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captain-snark: alljuicedup: secretstudentdragonblog: rmh8402: vi-maxwell-blog: thebaconsandwichofregret: justsparethoughts: zandracourt: shipping-isnt-morality: Good morning! I’m salty. I think we, as a general community, need to start taking this little moment more seriously. This, right here? This is asking for consent. It’s a legal necessity, yes, but it is also you, the reader, actively consenting to see adult content; and in doing so, saying that you are of an age to see it, and that you’re emotionally capable of handling it. You find the content you find behind this warning disgusting, horrifying, upsetting, triggering? You consented. You said you could handle it, and you were able to back out at any time. You take responsibility for yourself when you click through this, and so long as the creator used warnings and tags correctly, you bear full responsibility for its impact on you. “Children are going to lie about their age” is probably true, but that’s the problem of them and the people who are responsible for them, not the people that they lie to. If you’re not prepared to see adult content, created by and for adults, don’t fucking click through this. And if you do, for all that’s holy, don’t blame anyone else for it. This needs to be reblogged today. Consenting to see adult content doesn’t mean you should have to see a bunch of shit romanticizing incest and pedophilia you walnut Except this is the last line of consent before the actual work. So if you’re at this button you have already done the following: 1) chosen to go onto AO3 in the first place 2) chosen the fandom you wish to read about 3) had the chance to filter for the things you do want to see like a specific pairing or a specific AU 4) had the chance to specifically filter out any tags you don’t want to see like, oh I don’t know, incest and non-con and dub-con and paedophilia 5) had the chance to set the rating level if you wish to remove any explicit content at all 6) have read the summary of the story, which aren’t always great but are the only indicator of what the story will be like writing wise so something about it was good enough for you to click on it. 7) have read the tags of the story which will tell you what is actually in the story. If you have used filters to remove stories with things you don’t want then there shouldn’t be anything in here that’s a shock to you but maybe there is. That’s why the tags are there for you to check for yourself. 8) Then you have to actually click on the story. You cannot see anything other than the summary or the tags without personally deciding that you are going to open and read this story. 9) Only here, at step number nine, do you get to the adult content warning pictured above. You have been through eight different steps, the last six of which have also been opportunities for you to see that this has adult content. And AO3 has *STILL* stopped you to ask one last time “are you sure you want to read this because it has things that only adults should see in it”. If after this point you are reading incest and paedophilia then it’s probably because you specifically went looking for it. You walnut. This is the most beautiful thing that I have seen about ao3 Always important!!!!!! Cannot stress ‘you walnut’ enough PROTECT YOURSELF! DO NOT EXPECT STRANGERS ON THE INTERNET TO DO THAT FOR YOU! The internet is an amazing thing, but it has always and always will be dangerous! Not sure when we went from “don’t talk to strangers” to “strangers protect my children”, but that’s just not the case. “dear author whose tags and summaries are not very specific, are there any potential [insert triggers]? Thank you, -[ur handle]” it’s also pretty simple and effective if you are STILL uncertain because YOU having a trigger is a you problem and not a me problem. I don’t have sympathy for the people that take their kids to Deadpool because they didn’t bother to do one iota of research and when the cashier who is going to get yelled at for their mistake informs them of the rating and how it is not appropriate for young audiences and contains xy and z and they still go into the theater only to storm back out demanding compensation monetarily and for emotional damages. We laugh at people like that, right? Cos’ we can see how absurd it is to go into something willfully blind and then complain it isn’t what we expected. No one goes into Hooters and gets shocked by the apparel and if you do its your own fault. And unless you are prepared to hold a tribunal for every single story that contains content you don’t like to judge how immoral it is then stop. You don’t get to decide that what we can and cannot produce or consume. Please, advocate for better filters on other sites and in other ways to ensure people don’t stumble across it accidentally. I don’t want my 6 year old nephew finding some of the things he does on youtube but I also recognize the fact that it is not only not youtube’s responsibility or his but mine. If you are unable to safely monitor yourself seek adult support. That’s not even being salty or sarcastic, i also have a problem seeking out content i know will upset me and that is also a me problem. I know where to find the content and I ignore the many 18+ disturbing content warnings and i look anyway. It’s called self harm. If this sounds like you, it might be indicative of a different problem. -- source link