u/Exciting_Hope5839

I mean I get hiding your like ao3 history from coworkers, because they're, like, strangers, or from family, because you didn't choose them

but I could never be comfortable with hiding an important part of my weird little brain from a person I consider a friend

i don't get the "keeping your X life and Y life separately" thing if X or Y is your closest people who's like supposed to accept and respect you anyway

I get uncomfortable even when I have to keep my horrible intrusive (and I mean intrusive) thoughts from them, because my love language is oversharing, and hiding something as important as interests and positions feels ten times worse

Question to fellow webcomic artists!

My favorite webcomic hosting for years have always had very lenient rules regarding content (at least, comparing to major comic websites like webtoons) but of course with the exception of sexualizing underage characters because what else would I expect. I didn't have/didn't plan anything like it in my comics so I thought I'd be fine but recently umm

There was a discussion in one of the hosting's discords regarding bans for drawing underage characters explicitly, and when I asked directly, I was told (not by a mod, though, only by a user) that yes you can probably get permanently banned for what you do outside of the hosting (like, one person was banned for calling a childlike character their "waifu" out on some other resource)

So... the thing is, i don't even know where else I can post my comics anymore. I'm too poor for my own website, I have gore and nudity, so no major websites, and now I'm also maybe probably risking getting perma banned if someone reports me to the mods about supporting loli/shotacon artists and finding some underage characters attractive?

Anyway, do you know any websites to post your comics?

Edit: the duck webcomics have pretty based policies, if anyone had the same question as me!

My new character in my story is vaguely inspired by Roadhog from Overwatch. He wears a mask too (Roadhog is never shown without it). So, I was speculating what my character's face could look like and thought about some mutations/deformities that make him look like a pig, as a kind of a tribute to the character's prototype and as a reflection of what he's been through/the cruelty of the part of the world he has to live in.

He had pretty rough teen years, been at war, and probably was tortured/experimented on at some point.

He wears a mask because he's currently a mercenary and needs anonymity, because he's, well, easily recognizable as he is. He's mostly nonchalant about his appearance, though doesn't like people's attention (or people in general).

So, I could, like, add him just some unspecified scars and drop the pig references altogether. Or maybe it's something that he could own (considering his personality and his ways to cope with trauma, he most definitely could) and maybe it would be actually something cool?

Hope I'm using the flair right.

I'm just curious. As I understand it, AO3 is meant for fanfiction first and foremost, and most of its users are here for it.

But if you read original works, or read once, how it happens? How do you find what you like and what's worth your time?

Does your friend infodump you about their worldbuilding/characters for years and you finally decide to check their stuff out? Does your favorite fanfic writer post an original and you decide to check it out? Do you deliberately search tags you're interested in? Do you randomly stumble upon descriptions that, uh, make you interested?

Do you mostly read fanfiction with a small bunch of original works? Or mostly originals? Or exclusively originals?

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I just love imagining how Junkrat runs to Lifeweaver after blowing off his fingers and telling stupidest jokes about how he needs a hand or something and Weaver sighs and patches him up and reminds to not blow off his fingers again and to be more careful next time because he's worried and then junkrat runs off and blows off his fingers again i thnk these two are meant for each other

I've been having these thoughts lately, wonder what other people think (maybe I'm stating something obvious lol)

Like, fiction, obviously, affects reality. Sometimes very intentionally and directly, like with propaganda, sometimes in more subtle ways.

But, like, the propaganda doesn't work without censorship, does it? Propaganda needs to create or support a certain picture of reality among its audience, a picture that shutters the moment the audience sees an alternative. Some propaganda piece can show how all, say, women are stupid or how all gays are groomers, and with the lack of personal experience you may buy it, even if you don't have strong pre-existing biases against women or gays. But if you see other examples of representation from the very beginning, this propaganda piece will fail, because you will see it as another work of fiction, instead of reality it pretends to represent. And many propaganda pieces only work because they pretends to state some "obvious" reality that no one ever thinks to question. And different and diverse art provokes questions. If you see different versions of reality in different works of fiction, you at least start to question which of them is true, and whether any of them is.

What I want to say is, well, sometimes fiction affects reality in the same direct way that antis believe it does. But! What's important to understand is for that to work, you need pre-conditioned audience with existing biases or of people who are ready to believe anything that certain authority tells them. In addition to that, you need strict censorship of anything that challenges the worldview that said propaganda tries to create, or even pre-conditioned audience may start see the propaganda as fiction instead of reality. And still, there will be many people who won't buy the attempts to brainwash them.

I'm speaking from experience of living in a country with rapidly deteriorating free speech. The government HATES the internet, simply because you may find different opinions there, and tries to ban and block everything. Because less and less people buy the government's propaganda (though sadly, many do and many get radicalized by it) and the Ministry of Truth is panicking.

So, what I want to say is... A drawing of two people kissing is NOT that case

At this point I'm just used to anti rhetoric in everything on youtube even if i agree with this person on literally everything else

Sometimes they even have based profic takes but still defend censorship when it's about, say, fictional "minors" or other "too problematic" things

Like, "yeah we need to explore the taboo topics in art" and at the same time "oh why you made your villain too evil, what does it say about YOU?" (Not making up the second one)

Of course i filter out the shittiest ones (like one time i found a video defending the arrest of an Australian woman who wrote a fictional book about fictional grooming, sorry I'm blurry on details) but there's always something lowkey like "of course we shouldn't censor everything, but SOME censorship of the most EVIL artis necessary, of course in won't get out of hand" and no they usually aren't talking about things that involve real people, real children and their personal information