“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!
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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.
i think we need to stop focusing on telling little girls they need to be “empowered” & instead teach them about chaotic mirth, hijinks, & becoming complete rascals
we need to stop forcing girls to wear makeup and lose weight and shave every day!! and i say GIRLS and not women for a reason because there are literal twelve year old girls (and younger) who are spending hundreds of dollars on makeup and taking an hour every day to make it look perfect! there are literal twelve year olds who already think their body hair is gross and needs to be shaved off! there are literal twelve year olds who are skipping meals and going on diets because they’re convinced the perfectly normal fat they have is unhealthy and ugly!!! there are girls who are growing up with the idea that their bodies will never be enough without relentless, expensive, and tiring modification, and that they’re just lazy and “”“unladylike”“” if they don’t meet every single one of society’s beauty standards!!! do you SEE how fucked up this is ????
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