hello my name is redshoes – and I’m going to be really intense about this ‘Fucking Save AO3 from Idiots’ thing for the next little while.

superhumandisasters:

redshoesnblueskies:

I will be reblogging a lot of posts about the attempts to defund/tarnish/etc. AO3/the OTW that have fucking amazing important content FOR THE FORESEEABLE FUTURE. (tag http://redshoesnblueskies.tumblr.com/search/censorship if you want to find a pile of them)

…frankly if y’all aren’t doing the same, I’m boggled as to WHY NOT – but hey, maybe not everyone gives a shit that fandom would lose our homebase and be instantly opened up to actually quite really large quantities of legal action against us from all sides if AO3 goes down.

Reblog this shit people – we can’t do very much other than vote when it comes to current politics BUT WE CAN SURE AS FUCK DO SOMETHING ABOUT THIS.

STEP UP.  Name the truth about why the attacks on AO3/OTW’s ‘finances’ are happening – it’s fundamentally the same attack made against every fandom space ever: “I find your story-content preference to be amoral and I will take the whole archive down to Defend Purity.”

Name the real reason.  Keep naming it.

If we don’t defend AO3 with every means we have, we don’t deserve to have it.

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fandom history links – read them. this is why we need AO3. this is why we made AO3.

what fanfic, fanworks and fandom were like before AO3, before we had that home, before we had the safety of owning our own spaces (’We have to own the servers’!), and before we had the freakin’ legal help that AO3 gives (can you defend yourself against a ‘fanfic isn’t fair-use’ lawsuit from a motion picture company? cause I know I sure can’t….).

What the OTW is actually like & what it does

How AO3 came to be – wow, great stuff in this one

Why AO3 does not censor

Redshoes has been around the fucking block. So have I. This is the first and probably last time I’ll do this, but I also remember what fandom was like before AO3, and it was much much MUCH MUCH worse.

Don’t be a dumbass who would rather burn your fields to ash before any fruit you might bear gets problematic. 

Also? Don’t ever ever EVER,  E V E R tell other people how to process their trauma. God knows htp fic is scary as hell, and I tagged it for others’ safety, but I wrote it that way on purpose. I WROTE IT THAT WAY ON PURPOSE.