A Star Wars blog for now, in the future? Who knows

Captain Rex Talking to G-G the Droid

“Girls don’t like Star Wars”

Because they just live in it, the same way we live here.

They ask for kaf in the morning. They live in communities where they help each other. They eat blue (!!!) space noodles. They use public transport. They run errands and go to their work.

It is not hard to link to your Tumblr or Twitter with a vague message like, “If you’re looking for my other works or other ways of supporting me, go here: link.” I have had people buy me coffees after enjoying my fic and asking where to support me. I threw up a link to my Tumblr and people cared enough to follow it. They were fully understanding when I explained in the comments that they could not commission me and I could not link them directly to any donation platform, but they could go to xyz link to read more. And they did! Nobody has to put AO3 directly on the firing line.

Go ahead and commission independently. Just do it anywhere else except on AO3. And then don’t come crying to the community when you, personally, get a C&D from a massive corporation.

AO3 is our bullet shield. Tumblr will pull your shit down. Wattpad won’t fucking protect you. LJ and FF.net already sold our asses for one (1) corn chip. AO3 is trying to protect us, you goddamn lemmings.

If you cannot follow the rules that protect fanspaces, you do not belong in our fanspaces.

Plop a link to your Tumblr on it, and nothing else. This is Degrees Of Separation 101. You put a link to your Tumblr on AO3 and you put a link to your Ko-fi on Tumblr and you can argue that the Ko-fi link is there so people can give you money for unrelated reasons, like your taste in memes or your pictures of your beautiful and wonderful and hilarious cat.

And you keep any fic commissions and any mention thereof on Tumblr and OFF OF AO3 so AO3 cannot be held accountable for the possibility that you might be taking money for fic elsewhere. Tumblr is not AO3’s jurisdiction. AO3 IS AO3’s jurisdiction, so the merest hint of commercial activity on that site will get you shut down for the safety of the site as a whole, so it can continue to carry out its purpose.