happy women's day to the ladies, please go get that piercing, beat that man, get that tattoo, beat that man, get that degree, beat that man, get that job, beat that man, wear that dress, beat that man, go to that solo trip, beat that man, answer back that relative, beat that man.
📚 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.
when an artist ive been listening to since 2019 stops making music because newgens find out the concept of an artist finding their style and sticking to it