Needs More Backtracking

and after looking at the first one again it is also, a beatle photo

When I was a teenager writing fic, I remember finding out that one of my favorite authors was in her 50s and that just was SUCH a revelation for me!! What do you mean, 50 year olds can write fanfic?!? Does that mean I can write fics when I'm her age?? That's AWESOME! I seriously looked up to her so much. And now I'm 35 with a husband and kid, and I'm still writing fanfic and posting fandom content - and I have no plans of stopping!

I don’t want to sound like I am hating on younger people in fandom, but god, y’all need to stop it with the ageism. You don’t have to give up what you love once you’re an adult. Honestly, the belief that you have to is pretty bad. It sounds like it would make people afraid of aging. Granted, modern society is so very afraid of aging.

Teenagers don't have the resources and skills to build something like AO3, it has to be people with degrees and money doing that, and that translates to a 30+ crowd. But teenagers especially need the protection and legal advocacy that something like AO3 offers them.

Part of the reason the then 30- and 40-somethings who built AO3 did what they did was so that someone with as few resources and as little support as the average 15-year-old fic author can safely and comfortably share their fanfic and find fic to read.

Just to put this into perspective: I'm a nurse. For me to make 600k, on my wages, I would need to work 16,406 hours, which works out to 2050 shifts. There are 8760 hours in a year.

For me to be able to make what these pricks make in ONE day, I would need to work every second of every day for nearly TWO YEARS, without spending a single cent. And on my normal work schedule, that is the equivalent if working for 10 years without spending a single cent. Oh and the final kick in the guts? I pay more than these grubs in tax, so that the government can give it straight back to them while saying that they can't afford to give us nurses a payrise or better conditions, refuse to fund Medicare properly and cut 160,000 people off the NDIS!!