On the AO3 outage: I say this is a time to notice how much you benefit from a space that you assume will always be there. Places like that are not a given, nothing in this world is, and you should ask yourself how you can give back to the places you love to be to help keep them alive into the future

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yes exactly like something theyre entitled to access all the time regardless of author wishes and feelings and boundaries

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its really been so crazy to me (as someone who reads TONS of fic) to witness people just like … not be able to find other things to do for a while 😭 or dont WANT to i guess

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Saaamw and it’s also becoming incredibly obvious how swathes of people treat fics like products/content and not works made by writers they are in community with.

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From one chronically online person to another, it shouldn’t be such a big deal that you can’t read on ao3 for a month.

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