This blogger remembers when we had to put disclaimers at the head of our fics and pray that someone didn’t take it into their heads to sue us for what we created.
This blogger remembers brilliant artists and writers getting decades of work obliterated on LJ because someone who wanted to tell people what they were allowed to create went running to someone who wanted a profit, and told them the artists and writers had been naughty.
This blogger remembers just how hard the creators of AO3 worked to build the thing we all seem to take for granted now.
This blogger watched friends dive into the creation process so heartily and determinedly that they all but disappeared from the writing/gaming/artistic side of their fandom for YEARS while they worked to make the archive happen.
This blogger remembers the sense of giddy wonder that there would possibly be LAWYERS involved, willing to defend our right to create these works, and not leave us hanging at the mercy of corporate legal teams.
This blogger is aware that she reads between twenty to fifty books’ worth of material every year on AO3, and is never REQUIRED to pay a penny for the privilege of getting access.
This blogger is aware that she will not ever see advertisements on AO3, and that her personal data and reading preferences won’t be sold to advertisers in order to raise the money that AO3 needs to pay for the services they provide.
This blogger is aware that AO3 is, and has always been, a labor of love; by fans, for fans, and not for profiting off fans – and this is what makes it unique in the whole of the media universe.
This blogger has NEVER taken AO3 for granted, and has ALWAYS been damned glad to have access to it. Even in years when this blogger didn’t have the means to support it financially.
This blogger remembers.
I don’t understand why there’s so much hate towards AO3 lately??? This is literally THE ONLY website that never crushes, never forces you to buy/watch stuff you’re not interested in, never forces stupid and unnecessary updates on you, and lets you read quality fics FOR FREE. So they are asking for donations? Big deal, you don’t have to pay them if you don’t want to. You’ll still be able to use the website and all its features.
AO3 doesn’t have to change or update because it’s already almost perfect.
I feel like when you’re writing, organizing chapters and dialogue is easy
but jfc, the amount of time it takes to constantly keep people moving and make sure they’re in the right spaces and trying to come up with wording for it is always such a shock.
Like, fuck, I made you pick up a coffee cup, you need to put it down at some point. also I can’t remember what I dressed you in, can you push up your sleeves? I don’t remember if you even have your shirt on.
and YOU. YOU OVER THERE, you got out of your chair earlier, but did you come back yet? Are you coming back? Where did you even go and why’d you get up? Fuck, I can’t make you sit down again already, you just stood up, go…over there. go get more coffee. Did you bring your mug with you? fine. bring the pot to the table and—wait, wasn’t the coffee pot already over here? shit, hold on, I need to go back and re-read and re-write
this is the most relevant thing i have ever read.
I think one of the most wild things as a writer is the sensation that you’re not actually directing your characters– they’re sort of directing themselves, and you’re scrambling around attempting to copy down whatever it was that they just did, but they don’t wait for you to finish copying. They just keep walking and talking and moving around and existing of their own volition and at some point you look up and you’re like “WHOA OKAY EVERYBODY BACK THE FUCK UP WHERE ARE WE”
It’s kind of like trying to write sheet music for an orchestra while it’s playing
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That’s like asking a gay person “Are you ever going to be too old to be gay?” This isn’t something we DO, it’s what we ARE.
This made me laugh so fucking hard!
Grow out of what, Anon – the need for pain? Or the need to be young?
One doesn’t “grow out” of the need for pain. One does “grow out” of the need to young…
When I’m eighty you can bet your last chocolate dollar that I’m still gonna be getting my ass whomped.
@papistrouble this reminds me of you. Asking me if I think you are weird? Yes I do, but that is what I like about you. Not a weird that I don’t like but a weird that I love and need. You see I am a little weird too.
How old do you have to be to stop being yourself? What an odd question…. I become more myself with each passing year.
At the club where I’m dungeon monitor there are total 70 and 80 year olds along with the folx who are just old enough to be there and it is one of the things I love about my club.
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