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danadaria · 2 months

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STEDDIE BIGBANG23 - MASTERPOST

So... I did a thing.

I put together a spreadsheet with all the published works from the @steddiebang 2023.

This spreadsheet includes fics, art, podfics, and almost every link shared by the authors and artists :)

Honestly, collecting all this information all these months (that nobody asked me, I’m just crazy) was a lot, and I spent various nights going to sleep too late because I wanted to update all in one session. But I feel it so regarding too, because gathering all this info, it made me realize how much this fandom means to people.

Technically, it’s a fandom a little more than one year old, but the Steddie corner of the internet has been such a fun place to live in.

I’ve been in fandom spaces for more than 15 years, and I’ve always found it so special to be part of it, because there’s so much love, so much insanity in the best way possible, that everybody spent time creating and sharing their work, just for the purpose of fun, of self-expression, to feel a little bit more: one fic, one fan art, one podfic at a time.

And it’s inevitable to be a little bit political, but at times like now, where IA, corporations, and capitalism threaten these spaces, it feels revolutionary seeing how many of us just want to make something… for free, to just share with our internet friends, and being a link in the big chain of fandom and shipping.

Thank you to the mods, the mini-mods and to all the SteddieBang community for making this event something so fun, incredible and BIG!

Now go, and read, comment and share all these amazing works!!!!!

P.S: Let’s make the Trekkie grannies proud, and let’s write and draw more of our boys <3

#steddiebang23 #steddiebang23 masterpost #steddie #fandom archive

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bisexual-paleontologists · 2 years

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Explore Old School Alan/Billy fandom through the Wayback Machine

Before Tumblr, before AO3, (slightly) before LiveJournal, there was a First Age of billyalan fandom!

Fanlistings, Geocities, individual websites, fanfiction lists and archives and more... See what came before us!

Fanlistings

Evolution: The Alan/Billy Fanlisting - opened on October 2nd, 2003 at evolve.amiss.org -- This is interactive, and one can click to see Home, billy/alan thesis statement, a gallery of photos (they don’t all load), videos, links to other fan sites, lists of members, etc.

Not Just A Walk In The Park: The Jurassic Park III Fanlisting - opened on June 24th, 2004 at aemslash.co.uk (Earliest Version) -- Interactive categories: About, Rules, Codes, Join, List, and Clear (home).

Don’t Be A Hero: The Billy Brennan Fanlisting - circa 2003 at aemslash.co.uk

Protector: The Alessandro Nivola Fanlisting opened September 14, 2003 at aemslash.co.uk (Later Version)

Sites

JP3 Fan Website of Jess/nortylaK at dinos.amiss.org

elfin’s Jurassic Park III Alan/Billy fan site circa 2003 at sundive.co.uk --

Fiction: 2003 2008 2016

Images: 2003

JPAftermath: Your Home For Jurassic Park On The Net - a reference information hub for Jurassic Park (An early wiki, with a treasure trove of links I haven’t even sorted through)

JP3_Alan_and_Billy Yahoo! Group founded July 23rd, 2001 (Not much here but the evidence of its existence)

Squidge.org JP3 Slash Page Database (Database of links to slash pages mentioning JP3 or Alan/Billy)

Squidge.org sgccanadians/Rhian’s Alan & Billy: Jurassic Park 3 Music Videos - (Later Version) Two and then three fanvids, one of which was once available through AO3 but no longer. (Untested format, I have no idea if that zipped ASF format can be read or played)

Fanfiction

(all fic listed on Alan/Billy Masterpost)

Alyse: Bunnies on Acid at easyweb.easynet.co.uk (Earliest Version)

Unconscious Mind - Jurassic Park III Fanfiction List (2005)

Unconscious Mind - Jurassic Park III Fanfiction List (2019)

Challenge the Muses Archive at squidge.org - (Two fics, also available at AngelFire)

Cori Lannam’s Jurassic Park 3 Fan Fiction at aol.com - (Two fics, also available at AngelFire)

elfin’s Jurassic Park III Slash Fiction Archive at sundive.co.uk

also at sundive.co.uk: Patience by Biblio

the haven: fanfiction gateway at tripod.com - (Three fics, two available at AngelFire and one lost to the ravages of time)

Hergerbabe’s Parlour of Wonders at tripod.com - (Four fics, available at Angelfire)

K9 Kennel at skeeter63.org - (Four fics, also available at AngelFire)

kalyw’s Geocities Jurassic Park III Fan Fiction Archive - (Ten fics, also available at AngelFire)

ninemuses Geocities Fanfiction Archive - (Two fics in the Jurassic Park III subsection) Same fic also available through Satyricon au go go at sharpetorium.info

Sithkitten’s Jurassic Park Archive at slashcity.net (~kmdavis) - (One fic, also available at the-ridges.net)

Sithkitten’s Jurassic Park Archive at slashcity.net (the Lair) - (Links to actual fic urls were not saved, but the story Once Bitten is available at AngelFire and The Haven: Fiction Gateway)

I love the oft repeated phrase throughout these fansites:

“Didn’t see the slash? That’s like not noticing the dinosaurs!”

Old billyalan fandom, I love you. New billyalan fandom, I love you. Billyalan fandom, I love you.

Reminder that things saved to archive.org are liable to be lost if archive.org is ever lost, so please save things you want and backup accordingly.

#Alan x Billy #billyalan #billyalan community #Alan Grant x Billy Brennan #fandom archive #fanfiction archive #Jurassic Park III #JP3 #Jurassic Park 3 #maybe I'm a curator at heart maybe I am! what about it!

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not-mary-sue · 6 days

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Alright, to ao3's soon to be arriving Wattpad Refugees, a basic guide to general user culture:

1.) Unlike Wattpads vote system that let's you like each chapter, the ao3 equivalent kudos only allows one per work. Everyone is generally quietly annoyed about this. To engage with each chapter, you're heavily encouraged to comment. Trust me, it makes people's day.

2.) Ao3 has no algorithm. By default it's latest updated work first. You can find things to your taste through searches, filters and tags.

3.) 'No archive warnings apply' and 'user has chosen not to use archive warnings' mean two very different things. No archives warnings means the work is free from any content that could require a warning tag (character death, graphic depictions of violence, non-con, etc). User has chosen not to use archive warnings means it could contain any of the warning content, be it hasn't been explicitly tagged. Treat it like an allergen. No archive warnings apply is allergen free. User has chosen not to use archive warnings, may contain traces or whole chunks of the allergen. If you're likely to have a bad reaction, maybe don't take the risk.

4.) Speaking of warnings, ao3 has very few restrictions on the type of work that's allowed. Whatever your personal thoughts or feelings on that are, thats how the site is. You're likely to run across some dark subject matters and a lot of people are uncomfortable with reading that. You're well within your rights not like these works and have your opinion on whether they should be allowed, but harassing the authors of such works (or any works) is more likely to come back on you than them. Ao3 operates on a strong policy of 'don't like, don't read'. Use the tagging system to your full advantage to only engage with the kind of works you want to see.

We look forward to welcoming you all and seeing the fantastic works you create. Happy writing!

#wattpad #wattpad purge #ao3 #archive of our own #fan fiction #fandom #fandom culture

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actual-changeling · 6 months

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In the spirit of encouraging people to comment on fanfics while also making it easier to do so, I feel obliged to share a browser extension for ao3 that has quite literally revolutionized the comment game for me.

I present to you: the floating ao3 comment box!

From what I've seen, a big problem for many people is that once you reach the comments at the bottom of a fic, your memory of it miraculously disappears. Anything you wanted to say is stuck ten paragraphs ago, and you barely remember what you thought while reading. This fixes that!

I'll give a little explanation on the features and how it works, but if you want to skip all that, here's the link.

The extension is visible as a small blue box in the upper left corner.

(Side note: The green colouring is not from the extension, that's me.)

If you click on it, you open a comment box window at the bottom of your screen but not at the bottom of the fic. I opened my own fic for demonstrative purposes.

The website also gives explanations on how exactly it functions, but I'll summarize regardless.

insert selection -> if you highlight a sentence in the fic it will be added in italics to the comment box

add to comment box -> once you're done writing your comment, you click this button and the entire thing will automatically copied to the ao3 comment box

delete -> self explanatory

on mulitchapter fics, you will be given the option to either add the comment to just the current chapter or the entire fic

The best part? You can simply close the window the same way you opened it and your progress will automatically be saved. So you can open it, comment on a paragraph, and then close it and keep reading without having the box in your face.

Comments are what keep writers going, and as both a writer and a reader, I think it's such an easy way of showing support and enthusiasm.

#alex yells at the void #ao3 #archive of our own #ao3 stuff #fanfic comments #fandom

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innerenigma · 1 month

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•Normalize Fanart for Fanfics Again You Fools•

It's not cringe anymore (it SHOULDN'T be cringe anymore), just do it. You're doing something you enjoy, who cares what anybody else says! So spread the words my fellow internet brethren.

Spread the Word :)

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ao3-shenanigans · 5 months

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Embrace the cringe.

Write weird fanfic.

Read weird fanfic.

#cringe culture is dead #ao3 #archive of our own #fanfiction #fanfic #writing #fandom #ao3 shenanigans

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shaftking · 10 months

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Ao3 is actually massively culturally important and very very good at being what it is. I’m so serious when I say that ao3 needs to be protected as the anti censorship, by fans for fans, nonprofit, volunteer run, expertly designed archival site that it is. You don’t have to read or like fanfiction to understand that on principle, ao3 is a site that should be defended.

#personal #ao3 #archive of our own #fanfiction #fandom #anti censorship #not to suck ao3 off but I’m sucking ao3 off bc I’ve lived through other fic sites and no one does it like they do

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allthingswhumpyandangsty · 4 months

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writers whenever they’re starting a new fic: I have these ✨ vibes ✨ now I’ll have to build an entire plot and write an entire fic about those vibes

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anxious-m3ss · 7 months

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“I hope this email finds you well”

First of all the only emails that ever find me well are from AO3

#fanfiction writing #ao3 #ao3 author #ao3 stuff #archive of our own #ao3 meta #fandom culture #fanfiction culture #ao3 etiquette

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sleep-deprived-person · 2 months

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So apparently KOSA (2024 edition) is getting either thrown out until next year or put into effect in six days. That was a guesstimate based on a different person saying that's when Congress is back in session and may be false.

Update that's going in the main post at the top: it has enough support to pass Congress.

It failed the last two times because people were voting against it.

This time, KOSA has traction among the pro-LGBTQ parties. Because nobody is fucking calling their bullshit and screaming from the rooftops that calling it the "Kids Online Safety Act" is misleading.

What will it passing do?

Nothing much, only prevent any education on LGBTQIA+ (it's that stupid fucking argument about us grooming kids again), shut down nearly every fandom space on the internet, and make it required for most big tech companies to have your ID.

Want to have resources for kids to discover their identity readily available? Yes? Then fucking speak up against this stupid fucking bill.

Fandom spaces like Tumblr, Twitter (? I thought the MAGA assholes liked Musk?), Tiktok, Archive Of Our Own, and any other website that hosts fanfic or fanart? Either shut down permanently, forced to uproot to a different country and down for a while (best case scenario, and they likely won't be able to send any data, and therefore fanfics, to the US), or gutted so that you only get to put G rated cishet ships on there, if any shipping at all. How to avoid that? I've already said it: Call your fucking representatives.

Want to avoid the fucking dystopic task of being legally obligated to give big tech your government issue ID? Again, cause an uproar. Call your goddamned representatives.

If they can pass this, the ripple effects could be catastrophic.

So, for fuck's sake, any Americans that can impact this stupid fucking bill and see this? Do everything in your power to shut it down because you have until February twenty sixth (26th) to send this bill back to where it belongs.

And if you can't do that? Reblog, copy my tags, and boost the signal.

Sorry not sorry for ranting, making you scroll through that, and swearing a probably excessive amount, but KOSA is a bill with a GLOBAL IMPACT being passed by ONE COUNTRY because some old people are scared of two guys with who were told they were girls kissing within five hundred miles of a child. Fuck this shit, I shouldn't have to worry about bad bills in America but I fucking do because I use the internet and would like to avoid mass censorship. Fuck this, fuck conservatives, and fuck the fact that some boomers make your country's policies.

Now, if you won't mind me, I'm going to be up until three in the morning downloading fanfiction or copying and pasting them into a a text file if I can't so I can read them by the end of the week.

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jasontoddiefor · 7 months

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Yeah sure we’ve all binged a long fic, but have you ever read a WIP and followed someone’s life?

Tidbits of information - (“I graduated today!”) - and small joys (“It’s my birthday!”) and you get to be there to say “This chapter made me cry, happy birthday, thank you for gifting us this”.

I remember reading this fic of someone at the end of high school, older than me then. They seemed infinitely wise, spoke of their future career and getting into the college they wanted. I remember them posting on days they felt like nothing could bring them down - and on days the whole world did and it’s the aftermath of a hospital visit. Cancer, I think it was, their father. I got to the end of the story, I know their father was fine, but also they got to finish their WIP. I graduated three years later than them, still dutifully wrote thank you notes in every comment. I wonder if they remember me, or just the collective of people reading the story as it updates.

Four years ago I was into my first year of university, my first year of figuring out being out in public spaces. I made excuses as to why my name didn’t match my paperwork and read a fic on the train, the same five chapters over and over again for the next years as I thought the story abandoned. It updated this week after such a long hiatus, I left another thank you comment.

There’s an author I love, they update their stories like a clockwork. When they don’t, I check their blog, just to see if their doing alright, not because I feel like they owe me, just to ensure whether I better get out my laptop to write that really detailed university level essay chapter analysis to get them smiling when their day sucked.

And then, once, when I was 17, I read a fic that hadn’t updated in over a decade. I wasn’t even in primary school when it started posting. On the last chapter, I left a comment that, in retrospect, was horribly rambly and most likely full of grammar mistakes. The author replied and though I couldn’t see their face, I thought of them crying. They were married now, had children, and hadn’t thought about this fic in years. They went through their files again, found another half written chapter and an outline. I got two new chapters to read that year.

And then, recently, someone told me they got back into writing original fiction because of my comments. I get to read nearly weekly chapters.

I love binge reading a finished fic, but nothing is ever going to top the feeling of anticipation of waiting for a chapter, the pure joy when someone tells you I was done with this, but you made me think of it again, so this is for you.

Anyway, I think we should romanticize reading WIPs more, growing up alongside the authors writing the stories we love.

#writing #fandom #fanfiction #ao3 #archive of our own

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bisexual-paleontologists · 2 years

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I wanted to highlight one of the best parts of the treasure trove of old Alan/Billy fandom sites that I came across.

We’ve long since known and loved the Alan/Billy Shipper Manifesto from LiveJournal, but here is an earlier instance of an Alan/Billy thesis statement from Evolution: The Alan/Billy Fanlisting at evolve.amiss.org:

"Didn't see the slash?! That's like not noticing the dinosaurs!"

//Alan & Billy

In JP3, we see Alan and Billy in what could be called nonheteronormative behavior. There are a plethora of smiles, laughs, quick touches, a scene where Billy accepts a dinner invitation on both his own and Alan's behalf, not to mention the final scene with the two where he returns Alan's hat and they have a rather long and intimate moment with one another.

Were Billy a female character rather than male, I don't think anyone would object to the theory that Alan is having a relationship with his research assistant. It is the fact that Billy is male that causes people to say that no such relationship exists in the film.

Does a relationship exist? It can't be proven either way, but the thesis that Alan and Billy might involved with one another can be somewhat supported by the following observations:

In the first "Jurassic Park" film, Alan tells Ian that he and Ellie are together by saying, "Yeah," when Ian asks. We never saw much physical interaction between the two, save a few hugs and a conversation about children. It could then be said that their relationship was not defined so much by passion for each other but passion for the past and a shared interest. By the third film, they've obviously broken up as Ellie is married to someone else and has two children. They're still on good terms, however. He says of her when asked by Eric, "She was the person I could always count on. I owe her a lot." In contrast, Alan and Billy seem to have a familiarity with one another that is more relaxed and arguably closer than what Alan and Ellie shared.

When we first see Billy, he's on his stomach helping a fellow researcher distinguish between fossilized bone and rock. It's clear in the scene that she's flirting with him, and he smiles back and is friendly, but the moment Alan shows up at the dig site, Billy jumps to his feet and calls, "Dr. Grant!" to which is replied, "Mr. Brennan!" And the girl is quite forgotten. Billy helps Alan unload his truck, and once it's just the two of them, they've reverted to "Alan" and "Billy" instead of the formal titles. They go into a tent where Billy has set up the machine capable of replicating the vocalizing chamber of the velociraptor. There's a long moment where Alan looks at Billy with a slight smile as he watches him work. They're interrupted by Paul Kirby, who stands at the entrance to the tent. Billy stands in the mouth of the tent, arm above his head, while Alan talks with Mr. Kirby. Mr. Kirby specifically invites *Alan* to dinner, though he apparently knows Billy as he said, "Hi, Billy" to him when first arriving. Alan expresses that he's tired from travelling, but Billy walks up behind them and says, "We'd love to." Alan doesn't contest this, just smiles over Mr. Kirby's shoulder at Billy.

An established rule of the group on Isla Sorna was NO SHOUTING on the island because, "That's a bad idea!" However, we see shouting from both Alan & Billy on two occasions in the film. When Billy fears that Alan has been killed by raptors, he calls out for him in the midst of the woods, "Alan! Alan!" He even climbs up to where the Kirbys are sitting in a tree and asks, "Is Alan with you?" The following morning, fearing that Alan is dead, he's obviously upset, no emotion on his face. Incident number two is when Billy goes to sacrifice himself to save Eric. Alan realizes what Billy is about to do and goes running after him shouting, "Billy, Billy! Billy, stop! Billy, stop! Don't, Billy! Billy!"

An interesting moment is when the two groups are reunited on either side of the large fence. The Kirbys hug, and Alan and Billy shake hands. Billy says how glad he is to see Alan, and "Hey! You've got my bag." Alan smiles and says, "Yeah. Lucky strap." The look on Sam Neill's face when delivering this line makes me think that there was either an inside joke regarding the bag on set, or that the phrase 'lucky strap' has some sort of double meaning. Also, interesting to note: although Billy repeatedly tells Alan that he can carry his own bag, Alan continues to carry it for him.

When Alan discovers the eggs in Billy's bag, Billy says to him, "I swear, if I'd known you were gonna end up with them..." Although it's not entirely clear what Billy meant by this, it's plausible to assume that Billy was genuinely concerned for Alan's well being. The eggs were with the group ever since Billy picked them up, so he wasn't fearing for safety as a whole: he was afraid that Alan himself might be harmed because of the eggs. Alan's reaction to the discovery that Billy took the raptor eggs isn't just that of anger but of true disappointment. "Billy, as far as I'm concerned, you're no better than the people who built this place," he tells him. Had Paul Kirby taken the eggs, it's likely that Alan would've reprimanded him but I doubt he would've resorted to character attack the way he did with Billy. To me, this signifies that the two know each other very well, that Alan has certain expectations about Billy's character that were not met in this situation, and that he was both hurt and angered by what Billy did. He spoke to him as a friend, not as a research assistant. The emotional level in the conversation crossed professional bounds.

During the time span when Alan assumes Billy is dead, he berates himself for speaking to Billy the way he did. "Do you know what the last thing I said to him was?" he asks Eric, and then recounts what happened. He glorifies Billy's memory, something it's doubtful a world expert would do for any ordinary research assistant. It goes beyond the boundaries of a professional relationship.

When Alan realizes that Billy is alive, he goes to his side and kneels down. "You made it," Billy says, and Alan says, "Yeah." He looks down, his eyes crinkling, and he smiles. He blinks quite a lot, also, and doesn't look Billy in the face for a moment. Billy presents Alan with his hat, and it's clear that Alan is truly touched. "Well. that's the important thing," he says, apparently referring to the hat. The tone in his voice, however, indicates that he's not speaking about the hat but rather the fact that Billy's alive. He is asked to sit down, and takes one last look at Billy, stands, touches him on the shoulder with the brim of the hat, and takes his seat. Billy stares after him with a smile on his face. Alan sits toward the front of the helicopter, hat in his hands, turning it over and over. Eric catches him doing this, and they smile at one another. The pteradons are seen flying next to the chopper, and the Kirbys have a moment together. Alan watches them reconcile their relationship; it's clear they're going to get back together. Then Alan looks back at the hat in his hands, smiles and puts it on. He looks up, beaming.

//Quotes

"I'm sorry about Billy." -Eric

"You know what the last thing I said to him was? I said, 'You're as bad as the people who built this place.' Which wasn't true. He was just...galliant. That's all. I have a theory that there are two kinds of boys: those who want to be astronomers and those who want to be astronauts. The astronomer, the paleontologist, gets to study these amazing things from a place of complete safety." - Alan

"But then you never get to go into space." - Eric

"Exactly. That's the difference between imagining and seeing, being able to touch them. And that's. That's all Billy wanted." - Alan

...

"Alan, I wanna thank you for bringing me along." - Billy

"The truth is, you got me into this. I have no intention of being on my own with these people." - Alan

...

"What're you doing?" - Alan

"I was photographing the nests." - Billy

"Don't do that again."

"I'm sorry."

"If I lose you, it's just me and the damned tourists."

...

"Boy, am I glad to see you. Hey! You've got my bag." - Billy

"Yeah. Lucky strap." - Alan

...

//A final note on A/B

So that's what we mean by "subtext."

Not saying it's definite, just that it's possible to interpret the film this way. That, and they really are cute together. C'mon. Admit it! You know they are.

by Jess/nortylaK circa 2003

#Alan x Billy #billyalan #billyalan community #fandom archive #commentary #Jurassic Park III #JP3 #I would have included the link to the LJ shipper manifesto #but LJ these days gives me the run around about login and crap #and I'm simply not going to unleash that site on my browser without my blockers #to see if it's still there #and the wayback machine never got a clean capture of it apparently so #I have it saved elsewhere I think

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tadfools · 4 months

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You guys are commenting on the fics you read right? You’re at least leaving kudos on the Astarion smut and the pairs that have less than 20 fics for them too? You’re bookmarking stories you really like that are still being updated and ones that haven’t been touched in over a year right?

You know that even the smallest interactions are like cocaine to fic writers right? You understand how important a string of emoji hearts left behind on chapter at three am is right?? Right????

You’re treating AO3 like a community and not a content factory….right?

#this isnt bg3 specific btw im seeing a lot of fandoms rotting cause of this #ao3 #archive of our own #bg3 fanfiction #bg3 #PLEASE YOU GUYS INTERACT WITH THE THINGS YOU READ #you’re not being weird or annoying!!! it doesn’t matter how old the fic is!!!#you can just say ‘I love this’ or ‘it’s three am and I haven’t slept yet cause I was reading this’#you can copy and paste a paragraph you like and add ‘!!!!!!’ after it #theories in the comments! mention when you think you’ve found foreshadowing!!!#if there’s a part where you have to physically put your phone down and smile off into the distantce? TELL THE AUTHOR #you can leave comments every chapter too!!! ITS NOT ANNOYING

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mywitchcultblr · 9 months

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This is what happened when a fanfic site is profit driven. Wattpad sucks 😞

The email/DM from Wattpad is so condescending. Imagine pressuring writers to update and work while they are doing it for free and fun. Also, the discovery? Algorithm? Of Wattpad looks like a stressful popularity contest 😑

#wattpad #ao3 #fanfic #fandom #writing #writer #archive of our own #twitter #the capitalization of fandom is a sin #capitalism strikes again #capitalism #late stage capitalism #when your hobby is used for the profit of a corporation

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watcher0033 · 10 months

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Y’all, the Archive admins are made up of VOLUNTEERS. And they have been working for 12-13 HOURS STRAIGHT.

I better not hear any complaints when donation period comes around. OR ELSE.

cosplay by @woahchriswoah on Twitter

EDIT: How do we show appreciation to the volunteers? For me reading these deep dives on OTW issues u guys apparently it's been said multiple times that one of their objective statements is to have paid staff for ao3 and there's a surplus of donations they haven't used up or the other community solutions that needs to address. For those more financially literate feel free to analyze, snipe me or add to the discussion etc. linked here by deepa. They’re cool and these yearly analysis they did aint no joke.