📚 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.
naim is interesting he represents both eden and the original sin. he outed them & started the downward spiral of sins, but the sin wasnt homosexuality… it was fear. naim confronts his fear and frees himself whereas hunter died bc of it. so is naim ryan’s garden or hunter’s snake
Youve heard abt toxic academic rivals but get ready for toxic co-authorship. For "I need you" and "its basically our baby" and "You wouldnt leave me alone with this paper would you" and "no. You cant just walk away" and "we're going to b cited together forever. its like marriage"
i've been screaming this for ages, DC please let Bruce Wayne wear more experimental and suave outfits with dramatically long coats or curated accent colors outside of a generic black suit,, He's A Socialite
so um... who wants a link when I publish my short fic of ryan and naims night together after the ending of the movie. (there will be no graphic smut! mostly them making out and talking. it's pretty tender for the most part but will be kinda angsty...)
whenever things get hard and naim says to ryan that maybe itll be easier if they split up ryan usually reasons with him and talks him down, but after a particularly bad encounter with the entity ryan just clings to naim and whispers “please. stop trying to leave me.”