love when fanfic writers are like “I love this character” & proceed to put them through shit even God has blacklisted, baby the middle ages called they want to hear your ideas
My thoughts go out to all the students protesting for Gaza in every country. Students and teachers who are being beaten, tased, arrested, and charged. Students risking their lives because apparently peaceful protest and free speech doesn’t apply to those whose narrative doesn’t fit the governments.
Stg when I get a comment on some old short I wrote and entirely forgot about in the mass of fics I’ve written it makes my day to know people are enjoying the back catalogue that the archive has to offer.
But it does make me laugh when people assume AO3 is social media because it allows you some form of interaction. Many archives do. It is an archive, and probably the best archive of LGBT free access literature as well as literature for so many other marginalised groups.
It’s the archive people built to protect our content and allow others to access it without the fear of their govt taking it away (literally, AO3 have their own legal team and data storage funded by donations.)
At a time where so much censorship is happening, archives like AO3 are a safe haven and history for so many.
thinking about that post of people assuming ao3 has an algorithm and also about how bonkers persistent the view is that ao3 is social media lite. like with startling regularity I get comments saying something along the lines of "it's probably weird to comment on a fic this old--" no it isn't!!!! this is an archive I am literally just assuming you searched for a selection of specific tags or sorted by kudos or looked back on my pseud or any other number of completely normal ways to use an archive site ?? kill the tiktok ghost in your brain and comment on old stuff it's NOT weird
Guys the next updates on my Leatin fics will probs be next week because I’ve had 4 members of family in hospital the past week and it’s a bit chaotic my end rn.
However next week I will start posting the Leatin Mythology / Guardian AU and there’s also a tumblr prompt I’ll try and get finished too.