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sid_guardian2018-12-07 08:57 pm
trobadora) wrote in sid_guardian2018-12-07 08:57 pm
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Welcome to SID Guardian!
Hi, and welcome to SID Guardian!
sid_guardian is a noticeboard/community for:- linking Guardian fanworks of all kinds
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Which is to say, it's for letting Guardian fans find each other on Dreamwidth. :)
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As the comm develops, we hope to introduce social, discussion and/or prompt posts, but given it's December, we thought we'd start small and manageable.
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(Is the AO3 stuff really all noncon, a/b/o and the like? Alas, not really my thing.)
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Is the AO3 stuff really all noncon, a/b/o and the like? Alas, not really my thing.
Yes, it skews heavily in that direction. Look at the tags. (And that's only the ones that are tagged, the rest is still noncon more likely than not.)
The worst one I found was for a strange pairing that looked interesting (they mix and match all of ZYL and BY's roles willy nilly), and it turns out it's straight up hentai tentacle rape and one of the characters only appears at the very end, saying "so how did you like the monster I made, nice rape, no?" O_O
I'm telling you, it's a pit.
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Their main hub is lofter.com, it seems to be very similar to tumblr. It's completely unorganized and you can't find a thing in it, but authors post serialized fic there. (I can't even find the parts that belong together :( ) . For all the stuff they can't get through the censorship, they either take pictures and post it as an image (which is the worst because then there's no way to translate it at all anymore), or they post that snippet to ao3.
I mean, I am very sympathetic to their plight, let them all come to the archive! But maybe they should just post the whole story to the archive and not just snippets? And there should be an automatic way to fix not only the tags but the language, too?
I have been meaning to contact someone at the ao3 about this, so we could maybe write an automatic fix script for the language at least, because flagging the wrongly tagged fic with support and abuse is not getting us anywhere. But I have so many other things to do right now, it keeps slipping off the top of my todo list.
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(And that's only the ones that are tagged, the rest is still noncon more likely than not.)
:( Kinky porn I expected (and would love to read), but I don't much care for noncon, especially in this fandom.
Still glad people are archiving their fic on AO3, though!
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I think it has to do with gender stereotypes, like non-con was the 1960s excuse for women being shown to have sex at all, and I think this applies here, too.
The thing that bothers me most is how those gender stereotypes are mapped onto slash as well - like "the taller person has to top", "the bottom has to hurt"... aargh. None of this is my thing, and finding good, consensual fic with the partners on relatively equal footing is like the needle in the haystack.
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Ugh, yeah, really not my thing. :(