I always suspected Katabasis would be my last fan fic, but now I know it will. I'm still intent on finishing it because 1) I've had this story in my head for so long I wouldn't be able to live with myself if I didn't see it through, and +
@CouchZa70875 That seems reasonable. I'm just addressing the arguments I've seen from people who want to either deprive authors of any community engagement at all or punish authors they don't personally like. An unkudo is relatively mild and valid in the cases you mention.
A pic of my beautiful wife for this year's #N7Day
EA might've cancelled the next ME game, but they can't cancel my love for this series
#SaveMassEffect
writing a long fic is constantly dreaming up future scenarios that I can’t share yet and banging my head against a wall to figure out the next sequential piece of the story
Actually the "I want to treat AO3 like a streaming service and just mindlessly consume and never once consider that an actual person made this" mindset is far more capitalistic than "I like being appreciated for my work" could ever be.
Not to defend those google drives full of fic no one consented to but they are not what caused the many AI fic sites going up right now - there are too many drafts and deleted fics for that to be the case