just because a ship is fictional doesnt mean it cant hurt people
when abuse survivors such as myself are exposed to untagged abusive or toxic ships clogging a main tag it can upset or trigger them
our feelings and experiences are valid and just because the thing upsetting us is “fictional” it does not make our feelings any less real
please respect abuse survivors
hey this is just a request but if you feel safe to reblog this could you maybe consider doing so? i think this is kind of important and so many times people speak over abuse survivors on these issues and say that our feelings dont matter. i think it might be good for this to be spread around a little
a normal person: ao3 shouldn’t allow child porn maybe
y’all freaks: this is LITERALLY just like trump. you are the republicans of fandom. this is just like when president snow told harry pottedf ljfl asldkfjdksfj
“we give ao3 ludicrous amounts of money because its the only place queer people can get queer content (((^: you homophobes (((^:” yall know that there are actual lgbt authors out there publishing books of all genres with lgbt characters right? yall know that they could use your support and patronage to continue creating these works??? cause if you dont know, im telling you.
and if you want to support your favorite lgbt fanfiction authors — do it directly! many of them have a ko-fi, some a patron, and even if they don’t you can just ask them if they want to start accepting donations because you want to support them! if you want to read a specific kind of fanfiction that you can’t find anywhere, commission one of your favorite writers! you will get something written for you, and you will support someone who actually makes lgbt content! the authors get nothing from ao3 anyways, so support them directly if that’s what you care about!
[image description: a tweet from RoAnna Sylver (@RoAnna Syvler) reading “This June, please rememeber that there are more LGBT books than the ones you see everywhere put out by the Big 5, ad indies are amazing/worthy.” The next reblog is a tweet from Heather Rose Jones (@heatherrosejones) reading: “Making a list of queer SFF for Pride Month? Remember to look outside the mainstream presses. Don’t shut queer publishers out of queer lit.”]
Here’s a bunch of Goodreads lists that might help!
i remember in 2014 everyone was pointing out how creepy twilight was and how edward was constantly depicted as a stalker and the shit with jacob literally falling in love with a fucking baby and now its 2018 and people are trying to claim twilight was actually good all along and we only hated it bc of misogyny or whatever like… how did y’all get less woke
and let’s not forget the anti-indigenous racism and the fact that one of the main protagonists was a confederate soldier.
Lesbian On Main 