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Re: Stormpilot(Jedi) and Kinks

[(Anonymous)]

DA

After the anon who wrote P/F sex pollen was bullied into taking her fic offline, I don't think you'll be seeing sex pollen or dub/non-con anytime soon.

Re: Stormpilot(Jedi) and Kinks

[(Anonymous)]

I read that fic and seriously, it's the mildest sex pollen I've ever read.

Re: Stormpilot(Jedi) and Kinks

[(Anonymous)]

DA

IA. I wonder if the author pissed someone off in fandom and that's why they were bullied into taking it down. It's happened before.

Re: Stormpilot(Jedi) and Kinks

[(Anonymous)]

Given the fic, I'd say that or it was a random dog piling target like happens on anon memes where someone gets a bug up their ass and starts wanking and others jump on the wankwagon.

Re: Stormpilot(Jedi) and Kinks

[(Anonymous)]

Considering the first comment was unfortunately the one to start the wank, that was likely the case. By the time other readers tried to come to the author's aid the harm was done and they were all patting themselves in the back for being so progressive.

Re: Stormpilot(Jedi) and Kinks

[(Anonymous)]

DA

Do you remember if the comment was from someone logged into an account or an anon comment? I find a lot of the wankbait comments on AO3 fics or ones that are more demanding or accusatory don't come from people who have signed into accounts.

Re: Stormpilot(Jedi) and Kinks

[(Anonymous)]

Some where logged in users and others weren't.

Re: Stormpilot(Jedi) and Kinks

[(Anonymous)]

The first comment was logged in, and it was a somewhat-BNF.

Re: Stormpilot(Jedi) and Kinks

[(Anonymous)]

Ah. That's all it takes. Unfortunate.

Who was the first comment, if you don't mind telling?

Re: Stormpilot(Jedi) and Kinks

[(Anonymous)]

At least on AO3 you can delete or moderate comments, if it comes to that, unlike anon memes where only the mod has that power.

Re: Stormpilot(Jedi) and Kinks

[(Anonymous)]

This is why I didn't get why so many people went after the author. It was nowhere near as graphic or violent as some of the stuff I have come across. Yes it was not a happy story, but not every story has to be happy.

Re: Stormpilot(Jedi) and Kinks

[(Anonymous)]

Years ago, I was in another fandom where people got up in arms when fics didn't end happily and started requesting unhappy ending warnings on fics.

Re: Stormpilot(Jedi) and Kinks

[(Anonymous)]

This sounds familiar...what fandom?

Re: Stormpilot(Jedi) and Kinks

[(Anonymous)]

Supernatural and Supernatural RPF during the early years. Though I know it was a big issue in other fandoms like SGA and HP, mostly with warning for unhappy endings or the OTP not ending up together.

IRC, there were a lot of meta posts at the time about whether or not people should warn for everything and comparing fandom fic warnings with warnings irl for books and movies.