Hi again, I really hope you like this Severus, I tried really hard and I think it looks pretty good <3
Hello, it’s me again! This is another old drawing, hope you like it
This is my default expression. /inspired by this. Tip the artist, pretty please? | Commissions are open!
Lately I have been reread several last Harry Potter's book and I'm enjoying the most of Snape :)
the one where young severus got tickets to a potions convention and became everyone’s worst nightmare
You people keep making posts about being pro-kink and pro-weird nasty gay sex but then moments later you're shaming fellow queers for ageplay or cnc or incest shipping and i'm sorry but it doesn't fucking work like that. You are not pro-kink if you're stricken with moral outrage at the extremely basic concept of people playing around with power dynamics. Get the fuck over yourselves.
Once again thinking about how every single sex therapist I’ve talked to (and I’ve talked to several; multiple of which were my own) has laid out the ground rule that whatever an adult does in their own mind, or does safely with another consenting adult in their own private space, is fine. That it only becomes a problem if they are hurting other people or ignoring the rules of consent (cnc notwithstanding because consent and non-consent are negotiated beforehand with scene planning and safewords).
Y’all don’t need to be comfortable with or engage with anything you don’t want to but you need to start realizing that we can’t keep policing what people do Safely, with other Consenting Adults, in their own Private Spaces. As long as they’re not hurting anyone (and “hurting anyone” includes having sex with, watching porn featuring, or being in relationships with people who Actually Cannot Consent; e.g. minors, animals, unconscious people who have not given prior consent, etc. with the porn stipulation being super important here) then it’s none of our BUSINESS. We don’t need to be on constant watch for sexual thoughtcrime.
You don’t have to interact with anything you don’t like sexually, this is another ground rule, but like OP said; quit shaming people for “fucked up” kinks and really try and interrogate yourself on why you have such “moral outrage” about people enjoying messing with power dynamics when they’re having sex (with other enthusiastically consenting adults).
Me while editing: *adds a sentence*
*finds nearly identical sentence in the next paragraph*
Me, editing: Wow it would be really fitting and completing to add this small description here
Next paragraph: …
Next paragraph: You’re not gonna believe this mate
no but that can actually be a really useful cue for editing, it shows that your writing process has interfered with your reading process, the reader-you was expecting a description at that point in the text that the writer you didn’t provide until after you expected it, so edit it to better match your audience’s reading process
"Why can't the freaks on AO3 just go and make a site for all the gross stuff and leave AO3 alone."
Because AO3 is that site. Because AO3 was that site long before you decided AO3 was better than the sites you bullied us off of before, and I can promise you if someone somehow comes up with a fanfic site you like better specifically for the 'gross stuff' you'll try to bully us off that too so you can benefit from it.
AO3's specific core purpose is to preserve fanfiction, yes, but it was also instigated as a host site for the fanfiction that kept getting yeeted off other platforms like Wattpad. Its designed to preserve all fanfiction, not just the fanfiction you, personally, think is 'allowed' to be written.
AO3 is the site for all the gross stuff the freaks make. We've been there just as long as you. We've been funding it just as long as you have. AO3 has specifically said you have a place here. The timeline was literally:
Wattpad/FF.net/LiveJournal purge fanfics > AO3 is born > The people who's fics got purged moved over to AO3 > AO3 gains popularity as the best functioning site > The people who pushed for the fics to be purged off Wattpad move to AO3 > The same people try to push for AO3 to purge fics.
AO3's source coding is open-access. You go make a polished, strict, rigid site where nothing 'icky' is allowed. You go make a site where you can control what is hosted. We already have our space.
