Writer for hire

Oh, how quickly the past is forgotten. 

They are part of the reason A03 is a thing now. Not the whole reason, but part of it. 

The Great Purges of 2002 and 2012 are when ff.net got a wild hair up their ass about THINK OF THE CHILDREN and nuked any fic posted on there that was explicit. Thousands upon thousands of nc-17 smutfics were lost.

Is there any way to spread this info? 

THE OTW WAS CREATED BY FANS SO WE’D HAVE AN ARCHIVE THAT WASN’T SUBJECT TO CORPORATE REVIEW. 

Nonprofit, so that nobody could ever say, “this isn’t making enough money; it’s getting shut down.” (See: Geocities, Quizilla, Figment, G+.) With lawyers involved and a firm awareness of the legalities of fanfic, so nobody would decide “we’ve gotten a nasty letter from a megacorporation with lawyers, so we’re hiding because we can’t afford to face a lawsuit. (Jedi Hurtaholics, Trevizo’s Millennium site.) With teams, so that an argument between co-mods didn’t result in the destruction of a whole archive. (Gryffindor Tower, Detention.)

AO3 IS OUR SITE.

It is by fans, for fans. Fans do all the coding. All the legal paperwork. All the abuse/tos violation complaints. Fans make all the choices about policies. Fans decide how to run the fundraisers. Fans write the blog posts. All the volunteer staff are fans; all the people who train them are fans. Fans wrangle all the tags. 

(And the other OTW projects, too. Fans manage the entries at Fanlore. Fans run the Open Doors project. Fans publish Transformative Works and Cultures.)

EVERYONE WORKING FOR THE OTW LOVES FANDOM. Wants it to survive. Wants it to be awesome for everyone.

(Knows that it can’t be awesome for everyone; some approaches to fandom just clash hard. But they strive to minimize those clashes as much as possible, because they love fandom.) 

AO3 is not some company that decided, “we’ll make a site for fanfic and then…” I don’t know what people are thinking is the reason. Money? Data harvesting? Tax shelter? Amusement and pity?

Nope; AO3 was fans saying, “Livejournal sucks; we’re tired of this fucked-up ‘rebuild every three years’ garbage; WE NEED TO OWN THE DAMN SERVERS.”

> I don’t know what people are thinking is the reason. Money? Data harvesting? Tax shelter? Amusement and pity?

Based on some of the tickets we get in Support? Data harvesting. Between the requests by users for Google-Analytics-level fine-grained data and

all

the

ai-feeding

data-scraping

machine-learning

algorithm-shaping

recommendation-engineering

give-me-every-detail-about-every-single-user

“How educated are your users?”

“Most of your users are gay, right?”

MAN YOU SURE DID HUH…… OH BOY how about

bonus sharks…………

Evelyn: “We dig up dead people who often have monstrous curses placed on them!”

Rick: *grabs sword from equally ominous looking wall full of weapons one of which seems to be glowing* fantastic I was getting a bit rusty

Rick: Have I mentioned how wonderful my wife is yet, I really feel like I haven’t really expanded enough on how wonderful she is

Gomez: do go on, I would be delighted to hear about how wonderful your wife is, I strongly encourge all men to extoll the virtues of their wives with rapturous praise, however I should perhaps mention my wife is in fact better

Anon I'm trying to interpret this ask and I've decided that there are three possible scenarios that make sending this ask make sense:

1) You're asexual

2) You are not attracted to women

3) You're like 14

Behind every strong hero, stands an even stronger mother.

Its fun to imagine what bnha parents would look like based on their kids own personalities and designs. There are some good visions out there already, but here are mine for Shoji and Tokoyamis moms.

like

emoji access? supremely powerful 🙂💖

But

Kaomoji ?

Lady Nagant has been dragging overhaul around by the arms yeah?? yeah? 

BUT LOOK AT THIS ONE HERE! SHE CARRYING HIM AROUND THE WAIST OMG AGAJSKHGJKSDHG I can’t- 😍😍😍😍😍😍

Ok I need to write smtng on this nsfw topic so y’all underage dudes and dudettes don’t read this

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AND DAMN RIGHT SHE BE HAVING A GOOD FEEL OF THIS

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