Good to see you defend the good old things in fandom such as non-profit, racism, misogyny, homophobia and rampant rape and abuse apologism. Why is it that fandom never gets to be safe unless you're a straight, white cis woman and that you always act like everyone else just have to sit down, shut up and tolerate how things are run. That we have no right to a voice or an opinion? Because if we speak, we "make you scared of writing things".
One of these things is not like the others. One of these things just doesn’t belooooong. ♪♫
In an era when “abuse apologism” means shipping some Voltron pairing where one of them is in their “late teens”, “rape apologism” means writing sex pollen fic, “homophobia” and “misogyny” are the two sides of the hero/male sidekick vs. hero/female love interest shipwar, and “racism” means focusing more on Poe than on Finn in your stormpilot, it’s important that someone be willing to speak up.
Tumblr is full of fans who can tick off every minority ticky box imaginable but who are still afraid to squee about their ships in public because anonymous assholes will flip out at them for shipping wrong.
I got into fandom when I was 13. It helped me discover my sexuality, and it’s been an important part of my life for over 20 years. I am all for young people getting into fandom if they want to. However, the thing that made fandom so great for me was that older fans were willing to mentor me and tell me what fandom was like in the past. They didn’t tell me I had to do fandom exactly their way, and I’m not here to force people into my way of doing things either. There’s a whole internet out there to play in. If you never want to see a word out of me again, you don’t have to. If AO3′s rules bug you, you are free to found your own archive based on purity principles instead of on inclusiveness.
Fandom is never completely safe, no matter what your demographic. But it can be fun and pleasant instead of a cesspit of hate. The way to make that happen is to ship and let ship and to assume good faith. The way to do that is to promote the things you do like in fandom instead of trying to set fire to the things you don’t.
When I get an anon message like yours, I usually ignore it because it’s so transparently obvious that you aren’t reacting to me. I can be abrasive: there’s plenty to criticize about actual me. But when I get accused of not making fanworks about characters of color or, as in your case, when I get accused of being straight, I know that person is simply stringing together Tumblr’s favorite insults.
Adding “non-profit” to a list of generic badness makes it clear that you’re just angry that AO3 is refusing to compromise its principles and mission to cater to your need for attention. Be more subtle in your trolling next time.
“The way to make that happen is to ship and let ship and to assume good faith. The way to do that is to promote the things you do like in fandom instead of trying to set fire to the things you don’t.”