I've never seen an episode of Merlin. I know only the two main characters, I know nothing about the plot, but here I am reading fanfics because the TikTok fan edits were too good.
SAMMEEE THATS HOW I STARTED LMAOO
pour one out for all those fic readers who found one author who wrote one really good fic for their fandom then clicked on their profile to find they wrote exactly one fic for that fandom and the rest for, like, csi or something
#the struggle is real
I wish AO3 was populated only by freaks. Like, I know I complain often about that fic where the protagonists go up into a whale vagina to breath air after a failed boat trip I've read, but I would rather read and rereread that same fic every day and other like that every single day of my life, in public, with everyone knowing, than having fucking pro-censorship, anti-LGBT+, puritans, "non-freaks" etc attack AO3 and its volunteers.
Leave good things alone, please. That's a space for the "freaks" you're complaining about, stfu and go to Wattpad or FF.net, that's the space that was made for you. Don't like it? Make another one yourself, stop being a pussy and ruining things for everybody.
#ao3 #preach
"The trannies should be able to piss in whatever toilet they want and change their bodies however they want. Why is it my business if some chick has a dick or a guy has a pie? I'm not a trannie or a fag so I don't care, just give 'em the medicine they need."
"This is an LGBT safe space. Of COURSE I fully support individuals who identify as transgender and their right to self-determination! I just think that transitioning is a very serious choice and should be heavily regulated. And there could be a lot of harm in exposing cis children to such topics, so we should be really careful about when it is appropriate to mention trans issues or have too much trans visibility."
One of the above statements is Problematic and the other is slightly annoying. If we disagree on which is which then working together for a better future is going to get really fucking difficult.
I think this is something young people in particular are confused about. My dad has always had a slightly off color sense of humor, he always feels the need to privately ask me “boy turned girl or girl turned boy?” if I mention a friend and stress said friend’s pronouns, and yet when we had repair work done in the house and the worker was listening to a podcast discussing the evils of transgender people and how to cleanse society, he went out of his way to contact the owner of the business to discuss his disappointment with that worker’s conduct and stress the negative effect that could have had if there had been trans kids in our home.
Our allies will never be perfect. They will never use the perfect language or have the perfect politics. But we have to appreciate those allies and meet them where they are, especially if they are willing to learn.
