You know how hard it is for me to find this many BL-focused blogs 1 or 2 years back? Like y’all keep on hating on all these wonderful blogs but still clamor for them to churn out more BL stuff. If you don’t like their opinion, fine, respect that they have theirs and move the hell on.
Don’t like what they are into? Okay fine, just unfollow them and move the hell on.
Be a mature and responsible human being that I know you are capable of.
Get my message?
Move the hell on. It’s a short life. Why bother getting into fights when you can just make love?!
I need to bring this around again because I just had another close mutual of mine leave Tumblr because of it. It so heartbreaking to have this happening again and again. Can we please … just live and let live? Aren’t we all adults around here?
Comfort food: wherever life may take you, you always circle back to this OTP when you need something familiar and comforting.
All-you-can-eat buffet: tons of food of varying quality, but you won’t leave this restaurant until you’ve tried every. Single. Dish.
Favorite takeaway: the OTP on your speed-dial. It’s not the most sustaining, but it’s quick, tasty and guaranteed to deliver what you want.
Ice cream tub: you only wanted a few spoonfuls but now you can’t stop. You’ll gorge yourself on this OTP until you’re sick of it.
Sushi: you do like this OTP, but you’re very picky about it. Only selected authors meet your quality standards.
Peanut butter and pickle sandwich: it sounds nasty and gross, and people pull weird faces when you mention it. But you absolutely dig it.
Protein bar: It may not be the funniest OTP, but in times of need it gives you compact sustenance and helps you get better.
Grandma’s secret recipe: everyone thinks they can cook it, but there’s only that one special author you trust with this OTP. All the others just make it wrong!..
Homemade sandwich: it may not be the best executed dish, but since there’s no one out there willing to cook with those very specific ingredients you just had to take the matters in your own hands.
High Tea: There are right ways, and there are wrong ways, dammit, to enjoy this OTP, at least for you and your friends.
Pizza Party: Maybe not actually your favorite, but all your friends enjoy it and this way you can all share something together.
Chinese fandoms are currently experiencing an actual Purge right now. Every fandom. Accounts are getting banned, all shipping wars has been put on hold. Everyone’s hiding their porn and moving them to ao3.
There’s reward money involved. A recent update to censorship law raised the maximum reward for reporting illicit online materials to 50k yuan (7000 USD), so some people are reporting porn like crazy right now, and apparently, BL fandoms have been especially targeted, where some even more tame things got maliciously misreported.
Anyway, it’s a mess. Content creators are just disappearing off the face of the internet left and right. Expect an influx of Chinese porn fics on AO3.
Well… if there’s one thing out of this mess… nothing bands warring ships/fandoms like censorship…
ATTENTION: if you have weibo/lofter/other CH accounts and you shared any nsfw/gl/bl content from any artist—please take them down NOW given that a BL author just got sentenced to 10 years in prison very recently, this is really alarming
Most of your fandom experience is shaped by who you follow. Find a good group of people and stick with them.
Support your favs and a lot of them will become your friends, or at least be friendly back to you.
Just unfollow people who bring unwanted content or negativity onto your dash.
Block people who cause you stress. It’s not worth your time to focus on parts of fandom that don’t make you happy.
Blacklisting words/tags is a tool you are allowed to use as much as you need to.
Don’t feel like you have to pretend to like things that make you uncomfortable in order to fit in. Set healthy boundaries for yourself.
Never tag your hate. Never send hate anons to someone.
Content creators love getting comments, seeing people gush in the tags on reblogs, and getting fans in their inbox. It’s the best way to motivate them to keep making awesome stuff.
If there’s certain content you want to see but it doesn’t exist yet, then make it. Draw the thing, write that fic. If you can’t, then comission an artist or writer, or send someone a prompt if they’re open to it. If you can’t do that either, then write meta or headcanons about it. Put it into the world.
Create what you love. Do it for yourself first and foremost, and if even one other person likes it too, then that’s a bonus.
As a reader, as a writer, and as a fan I can’t think of a single website that has given me more happiness than Archive of Our Own. Thank you so much to everyone who works so hard to make it such a wonderful place.
Fandom is such a weird place. Like I watched a tv show and thought “wow, these two nerds have a lot of chemistry and I’d like to dedicate a large chunk of my life to thinking about them” so I went in search of other people who also thought these two nerds had a lot of chemistry and then it turned out that a shit ton of people were talking about these two nerds having a lot of chemistry and now it’s 4 years later and we write each other porn on holidays.
The Last Good Bar 
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