hi ARMY 🙏🏻
hoping this tweet reaches the right people—
i’ve been diagnosed with ocular herpes keratitis in my left eye, which requires regular appointments for the rest of my life. each session costs $350 & i’ve been told insurance won’t cover it.
thing is, i don’t earn enough
ao3 survives because of community care. not because of purity policing. not because of mass reporting. not because of trends.
it survives because people respect that you curate your own experience and other people get to curate theirs.
fandom works best when we protect the archive and protect each other. so filter wisely. tag responsibly. comment kindly. report carefully.
and let people write their weird little stories in peace ✨
📚 Archive of Our Own etiquette 101
ao3 has been under a lot of pressure lately. more users, more traffic, more reports, more confusion. which is great in one way because fandom is alive and people want stories, but it also means we all need to breathe and remember how the site actually works.
this is for everyone. old readers, new readers, writers, lurkers, people who just discovered fanfiction last week, and people who have been here since dial up.
let us talk about how to exist peacefully on ao3.