Hi everyone,

I probably should've made an announcement about this much earlier, but it completely slipped my mind. Maybe this is particularly pertinent to those of you who read my work on ao3/visit my profile (everlovingdeer) occasionally.

Within the past few weeks, ao3 was scraped AGAIN with works being fed into AI and because of this - and because I'm annoyed at the prospect of my works that I've spend hours upon hours on being used to train AI - I've locked all my works on ao3. This means that if you don't have a registered account and aren't logged into it, you won't be able to view my works on ao3. If you still want to continue to see my works, you'll have to create an ao3 account to be able to see them.

I understand that might feel like a barrier to accessing my works, but the account creation process is relatively straightforward and having my works locked gives me a sense of peace that I'm willing to sacrifice views for.

Alternatively, you can still read my stories on wattpad. But I have no idea if you need an account to be able to read the stories on there.

I hope that clears things up!