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        blizzrhy:

libertarirynn:

dashas-hideous-laughter:

fanburgers:


laizy-boy:


ask-crammaster-ham:


here’s the closeted furries β€œhey man… can u bum me a cig” and β€œthe one uncle nobody invites to the family reunion but SOMEONE keeps telling him where it is anyways”


if you want an idea of what john is like, imagine hau from pokemon sumo
ALSO the ppl who kept asking me for trans thomas art, HERE he’s trans in this au (;Β 
ft John:



I found the original 



Oh wow it’s even worse than I expected. This is truly the post of the decade



Wait, but SUMO came out in 2016, I could’ve sworn I saw this back in 2015.



How fucking dare you. How fucking dare you put this on my dash again. Just when I had eradicated it from my memory you dredge it back up out of the sewers. I will come to your house. I will burn it to the ground. I will end your bloodline.οΏΌ


Wannabe teens pretending to be trans gotta stop making this shit. Is borderline offensive, honestly. Don’t make your characters trans for the sake of it. You’re only using a real and difficult condition to make your characters more β€œinteresting”, it’s not useful to the story or relevant, to you it’s like character being blonde. It’s exactly the same as using rape to add action to an already shitty tale, just DON’T. 


That’s not even the real issue here. The issue is that these guys AREN’T CHARACTERS. They aren’t fucking fictional! They’re real historical people! Some of them were straight up fucking slave ownersοΏΌοΏΌ! β€œWhat if this actual historical person who had a teenage slave concubine was actually a cute black transboi uwu” is literally fucking horrifying.οΏΌ: blizzrhy:

libertarirynn:

dashas-hideous-laughter:

fanburgers:


laizy-boy:


ask-crammaster-ham:


here’s the closeted furries β€œhey man… can u bum me a cig” and β€œthe one uncle nobody invites to the family reunion but SOMEONE keeps telling him where it is anyways”


if you want an idea of what john is like, imagine hau from pokemon sumo
ALSO the ppl who kept asking me for trans thomas art, HERE he’s trans in this au (;Β 
ft John:



I found the original 



Oh wow it’s even worse than I expected. This is truly the post of the decade



Wait, but SUMO came out in 2016, I could’ve sworn I saw this back in 2015.



How fucking dare you. How fucking dare you put this on my dash again. Just when I had eradicated it from my memory you dredge it back up out of the sewers. I will come to your house. I will burn it to the ground. I will end your bloodline.οΏΌ


Wannabe teens pretending to be trans gotta stop making this shit. Is borderline offensive, honestly. Don’t make your characters trans for the sake of it. You’re only using a real and difficult condition to make your characters more β€œinteresting”, it’s not useful to the story or relevant, to you it’s like character being blonde. It’s exactly the same as using rape to add action to an already shitty tale, just DON’T. 


That’s not even the real issue here. The issue is that these guys AREN’T CHARACTERS. They aren’t fucking fictional! They’re real historical people! Some of them were straight up fucking slave ownersοΏΌοΏΌ! β€œWhat if this actual historical person who had a teenage slave concubine was actually a cute black transboi uwu” is literally fucking horrifying.οΏΌ
        

            
            

                
                
                    blizzrhy:

libertarirynn:

dashas-hideous-laughter:

fanburgers:


laizy-boy:


ask-crammaster-ham:


here’s the closeted furries β€œhey man… can u bum me a cig” and β€œthe one uncle nobody invites to the family reunion but SOMEONE keeps telling him where it is anyways”


if you want an idea of what john is like, imagine hau from pokemon sumo
ALSO the ppl who kept asking me for trans thomas art, HERE he’s trans in this au (;Β 
ft John:



I found the original 



Oh wow it’s even worse than I expected. This is truly the post of the decade



Wait, but SUMO came out in 2016, I could’ve sworn I saw this back in 2015.



How fucking dare you. How fucking dare you put this on my dash again. Just when I had eradicated it from my memory you dredge it back up out of the sewers. I will come to your house. I will burn it to the ground. I will end your bloodline.οΏΌ


Wannabe teens pretending to be trans gotta stop making this shit. Is borderline offensive, honestly. Don’t make your characters trans for the sake of it. You’re only using a real and difficult condition to make your characters more β€œinteresting”, it’s not useful to the story or relevant, to you it’s like character being blonde. It’s exactly the same as using rape to add action to an already shitty tale, just DON’T. 


That’s not even the real issue here. The issue is that these guys AREN’T CHARACTERS. They aren’t fucking fictional! They’re real historical people! Some of them were straight up fucking slave ownersοΏΌοΏΌ! β€œWhat if this actual historical person who had a teenage slave concubine was actually a cute black transboi uwu” is literally fucking horrifying.οΏΌ: blizzrhy:

libertarirynn:

dashas-hideous-laughter:

fanburgers:


laizy-boy:


ask-crammaster-ham:


here’s the closeted furries β€œhey man… can u bum me a cig” and β€œthe one uncle nobody invites to the family reunion but SOMEONE keeps telling him where it is anyways”


if you want an idea of what john is like, imagine hau from pokemon sumo
ALSO the ppl who kept asking me for trans thomas art, HERE he’s trans in this au (;Β 
ft John:



I found the original 



Oh wow it’s even worse than I expected. This is truly the post of the decade



Wait, but SUMO came out in 2016, I could’ve sworn I saw this back in 2015.



How fucking dare you. How fucking dare you put this on my dash again. Just when I had eradicated it from my memory you dredge it back up out of the sewers. I will come to your house. I will burn it to the ground. I will end your bloodline.οΏΌ


Wannabe teens pretending to be trans gotta stop making this shit. Is borderline offensive, honestly. Don’t make your characters trans for the sake of it. You’re only using a real and difficult condition to make your characters more β€œinteresting”, it’s not useful to the story or relevant, to you it’s like character being blonde. It’s exactly the same as using rape to add action to an already shitty tale, just DON’T. 


That’s not even the real issue here. The issue is that these guys AREN’T CHARACTERS. They aren’t fucking fictional! They’re real historical people! Some of them were straight up fucking slave ownersοΏΌοΏΌ! β€œWhat if this actual historical person who had a teenage slave concubine was actually a cute black transboi uwu” is literally fucking horrifying.οΏΌ
                    
                
            

            
            
        

    

    

        
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        philosophy-and-coffee:
positive-memes:
Caring community
Β  This is the kind of shit people did back in the Depression. When mortgage holds would try to sell a farm, everyone in the community showed up and strong armed any serious bidders away. They had the β€˜penny auction’ tactic, where farmers would bid absurdly small amounts on farm equipment and land (while glaring intensely) until the auctioneer realized they needed to take what they were getting, or get their legs broken. This kind of stuff saved so many farms, they’d buy off 500+ dollar mortgages (which were huge amounts back then) for less than 100 dollars and give it back to the farm owners. 
Β Β  The lesson to take away is that only direct action and community organizing can help in such dire times. 
: philosophy-and-coffee:
positive-memes:
Caring community
Β  This is the kind of shit people did back in the Depression. When mortgage holds would try to sell a farm, everyone in the community showed up and strong armed any serious bidders away. They had the β€˜penny auction’ tactic, where farmers would bid absurdly small amounts on farm equipment and land (while glaring intensely) until the auctioneer realized they needed to take what they were getting, or get their legs broken. This kind of stuff saved so many farms, they’d buy off 500+ dollar mortgages (which were huge amounts back then) for less than 100 dollars and give it back to the farm owners. 
Β Β  The lesson to take away is that only direct action and community organizing can help in such dire times. 

        

            
            

                
                
                    philosophy-and-coffee:
positive-memes:
Caring community
Β  This is the kind of shit people did back in the Depression. When mortgage holds would try to sell a farm, everyone in the community showed up and strong armed any serious bidders away. They had the β€˜penny auction’ tactic, where farmers would bid absurdly small amounts on farm equipment and land (while glaring intensely) until the auctioneer realized they needed to take what they were getting, or get their legs broken. This kind of stuff saved so many farms, they’d buy off 500+ dollar mortgages (which were huge amounts back then) for less than 100 dollars and give it back to the farm owners. 
Β Β  The lesson to take away is that only direct action and community organizing can help in such dire times. 
: philosophy-and-coffee:
positive-memes:
Caring community
Β  This is the kind of shit people did back in the Depression. When mortgage holds would try to sell a farm, everyone in the community showed up and strong armed any serious bidders away. They had the β€˜penny auction’ tactic, where farmers would bid absurdly small amounts on farm equipment and land (while glaring intensely) until the auctioneer realized they needed to take what they were getting, or get their legs broken. This kind of stuff saved so many farms, they’d buy off 500+ dollar mortgages (which were huge amounts back then) for less than 100 dollars and give it back to the farm owners. 
Β Β  The lesson to take away is that only direct action and community organizing can help in such dire times. 

                    
                
            

            
            
        

    

    

        
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        yespumpkindoodlesthings:
ruffboijuliaburnsides:

veterinaryrambles:

vaspider:

teamvoorhees:

animal-factbook:

Dog owners please be aware.

REBLOG THIS PLEASE


This is Snopes-confirmed. Also be aware this is very common in sugar free food of many kinds. The retriever puppy who I know of who died of xylitol poisoning got hold of a pack of sugar-free gum.


Always good to remind folks - if it has xylitol, KEEP IT AWAY FROM DOGS!  It induces profound hypoglycemia and liver failure and is life-threatening :(



Xylitol is also the typical ingredient in sugar free candies and some baked goods. Other names, if you’re checking labels:
What other names is Xylitol known by? Birch Sugar, E967, Meso-Xylitol, MΓ©so-Xylitol, Sucre de Bouleau, Xilitol, Xylit, Xylite, Xylo-pentane-1,2,3,4,5-pentol.
A list of brands and products containing xylitol
: Peanut Butter Alert for Your Pets
 A new type of peanut butter (and other nut
 butters) is being sold with less sugar, but now
 includes xylitol as a sweetener. That is what is
 used in sugarless gum and it can be deadly to
 dogs. Many people use peanut butter as a dog
 treat, or to fill a Kong, or disguise medications;
 if they now use the type with xylitol, it could be
 very dangerous.
yespumpkindoodlesthings:
ruffboijuliaburnsides:

veterinaryrambles:

vaspider:

teamvoorhees:

animal-factbook:

Dog owners please be aware.

REBLOG THIS PLEASE


This is Snopes-confirmed. Also be aware this is very common in sugar free food of many kinds. The retriever puppy who I know of who died of xylitol poisoning got hold of a pack of sugar-free gum.


Always good to remind folks - if it has xylitol, KEEP IT AWAY FROM DOGS!  It induces profound hypoglycemia and liver failure and is life-threatening :(



Xylitol is also the typical ingredient in sugar free candies and some baked goods. Other names, if you’re checking labels:
What other names is Xylitol known by? Birch Sugar, E967, Meso-Xylitol, MΓ©so-Xylitol, Sucre de Bouleau, Xilitol, Xylit, Xylite, Xylo-pentane-1,2,3,4,5-pentol.
A list of brands and products containing xylitol

        

            
            

                
                
                    yespumpkindoodlesthings:
ruffboijuliaburnsides:

veterinaryrambles:

vaspider:

teamvoorhees:

animal-factbook:

Dog owners please be aware.

REBLOG THIS PLEASE


This is Snopes-confirmed. Also be aware this is very common in sugar free food of many kinds. The retriever puppy who I know of who died of xylitol poisoning got hold of a pack of sugar-free gum.


Always good to remind folks - if it has xylitol, KEEP IT AWAY FROM DOGS!  It induces profound hypoglycemia and liver failure and is life-threatening :(



Xylitol is also the typical ingredient in sugar free candies and some baked goods. Other names, if you’re checking labels:
What other names is Xylitol known by? Birch Sugar, E967, Meso-Xylitol, MΓ©so-Xylitol, Sucre de Bouleau, Xilitol, Xylit, Xylite, Xylo-pentane-1,2,3,4,5-pentol.
A list of brands and products containing xylitol
: Peanut Butter Alert for Your Pets
 A new type of peanut butter (and other nut
 butters) is being sold with less sugar, but now
 includes xylitol as a sweetener. That is what is
 used in sugarless gum and it can be deadly to
 dogs. Many people use peanut butter as a dog
 treat, or to fill a Kong, or disguise medications;
 if they now use the type with xylitol, it could be
 very dangerous.
yespumpkindoodlesthings:
ruffboijuliaburnsides:

veterinaryrambles:

vaspider:

teamvoorhees:

animal-factbook:

Dog owners please be aware.

REBLOG THIS PLEASE


This is Snopes-confirmed. Also be aware this is very common in sugar free food of many kinds. The retriever puppy who I know of who died of xylitol poisoning got hold of a pack of sugar-free gum.


Always good to remind folks - if it has xylitol, KEEP IT AWAY FROM DOGS!  It induces profound hypoglycemia and liver failure and is life-threatening :(



Xylitol is also the typical ingredient in sugar free candies and some baked goods. Other names, if you’re checking labels:
What other names is Xylitol known by? Birch Sugar, E967, Meso-Xylitol, MΓ©so-Xylitol, Sucre de Bouleau, Xilitol, Xylit, Xylite, Xylo-pentane-1,2,3,4,5-pentol.
A list of brands and products containing xylitol

                    
                
            

            
                
                
yespumpkindoodlesthings:
ruffboijuliaburnsides:

veterinaryrambles:

vaspider:

teamvoorhees:

animal-factbook:

Dog owners please be awa...

                
            
            
        

    

    

        
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        biff-donderglutes:

poblacht-na-n-oibrithe:
solarpunkcast:


aestheticandpolitik:

crownedpatriot:

rupertmacgregor:


Radical abolitionist John Brown.
β€œHis zeal in the cause of freedom was infinitely superior to mine. Mine was as the taper light, his was as the burning sun. Mine was bounded by time. His stretched away to the silent shores of eternity. I could speak for the slave. John Brown could fight for the slave. I could live for the slave. John Brown could die for the slave.”-Frederick Douglass


People be forgetting this man went to people’s homes and killed them

Slave owners aren’t people


They forfeitted that distinction when they decided to enslave and dehumanize other people to the extent of creating slave husbandry and handbooks on how to best β€œhandle” them


I think that John Brown breaking into people’s homes and killing them was very brave and sexy of him, personally

where else should he have gone to kill them??: biff-donderglutes:

poblacht-na-n-oibrithe:
solarpunkcast:


aestheticandpolitik:

crownedpatriot:

rupertmacgregor:


Radical abolitionist John Brown.
β€œHis zeal in the cause of freedom was infinitely superior to mine. Mine was as the taper light, his was as the burning sun. Mine was bounded by time. His stretched away to the silent shores of eternity. I could speak for the slave. John Brown could fight for the slave. I could live for the slave. John Brown could die for the slave.”-Frederick Douglass


People be forgetting this man went to people’s homes and killed them

Slave owners aren’t people


They forfeitted that distinction when they decided to enslave and dehumanize other people to the extent of creating slave husbandry and handbooks on how to best β€œhandle” them


I think that John Brown breaking into people’s homes and killing them was very brave and sexy of him, personally

where else should he have gone to kill them??
        

            
            

                
                
                    biff-donderglutes:

poblacht-na-n-oibrithe:
solarpunkcast:


aestheticandpolitik:

crownedpatriot:

rupertmacgregor:


Radical abolitionist John Brown.
β€œHis zeal in the cause of freedom was infinitely superior to mine. Mine was as the taper light, his was as the burning sun. Mine was bounded by time. His stretched away to the silent shores of eternity. I could speak for the slave. John Brown could fight for the slave. I could live for the slave. John Brown could die for the slave.”-Frederick Douglass


People be forgetting this man went to people’s homes and killed them

Slave owners aren’t people


They forfeitted that distinction when they decided to enslave and dehumanize other people to the extent of creating slave husbandry and handbooks on how to best β€œhandle” them


I think that John Brown breaking into people’s homes and killing them was very brave and sexy of him, personally

where else should he have gone to kill them??: biff-donderglutes:

poblacht-na-n-oibrithe:
solarpunkcast:


aestheticandpolitik:

crownedpatriot:

rupertmacgregor:


Radical abolitionist John Brown.
β€œHis zeal in the cause of freedom was infinitely superior to mine. Mine was as the taper light, his was as the burning sun. Mine was bounded by time. His stretched away to the silent shores of eternity. I could speak for the slave. John Brown could fight for the slave. I could live for the slave. John Brown could die for the slave.”-Frederick Douglass


People be forgetting this man went to people’s homes and killed them

Slave owners aren’t people


They forfeitted that distinction when they decided to enslave and dehumanize other people to the extent of creating slave husbandry and handbooks on how to best β€œhandle” them


I think that John Brown breaking into people’s homes and killing them was very brave and sexy of him, personally

where else should he have gone to kill them??
                    
                
            

            
            
        

    

    

        
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        wetwareproblem:
wrangletangle:

zoe2213414:

eabevella:

naryrising:

You can read the post hereΒ for more info, but I wanted to just add a bit about what this entails from my POV, on the Support team.Β  Somewhere between ΒΌ to 1/3 of all our tickets last month were in Chinese (somewhere upwards of 300 out of 1200 or so), almost all from users just setting up their accounts or trying to find out how to get an invitation.Β  A lot of the tickets are what I’d characterize asΒ β€œintro” tickets - they say hi, list favourite fandoms or pairings, or provide samples of fic they’ve written. Although this isn’t necessary on AO3, this is not uncommon in Chinese fandom sites that you have to prove your credentials to get in (in fact it wasn’t uncommon in English-language fandom sites 15-20 years ago).Β  We respond to all of these tickets, even the ones that just say hi.Β  We check whether the user has managed to receive their invite or get their account sent up, and if they haven’t, we help them do so.Β  This means taking every single ticket through our Chinese translation team twice, once so we make sure we understand the initial ticket, and then again to translate our reply.Β 
This is a challenging process, although we’ve found ways to streamline it and can normally get a reply out pretty quickly (like within a few days).Β  We do it because this is part of why AO3 exists in the first place - to provide a safe haven where users can post their works without worrying about censorship or sudden crackdowns on certain kinds of content.Β  We do it because this is important, and helping these users get their accounts and be able to share their works safely is why we’re here.Β  We hope that we’ll be able to help as many of them as possible.Β Β 
There have been a few (thankfully few, that I’ve seen) complaints about these new AO3 users not always knowing how things work - what language to tag with, or what fandom tags to use, for instance.Β  To this I would say:
1. Have patience and be considerate.Β  They are coming to a new site that they aren’t familiar with, and using it in a language they may not be expert in, and it might take a while to learn the ropes.Β  You can filter out works tagged in Chinese if you don’t want to see them.Β  Or just scroll past.Β Β 
2. You can report works tagged with the wrong language or the wrong fandom to our Policy and Abuse team using the link at the bottom of any page.Β  This will not cause the authors toΒ β€œget in trouble” (a concern I’ve heard before, as people are reluctant to report for these reasons).Β  It means the Policy and Abuse team will contact them to ask them to change the language/fandom tag, and if the creator doesn’t, they can edit it directly.Β 
If you remember Strikethrough or the FF.net porn ban or similar purges, please keep them in mind and consider that these users are going through something similar or potentially worse.Β  This is why AO3 exists.Β  We are doing our best to try and help make the transition smooth.Β Β 

I am a Taiwanese and I’d like to put some context behind the recent influx of China based AO3 users.
China is tightening their freedom of speech in recent years after Xi has became the chairman (he even canceled the 10 years long term of service of chairman, meaning he can stay as the leader of China as long as he lives–he has became a dictator). 
They censor words that are deemed β€œsensitive”, you can’t type anything to criticize the chinise government. Big social media platform won’t even post the posts containing sensitive words. You don’t have the freedom of publish books without the books being approved by the government either.
To disguise this whole Ninety Eighty-Four nightmare, they started to pick on the easy target: the women and the minorities (China is getting more and more misogynistic as a result of the government trying to control their male population through encouraging them to control the female population through β€œchinese tradition family value” but that’s another story). 
Last year, the chinese government arrested a woman who is a famous yaoi/BL novel writer named 倩一 and sentenced her 10 years in jail for β€œselling obscene publications” and β€œillegal publication” (she’s not the only BL writer who got arrested. Meanwhile, multiple cases where men raped women only get about 2 years of jail time in China). It’s a warning to anyone who want to publish anything that’s β€œnot approved” by the government that they can literally ruin you.Β  
Just recently the chinese government β€œcontacted” website owners of one of their largest romance/yaoi/slash fiction sites 
ζ™‰ζ±Ÿ

and announced that for now on, for the sake of a Clean Society, they can’t write anything that’s slightly β€œobscene”. No sex scene, no sexual interaction, they can’t even write any bodily interaction below neck (I’m not kidding here). 
But that’s not their actual goal. They also listed other restriction such as: can’t write anything that’s about the government, the military, the police, β€œsensitive history”, β€œrace problems”, which is… you basically can’t write anything that might be used as a tool to criticize the government (as many novels did). 
This recent development really hurt the chinese fanfic writers. They can’t write anything without the fear of being put on the guillotine by the government to show their control. Most of them don’t even think that deep politically, they just want to write slash fictions. But there are no platform safe in China, that’s why the sudden influx of chinese users to AO3. 
I bet it won’t be long before AO3 got banned in China, but until then, be a little bit patient to them. As much as I hate the chinese government, I pity their people. 


I’m crying so loud…As a Chinese, you don’t know how your kindness meant to us. When I’m young, I read 1984, and I thought this story is so unrealistic, but now, it’s getting tougher and tougher for fanfic and the writer in China. Thank you ao3. Thank you for the people who care about Chinese people. (hope I didn’t spell anything wrong)

The OTW’s account on Weibo, the biggest Chinese social media site, is
 constantly fielding questions from Chinese users about how to get 
invitations, how to post, all of it. Chinese fans deeply want to learn 
how to use AO3. The difference between Lofter’s posting system and AO3β€²s
 is perhaps even wider than the gulf between Tumblr and AO3. But imagine
 if you had to navigate across that gap in a language you didn’t speak, 
using translation programs that don’t understand fan terminology.
This is exactly
 what the AO3 was built to deal with. We just didn’t get a chance to get
 the internationalization done first, so things may be bumpy for a 
while. We are all part of fandom, so let’s take care not to leave 
anyone out.


Just in case it isn’t clear to anyone? This. This right here is precisely why the AO3 doesn’t police content or remove things that are icky or obscene.
Because it’s not you who defines what’s obscene. It’s the authorities.
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 May 2019 Newsletter, Volume 135
 Published: Thu 13 Jun 2019 01:03PM 03 Comments: 4
 Recently, the Archive of Our Own has received an influx of
 new Chinese users, a result of tightening content restrictions
 on other platforms. We would like to extend our warmest
 welcome to them, and remind everyone that our committees
 are working to make AO3 as accessible as possible in
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zoe2213414:

eabevella:

naryrising:

You can read the post hereΒ for more info, but I wanted to just add a bit about what this entails from my POV, on the Support team.Β  Somewhere between ΒΌ to 1/3 of all our tickets last month were in Chinese (somewhere upwards of 300 out of 1200 or so), almost all from users just setting up their accounts or trying to find out how to get an invitation.Β  A lot of the tickets are what I’d characterize asΒ β€œintro” tickets - they say hi, list favourite fandoms or pairings, or provide samples of fic they’ve written. Although this isn’t necessary on AO3, this is not uncommon in Chinese fandom sites that you have to prove your credentials to get in (in fact it wasn’t uncommon in English-language fandom sites 15-20 years ago).Β  We respond to all of these tickets, even the ones that just say hi.Β  We check whether the user has managed to receive their invite or get their account sent up, and if they haven’t, we help them do so.Β  This means taking every single ticket through our Chinese translation team twice, once so we make sure we understand the initial ticket, and then again to translate our reply.Β 
This is a challenging process, although we’ve found ways to streamline it and can normally get a reply out pretty quickly (like within a few days).Β  We do it because this is part of why AO3 exists in the first place - to provide a safe haven where users can post their works without worrying about censorship or sudden crackdowns on certain kinds of content.Β  We do it because this is important, and helping these users get their accounts and be able to share their works safely is why we’re here.Β  We hope that we’ll be able to help as many of them as possible.Β Β 
There have been a few (thankfully few, that I’ve seen) complaints about these new AO3 users not always knowing how things work - what language to tag with, or what fandom tags to use, for instance.Β  To this I would say:
1. Have patience and be considerate.Β  They are coming to a new site that they aren’t familiar with, and using it in a language they may not be expert in, and it might take a while to learn the ropes.Β  You can filter out works tagged in Chinese if you don’t want to see them.Β  Or just scroll past.Β Β 
2. You can report works tagged with the wrong language or the wrong fandom to our Policy and Abuse team using the link at the bottom of any page.Β  This will not cause the authors toΒ β€œget in trouble” (a concern I’ve heard before, as people are reluctant to report for these reasons).Β  It means the Policy and Abuse team will contact them to ask them to change the language/fandom tag, and if the creator doesn’t, they can edit it directly.Β 
If you remember Strikethrough or the FF.net porn ban or similar purges, please keep them in mind and consider that these users are going through something similar or potentially worse.Β  This is why AO3 exists.Β  We are doing our best to try and help make the transition smooth.Β Β 

I am a Taiwanese and I’d like to put some context behind the recent influx of China based AO3 users.
China is tightening their freedom of speech in recent years after Xi has became the chairman (he even canceled the 10 years long term of service of chairman, meaning he can stay as the leader of China as long as he lives–he has became a dictator). 
They censor words that are deemed β€œsensitive”, you can’t type anything to criticize the chinise government. Big social media platform won’t even post the posts containing sensitive words. You don’t have the freedom of publish books without the books being approved by the government either.
To disguise this whole Ninety Eighty-Four nightmare, they started to pick on the easy target: the women and the minorities (China is getting more and more misogynistic as a result of the government trying to control their male population through encouraging them to control the female population through β€œchinese tradition family value” but that’s another story). 
Last year, the chinese government arrested a woman who is a famous yaoi/BL novel writer named 倩一 and sentenced her 10 years in jail for β€œselling obscene publications” and β€œillegal publication” (she’s not the only BL writer who got arrested. Meanwhile, multiple cases where men raped women only get about 2 years of jail time in China). It’s a warning to anyone who want to publish anything that’s β€œnot approved” by the government that they can literally ruin you.Β  
Just recently the chinese government β€œcontacted” website owners of one of their largest romance/yaoi/slash fiction sites 
ζ™‰ζ±Ÿ

and announced that for now on, for the sake of a Clean Society, they can’t write anything that’s slightly β€œobscene”. No sex scene, no sexual interaction, they can’t even write any bodily interaction below neck (I’m not kidding here). 
But that’s not their actual goal. They also listed other restriction such as: can’t write anything that’s about the government, the military, the police, β€œsensitive history”, β€œrace problems”, which is… you basically can’t write anything that might be used as a tool to criticize the government (as many novels did). 
This recent development really hurt the chinese fanfic writers. They can’t write anything without the fear of being put on the guillotine by the government to show their control. Most of them don’t even think that deep politically, they just want to write slash fictions. But there are no platform safe in China, that’s why the sudden influx of chinese users to AO3. 
I bet it won’t be long before AO3 got banned in China, but until then, be a little bit patient to them. As much as I hate the chinese government, I pity their people. 


I’m crying so loud…As a Chinese, you don’t know how your kindness meant to us. When I’m young, I read 1984, and I thought this story is so unrealistic, but now, it’s getting tougher and tougher for fanfic and the writer in China. Thank you ao3. Thank you for the people who care about Chinese people. (hope I didn’t spell anything wrong)

The OTW’s account on Weibo, the biggest Chinese social media site, is
 constantly fielding questions from Chinese users about how to get 
invitations, how to post, all of it. Chinese fans deeply want to learn 
how to use AO3. The difference between Lofter’s posting system and AO3β€²s
 is perhaps even wider than the gulf between Tumblr and AO3. But imagine
 if you had to navigate across that gap in a language you didn’t speak, 
using translation programs that don’t understand fan terminology.
This is exactly
 what the AO3 was built to deal with. We just didn’t get a chance to get
 the internationalization done first, so things may be bumpy for a 
while. We are all part of fandom, so let’s take care not to leave 
anyone out.


Just in case it isn’t clear to anyone? This. This right here is precisely why the AO3 doesn’t police content or remove things that are icky or obscene.
Because it’s not you who defines what’s obscene. It’s the authorities.

        

            
            

                
                
                    wetwareproblem:
wrangletangle:

zoe2213414:

eabevella:

naryrising:

You can read the post hereΒ for more info, but I wanted to just add a bit about what this entails from my POV, on the Support team.Β  Somewhere between ΒΌ to 1/3 of all our tickets last month were in Chinese (somewhere upwards of 300 out of 1200 or so), almost all from users just setting up their accounts or trying to find out how to get an invitation.Β  A lot of the tickets are what I’d characterize asΒ β€œintro” tickets - they say hi, list favourite fandoms or pairings, or provide samples of fic they’ve written. Although this isn’t necessary on AO3, this is not uncommon in Chinese fandom sites that you have to prove your credentials to get in (in fact it wasn’t uncommon in English-language fandom sites 15-20 years ago).Β  We respond to all of these tickets, even the ones that just say hi.Β  We check whether the user has managed to receive their invite or get their account sent up, and if they haven’t, we help them do so.Β  This means taking every single ticket through our Chinese translation team twice, once so we make sure we understand the initial ticket, and then again to translate our reply.Β 
This is a challenging process, although we’ve found ways to streamline it and can normally get a reply out pretty quickly (like within a few days).Β  We do it because this is part of why AO3 exists in the first place - to provide a safe haven where users can post their works without worrying about censorship or sudden crackdowns on certain kinds of content.Β  We do it because this is important, and helping these users get their accounts and be able to share their works safely is why we’re here.Β  We hope that we’ll be able to help as many of them as possible.Β Β 
There have been a few (thankfully few, that I’ve seen) complaints about these new AO3 users not always knowing how things work - what language to tag with, or what fandom tags to use, for instance.Β  To this I would say:
1. Have patience and be considerate.Β  They are coming to a new site that they aren’t familiar with, and using it in a language they may not be expert in, and it might take a while to learn the ropes.Β  You can filter out works tagged in Chinese if you don’t want to see them.Β  Or just scroll past.Β Β 
2. You can report works tagged with the wrong language or the wrong fandom to our Policy and Abuse team using the link at the bottom of any page.Β  This will not cause the authors toΒ β€œget in trouble” (a concern I’ve heard before, as people are reluctant to report for these reasons).Β  It means the Policy and Abuse team will contact them to ask them to change the language/fandom tag, and if the creator doesn’t, they can edit it directly.Β 
If you remember Strikethrough or the FF.net porn ban or similar purges, please keep them in mind and consider that these users are going through something similar or potentially worse.Β  This is why AO3 exists.Β  We are doing our best to try and help make the transition smooth.Β Β 

I am a Taiwanese and I’d like to put some context behind the recent influx of China based AO3 users.
China is tightening their freedom of speech in recent years after Xi has became the chairman (he even canceled the 10 years long term of service of chairman, meaning he can stay as the leader of China as long as he lives–he has became a dictator). 
They censor words that are deemed β€œsensitive”, you can’t type anything to criticize the chinise government. Big social media platform won’t even post the posts containing sensitive words. You don’t have the freedom of publish books without the books being approved by the government either.
To disguise this whole Ninety Eighty-Four nightmare, they started to pick on the easy target: the women and the minorities (China is getting more and more misogynistic as a result of the government trying to control their male population through encouraging them to control the female population through β€œchinese tradition family value” but that’s another story). 
Last year, the chinese government arrested a woman who is a famous yaoi/BL novel writer named 倩一 and sentenced her 10 years in jail for β€œselling obscene publications” and β€œillegal publication” (she’s not the only BL writer who got arrested. Meanwhile, multiple cases where men raped women only get about 2 years of jail time in China). It’s a warning to anyone who want to publish anything that’s β€œnot approved” by the government that they can literally ruin you.Β  
Just recently the chinese government β€œcontacted” website owners of one of their largest romance/yaoi/slash fiction sites 
ζ™‰ζ±Ÿ

and announced that for now on, for the sake of a Clean Society, they can’t write anything that’s slightly β€œobscene”. No sex scene, no sexual interaction, they can’t even write any bodily interaction below neck (I’m not kidding here). 
But that’s not their actual goal. They also listed other restriction such as: can’t write anything that’s about the government, the military, the police, β€œsensitive history”, β€œrace problems”, which is… you basically can’t write anything that might be used as a tool to criticize the government (as many novels did). 
This recent development really hurt the chinese fanfic writers. They can’t write anything without the fear of being put on the guillotine by the government to show their control. Most of them don’t even think that deep politically, they just want to write slash fictions. But there are no platform safe in China, that’s why the sudden influx of chinese users to AO3. 
I bet it won’t be long before AO3 got banned in China, but until then, be a little bit patient to them. As much as I hate the chinese government, I pity their people. 


I’m crying so loud…As a Chinese, you don’t know how your kindness meant to us. When I’m young, I read 1984, and I thought this story is so unrealistic, but now, it’s getting tougher and tougher for fanfic and the writer in China. Thank you ao3. Thank you for the people who care about Chinese people. (hope I didn’t spell anything wrong)

The OTW’s account on Weibo, the biggest Chinese social media site, is
 constantly fielding questions from Chinese users about how to get 
invitations, how to post, all of it. Chinese fans deeply want to learn 
how to use AO3. The difference between Lofter’s posting system and AO3β€²s
 is perhaps even wider than the gulf between Tumblr and AO3. But imagine
 if you had to navigate across that gap in a language you didn’t speak, 
using translation programs that don’t understand fan terminology.
This is exactly
 what the AO3 was built to deal with. We just didn’t get a chance to get
 the internationalization done first, so things may be bumpy for a 
while. We are all part of fandom, so let’s take care not to leave 
anyone out.


Just in case it isn’t clear to anyone? This. This right here is precisely why the AO3 doesn’t police content or remove things that are icky or obscene.
Because it’s not you who defines what’s obscene. It’s the authorities.
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wetwareproblem:
wrangletangle:

zoe2213414:

eabevella:

naryrising:

You can read the post hereΒ for more info, but I wanted to just add a bit about what this entails from my POV, on the Support team.Β  Somewhere between ΒΌ to 1/3 of all our tickets last month were in Chinese (somewhere upwards of 300 out of 1200 or so), almost all from users just setting up their accounts or trying to find out how to get an invitation.Β  A lot of the tickets are what I’d characterize asΒ β€œintro” tickets - they say hi, list favourite fandoms or pairings, or provide samples of fic they’ve written. Although this isn’t necessary on AO3, this is not uncommon in Chinese fandom sites that you have to prove your credentials to get in (in fact it wasn’t uncommon in English-language fandom sites 15-20 years ago).Β  We respond to all of these tickets, even the ones that just say hi.Β  We check whether the user has managed to receive their invite or get their account sent up, and if they haven’t, we help them do so.Β  This means taking every single ticket through our Chinese translation team twice, once so we make sure we understand the initial ticket, and then again to translate our reply.Β 
This is a challenging process, although we’ve found ways to streamline it and can normally get a reply out pretty quickly (like within a few days).Β  We do it because this is part of why AO3 exists in the first place - to provide a safe haven where users can post their works without worrying about censorship or sudden crackdowns on certain kinds of content.Β  We do it because this is important, and helping these users get their accounts and be able to share their works safely is why we’re here.Β  We hope that we’ll be able to help as many of them as possible.Β Β 
There have been a few (thankfully few, that I’ve seen) complaints about these new AO3 users not always knowing how things work - what language to tag with, or what fandom tags to use, for instance.Β  To this I would say:
1. Have patience and be considerate.Β  They are coming to a new site that they aren’t familiar with, and using it in a language they may not be expert in, and it might take a while to learn the ropes.Β  You can filter out works tagged in Chinese if you don’t want to see them.Β  Or just scroll past.Β Β 
2. You can report works tagged with the wrong language or the wrong fandom to our Policy and Abuse team using the link at the bottom of any page.Β  This will not cause the authors toΒ β€œget in trouble” (a concern I’ve heard before, as people are reluctant to report for these reasons).Β  It means the Policy and Abuse team will contact them to ask them to change the language/fandom tag, and if the creator doesn’t, they can edit it directly.Β 
If you remember Strikethrough or the FF.net porn ban or similar purges, please keep them in mind and consider that these users are going through something similar or potentially worse.Β  This is why AO3 exists.Β  We are doing our best to try and help make the transition smooth.Β Β 

I am a Taiwanese and I’d like to put some context behind the recent influx of China based AO3 users.
China is tightening their freedom of speech in recent years after Xi has became the chairman (he even canceled the 10 years long term of service of chairman, meaning he can stay as the leader of China as long as he lives–he has became a dictator). 
They censor words that are deemed β€œsensitive”, you can’t type anything to criticize the chinise government. Big social media platform won’t even post the posts containing sensitive words. You don’t have the freedom of publish books without the books being approved by the government either.
To disguise this whole Ninety Eighty-Four nightmare, they started to pick on the easy target: the women and the minorities (China is getting more and more misogynistic as a result of the government trying to control their male population through encouraging them to control the female population through β€œchinese tradition family value” but that’s another story). 
Last year, the chinese government arrested a woman who is a famous yaoi/BL novel writer named 倩一 and sentenced her 10 years in jail for β€œselling obscene publications” and β€œillegal publication” (she’s not the only BL writer who got arrested. Meanwhile, multiple cases where men raped women only get about 2 years of jail time in China). It’s a warning to anyone who want to publish anything that’s β€œnot approved” by the government that they can literally ruin you.Β  
Just recently the chinese government β€œcontacted” website owners of one of their largest romance/yaoi/slash fiction sites 
ζ™‰ζ±Ÿ

and announced that for now on, for the sake of a Clean Society, they can’t write anything that’s slightly β€œobscene”. No sex scene, no sexual interaction, they can’t even write any bodily interaction below neck (I’m not kidding here). 
But that’s not their actual goal. They also listed other restriction such as: can’t write anything that’s about the government, the military, the police, β€œsensitive history”, β€œrace problems”, which is… you basically can’t write anything that might be used as a tool to criticize the government (as many novels did). 
This recent development really hurt the chinese fanfic writers. They can’t write anything without the fear of being put on the guillotine by the government to show their control. Most of them don’t even think that deep politically, they just want to write slash fictions. But there are no platform safe in China, that’s why the sudden influx of chinese users to AO3. 
I bet it won’t be long before AO3 got banned in China, but until then, be a little bit patient to them. As much as I hate the chinese government, I pity their people. 


I’m crying so loud…As a Chinese, you don’t know how your kindness meant to us. When I’m young, I read 1984, and I thought this story is so unrealistic, but now, it’s getting tougher and tougher for fanfic and the writer in China. Thank you ao3. Thank you for the people who care about Chinese people. (hope I didn’t spell anything wrong)

The OTW’s account on Weibo, the biggest Chinese social media site, is
 constantly fielding questions from Chinese users about how to get 
invitations, how to post, all of it. Chinese fans deeply want to learn 
how to use AO3. The difference between Lofter’s posting system and AO3β€²s
 is perhaps even wider than the gulf between Tumblr and AO3. But imagine
 if you had to navigate across that gap in a language you didn’t speak, 
using translation programs that don’t understand fan terminology.
This is exactly
 what the AO3 was built to deal with. We just didn’t get a chance to get
 the internationalization done first, so things may be bumpy for a 
while. We are all part of fandom, so let’s take care not to leave 
anyone out.


Just in case it isn’t clear to anyone? This. This right here is precisely why the AO3 doesn’t police content or remove things that are icky or obscene.
Because it’s not you who defines what’s obscene. It’s the authorities.

                    
                
            

            
            
        

    

    

        
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