To begin with, I'd like to clarify that we're not doing anything different than we did last year with kink_bingo, or than we were doing at the beginning of this round, before we thought about it as a project in the context of this and other questions about the community. We don't do anything other than what we say on the profile.

This is an understanding we have recently come to about kink_bingo. It was not intended to be an indication that kink_bingo works that way for everyone; its main purpose, as I think we indicated in the PM, is to encourage kinky fic/vids/art. But we feel that encouraging more kink fic in fandom is a political act -- kink_bingo is political in the same way any kinky practice is political. Just by existing, it serves as a critique of the idea that kink practice is bad and wrong and dirty and something to be ashamed of and never spoken about. That is, to us, a political act, and an act that messes with norms about kink, and an act that reclaims the desires that mainstream communities denigrate. I wouldn't call it an "agenda" so much as a delight in the effect that kinky fic has: that people feel comfortable in that space talking about how much they love watersports or enemas or animal play or flogging.

The short version of the above is that this is "political" to us in the sense that the personal is political, in the sense that talking and writing about things we love is political, in the sense that sharing joy in a thing that we are told we should not take joy in is political.

I am sorry that this made you feel like we were trying to pull one over on you or on others, and I'm happy to talk more about it if you would like.

edited to fix username typo