wrong with you?). No playing around with AI generated 3D assets you can’t ascertain the origin of. None of it. And stop using AI filters on your selfies or ESPECIALLY using AI on somebody else’s photo or artwork.
We are at a crossroad and at a time of historically shitty conditions for working artists across ALL creative fields, and we gotta stick together. And you know what? Not only is standing up for other artists against exploitation and theft the morally correct thing to do, it’s also the professionally smartest thing to do, too. Because the corporations will fuck you over too, and then they do it’s your peers that will hold you up. And we have a long memory.
Don’t make the mistake of thinking “your peers” are only the people in your own industry. Writers can’t succeed without artists, editors, translators, etc making their books a reality. Illustrators depend on writers and editors for work. Video creators co-exist with voice actors and animators and people who do 3D rendering etc. If you piss off everyone else but the ones who do the exact same job you do, congratulations! You’ve just sunk your career.
Always remember: the artists who succeed in this career path, the ones who get hired or are sought after for commissions or collaboration, they aren’t the super talented “fuck you I got mine” types. They’re the one who show up to do the work and are easy to get along with.
And they especially are not scabs.
*that’s not even how it ends that’s a statistically likely and creatively boring way for it to end. Why would you even want to read that.
Anonymous asked:
what did archive of our own do?
jacmirie-deactivated20181110 answered:
any more questions?
You… do realise that people tag works as containing rape/paedophilia/incest when the stories are explicitly about those things being bad, and not just because they’re writing dark themes for reasons that you personally disapprove of, right? That tags merely state the presence of a thing without explaining how it’s dealt with in the narrative, and that stories do not have to be morally instructional and perfect and pure in order to be allowed to exist?
Like. You might as well walk into a bookshop and stamp BLOCKED FOR BADWRONG CONTENT on every book in the Song of Ice and Fire series, half of Shakespeare, every YA novel about rape recovery, every adult novel about rape recovery, every biography of someone who has suffered from rape, incest or paedophilia and been brave enough to write about it, every book of Greek, Egyptian and Norse myths, the fucking Bible - just a truly massive percentage of the entire global literary canon, because there is literally no way to remove each and every reference to these themes otherwise.
Do you know why schools and libraries are pressured to ban books like I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings, To Kill a Mockingbird and Laurie Halse Andersen’s Speak? Because dumbass, scaremongering adults think that letting teens read about rape or racism or sexual violence or queerness or half a dozen other topics they think are Bad Things will lead to them down a path of Vice.
What happens to characters in stories, no matter how graphic or awful, is not the same as that act occurring to a real human person in real life, nor does reading or writing such works indicate endorsement of those acts. This is why a story which features paedophilia, regardless of whether it’s written as overtly sexual content or as a damning condemnation of the act, is not the same as child pornography by any legal definition: because no actual children are harmed. Are you personally still allowed to be angry and disgusted about the public availability of the former type of stories, even in instances where the writers are themselves victims of child abuse trying to process their trauma? Yes! You’re under no moral obligation to like any kind of content! But are you correct in asserting that the creation of such stories is illegal and hurting somebody in exactly the same way that a real abuser hurting a real child would be? No! Because fictional characters are not real people, and whatever our motives for creating or engaging with a particular thing, monkey see = monkey approve is not how it fucking works.
Have you ever watched an episode of CSI? Congratulations! By your own logic, you’re pro rape and murder. Ever watched an episode of Hannibal? Congratulations! By your own logic, you endorse cannibalism, Stockholm Syndrome and serial killing. Ever watched a historical drama where a young girl gets married to a much older man? Congratulations! By your own logic, you endorse child brides. And on, and on, and on.
I say again: you are allowed to be critical of particular works and/or the recurrence of certain themes across a particular medium. But arguing that an entire literary platform needs to end because some stories there contain Bad Things makes as much sense as banning the works of Octavia Butler or Sherman Alexie from school libraries because of their content. Which is - spoiler alert - a really bad idea.
UGH.
Since this post is from 2018 originally, I was curious. So I searched exactly as the OP did. These are tag searches not warning-based, so keep in mind as most people will probably use those for these topics instead.
Total fics as of Feb 11, 2023, 10,584,367
1. Underage
As of Feb 11, 2023, there are 257,436 fics with the tag “underage.” This means only 2% of fics on AO3 use this tag. That’s a very small amount.
2. Incest
This tag represents only 1% of fics on the site, in any language (114,208 total). An even smaller amount.
3. Pedophilia
Only 0.06%, or less than 1% of all fics on AO3 use this tag. (Only 6,326 fics.)
4. Rape
Only 0.4% of all fics in any language on AO3 use this tag. (48,969 total)
That’s hardly the overwhelming majority that antis like to claim. In fact, some of these numbers have actually gone down since 2018.
Again, it’s possible if you searched by warnings there would be more but like… that’s the point of warnings, so you can avoid them.
Yes. Yes. And yes.
To understand why to use tags in the first place, you need to know it’s the absolute best to search for the fiction you want to read. And even better. It works in both ways at the very first try.
Want to read fluff because you need a comfort fic?
But don’t want to have any sex involved?
The result gets down because those will be filtered.
You still unsure by seeing a mature tagged story? No problem at all. You can filter literally everything.
But ohhh… There are so many languages you can’t read. Maybe just filter for your or at least one you can also understand.
And because there are some options you also would like to have filtered …
If your still insecure, you can filter additional characters, pairings,… Everything.
That’s why on ao3 you’re, as a writer, useing the tag mentions of rape or rape because you want your readers warn. And make it possible for people being triggered by those, filter it out. So just the mention of it won’t be inside the story a reader wants to enjoy.
Antis always say ao3 is toxic or dangerous because of how many stories are about those topics alone. But the truth is that most of those stories are tagged to avoid triggers.
To make filtering possible. That’s what ao3 stands for. And seriously people. Tell me one website that cares for such a filter system. Tell me about one library where you go to the person behind the counter and give her a note with all the things you want, but also those you want to avoid to read. And that person search it out for you.
Ao3 does this for you.
I’ve been reading more Real Books lately and while I’ve loved doing so (if anyone else used to read books a lot as a kid and mostly only watches shows and reads fanfic now, I can’t recommend getting back into published work enough, but that’s a whole other post), I have been repeatedly surprised by content I wasn’t expecting to see, because most books don’t describe their content nearly as explicitly as AO3 does. It’s started to become more common for authors to put content warnings at the beginning of novels, but that is a recent thing and it’s far from the industry standard. I picked up House of Leaves for the mind bending unreality of a haunted house and the experimental and unconventional format, not for the seemingly* random sex scenes that are way more explicit than my sex adverse little self usually prefers encountering. I would have still read the book if I’d known about those scenes, but I vastly prefer having the heads up, like I had with the last binding trilogy, which I went into knowing that it was a romance series with explicit scenes. We SO easily take for granted the amazing tag system of AO3!!! It’s honestly incredible!
*I don’t actually think they’re random I think they tell you a lot about the kind of person Johnny is and where his headspace is at I’m just saying they pop up kinda out of nowhere, which so do the rest of his footnotes they’re very stream of consciousness so it’s not unusual for the book it just still blindsided me ok don’t come AT me house of leaves experts!
If any of y’all didn’t know, there’s a free online library, aka
and I found like, twelve ebooks I’ve been wanting to read on there, and blasted through like three of them during the course of a boring-ass shift.
Guy there are books on magic on there.
There’s books on EVERYTHING there!
Wouldn’t this be bad for authors though? or is this like a normal library where they get /some/ money?
It’s like a normal library. Libraries can upload ebooks there and let people check them out through openlibrary if you have an openlibrary account, or it can point you to nearby libraries that have physical copies of the book for you to go and check out. If you check out books via openlibrary it counts towards the count of books checked out from the library that uploaded the ebook, and they can use it in their reporting and funding and stuff.
There’s like 150 libraries partnered with openlibrary so far.
They also have copies that you can check out if you are print-disabled.
You can also ‘sponsor a book’, which means you pay the cost of the ebook you want openlibrary to acquire, and then they can add it to their collection and let people check it out.
https://openlibrary.org/authors/OL26576A/Tamora_Pierce
I sure did!
And click on a title even if it says ‘no ebook available’ and scroll down, ‘cause sometimes that just means “all of the copies of ebooks are checked out right now but you can get on the waitlist when it’s back in”
This is part of the Internet Archive! I’ve posted about this before. Please go, it’s amazing.
signal boosting because BOOKS
Oh!
can someone please draw meows morales and literally any other atsv character as the meme of jake gyllenhaal holding the ferret 😭😭😭
