I Find Solace In Things Meant To Scare Me

thank you ao3 for protecting writers and never allowing censorship to plague your platform. we love and respect you for this

AO3 should have an Annotation Mode where you can click to view all of the author's commentary and thoughts about certain parts of the work. A little comment that says "I spent five hours researching vintage radio mechanics for this and didn't even end up using it" or "this is an ancient Hebrew literary technique!" would make my day

a feel like the new generation of fanfic readers NEED to understand that clicking on a fic (interaction) does nothing. ao3 has no algorithm. your private discord discussions of fic do not reach the authors. if you do not actively engage with writers they will stop posting. this isn’t social media this is community.

It's like a family, almost. You don't let your teenagers stay isolated in their rooms, you give them encouragement and stuff, and if you don't, well, dang. Sad. Ao3 authors are those teenagers, they need encouragement!

Legit how it feels whenever I get an email notif about @silent--knight's update😄

no matter how bad things get, the world is still a beautiful place because it has archive of our own in it