I Can't Believe You Blocked Me, Just Because I Read Everything You Said In Bad Faith With Open Hostility.

No one: Tumblr gif makers: *downloads a 70GB video file just to make one gifset of some blorbo that’ll only get 120 notes*

I know patreon and ko-fi links are banned on AO3 but how will / will the archive be updating at all to accommodate for fandoms like Genshin Impact that allow profiting off of fanficition?

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Why would it change for Genshin Impact? Jane Austen’s work is out of copyright, and you still can’t post your ko-fi links on your Jane Austen fic.

The issue isn’t that profiting off of fic is illegal. That wasn’t always true when AO3 was founded either.

The issue is that AO3 was built to protect a type of fandom that is a gift economy.

If my friend shows up to my dinner party expecting me to let them turn it into a sales pitch for their multilevel marketing garbage, I will be annoyed. They have violated the social contract. They have taken a space I did the lion’s share of the work to build and attempted to monetize it in a gross way. Let them host their own dinner party if they want to do that!

Similarly, those of us who gave years of unpaid labor to build an archive where our style of fandom—a not-for-profit kind—could be safe are not interested in that space being warped into etsy or a dealers’ room at a convention. If other fans have other styles of fandom, that’s fine: they can build other archives for them.

Personally, I find that the introduction of a profit motive turns fic spaces from a place of peers sharing into a place of Audience vs. Content Creators, and I get enough of that hustle culture on every other site, thank you.

AO3’s popularity is likely partly due to how much it isn’t full of desperate shilling and begging. The fact that there’s no incentive to post chapter 1 and paywall the rest is incentive for readers to trust and like AO3.

The legality of Genshin Impact fic is irrelevant. AO3 bans commercial spam because it wants to.

"Ok, ma'am that'll be $226.03."

I take my wallet out of my pocket and unfold it. It is empty other than a single moth that lazily flies out. The moth lands on the tap point of the card reader. There's a beat, and my payment is processed. The moth flies back into my wallet and I put it back in my pocket.

i love you female characters who make selfish choices they know will be bad for everyone. i love you female characters who think they're making the right choice but make things worse. i love you female characters who are making the right choice but noone else understands it.

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I don’t know how many of you may have already heard about this on Twitter, but because most of you may not have heard yet, and some may want more context for what’s going on, I’m going to make an important statement that I hope all of you read carefully.

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Jewish people who type the word “god” as “g-d”: Do you think you can fool the big man upstairs with a technical work around? When he goes through your emails/texts/facebook posts after you die, you don’t think he’s gonna see that dash and think “this sneaky fuck here, enjoy h-ll.”

When fandom shits on female character, and than they claim that they are just pointing out misogynistic writing and they want better for her. No, if you truly liked her you would not say humilating things about her, insult her, bash her based on qualities she does not have, dismiss her trauma, try to prove that person she loves the most (whom, of course, you ship with your fave) does not love her. Yes, the way she was treated in canon was bad, but fandom is 1000x worse