pathsofpassion:

voltronisbae:

discoursecatharsis:

https://archiveofourown.org/admin_posts/10110

AO3: “We’re updating our search engines so anyone searching can filter out/exclude certain works.”

Everyone: Oh, thank god.

(In all seriousness, I hope a lot of people [antis]use this feature. That way they won’t bitch about how many “enemies to lovers” fanfics are harmful or bitch about ships and other troupes they hate.)

(submitted by @crystallinekai)


NICE, that’s an awesome update! 

A great update to AO3 so please check it out guys!

Looks like it isn’t out yet, at least not on my filters, but exciting 🙂 

@unforth-ninawaters replied to your post “@trisscar368 replied to your post “@trisscar368 replied to your…”

I think a lot of it is picking who to have those.convos with and, if they’re public and random other folks weigh in, who to ignore. Like there are convos I would have with you or triss because I trust you both but i wouldn’t touch with a ten foot pole from a stranger

(Where stranger can mean, someone I’ve seen around fandom and whose username I recognize but who I don’t personally know)

True. There’s not really anything I can do to keep public conversations or ideas from getting picked up by folks I don’t know and don’t want to talk to (aside from blocking, but you never really know who’s gonna be an issue suddenly). So it’s just a matter of finding the right people to have the right conversations with and not getting caught up in stuff I don’t want to be. 

I just get disheartened, I think. I need to fix that. 

@trisscar368 replied to your post “@trisscar368 replied to your post:
If you’re…”

*channels innego montoya and throws a dictionary at fandom*

I occasionally do, but then I have nice conversations with sensible people who drag me through arguments on the physics of tuning methods

don’t rock the boat is an important mantra for fandom but we’ve gotten to a point where we’re mixing up don’t rock the boat for don’t have opinions and attempt to have a  rational discussion about it

Yeah, but like… I dunno. Folks are gonna continue to have the opinions they want to have. Like, some of the crap I’ve seen in the past few weeks along just make me question if it’s even worth it. It’s one thing to have differing opinions, which is usually a good thing imo, but it’s a whole different thing when you go “hey, this is a fact” and people go “I disagree”. 

I’d love to have actual discussions about things but I’m losing my faith that that’s even possible. It’d be easier if we could agree on the basics but… ha!