i also did this with an infamous fic in an old fandom years ago and the author deleted the fic and you canβt find it anywhere online anymore and it sent everyone crazy but the whole thing is printed out in polly pockets in my drawer and i think about that all the time
in 2021 my friend printed out all 200k words of a fanfic and made it into a book for me and then the author deleted their entire ao3 account along with the fic so now i have a lost piece of media just on my bookshelf
somewhere out there thereβs a closeted pro athlete who just saw what his life could be like for the first time on a mainstream show. keeping every single one of them in my thoughts tonight, whatever their choices and possibilities are π«