Thinking about AO3 discourse

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There would be plenty of material for an AO3 equivalent of Safebooru. If you look at the My Little Pony fandom, for instance, there are a lot of folks who see a cute, wholesome show and want to make cute, wholesome fic in the same style. But just like how a lot of children’s cartoons have boys who kiss girls (and do nothing more than kissing), a lot of the wholesome My Little Pony fandom content involves girl ponies kissing girl ponies. And even on the sites that allowed all manner of NSFW content, there were people who went apeshit about “promoting homosexuality.” So does your child-safe site allow gay kissing? Does it allow straight kissing? Who legislates the ensuing arguments over whether a romance is “child-inappropriate”? 

Eventually, the folks who feel their fics are unfairly rejected will want to go somewhere they won’t have to argue over every post. You know, some sort of archive of their own.