"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.
there's some fandoms where seeing an ai fic just isn't right. like any ai fic is bad, but if it happens in heated rivalry you just sigh, roll your eyes, and move on bbc merlin? how dare you. it's like the difference between an act of war and a violation of the geneva convention.