I feel entirely too old for all the discourse happening rn. I've been in fandoms and reading fanfic since 2004/2005. Don't blindly trust links on the internet. Trade shouldn't be en-mass like this and the only people who should be uploading fics are the authors themselves.

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the kind of discourse around fanfic that has surfaced over on The Bad Place since ao3 went down is genuinely one of the most demoralizing things i've witnessed. writers are "content"-making machines to these people, something genuinely subhuman, and they really do speak of them as such

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my fundamental issue with the mass google drives and vibe coded apps popping up to ‘replace’ ao3 in the outage is that they are not presented as ways for authors to make their work available to readers during the outage, they are for readers who cannot comprehend going without consumption

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twt has shown me how much contempt the ao3 addicted have for writers. they claim authors not wanting their fics reposted goes against fandom culture, but it's just so they can get their instant gratification without feeling guilty. no respect for the ppl who create the fics, only mindless consume

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i think fanfic writers gotta stop begging on their knees for crumbs of respect and start yelling at people cause what the fuck

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