from Anonymous
sorry to be the " devil's advocate " here, but Avril stated in a response post that they didn't know what they clicked like on before people started hunting them down for callout posts, and that they're sincerely sorry for the grave mistake they made.

i have seen their side of things too, i was extremely careful to check every accusation and i’ve been following the entire thing for days in case there are changes to the situation, but even if the pixiv art they liked was, as they claim, because it “had a pretty cover” (which i am willing to give them the benefit of the doubt on because i have no idea how pixiv works) they still requested snape/harry fanart last year asking the artist who drew it to make it “sensual” and while i am aware that people can change their views and behaviours and sincerely hope they have i just don’t feel comfortable sharing work from them anymore. if they’ve truly changed then i’m glad and i’m not going to attack them but i don’t want to reblog their art anymore either. i only answered that one anon about it because i want my followers to feel safe and not worry that i’m supporting people who make them feel unsafe.

i have seen their side of things too, i was extremely careful to check every accusation and i’ve been following the entire thing for days in case there are changes to the situation, but even if the pixiv art they liked was, as they claim, because it “had a pretty cover” (which i am willing to give them the benefit of the doubt on because i have no idea how pixiv works) they still requested snape/harry fanart last year asking the artist who drew it to make it “sensual” and while i am aware that people can change their views and behaviours and sincerely hope they have i just don’t feel comfortable sharing work from them anymore. if they’ve truly changed then i’m glad and i’m not going to attack them but i don’t want to reblog their art anymore either. i only answered that one anon about it because i want my followers to feel safe and not worry that i’m supporting people who make them feel unsafe.

64 notesPosted at 08:57am, 05/29/19
from Anonymous
uhhh hey avril-circus was outed as someone who ships pedophilia and incest(including joxter and snufkin) — i just wanted to give a heads up since I’ve seen you reblog some of their content :(

unfortunately i’m aware (and yes, to everyone who’s about to hit my inbox, i have seen their apology posts and i do sincerely hope they have changed as they claim to have done, but i’m still personally uncomfortable with sharing their content anymore, so please respect that) i went through my entire m00mins tag to delete all my reblogs of their work last week. thank you for caring enough to inform me nonetheless.

unfortunately i’m aware (and yes, to everyone who’s about to hit my inbox, i have seen their apology posts and i do sincerely hope they have changed as they claim to have done, but i’m still personally uncomfortable with sharing their content anymore, so please respect that) i went through my entire m00mins tag to delete all my reblogs of their work last week. thank you for caring enough to inform me nonetheless.

66 notesPosted at 08:43am, 05/29/19

vampireapologist:

There are adults commenting that adult/minor, incestuous, and pedophilic ships don’t hurt anyone in the real world, meanwhile I have about thirty asks right now from kids relieved to see everyone in the notes being vocally against this content because they’ve so often been made to feel unsafe by adults in fandom who support that content online so I think that about wraps up that argument. It does affect children, and you should be ashamed, and you can happily unfollow me, thank you.

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from auguralsanguinary-deactivated20
Being an anti has nothing to do with your stances on shipping minors/adults or anything like that. An anti is someone who will either outright attack someone for shipping something or goes into a ship tag that they don’t approve of and either put hate there or something nsfw imagery. Essentially if your a ship and let ship person, nmw u ship ur not an anti, but if u deliberately go after peeps who ship ur NOTP and attack them an stuff, ur an anti. Idk if u care but I just thought I’d clear it up
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Okay but I’m not ship and let ship when it involves minor/adult pairings. Minor/adult ships are my NOTP and I do think minor/adult pairings and the people producing that content should be actively shamed out of fandom spaces so. by definition if that makes me an anti I’m cool with that.

Okay but I’m not ship and let ship when it involves minor/adult pairings. Minor/adult ships are my NOTP and I do think minor/adult pairings and the people producing that content should be actively shamed out of fandom spaces so. by definition if that makes me an anti I’m cool with that.

vampireapologist:

vampireapologist:

I don’t know if this is deliberate or not, but I really want to call attention to the way this is worded to make it look like people who ship inherently unacceptable pairings are the goods guys who are victims of unprovocated attacks.

People who ignore pedophilic ships are the good guys. “Ship and let ship,” no matter what. They believe we can all coexist in the same fandom space and have a good time.

But the people who are actively against pedophilic, incestuous, etc ships and who seek out the adults producing that content? Those are “antis,” the bad guys.

And then the genius of it is that the “anti” label is also used for people who ARE actually just plain old jerks and who attack people just because they’re shipping something that IS innocent that they don’t like.

So the word used to label people against pedophilia is also used for people who are being mean for no reason, thus grouping them together and making it possible to invalidate the first group.

“OP is an anti.” People who understand anti to mean “attacks people who don’t agree with their ships” will understandably think “wow, OP is a jerk!” And they may not look any further and discover OP actually only actively shames people who ship pedophilia, incest, etc.

These same people use excuses such as mental illness, their own history of abuse, etc. to argue that they cannot be shamed for their content, because it’s discrimination against them.

They are using concepts of social justice and bigotry to their advantage to rearrange the situation so that they are the victims.

So actually let’s stop calling people against minor/adult shipping content “antis” and just call them “Correct.”

People are really like “: ( oh I have to unfollow you now.”

Good! If you disagree with what I’ve said here, unfollow me. You are Not going to win me over. No argument about how fiction does or doesn’t affect the real world, no link to some post about shipping as coping mechanisms, and nothing you have to say is going to change my mind on this.

I am not going to have a civil discussion with you about why you think it’s okay to ship incest, adult/minors, pedophilia, etc. If you think that makes me unreasonable, I am okay with that.

Not to sound petty and stuck-up, but I have a larger platform than your weird “pedophilia shipping is ok” fanblog will ever have, and I am more than happy to use it to make this opinion known, and I will not miss you. I don’t even check my follower count anymore. I will not notice you leave. You’re not the winner. Thank you.

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barduils:

“let people enjoy things” is a legitimate criticism of a lot of people on this website who structure their entire personality around hating harmless things other people like just because they’re popular and/or they don’t like those things personally and feel like they need to justify that hatred to everyone by posting about how terrible it and the people who like it are but it’s impossible to use unironically or trust anyone who does because it’s always used as a defence for the most reprehensible content and behaviour imaginable

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2,213 notesReblogged at 12:33am, 03/29/19
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this shouldn’t be a controversial opinion but if a character is designed to look like or played by a minor despite being old enough to be considered a legal adult then you shouldn’t be attracted to or sexualise them

233 notesPosted at 06:12pm, 03/03/19

bigskydreaming:

funereal-disease:

funereal-disease:

Do fanfic discoursers ever…read anything other than fanfiction? Like, I feel like it’s only possible to be this horrified by problematic fanworks if you’ve never actually read a book.

Then again, if your only engagement with media is Marvel movies, that explains a lot about why you’d be so blindsided by anything that smacks of moral complexity.

Do they know what’s in books? Or do they sincerely think that all media has the emotional and thematic depth of a PG-13 blockbuster franchise, and naughty fandom pervs are introducing previously unprecedented elements to this uniformly tepid world?

The presence of moral complexity in the world does not negate the presence of things that are absent of morality completely.

There is no moral complexity, nor emotional or thematic depth in works that are aimed entirely at getting readers off to works of pedophilia. There’s nothing redemptive or worth engaging with in works that applaud and celebrate racism mindlessly, rather than examine it for what it is.

Then again, if your only engagement with other members of fandom is with those who share your faux-intellectual elitist stance that an appreciation for the ‘controversial’ is a sign of sophistication, that explains a lot about why you’re so far from the actual ballpark of where people are actually coming from with this ‘discourse.’

Like good fucking god, lol, how freaking tone deaf do you have to be to think that what you’ve presented here is a sizzling hot take that cut to the heart of the matter?

Fans of color, survivors, etc: *criticize fanworks that are mired in racism and pedophilia, rape and abuse apologism, condemn the widespread creation of such works and how they’re presented in the context of narratives that uphold, validate and even glorify or romanticize them, rather than critique or examine*

You: Oh I see what’s going on here, its cuz you’re all so sheltered and only read and watch entertainment-lite like Marvel movies, you can’t appreciate that there’s more darkness in the world than what you’d find there, and that’s what these fanworks are about.

Fans of color, survivors, all of whom who y’know….deal with racism, trauma, etc, daily: Ummm….yeah that checks out, sure.

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from Anonymous
lmao wasnt there pedophile stuff going on with gaud or at the very least like, conflict or harm done to minors online

as far as i’m aware they’re not a pedophile and i’m not going to throw an accusation that serious around but i do know for a fact that they suggested their followers draw nsfw art of them and didn’t specify that minors shouldn’t draw it, which led to them receiving submissions from minors that they published, and although they later deleted them, it was still poor handling of the situation by not doing a more thorough background check before posting them in the first place, ESPECIALLY since they made that post about how you should check people’s ages when you reblog their selfies

as far as i’m aware they’re not a pedophile and i’m not going to throw an accusation that serious around but i do know for a fact that they suggested their followers draw nsfw art of them and didn’t specify that minors shouldn’t draw it, which led to them receiving submissions from minors that they published, and although they later deleted them, it was still poor handling of the situation by not doing a more thorough background check before posting them in the first place, ESPECIALLY since they made that post about how you should check people’s ages when you reblog their selfies

32 notesPosted at 12:38am, 01/05/19
from Anonymous
Listen tho. Not to b someone who Enjoys fan fiction but all this movie will do is solidify general opinion that fan fiction writing is Bad and Stupid and For Silly People. Like there are some genuinely good fics out there that would make a decent movie!! But the fact that they've chosen that heap of problematic shit to make a movie out of is condemning fan fiction writer who put effort into their work, and were only just getting due recognition in the internet age. Anyway

there’s nothing wrong with enjoying GOOD fanfiction that isn’t like, incest or pedophilia or A/B/O mpreg or anything like that, but yeah, making a film based on a mediocre fanfic really isn’t going to do anything good for people’s opinions on the genre

there’s nothing wrong with enjoying GOOD fanfiction that isn’t like, incest or pedophilia or A/B/O mpreg or anything like that, but yeah, making a film based on a mediocre fanfic really isn’t going to do anything good for people’s opinions on the genre

20 notesPosted at 09:51pm, 01/02/19

croshie:

somebody: i think theres definitely a pedophilia problem on ao3 we should address

people who think reading fanfiction is a substitute for a personality:

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