Nostalgia Post: it's been ten years since Dashcon!

[yami_no_hoshi]

guys, dashcon turns 10 today. feel old yet?https://t.co/vdDvbPvJzM pic.twitter.com/HIVkIVU3L5
- tumblr dot com the website and app (@tumblr) July 11, 2024
while OP continues to hope she will work on her long ONTD original about Tumblr's greatest hits (including Dashcon), here's a post to remind us of everyone's favourite poorly planned con

Comments

[kerosene_pill]

First of all SCREAMING because now I'm trying to remember if you're the one I encouraged to read KS on here or not lol but either way YES HELLO FELLOW STAN, THEY CAN PRY MY LOVE FOR THAT COMIC OUT OF MY COLD DEAD DOVE HANDS!!!! I read it as it was being released and they will never take away my adoration for it. Had it come out in the tumblr hey day it would have been WAY more popular. I could go on ad nauseum about the story and the "anti's" for it but let me not lol

No, I just like darker stuff. I can tell fiction from reality. Liking horror movies doesn't mean I want to go out and murder a bunch of teenagers camp counselors for having premarital sex

This right fucking here. Do I want to experience any of that? Fuck no! But god it's so much fun to read and experience through various media. Whump and angst and just, the more fucked the better, sign me up!

Kids, who do you think is writing your favorite fics? It's not the 15 year old! OMG I've made this exact argument because hello??? The fact that we've gotten to this point is just beyond bonkers to me. My thing is "so then all those YA books, every author is a pedo? Anything ever written that includes minors is automatically problematic?" like gtfo.

Let them dox themselves I genuinely have no sympathy lmao

[theoryofwar]

You may have been! If it was you, thank you for one of my latest obsessions! The physical copy of vol 7 comes out next month, I think? Or in September!

I love whump and angst so much lol. Sign me up as well. Antis are so fucking dumb. Just don't read it. You're being pro-censorship. And they say shit like the weirdos need to leave AO3. Do they know WHO created AO3? The weirdos you hate! I also feel like they go looking for the things they hate so they can screech about it. They care way more, after all. Honestly, what happened to 'Don't Like, Don't Read'? The block button and filter option are there for a reason!

Also, do they not go to bookstores and libraries? Because both of those places carry stuff that's just as bad as what the FF authors do for free.

I have feelings about this all, if you can't tell lol.

[kerosene_pill]

Ahhh yay!!! I'm so glad!!! I fucking love those 2 tragic terrible idiots so much lol. I'm forever mad that Koogi didn't get to give us season 4 like she wanted to, she had to cut it early :(

Dude right?! "Don't Like, Don't Read" has been a slogan in the fanfic and fandom spaces for years. It's literally what it says. There's plenty of stuff I wouldn't read and I don't give a shit who reads it or why. It's not for me, there's plenty of stuff out there that is! The way they spend so much time actively going to people's pages to give them shit. You never see us wading into their spaces but they LOVE coming into ours.

OMFG don't get me started on that view on Ao3!!! That is literally, genuinely, the WHOLE reason it exists! It is the definition of a safe space. It's so easy to avoid the things you don't want to see?? It's built near perfectly for that!

WHEW clearly we could bitch about this together forever, and I gladly will! LMFAO