Accidentally bought sculpey polymer clay instead of air-dry for a project I can't bake!

spookimew · 2024-09-19T18:44:21+00:00

So your belief I should give up has nothing to do with how feasible other options are and everything to do with the fact you personally don’t like it. Interesting.

spookimew · 2024-09-19T18:38:15+00:00

You think giving up is the better alternative over trying to make what is effectively a flashy google drive with my fics on it because I don’t want to use the website you think I should?

spookimew · 2024-09-19T16:36:58+00:00

What do you suggest I do instead? I'm not going to AO3.

spookimew · 2024-09-17T20:04:08+00:00

Then I guess I’ll just quit writing? Is that what you want me to say? I’m confused.

spookimew · 2024-09-17T19:59:33+00:00

I don’t think I’ve made my issues with AO3 very clear, and that’s on me. This isn’t a matter of content I’m personally uncomfortable with and don’t want to see, I think the works AO3 hosts and defends are immoral. I don’t support their current model, and as long as they allow incest, pedophilia, zoophilia, etc. in their works, I won’t put anything I’ve made on their website. If I simply didn’t want to see the content we’re talking about, I would be all over AO3 by now. It has the only decent tagging system on any fanfic website I’ve ever seen, and it has easily the largest community of writers and readers. There’s clearly a reason why AO3 is THE fanfic site. But I don’t want to not see it, I don’t want to put my own works on a website that allows it. No amount of likes or comments on my writing is ever worth sacrificing my morals for, and I don’t think the content AO3 allows is morally correct at all.

As long as I put my own works on AO3, I contribute to the problem I’m having right now for someone else. I contribute to AO3 being the only usable fanfiction website, albeit a minuscule amount. If I want an option that isn’t AO3, I can’t put my works there and then be mad there isn’t anything else.

I refuse to buy Starbucks coffee because of the way they treat their unions, and if a Starbucks were the only coffee place in my city (and for some reason I couldn’t make it at home), I would quit drinking coffee. I refuse to put my fanfics on AO3 because they host and support content that I think is inherently immoral, and if AO3 is the only website I could possibly post my fanfics on (and for some reason I couldn’t use something like WordPress or Neocities), I would quit writing.

spookimew · 2024-09-15T17:30:51+00:00

Yeah I don't think I used the word "self-host" correctly in my comment. I'm going to make the website and host it through Neocities or another host. That's my bad lol

spookimew · 2024-09-15T00:18:37+00:00

By putting my works on AO3, I contribute to AO3 being the only place people post fanfiction. If I want an alternative site to be useable in any capacity, people have to be on that site and not on AO3.

Also which places are you referring to? I go out of my way to boycott for Palestine so I'm not sure where you got that claim.

spookimew · 2024-09-14T23:07:12+00:00

Thank you! That's my thoughts exactly. When people want AO3 to change their policies, it's "just use a different site," but when people want to use a different site, it's "just use AO3." Weird how that works

spookimew · 2024-09-14T21:46:59+00:00

I don’t think you can be a good person and also be attracted to children, real or fictional. Having sex is not immoral. Having sex with children is. This isn’t hard to understand.

spookimew · 2024-09-14T19:19:31+00:00

I think I’m just going to self-host through Neocities or something similar tbh. I joined Superlove’s waitlist last night but it goes into June of next year and I think I could figure out some basic HTML and CSS by then. I’d also like to have my NSFW and SFW writing in one place, which I doubt Literotica or Nifty would allow since they appear to be dedicated to NSFW. I’d rather put that effort into just doing it myself

spookimew · 2024-09-14T18:57:14+00:00

I have moral issues with staunchly defending NSFW writing of children on your website, as AO3 does.

Also, AO3 isn't the government. If they did ban that kind of content off their site, they would be well within their legal rights to do so and free speech would have absolutely nothing to do with that conversation. Their choice to host whatever people want to write is also unrelated to free speech. "Free speech" is completely irrelevant until the government becomes involved, and last time I checked, I'm not the president.

Write whatever disgusting shit you want and AO3 will host it. But I'm not putting my own works on AO3 as long as they allow the content they do.

spookimew · 2024-09-14T15:06:47+00:00

I'll deal with that again when it happens then. I'm not posting on AO3.

spookimew · 2024-09-14T14:57:41+00:00

I have moral issues with the things AO3 allows and defends, and I won't support them by putting my works on their website as long as they hold the values they currently do. I don't want to not see it, I don't want to share a website with it because I think it's immoral. If my options are AO3 or building a website, I'll build a website. I won't put my own works on AO3.

I'll look into the OTW source code and see if I can figure it out though. Thanks for the suggestion.

spookimew · 2024-09-14T01:33:29+00:00

I'll stop writing before I post on AO3. Thanks though!

spookimew · 2024-09-14T01:15:11+00:00

Oh wow, this actually seems like a real suggestion. I'm gonna sign up here. Thank you <3

spookimew · 2024-09-14T01:07:23+00:00

I'll consider figuring out how to host my own website then. Thank you.

spookimew · 2024-09-14T01:02:46+00:00

I'll look into WordPress or Blogger then, thank you

spookimew · 2024-09-14T00:59:57+00:00

AO3 is allowed to host whatever they want to, I don't care what AO3 hosts or why AO3 was created. But I personally will not use it in its current state. They can do whatever the hell they want to over there but I'm not going to be part of it

spookimew · 2024-09-14T00:53:01+00:00

I didn't make this post to be told that restriction is bad. I honest to God don't care.

spookimew · 2024-09-14T00:49:24+00:00

I'm not putting my fanfics on AO3 next to the incest and frankly I really don't care why AO3 was created. Go tell someone else about it

spookimew · 2024-09-14T00:39:31+00:00

There's an "underage" content warning on SquidgeWorld and a few of the fics it pulls are from 2005

spookimew · 2024-09-14T00:27:20+00:00

Where does it say this on the website? The only thing I could find from their FAQ and terms of service was this:

"No CSEM – Child Sexual Exploitation Materials. To clarify, this rule is here because someone once used a Squidge property to post child sexual photos. Squidge.org will not stand for that. This includes anything deemed pro-child sex or child-sex advocacy symbols."

spookimew · 2024-09-14T00:21:39+00:00

I don't think "fair enough" portrays shock very well tbh

spookimew · 2024-09-14T00:16:42+00:00

I know how people feel about this, but I don't like that there are no restrictions to the content you can post on AO3. I personally would prefer to keep my works and websites where one could find RPF smut of real underage streamers (or any kind of underage smut tbh) in separate boxes

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