• Stern@lemmy.world
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      Both are creative writing sites with large/primary focuses on fanfiction. AO3 (Archive Of Our Own) allows for works depicting rape, incest, and pedophilia. IIRC Wattpad never did.

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        I’d describe it as Ao3 has a broader set of terms of service and permits a far wider range of stories to be told

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          Would you also describe Johnny Sins as an experienced, award winning actor whos played a wide array of roles? Cuz its true but…

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            Do you think awards should be limited to The Academy?

            That only pearl clutching, blue haired old women should get to tell us what is acceptable in our society?

            Before the pedants and so on start asking if I want to legalise child porn and snuff films, no.

            But this is a fictional site where people write stories. They don’t act out stories and they don’t make films of the stories (at least not on the site), and I am not advocating for that.

            If people don’t want to read them, they can go back to story time with mother. But that doesn’t mean they get to tell me what I can and cannot read.

            Also, if Johnny Sims wants to make his money entertaining people, then yeah - I say more power to him. It’s more honest than some of the actors in Hollywood.

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            But what? Why wouldn’t that describe his career?