Fanfic Author~ 🔞
Sucker for 2min but momentarily sitting in an Onho-hole that I cannot escape?! help?
(Also - not so secretly - in love with Zitao and Eruri)
just a reminder to everyone, fic is free, and it is illegal to charge for anything to do with fic in any capacity, ao3 operates in a legal grey area BECAUSE there is no profit or exchanging of money, anything that goes against this compromises 10M+ users and 17M+ works
We in fandoms need to start policing better. Defend each other, name and shame commenters who put it to their account or who rate in bookmarks. I have had enough of seeing this bullshit. OP, I don’t know you, but I’m so sorry. This is a hobby, and if you love it, it’s for you.
“I’ll never read a wip again” as a response to Opal completing the fic offline is a crazy selfish response to the shit the fandom is doing to writers rn but okay sure. Keep treating authors like content creators without pay it’s fine 🫶
“The readers are basically customers” NO this is not a service exchange this is a COMMUNITY I will drag you all into community kicking and screaming influencers have killed peoples understanding of how community works
i hate articles about fanficton. i hate interviewers who ask actors about ships. i hate promotional media showing actors ship fan art. this is not fa serving i am not being served please bring back separation of church and state
writers, for the love of god try ellipsus because holy shit, it's so, so much nicer and simpler than google docs (and you can have lots of fancy themes teehee)
📚 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.
i haven’t (yet) replied to any of my ao3 comments…but i do have a little notebook where i have printed them out, because they mean so much to me 🥹 never assume your comment hasn’t made a difference just because you didn’t get a reply!
I really hope we have a whole cultural revolution against AI that centers art and literature. I want stuff from human hands, made using human imagination, honed skill, and care of craft.
“AI is inevitable. Adapt or be left behind”
NOPE. Stand firm against AI in film! Make them listen and they WILL listen! Never underestimate the power of your voice!
Very proud of AMC for this!