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whā€¦ā€¦ā€¦.

Hey uh if you go to that blog

And click that link

The binary in the image from the blog post translates to the password you need here which gets you this

And that url takes you here

I donā€™t have any idea what the code on the t-shirt is supposed to be tho


Okay itā€™s a decimal code that translates to tumblr godknowsnone? 


On that blog thereā€™s like a captcha image and a long binary string. Stay tuned!! 


Okay that binary translates to ascii code

Which then translates to this



So when we log in to that email account

Thereā€™s not much there except this vimeo link in the drafts folder



The video is just 19 seconds of a very windy kind of woodsy area with a pond and a shortened url displayed over it


so that link takes you to this youtube video
and if you scroll down theres only one comment
click on the user and they dont have any videos, but their about page has a link
the link takes you to this freetexthost page, but im not sure what this text is code for

ā€œcheck it out then go way backā€
if you go way back to the original blog @nn17gkn
ā€œcbg juj uk fb? Ouppx obpx pbfxc 7xfpb uo jbq? bapā€ is the first post
using this cypher that post translates to:
You did it now Gimme some money venmo is docworm

ok but they posted something new.
if you use the same website from before, it converts to
ā€œThanks for playing how about round two this is a gays only event hettys need not applyā€œ(first of all fuckin amazing)
but then the link leads you to this picture
which honestly idk what to do with, someone continue this.

thanks for adding this!!!!! i started looking into it
so if you brighten that image super high theres a link on the left side
that link takes you to a freetexthost page with this vimeo link:Ā https://vimeo.com/277172453
the way the camera focuses in this video is morse code and me and @bitchfaceā€”mcgee translated it to:Ā tmdlrrecurring17
we have no idea what this means and weā€™re stuck, if someone knows what this could be pls add on !!!!!


Itā€™s still going y'all!!!! 



I might be wrong but I think y'all mightā€™ve mistranslated the Morse code. It might say tumblr recurring17 


WE GOT FUCKING PLAYED AGAIN DKCNFSLXKFNRMDCKFNDMXKCNXNFJSLSSJ


The Old God that runs the internet 


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gaycholita:


sickly-momo:

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gaycholita:

postmarxed:

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postmarxed:


moosers:

whā€¦ā€¦ā€¦.

Hey uh if you go to that blog

And click that link

The binary in the image from the blog post translates to the password you need here which gets you this

And that url takes you here

I donā€™t have any idea what the code on the t-shirt is supposed to be tho


Okay itā€™s a decimal code that translates to tumblr godknowsnone? 


On that blog thereā€™s like a captcha image and a long binary string. Stay tuned!! 


Okay that binary translates to ascii code

Which then translates to this



So when we log in to that email account

Thereā€™s not much there except this vimeo link in the drafts folder



The video is just 19 seconds of a very windy kind of woodsy area with a pond and a shortened url displayed over it


so that link takes you to this youtube video
and if you scroll down theres only one comment
click on the user and they dont have any videos, but their about page has a link
the link takes you to this freetexthost page, but im not sure what this text is code for

ā€œcheck it out then go way backā€
if you go way back to the original blog @nn17gkn
ā€œcbg juj uk fb? Ouppx obpx pbfxc 7xfpb uo jbq? bapā€ is the first post
using this cypher that post translates to:
You did it now Gimme some money venmo is docworm

ok but they posted something new.
if you use the same website from before, it converts to
ā€œThanks for playing how about round two this is a gays only event hettys need not applyā€œ(first of all fuckin amazing)
but then the link leads you to this picture
which honestly idk what to do with, someone continue this.

thanks for adding this!!!!! i started looking into it
so if you brighten that image super high theres a link on the left side
that link takes you to a freetexthost page with this vimeo link:Ā https://vimeo.com/277172453
the way the camera focuses in this video is morse code and me and @bitchfaceā€”mcgee translated it to:Ā tmdlrrecurring17
we have no idea what this means and weā€™re stuck, if someone knows what this could be pls add on !!!!!


Itā€™s still going y'all!!!! 



I might be wrong but I think y'all mightā€™ve mistranslated the Morse code. It might say tumblr recurring17 


WE GOT FUCKING PLAYED AGAIN DKCNFSLXKFNRMDCKFNDMXKCNXNFJSLSSJ


The Old God that runs the internet 


Cannot believe this journey is back on my dash 

                
            

            
            
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    the link: S tumblintuck Follow
 O dear-tumbir
 PETA
 you guys remember when PETA stole
 people pets off their porches and
 euthanized them?
 you guys remember how it came out that
 PETA kills about 90% of the animals it
 takes in, including healthy and adoptable
 puppies and kittens, stating " We could
 become a no-kill shelter immediately. It
 means we wouldn't do as much work"?
 you guys remember when PETA
 advocated killing all pit bulls for the crime
 of being pit bulls?
 you guys remember when PETA handed
 out these comics to children when there
 were no adults looking?
 you guys remember when they made a
 porn site and then filled it with videos of
 animal abuse, and (also in that link)
 claimed cats should be vegetarian?
 you guys remember when PETA lied
 about sheep shearing, got caught, and
 defended the lie as true even after they
 admitted the sheep in their picture
 wasn't even real?
 you guys remember when they tried to
 excuse their horrifying ways by claiming
 that the person who exposed them was
 manipulating the facts by taking them
 and putting them in the wrong context?
 Because I remember. I remember
 everything.
 And I'm gonna make sure everyone else
 remembers too.
 testingforcake23
 Why would they kill pit bulls they're
 sweeties
 a dear-tumbir
 Because PETA does not care about
 animals. they do not care that these dogs
 live and breathe and feel and want love
 like every other dog. they do not care
 about the history of human/dog bonding
 and co-evolution, they do not care that
 dogs and human beings have relied on
 each other for millennia, they do not care
 that its cruel and morally repugnant to
 put down an animal just because you
 can, they do not care about animals.
 PETA cares about money and publicity,
 its a corporation run by a psychopath
 who is afraid of pitts as it states in the
 link: she was apparently bit by one, and
 now she hates them.
 PETA doesn't give a rats ass about
 animals. They just want to kill and make
 money off of idiots who fall of their spiel.
 testingforcake23
 Some celebs support them
 i-n-m-h
 ah c'mon, dear-tumbir, I think you're
 being a bit harsh. I mean, okay, PETA's
 done some questionable things, but it's
 not like they've also
 -spread false information about milk
 causing autism based on outdated
 bullshit information
 -used holocaust imagery to compare the
 meat industry to concentration camps
 (no pictures)
 -used a young man's brutal death as a
 way to say "yeah that's awful but it
 happens to animals every day and
 nobody cares about that" (tw: no
 pictures but the way the guy died is
 described and it is really horrible)
 -dressed up in KKK robes and protested
 outside of the Westminister Dog Show to
 protest breeding/pure bred dogs (tw:
 racism)
 -offered to pay the water bill for literally
 the poorest neighborhood in Detroit if
 and only if they all went vegan for a
 month (tw: self-righteous shitheads)
 -and they definitely didn't have two of
 their workers accept perfectly healthy
 animals from an animal hospital, with the
 implication that they would give them
 good homes, clarify that these animals
 were all healthy and well-tempered, and
 then euthanized them all in the back of a
 kill-van before dumping their dead
 bodies behind a grocery store (tw:
 PICTURES OF DEAD ANIMALS, animal
 death)
 -and they totally didn't get off pretty
 much scot-free for it because PETA has
 loads of money and lawyers to defend
 themselves, which coincidentally might
 be why the Cerate family hasn't seen
 justice for their kidnapped and murdered
 dog, Maya. (tw: animal death)
 Nah. PETA's not that bad.
 /the heaviest of all my fucking sarcasm, I
 am salty as a fucking winter road, lord do
 I fucking hate PETA)
 a dear-tumbir
 Did you think i was fucking joking, PETA?
 I will make sure everyone fucking
 remembers what you've done.
 adear-tumbir
 Bringing it back, because it's charity
 season and people need to know NOT to
 give charity to these fuckers.
 Source: dear-tumbir
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                the link: S tumblintuck Follow
 O dear-tumbir
 PETA
 you guys remember when PETA stole
 people pets off their porches and
 euthanized them?
 you guys remember how it came out that
 PETA kills about 90% of the animals it
 takes in, including healthy and adoptable
 puppies and kittens, stating " We could
 become a no-kill shelter immediately. It
 means we wouldn't do as much work"?
 you guys remember when PETA
 advocated killing all pit bulls for the crime
 of being pit bulls?
 you guys remember when PETA handed
 out these comics to children when there
 were no adults looking?
 you guys remember when they made a
 porn site and then filled it with videos of
 animal abuse, and (also in that link)
 claimed cats should be vegetarian?
 you guys remember when PETA lied
 about sheep shearing, got caught, and
 defended the lie as true even after they
 admitted the sheep in their picture
 wasn't even real?
 you guys remember when they tried to
 excuse their horrifying ways by claiming
 that the person who exposed them was
 manipulating the facts by taking them
 and putting them in the wrong context?
 Because I remember. I remember
 everything.
 And I'm gonna make sure everyone else
 remembers too.
 testingforcake23
 Why would they kill pit bulls they're
 sweeties
 a dear-tumbir
 Because PETA does not care about
 animals. they do not care that these dogs
 live and breathe and feel and want love
 like every other dog. they do not care
 about the history of human/dog bonding
 and co-evolution, they do not care that
 dogs and human beings have relied on
 each other for millennia, they do not care
 that its cruel and morally repugnant to
 put down an animal just because you
 can, they do not care about animals.
 PETA cares about money and publicity,
 its a corporation run by a psychopath
 who is afraid of pitts as it states in the
 link: she was apparently bit by one, and
 now she hates them.
 PETA doesn't give a rats ass about
 animals. They just want to kill and make
 money off of idiots who fall of their spiel.
 testingforcake23
 Some celebs support them
 i-n-m-h
 ah c'mon, dear-tumbir, I think you're
 being a bit harsh. I mean, okay, PETA's
 done some questionable things, but it's
 not like they've also
 -spread false information about milk
 causing autism based on outdated
 bullshit information
 -used holocaust imagery to compare the
 meat industry to concentration camps
 (no pictures)
 -used a young man's brutal death as a
 way to say "yeah that's awful but it
 happens to animals every day and
 nobody cares about that" (tw: no
 pictures but the way the guy died is
 described and it is really horrible)
 -dressed up in KKK robes and protested
 outside of the Westminister Dog Show to
 protest breeding/pure bred dogs (tw:
 racism)
 -offered to pay the water bill for literally
 the poorest neighborhood in Detroit if
 and only if they all went vegan for a
 month (tw: self-righteous shitheads)
 -and they definitely didn't have two of
 their workers accept perfectly healthy
 animals from an animal hospital, with the
 implication that they would give them
 good homes, clarify that these animals
 were all healthy and well-tempered, and
 then euthanized them all in the back of a
 kill-van before dumping their dead
 bodies behind a grocery store (tw:
 PICTURES OF DEAD ANIMALS, animal
 death)
 -and they totally didn't get off pretty
 much scot-free for it because PETA has
 loads of money and lawyers to defend
 themselves, which coincidentally might
 be why the Cerate family hasn't seen
 justice for their kidnapped and murdered
 dog, Maya. (tw: animal death)
 Nah. PETA's not that bad.
 /the heaviest of all my fucking sarcasm, I
 am salty as a fucking winter road, lord do
 I fucking hate PETA)
 a dear-tumbir
 Did you think i was fucking joking, PETA?
 I will make sure everyone fucking
 remembers what you've done.
 adear-tumbir
 Bringing it back, because it's charity
 season and people need to know NOT to
 give charity to these fuckers.
 Source: dear-tumbir
 312,250 notes
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bransonreese:


aurora-gleam:


slangwang:

bransonreese:

crystallotusfr:


bransonreese:

serpentking456:


notcaycepollard:

the twitter thread the artist created after this was one of the best situations i have ever seen in my whole life:

Somebody give this ignoramus a piece of actual shark skin and tell him to rub his face with it, let him find out just how ā€œsmoothā€ sharks really are. 


Somebody did. I use it as a pillowcase because itā€™s so smooth.

But buddy.


Shark skin feels exactly like sandpaper. It is made up of tiny teeth-like structures called placoid scales, also known as dermal denticles. These scales point towards the tail and help to reduce friction from surrounding water when the sharkĀ swims. ā€¦ In the opposite direction, it feels very rough likeĀ sandpaper. 
((Here m8Ā https://www.floridamuseum.ufl.edu/fish/discover/sharks/basicsĀ ))


Buddy. Itā€™s smooth. The link you sent me led to a website that described how smooth they are. I dunno, maybe you donā€™t know how to read?


this post is transcendent 


Youā€™re thinking of dolphins. Dolphins are the ones with smooth skin that feels like a rubber beach ball.
Source: Iā€™M A MARINE BIOLOGIST


No, Iā€™m thinking of sharks.
Source: Iā€™m a superior marine biologist




I always assumedā€¦.it meant smooth COMPARED to lionsā€¦.

    

        
        
        
        
        
        
        
        
    

    

        

            
            

                
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maetyu-y:

bransonreese:


aurora-gleam:


slangwang:

bransonreese:

crystallotusfr:


bransonreese:

serpentking456:


notcaycepollard:

the twitter thread the artist created after this was one of the best situations i have ever seen in my whole life:

Somebody give this ignoramus a piece of actual shark skin and tell him to rub his face with it, let him find out just how ā€œsmoothā€ sharks really are. 


Somebody did. I use it as a pillowcase because itā€™s so smooth.

But buddy.


Shark skin feels exactly like sandpaper. It is made up of tiny teeth-like structures called placoid scales, also known as dermal denticles. These scales point towards the tail and help to reduce friction from surrounding water when the sharkĀ swims. ā€¦ In the opposite direction, it feels very rough likeĀ sandpaper. 
((Here m8Ā https://www.floridamuseum.ufl.edu/fish/discover/sharks/basicsĀ ))


Buddy. Itā€™s smooth. The link you sent me led to a website that described how smooth they are. I dunno, maybe you donā€™t know how to read?


this post is transcendent 


Youā€™re thinking of dolphins. Dolphins are the ones with smooth skin that feels like a rubber beach ball.
Source: Iā€™M A MARINE BIOLOGIST


No, Iā€™m thinking of sharks.
Source: Iā€™m a superior marine biologist




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    the link: ti skerb Retweeted
 Shan AF RJ mesa 15 - AF SP mesa 71 @ShanaBRX Jun 14
 Fuck everyone who whines about ao3
 News
 All News
 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
 languages other than English
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wrangletangle:

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naryrising:

You can read the post hereĀ for more info, but I wanted to just add a bit about what this entails from my POV, on the Support team.Ā  Somewhere between Ā¼ 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.Ā  A lot of the tickets are what Iā€™d characterize asĀ ā€œintroā€ tickets - they say hi, list favourite fandoms or pairings, or provide samples of fic theyā€™ve written. Although this isnā€™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 wasnā€™t uncommon in English-language fandom sites 15-20 years ago).Ā  We respond to all of these tickets, even the ones that just say hi.Ā  We check whether the user has managed to receive their invite or get their account sent up, and if they havenā€™t, we help them do so.Ā  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.Ā 
This is a challenging process, although weā€™ve found ways to streamline it and can normally get a reply out pretty quickly (like within a few days).Ā  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.Ā  We do it because this is important, and helping these users get their accounts and be able to share their works safely is why weā€™re here.Ā  We hope that weā€™ll be able to help as many of them as possible.Ā Ā 
There have been a few (thankfully few, that Iā€™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.Ā  To this I would say:
1. Have patience and be considerate.Ā  They are coming to a new site that they arenā€™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.Ā  You can filter out works tagged in Chinese if you donā€™t want to see them.Ā  Or just scroll past.Ā Ā 
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.Ā  This will not cause the authors toĀ ā€œget in troubleā€ (a concern Iā€™ve heard before, as people are reluctant to report for these reasons).Ā  It means the Policy and Abuse team will contact them to ask them to change the language/fandom tag, and if the creator doesnā€™t, they can edit it directly.Ā 
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.Ā  This is why AO3 exists.Ā  We are doing our best to try and help make the transition smooth.Ā Ā 

I am a Taiwanese and Iā€™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 livesā€“he has became a dictator). 
They censor words that are deemed ā€œsensitiveā€, you canā€™t type anything to criticize the chinise government. Big social media platform wonā€™t even post the posts containing sensitive words. You donā€™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 ā€œchinese tradition family valueā€ but thatā€™s another story). 
Last year, the chinese government arrested a woman who is a famous yaoi/BL novel writer named 天äø€ and sentenced her 10 years in jail for ā€œselling obscene publicationsā€ and ā€œillegal publicationā€ (sheā€™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). Itā€™s a warning to anyone who want to publish anything thatā€™s ā€œnot approvedā€ by the government that they can literally ruin you.Ā  
Just recently the chinese government ā€œcontactedā€ website owners of one of their largest romance/yaoi/slash fiction sites 
ę™‰ę±Ÿ

and announced that for now on, for the sake of a Clean Society, they canā€™t write anything thatā€™s slightly ā€œobsceneā€. No sex scene, no sexual interaction, they canā€™t even write any bodily interaction below neck (Iā€™m not kidding here). 
But thatā€™s not their actual goal. They also listed other restriction such as: canā€™t write anything thatā€™s about the government, the military, the police, ā€œsensitive historyā€, ā€œrace problemsā€, which isā€¦ you basically canā€™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 canā€™t write anything without the fear of being put on the guillotine by the government to show their control. Most of them donā€™t even think that deep politically, they just want to write slash fictions. But there are no platform safe in China, thatā€™s why the sudden influx of chinese users to AO3. 
I bet it wonā€™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. 


Iā€™m crying so loudā€¦As a Chinese, you donā€™t know how your kindness meant to us. When Iā€™m young, I read 1984, and I thought this story is so unrealistic, but now, itā€™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 didnā€™t spell anything wrong)

The OTWā€™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 Lofterā€™s posting system and AO3ā€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 didnā€™t speak, 
using translation programs that donā€™t understand fan terminology.
This is exactly
 what the AO3 was built to deal with. We just didnā€™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 letā€™s take care not to leave 
anyone out.


Just in case it isnā€™t clear to anyone? This. This right here is precisely why the AO3 doesnā€™t police content or remove things that are icky or obscene.
Because itā€™s not you who defines whatā€™s obscene. Itā€™s the authorities.

    

        
        
        
        
        
        
        
        
    

    

        

            
            

                
                the link: ti skerb Retweeted
 Shan AF RJ mesa 15 - AF SP mesa 71 @ShanaBRX Jun 14
 Fuck everyone who whines about ao3
 News
 All News
 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
 languages other than English
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wrangletangle:

zoe2213414:

eabevella:

naryrising:

You can read the post hereĀ for more info, but I wanted to just add a bit about what this entails from my POV, on the Support team.Ā  Somewhere between Ā¼ 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.Ā  A lot of the tickets are what Iā€™d characterize asĀ ā€œintroā€ tickets - they say hi, list favourite fandoms or pairings, or provide samples of fic theyā€™ve written. Although this isnā€™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 wasnā€™t uncommon in English-language fandom sites 15-20 years ago).Ā  We respond to all of these tickets, even the ones that just say hi.Ā  We check whether the user has managed to receive their invite or get their account sent up, and if they havenā€™t, we help them do so.Ā  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.Ā 
This is a challenging process, although weā€™ve found ways to streamline it and can normally get a reply out pretty quickly (like within a few days).Ā  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.Ā  We do it because this is important, and helping these users get their accounts and be able to share their works safely is why weā€™re here.Ā  We hope that weā€™ll be able to help as many of them as possible.Ā Ā 
There have been a few (thankfully few, that Iā€™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.Ā  To this I would say:
1. Have patience and be considerate.Ā  They are coming to a new site that they arenā€™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.Ā  You can filter out works tagged in Chinese if you donā€™t want to see them.Ā  Or just scroll past.Ā Ā 
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.Ā  This will not cause the authors toĀ ā€œget in troubleā€ (a concern Iā€™ve heard before, as people are reluctant to report for these reasons).Ā  It means the Policy and Abuse team will contact them to ask them to change the language/fandom tag, and if the creator doesnā€™t, they can edit it directly.Ā 
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.Ā  This is why AO3 exists.Ā  We are doing our best to try and help make the transition smooth.Ā Ā 

I am a Taiwanese and Iā€™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 livesā€“he has became a dictator). 
They censor words that are deemed ā€œsensitiveā€, you canā€™t type anything to criticize the chinise government. Big social media platform wonā€™t even post the posts containing sensitive words. You donā€™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 ā€œchinese tradition family valueā€ but thatā€™s another story). 
Last year, the chinese government arrested a woman who is a famous yaoi/BL novel writer named 天äø€ and sentenced her 10 years in jail for ā€œselling obscene publicationsā€ and ā€œillegal publicationā€ (sheā€™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). Itā€™s a warning to anyone who want to publish anything thatā€™s ā€œnot approvedā€ by the government that they can literally ruin you.Ā  
Just recently the chinese government ā€œcontactedā€ website owners of one of their largest romance/yaoi/slash fiction sites 
ę™‰ę±Ÿ

and announced that for now on, for the sake of a Clean Society, they canā€™t write anything thatā€™s slightly ā€œobsceneā€. No sex scene, no sexual interaction, they canā€™t even write any bodily interaction below neck (Iā€™m not kidding here). 
But thatā€™s not their actual goal. They also listed other restriction such as: canā€™t write anything thatā€™s about the government, the military, the police, ā€œsensitive historyā€, ā€œrace problemsā€, which isā€¦ you basically canā€™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 canā€™t write anything without the fear of being put on the guillotine by the government to show their control. Most of them donā€™t even think that deep politically, they just want to write slash fictions. But there are no platform safe in China, thatā€™s why the sudden influx of chinese users to AO3. 
I bet it wonā€™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. 


Iā€™m crying so loudā€¦As a Chinese, you donā€™t know how your kindness meant to us. When Iā€™m young, I read 1984, and I thought this story is so unrealistic, but now, itā€™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 didnā€™t spell anything wrong)

The OTWā€™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 Lofterā€™s posting system and AO3ā€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 didnā€™t speak, 
using translation programs that donā€™t understand fan terminology.
This is exactly
 what the AO3 was built to deal with. We just didnā€™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 letā€™s take care not to leave 
anyone out.


Just in case it isnā€™t clear to anyone? This. This right here is precisely why the AO3 doesnā€™t police content or remove things that are icky or obscene.
Because itā€™s not you who defines whatā€™s obscene. Itā€™s the authorities.

                
            

            
            
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    the link: THE PERSDN WHo DISCOVERED SHARkS
 PRANSON REESE
 I AM G0IN 6
 INTO THE
 BIG WETNESS.
 SMooTH
 LIONS ARE
 EATING ME.
maetyu-y:

bransonreese:


aurora-gleam:


slangwang:

bransonreese:

crystallotusfr:


bransonreese:

serpentking456:


notcaycepollard:

the twitter thread the artist created after this was one of the best situations i have ever seen in my whole life:

Somebody give this ignoramus a piece of actual shark skin and tell him to rub his face with it, let him find out just how ā€œsmoothā€ sharks really are. 


Somebody did. I use it as a pillowcase because itā€™s so smooth.

But buddy.


Shark skin feels exactly like sandpaper. It is made up of tiny teeth-like structures called placoid scales, also known as dermal denticles. These scales point towards the tail and help to reduce friction from surrounding water when the sharkĀ swims. ā€¦ In the opposite direction, it feels very rough likeĀ sandpaper. 
((Here m8Ā https://www.floridamuseum.ufl.edu/fish/discover/sharks/basicsĀ ))


Buddy. Itā€™s smooth. The link you sent me led to a website that described how smooth they are. I dunno, maybe you donā€™t know how to read?


this post is transcendent 


Youā€™re thinking of dolphins. Dolphins are the ones with smooth skin that feels like a rubber beach ball.
Source: Iā€™M A MARINE BIOLOGIST


No, Iā€™m thinking of sharks.
Source: Iā€™m a superior marine biologist



    

        
        
        
        
        
        
        
        
    

    

        

            
            

                
                the link: THE PERSDN WHo DISCOVERED SHARkS
 PRANSON REESE
 I AM G0IN 6
 INTO THE
 BIG WETNESS.
 SMooTH
 LIONS ARE
 EATING ME.
maetyu-y:

bransonreese:


aurora-gleam:


slangwang:

bransonreese:

crystallotusfr:


bransonreese:

serpentking456:


notcaycepollard:

the twitter thread the artist created after this was one of the best situations i have ever seen in my whole life:

Somebody give this ignoramus a piece of actual shark skin and tell him to rub his face with it, let him find out just how ā€œsmoothā€ sharks really are. 


Somebody did. I use it as a pillowcase because itā€™s so smooth.

But buddy.


Shark skin feels exactly like sandpaper. It is made up of tiny teeth-like structures called placoid scales, also known as dermal denticles. These scales point towards the tail and help to reduce friction from surrounding water when the sharkĀ swims. ā€¦ In the opposite direction, it feels very rough likeĀ sandpaper. 
((Here m8Ā https://www.floridamuseum.ufl.edu/fish/discover/sharks/basicsĀ ))


Buddy. Itā€™s smooth. The link you sent me led to a website that described how smooth they are. I dunno, maybe you donā€™t know how to read?


this post is transcendent 


Youā€™re thinking of dolphins. Dolphins are the ones with smooth skin that feels like a rubber beach ball.
Source: Iā€™M A MARINE BIOLOGIST


No, Iā€™m thinking of sharks.
Source: Iā€™m a superior marine biologist



                
            

            
            
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    the link: Verizon LTE
 11:06 AM
 Thread
 Laura Barrera, Esq.
 @abogada_laura
 Today my client was excited to push the
 elevator buttons on the way to her first
 deportation hearing. Afterwardsl
 congratulated her on tying her shoes by
 herself. She's 6 and @TheJusticeDept
 thinks she should only get a lawyer if
 she can pay for one
 Court rules children facing
 deportation have no right to court-.
 thehill.com
 2/26/18, 9:38 AM
 165 Retweets 147 Likes
 Tweet your reply

 Verizon LTE
 11:06 AM
 Tweet
 Laura Barrera, Esq.
 @abogada_laura
 My 5-yr-old client can't tell me what
 country she is from. We prepare her
 case by drawing pictures with crayons
 of the gang members that would wait
 outside her school. Sometimes she
 wants to draw ice cream cones and
 hearts instead. She is in deportation
 proceedings alone
 Beto O'Rourke @BetoORourke
 "The child _ in the middle of the hearing
 started climbing up on the table. It really
 highlighted the absurdity of what we're doing
 with these kids."
 texastribune.org/2018/06/27/imm...
 6/28/18, 9:55 AM from Paradise, NV
 Tweet your reply
michelleengardt:
liukka:

svelfe:
This is a result of the inhumane decisions that members of this administration want you to be silent about in public for fear of a loss of ā€œcivilityā€.

The kid and her lawyer were about the only humans there.  For fucks sake, theyā€™re kids.

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 11:06 AM
 Thread
 Laura Barrera, Esq.
 @abogada_laura
 Today my client was excited to push the
 elevator buttons on the way to her first
 deportation hearing. Afterwardsl
 congratulated her on tying her shoes by
 herself. She's 6 and @TheJusticeDept
 thinks she should only get a lawyer if
 she can pay for one
 Court rules children facing
 deportation have no right to court-.
 thehill.com
 2/26/18, 9:38 AM
 165 Retweets 147 Likes
 Tweet your reply

 Verizon LTE
 11:06 AM
 Tweet
 Laura Barrera, Esq.
 @abogada_laura
 My 5-yr-old client can't tell me what
 country she is from. We prepare her
 case by drawing pictures with crayons
 of the gang members that would wait
 outside her school. Sometimes she
 wants to draw ice cream cones and
 hearts instead. She is in deportation
 proceedings alone
 Beto O'Rourke @BetoORourke
 "The child _ in the middle of the hearing
 started climbing up on the table. It really
 highlighted the absurdity of what we're doing
 with these kids."
 texastribune.org/2018/06/27/imm...
 6/28/18, 9:55 AM from Paradise, NV
 Tweet your reply
michelleengardt:
liukka:

svelfe:
This is a result of the inhumane decisions that members of this administration want you to be silent about in public for fear of a loss of ā€œcivilityā€.

The kid and her lawyer were about the only humans there.  For fucks sake, theyā€™re kids.

HEREā€™S THE LINK TO SUPPORT HER WORK

                
            

            
            
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    the link: Kara
 @karawrite
 On behalf of, I dunno, EVERY FAT KID
 IN the USA, I'ma go ahead and call BS
 on the whole bullying creates mass
 shooters narrative. LGBTQ kids, kids of
 color, disabled kids, poor kids, girl kids
 are bullied. Who's doing the shooting?
 White boys whose parents don't
 secure their guns
 5/22/18, 10:40 PM
 39 Retweets 106 Likes
shanlad:
redmachasacorns:

Not a single lie in sightā€¦ā€¦

Hello, college grad that actually wrote an award winning paper on this topic! Hereā€™s some knowledge Iā€™d like to share: Thereā€™s actually been studies as to why itā€™s usually white kids, a large conclusion amongst the criminology community is that those that often have more privileged lives (white kids in our societyā€™s case) are less adept to dealing with stress and denial. Whereas minorities and others are more likely to cope and function normally despite stressors because of the constant stressors that come from systematic racism and/or other platforms of more limited priviledge. 
TL;DR: Itā€™s usually a white kid because their privilege incacipated their ability to learn how to handle stress/ denial/ whatever without acting out. The less privileged are done used to the bs and thus typically dont turn to extreme measures as coping mechanisms. 
EDIT: I had reblogged this and added a link to the paper (which I shouldā€™ve done to begin with,) but itā€™s probably best I just edit my original reblog and add the link (which I also shouldā€™ve just done already.)
Anyway, it can be found fully sourced here.

    

        
        
        
        
        
        
        
        
    

    

        

            
            

                
                the link: Kara
 @karawrite
 On behalf of, I dunno, EVERY FAT KID
 IN the USA, I'ma go ahead and call BS
 on the whole bullying creates mass
 shooters narrative. LGBTQ kids, kids of
 color, disabled kids, poor kids, girl kids
 are bullied. Who's doing the shooting?
 White boys whose parents don't
 secure their guns
 5/22/18, 10:40 PM
 39 Retweets 106 Likes
shanlad:
redmachasacorns:

Not a single lie in sightā€¦ā€¦

Hello, college grad that actually wrote an award winning paper on this topic! Hereā€™s some knowledge Iā€™d like to share: Thereā€™s actually been studies as to why itā€™s usually white kids, a large conclusion amongst the criminology community is that those that often have more privileged lives (white kids in our societyā€™s case) are less adept to dealing with stress and denial. Whereas minorities and others are more likely to cope and function normally despite stressors because of the constant stressors that come from systematic racism and/or other platforms of more limited priviledge. 
TL;DR: Itā€™s usually a white kid because their privilege incacipated their ability to learn how to handle stress/ denial/ whatever without acting out. The less privileged are done used to the bs and thus typically dont turn to extreme measures as coping mechanisms. 
EDIT: I had reblogged this and added a link to the paper (which I shouldā€™ve done to begin with,) but itā€™s probably best I just edit my original reblog and add the link (which I also shouldā€™ve just done already.)
Anyway, it can be found fully sourced here.

                
            

            
            
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redmachasacorns:

Not a single lie in sightā€¦ā€¦

Hello, college grad that actually wrote an award winning paper on this topic! Her...

            
            
        

    



            

        

        
        

            

                







    the link: butchmachine:

kabesattic:

oldfilmsflicker:

animatedamerican:

viewtiful-kim:
Hamlet adaptation where Hamlet is a vlogger and all his soliloquies are breakdowns he uploads to YouTube
ā€¦ I am unironically here for this

this is the funniest thing Iā€™ve ever seen in my life

This is - legitimately - my favourite delivery of Shakespeare I have EVER seen (and I have seen some good-ass productions yo, in the Globe Theatre itself even). Like seriously, even though the words are unchanged, heā€™s stripped away ALL of the archaic pretense and assumed grandeur of ~presenting the bard~ that makes even the most wildly talented of actors and innovative of productions inherently inaccessible to a modern audience. Like, theyā€™re still great, they can still communicate the message and (some) of the nuance, but theyā€™re still always a step removed from being identifiable to any viewerā€™s lived experience. Theyā€™re still always reciting 15th century poetry. But this guy? This guy is like, screw iambic pentameter, to hell with being precious about the material, HOW WOULD AN ACTUAL PERSON SAY THIS SHIT?
Like this. And itā€™s beautiful. Itā€™s beautiful to hear a soliloquy I loved so much already, and have it come to life in a way it never, ever, did before. I feel like I grasp his motivations, his twists and turns, no longer on an academic level but on a visceral, instinctive one. Because heā€™s presenting his mental and emotional journey in a way that speaks honestly, like a real person.
So yeah, this shit post? I love it. Deeply and sincerely.


Hereā€™s the link, yall
https://youtu.be/CEGn_xrdg6U
Gary Cook has more videos and only 1k subscribers. Give him some love!

    

        
        
        
        
        
        
        
        
    

    

        

            
            

                
                the link: butchmachine:

kabesattic:

oldfilmsflicker:

animatedamerican:

viewtiful-kim:
Hamlet adaptation where Hamlet is a vlogger and all his soliloquies are breakdowns he uploads to YouTube
ā€¦ I am unironically here for this

this is the funniest thing Iā€™ve ever seen in my life

This is - legitimately - my favourite delivery of Shakespeare I have EVER seen (and I have seen some good-ass productions yo, in the Globe Theatre itself even). Like seriously, even though the words are unchanged, heā€™s stripped away ALL of the archaic pretense and assumed grandeur of ~presenting the bard~ that makes even the most wildly talented of actors and innovative of productions inherently inaccessible to a modern audience. Like, theyā€™re still great, they can still communicate the message and (some) of the nuance, but theyā€™re still always a step removed from being identifiable to any viewerā€™s lived experience. Theyā€™re still always reciting 15th century poetry. But this guy? This guy is like, screw iambic pentameter, to hell with being precious about the material, HOW WOULD AN ACTUAL PERSON SAY THIS SHIT?
Like this. And itā€™s beautiful. Itā€™s beautiful to hear a soliloquy I loved so much already, and have it come to life in a way it never, ever, did before. I feel like I grasp his motivations, his twists and turns, no longer on an academic level but on a visceral, instinctive one. Because heā€™s presenting his mental and emotional journey in a way that speaks honestly, like a real person.
So yeah, this shit post? I love it. Deeply and sincerely.


Hereā€™s the link, yall
https://youtu.be/CEGn_xrdg6U
Gary Cook has more videos and only 1k subscribers. Give him some love!

                
                

                
            

            
            
butchmachine:

kabesattic:

oldfilmsflicker:

animatedamerican:

viewtiful-kim:
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    the link: THE PERSDN WHo DISCOVERED SHARkS
 PRANSON REESE
 I AM G0IN 6
 INTO THE
 BIG WETNESS.
 SMooTH
 LIONS ARE
 EATING ME.
maetyu-y:
bransonreese:


aurora-gleam:


slangwang:

bransonreese:

crystallotusfr:


bransonreese:

serpentking456:


notcaycepollard:

the twitter thread the artist created after this was one of the best situations i have ever seen in my whole life:

Somebody give this ignoramus a piece of actual shark skin and tell him to rub his face with it, let him find out just how ā€œsmoothā€ sharks really are. 


Somebody did. I use it as a pillowcase because itā€™s so smooth.

But buddy.


Shark skin feels exactly like sandpaper. It is made up of tiny teeth-like structures called placoid scales, also known as dermal denticles. These scales point towards the tail and help to reduce friction from surrounding water when the sharkĀ swims. ā€¦ In the opposite direction, it feels very rough likeĀ sandpaper. 
((Here m8Ā https://www.floridamuseum.ufl.edu/fish/discover/sharks/basicsĀ ))


Buddy. Itā€™s smooth. The link you sent me led to a website that described how smooth they are. I dunno, maybe you donā€™t know how to read?


this post is transcendent 


Youā€™re thinking of dolphins. Dolphins are the ones with smooth skin that feels like a rubber beach ball.
Source: Iā€™M A MARINE BIOLOGIST


No, Iā€™m thinking of sharks.
Source: Iā€™m a superior marine biologist



    

        
        
        
        
        
        
        
        
    

    

        

            
            

                
                the link: THE PERSDN WHo DISCOVERED SHARkS
 PRANSON REESE
 I AM G0IN 6
 INTO THE
 BIG WETNESS.
 SMooTH
 LIONS ARE
 EATING ME.
maetyu-y:
bransonreese:


aurora-gleam:


slangwang:

bransonreese:

crystallotusfr:


bransonreese:

serpentking456:


notcaycepollard:

the twitter thread the artist created after this was one of the best situations i have ever seen in my whole life:

Somebody give this ignoramus a piece of actual shark skin and tell him to rub his face with it, let him find out just how ā€œsmoothā€ sharks really are. 


Somebody did. I use it as a pillowcase because itā€™s so smooth.

But buddy.


Shark skin feels exactly like sandpaper. It is made up of tiny teeth-like structures called placoid scales, also known as dermal denticles. These scales point towards the tail and help to reduce friction from surrounding water when the sharkĀ swims. ā€¦ In the opposite direction, it feels very rough likeĀ sandpaper. 
((Here m8Ā https://www.floridamuseum.ufl.edu/fish/discover/sharks/basicsĀ ))


Buddy. Itā€™s smooth. The link you sent me led to a website that described how smooth they are. I dunno, maybe you donā€™t know how to read?


this post is transcendent 


Youā€™re thinking of dolphins. Dolphins are the ones with smooth skin that feels like a rubber beach ball.
Source: Iā€™M A MARINE BIOLOGIST


No, Iā€™m thinking of sharks.
Source: Iā€™m a superior marine biologist



                
            

            
            
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bransonreese:


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Probably they wanted to run it bi you


I would definitely bi one of these


Lesbiaonest I cant get bi with a bi joke cause Iā€™m a lesbian


These puns are pretty ace.


I should have gay-ve one to my friend for their bi-rthday.

I need to perform several trans-actions with whatever company makes these.

Iā€™m seeing how this pan-s out.Ā 


They have a shirt that says ā€œIā€™m ????ā€ And I know it means questioning but thatā€™s the biggest mood.


This is pretty awesome to BI honest


This keeps popping up in my dash and itā€™s different everytime, I donā€™t know if I can let this go bi any longer


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silverinkwings:


qualitees:

Sexuali-tees presents the Pride Flag Collection whatever you identify yourself as show off and be proud of who you are! Get your tee here! 10% off for all of Pride Month!

I want one or maybe two 


is this a bi joke

Probably they wanted to run it bi you


I would definitely bi one of these


Lesbiaonest I cant get bi with a bi joke cause Iā€™m a lesbian


These puns are pretty ace.


I should have gay-ve one to my friend for their bi-rthday.

I need to perform several trans-actions with whatever company makes these.

Iā€™m seeing how this pan-s out.Ā 


They have a shirt that says ā€œIā€™m ????ā€ And I know it means questioning but thatā€™s the biggest mood.


This is pretty awesome to BI honest


This keeps popping up in my dash and itā€™s different everytime, I donā€™t know if I can let this go bi any longer


THEYRE SIZE INCLUSIVE
I CLICKED ON THE LINK EXPECTING IT TO GO UP TO A LARGE AND BE DISAPPOINTED BUT THEYRE
SIZE
INCLUSIVE
JESUS
FUCK


WAIT HOW SIZE INCLUSIVE? WHAT SIZE DO THEY GO UP TO? 


IT GOES UP TO 4XT OH MY GOD I DIDNā€™T EVEN KNOW T WAS A SIZE BUT WHAT DO I KNOW IM ONLY A 2XL


OMG I WENT TO LOOK NOT EXPECTING TO FIND DEMI BUT THEY HAVE A SECTION OF INSTEAD OF FLAGS THEY SAY ā€IM (insert sexuality here)ā€ THEY HAVE EVERY ONE!!! EVEN ONE FOR IF YOURE QUESTIONING THATS JUST ā€IM???ā€ AND AN ALLY ONE AS WELL HOLY SHIT 

THERES A KEYSMASH TEE
THERES 2 VARIATIONS OF A TSHIRT THAT LITERALLY HAS A KEYSMASH ON IT HOLY CRAP

To celebrate Pride month in June we have 20% off across the store until July if you use this link! This includes our most popular collections: subletees, pride flag tees and keysmash tees! 

Pride should be all year round so we have extended the discount for the rest of the year!

                
            

            
            
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    the link: ti skerb Retweeted
 Shan AF RJ mesa 15 - AF SP mesa 71 @ShanaBRX Jun 14
 Fuck everyone who whines about ao3
 News
 All News
 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
 languages other than English
 Read more...
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ao3tagoftheday:

zoe2213414:
eabevella:

naryrising:

You can read the post hereĀ for more info, but I wanted to just add a bit about what this entails from my POV, on the Support team.Ā  Somewhere between Ā¼ 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.Ā  A lot of the tickets are what Iā€™d characterize asĀ ā€œintroā€ tickets - they say hi, list favourite fandoms or pairings, or provide samples of fic theyā€™ve written. Although this isnā€™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 wasnā€™t uncommon in English-language fandom sites 15-20 years ago).Ā  We respond to all of these tickets, even the ones that just say hi.Ā  We check whether the user has managed to receive their invite or get their account sent up, and if they havenā€™t, we help them do so.Ā  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.Ā 
This is a challenging process, although weā€™ve found ways to streamline it and can normally get a reply out pretty quickly (like within a few days).Ā  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.Ā  We do it because this is important, and helping these users get their accounts and be able to share their works safely is why weā€™re here.Ā  We hope that weā€™ll be able to help as many of them as possible.Ā Ā 
There have been a few (thankfully few, that Iā€™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.Ā  To this I would say:
1. Have patience and be considerate.Ā  They are coming to a new site that they arenā€™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.Ā  You can filter out works tagged in Chinese if you donā€™t want to see them.Ā  Or just scroll past.Ā Ā 
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.Ā  This will not cause the authors toĀ ā€œget in troubleā€ (a concern Iā€™ve heard before, as people are reluctant to report for these reasons).Ā  It means the Policy and Abuse team will contact them to ask them to change the language/fandom tag, and if the creator doesnā€™t, they can edit it directly.Ā 
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.Ā  This is why AO3 exists.Ā  We are doing our best to try and help make the transition smooth.Ā Ā 

I am a Taiwanese and Iā€™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 livesā€“he has became a dictator). 
They censor words that are deemed ā€œsensitiveā€, you canā€™t type anything to criticize the chinise government. Big social media platform wonā€™t even post the posts containing sensitive words. You donā€™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 ā€œchinese tradition family valueā€ but thatā€™s another story). 
Last year, the chinese government arrested a woman who is a famous yaoi/BL novel writer named 天äø€ and sentenced her 10 years in jail for ā€œselling obscene publicationsā€ and ā€œillegal publicationā€ (sheā€™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). Itā€™s a warning to anyone who want to publish anything thatā€™s ā€œnot approvedā€ by the government that they can literally ruin you.Ā  
Just recently the chinese government ā€œcontactedā€ website owners of one of their largest romance/yaoi/slash fiction sites 
ę™‰ę±Ÿ

and announced that for now on, for the sake of a Clean Society, they canā€™t write anything thatā€™s slightly ā€œobsceneā€. No sex scene, no sexual interaction, they canā€™t even write any bodily interaction below neck (Iā€™m not kidding here). 
But thatā€™s not their actual goal. They also listed other restriction such as: canā€™t write anything thatā€™s about the government, the military, the police, ā€œsensitive historyā€, ā€œrace problemsā€, which isā€¦ you basically canā€™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 canā€™t write anything without the fear of being put on the guillotine by the government to show their control. Most of them donā€™t even think that deep politically, they just want to write slash fictions. But there are no platform safe in China, thatā€™s why the sudden influx of chinese users to AO3. 
I bet it wonā€™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. 


Iā€™m crying so loudā€¦As a Chinese, you donā€™t know how your kindness meant to us. When Iā€™m young, I read 1984, and I thought this story is so unrealistic, but now, itā€™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 didnā€™t spell anything wrong)


Hi everyone! As much as I poke fun at ao3 culture on this blog, I love the platform and the community and Iā€™m glad that it can function as a refuge for Chinese fans, both writers and readers.So followers! I encourage you all to be welcoming and helpful to Chinese fans joining us on ao3 and to be patient as the platform figures out how to integrate them. If any of you are Chinese speakers and are inclined to volunteer with ao3, Iā€™m sure that would be appreciated. As for the rest of us, letā€™s remember that ao3 exists as a sanctuary for our community, especially exactly those parts of it that are most at risk under Chinese censorship (lgbt+ content, explicit fics, etc.) and letā€™s take this opportunity to be grateful that our community has worked together so well for so long in order to create this sanctuary. Iā€™m delighted that that effort can now be helpful to Chinese fans facing censorship, and Iā€™m excited to see how Chinese fans and fan culture will interact and co-create with English speaking fandom.And with that, Iā€™m off to slip ao3 an extra 10 dollars.
    

        
        
        
        
        
        
        
        
    

    

        

            
            

                
                the link: ti skerb Retweeted
 Shan AF RJ mesa 15 - AF SP mesa 71 @ShanaBRX Jun 14
 Fuck everyone who whines about ao3
 News
 All News
 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
 languages other than English
 Read more...
 20
 t 2.8K
 6.4K
 Show this thread
ao3tagoftheday:

zoe2213414:
eabevella:

naryrising:

You can read the post hereĀ for more info, but I wanted to just add a bit about what this entails from my POV, on the Support team.Ā  Somewhere between Ā¼ 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.Ā  A lot of the tickets are what Iā€™d characterize asĀ ā€œintroā€ tickets - they say hi, list favourite fandoms or pairings, or provide samples of fic theyā€™ve written. Although this isnā€™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 wasnā€™t uncommon in English-language fandom sites 15-20 years ago).Ā  We respond to all of these tickets, even the ones that just say hi.Ā  We check whether the user has managed to receive their invite or get their account sent up, and if they havenā€™t, we help them do so.Ā  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.Ā 
This is a challenging process, although weā€™ve found ways to streamline it and can normally get a reply out pretty quickly (like within a few days).Ā  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.Ā  We do it because this is important, and helping these users get their accounts and be able to share their works safely is why weā€™re here.Ā  We hope that weā€™ll be able to help as many of them as possible.Ā Ā 
There have been a few (thankfully few, that Iā€™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.Ā  To this I would say:
1. Have patience and be considerate.Ā  They are coming to a new site that they arenā€™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.Ā  You can filter out works tagged in Chinese if you donā€™t want to see them.Ā  Or just scroll past.Ā Ā 
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.Ā  This will not cause the authors toĀ ā€œget in troubleā€ (a concern Iā€™ve heard before, as people are reluctant to report for these reasons).Ā  It means the Policy and Abuse team will contact them to ask them to change the language/fandom tag, and if the creator doesnā€™t, they can edit it directly.Ā 
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.Ā  This is why AO3 exists.Ā  We are doing our best to try and help make the transition smooth.Ā Ā 

I am a Taiwanese and Iā€™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 livesā€“he has became a dictator). 
They censor words that are deemed ā€œsensitiveā€, you canā€™t type anything to criticize the chinise government. Big social media platform wonā€™t even post the posts containing sensitive words. You donā€™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 ā€œchinese tradition family valueā€ but thatā€™s another story). 
Last year, the chinese government arrested a woman who is a famous yaoi/BL novel writer named 天äø€ and sentenced her 10 years in jail for ā€œselling obscene publicationsā€ and ā€œillegal publicationā€ (sheā€™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). Itā€™s a warning to anyone who want to publish anything thatā€™s ā€œnot approvedā€ by the government that they can literally ruin you.Ā  
Just recently the chinese government ā€œcontactedā€ website owners of one of their largest romance/yaoi/slash fiction sites 
ę™‰ę±Ÿ

and announced that for now on, for the sake of a Clean Society, they canā€™t write anything thatā€™s slightly ā€œobsceneā€. No sex scene, no sexual interaction, they canā€™t even write any bodily interaction below neck (Iā€™m not kidding here). 
But thatā€™s not their actual goal. They also listed other restriction such as: canā€™t write anything thatā€™s about the government, the military, the police, ā€œsensitive historyā€, ā€œrace problemsā€, which isā€¦ you basically canā€™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 canā€™t write anything without the fear of being put on the guillotine by the government to show their control. Most of them donā€™t even think that deep politically, they just want to write slash fictions. But there are no platform safe in China, thatā€™s why the sudden influx of chinese users to AO3. 
I bet it wonā€™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. 


Iā€™m crying so loudā€¦As a Chinese, you donā€™t know how your kindness meant to us. When Iā€™m young, I read 1984, and I thought this story is so unrealistic, but now, itā€™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 didnā€™t spell anything wrong)


Hi everyone! As much as I poke fun at ao3 culture on this blog, I love the platform and the community and Iā€™m glad that it can function as a refuge for Chinese fans, both writers and readers.So followers! I encourage you all to be welcoming and helpful to Chinese fans joining us on ao3 and to be patient as the platform figures out how to integrate them. If any of you are Chinese speakers and are inclined to volunteer with ao3, Iā€™m sure that would be appreciated. As for the rest of us, letā€™s remember that ao3 exists as a sanctuary for our community, especially exactly those parts of it that are most at risk under Chinese censorship (lgbt+ content, explicit fics, etc.) and letā€™s take this opportunity to be grateful that our community has worked together so well for so long in order to create this sanctuary. Iā€™m delighted that that effort can now be helpful to Chinese fans facing censorship, and Iā€™m excited to see how Chinese fans and fan culture will interact and co-create with English speaking fandom.And with that, Iā€™m off to slip ao3 an extra 10 dollars.
                
            

            
            
ao3tagoftheday:

zoe2213414:
eabevella:

naryrising:

You can read the post hereĀ for more info, but I wanted to just add a bit about what...

            
            
        

    



            

        

        
        

            

                







    the link: THE PERSDN WHo DISCOVERED SHARkS
 PRANSON REESE
 I AM G0IN 6
 INTO THE
 BIG WETNESS.
 SMooTH
 LIONS ARE
 EATING ME.
goatyellsateverything:

maetyu-y:
bransonreese:


aurora-gleam:


slangwang:

bransonreese:

crystallotusfr:


bransonreese:

serpentking456:


notcaycepollard:

the twitter thread the artist created after this was one of the best situations i have ever seen in my whole life:

Somebody give this ignoramus a piece of actual shark skin and tell him to rub his face with it, let him find out just how ā€œsmoothā€ sharks really are. 


Somebody did. I use it as a pillowcase because itā€™s so smooth.

But buddy.


Shark skin feels exactly like sandpaper. It is made up of tiny teeth-like structures called placoid scales, also known as dermal denticles. These scales point towards the tail and help to reduce friction from surrounding water when the sharkĀ swims. ā€¦ In the opposite direction, it feels very rough likeĀ sandpaper. 
((Here m8Ā https://www.floridamuseum.ufl.edu/fish/discover/sharks/basicsĀ ))


Buddy. Itā€™s smooth. The link you sent me led to a website that described how smooth they are. I dunno, maybe you donā€™t know how to read?


this post is transcendent 


Youā€™re thinking of dolphins. Dolphins are the ones with smooth skin that feels like a rubber beach ball.
Source: Iā€™M A MARINE BIOLOGIST


No, Iā€™m thinking of sharks.
Source: Iā€™m a superior marine biologist





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                the link: THE PERSDN WHo DISCOVERED SHARkS
 PRANSON REESE
 I AM G0IN 6
 INTO THE
 BIG WETNESS.
 SMooTH
 LIONS ARE
 EATING ME.
goatyellsateverything:

maetyu-y:
bransonreese:


aurora-gleam:


slangwang:

bransonreese:

crystallotusfr:


bransonreese:

serpentking456:


notcaycepollard:

the twitter thread the artist created after this was one of the best situations i have ever seen in my whole life:

Somebody give this ignoramus a piece of actual shark skin and tell him to rub his face with it, let him find out just how ā€œsmoothā€ sharks really are. 


Somebody did. I use it as a pillowcase because itā€™s so smooth.

But buddy.


Shark skin feels exactly like sandpaper. It is made up of tiny teeth-like structures called placoid scales, also known as dermal denticles. These scales point towards the tail and help to reduce friction from surrounding water when the sharkĀ swims. ā€¦ In the opposite direction, it feels very rough likeĀ sandpaper. 
((Here m8Ā https://www.floridamuseum.ufl.edu/fish/discover/sharks/basicsĀ ))


Buddy. Itā€™s smooth. The link you sent me led to a website that described how smooth they are. I dunno, maybe you donā€™t know how to read?


this post is transcendent 


Youā€™re thinking of dolphins. Dolphins are the ones with smooth skin that feels like a rubber beach ball.
Source: Iā€™M A MARINE BIOLOGIST


No, Iā€™m thinking of sharks.
Source: Iā€™m a superior marine biologist





This keeps getting better and better
                
            

            
            
goatyellsateverything:

maetyu-y:
bransonreese:


aurora-gleam:


slangwang:

bransonreese:

crystallotusfr:


bransonreese:

serpentking...