Big banner in the SqWA, but I'll say it here, too. 1) icons do NOT work. This is intentional. 2) do NOT post another user's works without permission. 3) we are down every Sunday 7am-9am Pacific. Tomorrow has a hardware update, too, so we'll be down 7am-11am (estimated) Pacific.

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It's interesting that AO3 is down for such a lengthy stretch during what's arguably the most consumption-oriented/extractive era in fanfic's history. People dumping thousands of fics on gdrive are being hailed as heroes, drowning out fic writers saying, I didn't consent to be *republished* there.

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i am fascinated with the mismatch between people’s dramatic reactions to AO3 being down and the lack of interactions we as writers usually get where was all this love and gratitude when we poured our hearts into a piece of writing and shared it with the world for free?

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This is what I'm talking about! I am sure this sharing of downloaded fics has been going on for longer than just now. In servers, between friends. Does it account for the drop in interaction on fics? Maybe partially, this consumerism mindset. But somebody liked this author's work enough to-

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"well you posted it online it's fair game for people to do what they want with it now" is truly one of the shittiest and most entitled opinions of the modern era. truly, fuck all of you who steal others' work without any concern for the creator's wishes.

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