Another side effect of our literacy crisis is that artists can no longer embed meaning in metaphors or communicate through nuanced visuals—consumers now demand everything be literal, or they simply won’t get it.
The fanfic discourse kinda boils down to Wattpad gave people the name of the chips and their flavor but AO3 gives you a full ingredient list and sometimes people don't want to come to terms with what's in their food
At some point, it is necessary to stop hand holding ppl w/ trauma. If you know something triggering is there, which y’all clearly do, y’all have got to stop using the site that could trigger you. AO3 isn’t changing for you. Adjust accordingly.
"I was on ao3 before the wattpad migration!"
I was on fanfic. net, personal blogs, and live journals. I lived through the citrus scale era. When authors had segments where they talked to the characters about the chapter's contents.
We are not the same.