📚 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.
In light of the new casting news for Peter Krause, I am both so ecstatic for Peter and very saddened for what this really means in the 911 universe. This only confirms the complete mishandling of the most beloved character and the abhorrent treatment of Peter Krause and the many fans that have followed 911 from the beginning. From storylines that made no sense to the plot and went nowhere, to killing Bobby in the most traumatic and scarring way, to fake scripts, to the worst send of on television I’ve seen to someone so beloved and detrimental to the story, to the treatment of the actor that played him with heart and grace for 8 seasons….only to be shoved off and ignored. No thank you to Peter for 8 years, tribute video taken down, ignored and cut out of the show and the family he brought to life. It’s downright cruel in my opinion and a complete mishandling of someone who clearly didn’t deserve it. I mourn what we lost with Bobby Nash, with Bathena, with the 118 family….but I encourage everyone to support the heck out of Peter’s upcoming show…he deserves it. And I hope 911 realizes the gravity of what they lost with their own greed.
Charlie Kirk was the 18,533rd American shot and killed in 2025.
Why is he the only one people are talking about?
What about the 18,532 before him?
What about the roughly 400 hundred who were shot and killed since then?
Does anyone know any of their names?
It will forever be about him and what he brought to the table....no matter what is said or done to try to erase that. You can't knock down a foundation and expect it not to crumble, nor can you put a bandaid on a gapping wound. It's frustrating because it shouldn't even be anything we are discussing....but here we are and I'll never move.
Neil deGrass Tyson: "How sad it must be believing that scientists, historians, scholars, economists, journalists would devote their entire lives to deceiving you, but a con man proven in court to be a lying felon is your beacon of truth & honesty"