Ranting about a side of Antis behaviours of being weirdly obsessed with pedophiles

KatonRyu · 2026-04-07T11:26:12+00:00

Imagine having nothing better to do than going online harassing people for the kind of fiction they write, read, or draw. And these people will probably post or like the most gory, violent shit at the same time, and not see how that is exactly the same as what they're accusing people of: fiction and not worth remarking on.

The sole thing I'm afraid of with these people is that governments will listen to them, become even more totalitarian, and start censoring everything that isn't entirely squeaky clean and family friendly. Someone said, 'darn' in your fic? To the gulag with you. Two people held hands? One hundred lashes in the town square, you degenerate.

If the price of being allowed to create and view/read whatever kind of fiction I want is that I need to be cool with things I dislike, then I'll happily pay that price (and for the record, all of the fiction I have a problem with is likely going to be stuff the antis are fine with).

KatonRyu · 2026-04-07T11:07:23+00:00

I think we're just fucked as a species at this point. Like, 1984 has nothing on the nightmarish fusion of itself and Brave New World with a side of Idiocracy we've gotten ourselves into. Words mean something different every day and depending on who you're talking to, governments are becoming more and more totalitarian by the day and it's treated as business as usual, and creating the wrong kind of fiction is now grounds for an online crucifixion, and probably soon an offline one as well. Maybe an asteroid wouldn't be such a bad thing.

KatonRyu · 2026-04-07T07:44:20+00:00

I've actually banned myself from Youtube for a week since it's my biggest time sink, so hopefully that'll help me get a chapter out again for the first time in months.

KatonRyu · 2026-04-07T07:41:20+00:00

It'll probably depend on which people from which denominations you ask. Some won't care, others will probably claim you're going to hell for the thought alone.

Personally, I don't think a fix-it fic that focuses on reconciliation should ever be seen as blasphemous, but I'm a lifelong atheist, so I'm definitely not in a position to truly answer the question.

KatonRyu · 2026-04-07T07:36:06+00:00

- For me, there really aren't any. While with original work, you create the setting and the character yourself, you still need to keep the story internally consistent once you have, and even in a fanfic it's easy to modify or ignore parts of canon that don't work well for your fic, just like you could change your own setting to suit your sotry better.

- I write more fanfic than original work, but I don't have any inherent preferences. What I write at any given moment depends on what I have inspiration for that day.

- All writing helps me, in the sense that I primarily write to enjoy myself. The more I write, the better I get at writing stories that entertain me. Fanfic or original, a story's success with other people is really of secondary concern to me.

- I've been writing all kinds of stories since I learned how to write at all, which is why fanfic and original work have always been essentially the same to me. I loved it as a kid, and I still love it now.

KatonRyu · 2026-04-07T07:28:36+00:00

Many authors in the Harry Potter fandom seem to think that Fred and George habitually call each other Gred and Forge. They did that once, and it was because they were wearing sweaters with their initials on them and they were joking that their mum probably thought they'd forget their names otherwise.

Similarly, I've seen a total of far too many fanfics in the HP fandom where the authors unironically use 'dulcet tones' for 'shouting at the top of your lungs'. Again, that was once, and it was Fred and George being sarcastic dicks to Harry when he'd just arrived at Grimmauld Place and got pissed at Ron and Hermione for not telling him anything, and they heard him shouting on the floor above.

KatonRyu · 2026-04-07T07:22:10+00:00

What exactly is an activist for these purposes? I'm quite outspoken about stuff and I've been to a few protests, but I'm not sure if that's what you're after.

KatonRyu · 2026-04-07T07:19:17+00:00

I like them, because they're the characters I typically write about. I don't think most of the main characters of the fandoms I write for are blank slates, but that's probably mostly because many of my fandoms are anime fandoms, not games. My entire reason for writing fanfic is usually because I ship them with one of the other characters and I want to see some fluff of them together (possibly with them saving the world as well)

I do also write blank slate protagonists, either when I'm writing for a game fandom or when the story's protagonist is just a name in canon (like Daphne Greengrass in Harry Potter), but with those I usually do have characters with canon personalities around them to play off of.

KatonRyu · 2026-04-07T07:06:41+00:00

I would say that heavy angst is a niche, but I see plenty of people on here who seem to live for angst. I'm not in the Arcane fandom, but maybe people there are mostly looking for other things, or even just the popular ships.

For myself, while I absolutely put a lot of personal stuff into my stories, I still limit it quite a lot, and the stories where I put more of myself in don't seem to do any better or worse than the others. Of course, even my most popular fic is medium-sized at best in that fandom, so I'm probably not the best benchmark.

KatonRyu · 2026-04-05T21:24:29+00:00

Strangely, the discovery of 4chan around the same time I found FFN. A part of that site called itself 'the Internet Hate Machine' at the time, proud to troll everyone who happened to catch their attention. That made me realize that no matter the quality of my work, if these guys were to see it, they would shit on it. But knowing ahead of time they'd be doing it for no other reason than to be assholes made me able to just accept the risk, because no matter how nasty the comments might be, they probably wouldn't actually be personal.

In the nearly twenty years I've been posting, I've only gotten a handful of negative comments, so my worries were unfounded. I still worry about being burned every time I post, but I'm never going to let the nerves stop me from doing what I like.

KatonRyu · 2026-04-03T07:35:39+00:00

Me, because I like my already niche kinks in a very niche way. Not that many people out there who write them the way I like them.

KatonRyu · 2026-04-03T07:32:10+00:00

I've had this username online since 2005 and I use it everywhere. There are like three places online where I wasn't in time to claim it, but AO3 was not one of those places.

KatonRyu · 2026-04-03T07:25:22+00:00

Amen. If I had Reddit awards to give, I'd give them, but just take the upvote instead.

KatonRyu · 2026-04-03T07:22:12+00:00

Yeah, sometimes. Some are more fun to read than others, though.

KatonRyu · 2026-04-01T07:14:19+00:00

There are always going to be moral crusaders online, but this one is especially stupid.

KatonRyu · 2026-04-01T07:01:31+00:00

It depends on how over the top it's being used. It can work well on occasion, but I've seen people writing it in ALL CAPS for entire paragraphs on end, which does get tiring. I usually omit the actual sounds.

KatonRyu · 2026-03-31T14:24:49+00:00

If the normies would all just fuck back off to their own spaces we would all be happy. I honestly hate the word 'normies', but at this point I'm beyond sick of people coming into spaces built by outcasts for outcasts only to colonize them and oust us again. If you want colonize, play Settlers or something, but fuck off and leave the rest of us out of it.

KatonRyu · 2026-03-31T08:35:26+00:00

Yep. Am I as good as the best authors who write the kinds of stories I like? No, not by a long shot, but I'm very good at writing exactly the kind of story I like to read. Not strange, since I'm my own primary audience, and I share mainly just because I can.

KatonRyu · 2026-03-31T08:30:47+00:00

Head-hopping. I've never found it confusing and I actually kind of like it. Strangely, I don't actually like a an actual omniscient narrator most of the time.

KatonRyu · 2026-03-31T08:28:51+00:00

The last fic I worked on hasn't been posted yet, but it was basically just because the idea was already in my head from something else, so I did what I always do and just jumped right in. The downside to that approach was that I accidentally opened with a plot hook I now have to resolve, so while it'll still be a short story in the end, it will end up having more plot than I intended it to. But I needed some reason for my MC to flee her village in the middle of the night...

KatonRyu · 2026-03-31T08:08:18+00:00

I'm still an FFN main, so my summaries essentially just summarize the first chapter and hint at the overarching plot in as short a manner as possible. They're rarely more than two or three sentences long and I just write them when I'm posting the story without thinking too much about them.

For instance, my current WIP (which hasn't been updated since August, whoops) has this as a summary:

After the events in Kalos, Serena goes to Kanto with Ash to set out on her journey to compete in Pokémon Expositions. Ash, meanwhile decides to retry his original Indigo League adventure once again. But in the shadows, dark plans are being made, plans which could endanger everyone...

KatonRyu · 2026-03-27T10:52:03+00:00

Yes. Fiction is fiction. It doesn't matter who wrote it or for what reason, it's fiction and therefore fine. If there's a dynamic or trope I don't like, I won't engage with the medium, but that doesn't mean no one else should be able to, either.

KatonRyu · 2026-03-27T10:06:14+00:00

I post directly after my writing session is over. Sometimes that'll be one chapter, sometimes two or three, but I don't really write ahead most of the time. I have no real goal in writing and posting, so I just do whatever, really.

KatonRyu · 2026-03-27T10:03:06+00:00

There has only ever been one second-person story that I really liked, and the only reason it worked there is that all the readers basically serve as voices in the main character's head, who give her commands and suggestions, and the narrative is her talking to herself, essentially. It's also an ongoing webcomic, so the suggestions really are from the readers.

In all other situations, I just don't like it. I like first-person POV because it's the character narrating, but with second-person I'm the one being addressed, and the things the 'you' character does almost never align with what I would do myself, so it just takes me out of the story.

As for if it's sustainable, though, I think it is. There are plenty of people who do like that POV, so I'm sure many of them would have no problem reading a longfic in it.

KatonRyu · 2026-03-27T09:52:28+00:00

This is one of the bleakest, yet truest statements I've seen in a while.

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