#calculatedchaos

hey, anon! don't worry about it. i appreciate the correction, thank you for bringing it up to me 🤍 i hadn't realised that until now. also, definetly agree with you.

i went to check it on their donation page and, as you mentioned, they say that the money goes to support "all of the OTW's works, including:

- ao3, a non-profit, non-commercial archive for transformative works

- preservation of fanworks and fan history through Fanlore and Open Doors

- legal advocacy works to protect fans from commercial exploitation and legal challenge

- innovative scholarship on fanworks and fan practices through Transformative Works and Cultures"

so, i made sure to put in italics the three things i wanted to approach, though.

1. they mention four out of the multiple things the money go to, they don't have a detailed list and the only other explanation is on the ao3 page before the actual donation page, where they mention buying bandwidth and servers

2. besides what i mentioned above they never say what the money goes for regarding ao3. they don't mention moderation, prevention of certain topics, to make sure that people follow their code of content (which is "The Content and Abuse Policy covers procedures, spam and commercial promotion, threatening the technical integrity of the site, copyright, plagiarism, personal information and fannish identities, harassment, illegal and non-fanwork content, and ratings and warnings.") and they do mention not prescreening for content, which... for an archive who's getting this amount of funds, does not go. it's not something you do. you have a legal team, bunch of profits and you don't... check what's being put in your website unless users report it? what kind of fuckery is this? it's their responsability to know what is and isn't on their website and make proper, strict rules about it that are easy to find and frequently reminded.

3. the legal advocacy part. as i said on my post, part of the money do go towards defending those writers.

lastly, i went to the OTW page to see if they say what they spend their money on and here's what they say: "the OTW uses funds to purchase goods and services that cannot be provided by its volunteers, such as expenses including the purchase of software and server space to create and mantain the archive. administrative expenses include a variety of items typical to a nonprofit [...]". which, sure, no one is asking them to give us the full report but... the amount of money they got this time was two or three times what they needed. and i think it's extremely sketchy how little they are letting us know. i have digged through the OTW a couple of times and i simply get either very suspicious, shady vibes or i get confused about the mix of transparency and abiguous info they give.

• La Folie À La Plusieurs (on ao3)

“I’ll get my revenge soon enough and get to see the look on his face when I make him suffer the pain he inflicted on me and others.”

“And then what?” Reg joked, wrapping an arm around her shoulder as they threw themselves down on the couch.

“Then, we kill him. With spells he doesn’t even dream of existing.”

When Regulus decides to transfer to Durmstrang Institute halfway through his 4th year, to run from his life and reality, he doesn't know exactly to expect. There, he meets his childhood friend Lyre and the darker face of truth while trying to do his best to learn what's necessary to resist (and hopefully, stop) the Dark Lord.

Longfic and not exactly canon compliant since I changed the magic system and added to the world building. It gets dark, so.

Read the additional tags for trigger warnings, take care

Chapters: 9/?

Words: 32.316 total

first off, i don't know what gave you the impression that i owe you (or anyone) an explanation. second, i had already said why previously on another ask. but allow me to repeat myself and elaborate: i didn't see a better place.

1. tumblr has white supremacists, bigots and the porn bots are still around, besides me not liking the structure of posting fanfics here and html-ing a full blog just to have it my way would be wayy too much work.

2. wattpad is a joke as of itself. i don't think i need to elaborate on this.

3. fanfiction.net is quite literally ao3, but slightly older and a graveyard.

4. don't even try and imply that i should make my own blog for it or i should create a new website. it's not my job. not many people are doing that from what i know and it's unfair to throw it at me simply because i said i don't like how ao3 does stuff and their stance on most matters.

5. i no longer write fanfic in portuguese and therefore wouldn't go to the brazilian websites i used to use. plus, it'd be like having sex in my childhood home. i'd be uncomfortable and feel like i'm staining the memories i have of it.