Fanfic is a free hobby.
It's one of the last few things we can have as a society that's free. You can engage, for free. People give you things (art, stories, etc), for free.
Don't buy into the consummerism just because it's everywhere else.
You don't have to consume everything you interact with. You don't have to use things, just because they exist.
You're allowed (still, for now), to have things that are enjoyable for free.
Do you realise how insane the world is? We don't have many places where we can just be, for free anymore, but ao3 is. Did you notice we don't have ads in ao3? We don't have pop ups? Where ELSE do we not have that?
Where else can you just go and not have to wait for a commercial to be over or for ads to be on the sidelines?
I don't think the younger people understand, but the whole of internet used to be like this. YouTubers would do Youtube for free, just because. You couldn't monetise your internet presence before.
Ao3 is like a little preserved corner of the internet where the old internet used to be, and it's being attacked by people who do not understand that free things are allowed to exist without judgment.
Please don't ruin this for us.
Some of us need it.
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Tumblr stop putting community posts on my feed I don't want to see posts I can't reblog
Snake (スネーク) - Kuroshitsuji: Midori no Majo-hen - Episode 1
unless they specifically asked, you don’t get to tell a fanfic writer you think they mischaracterized the character by the way. because the second someone writes a fanfic about a character, that character becomes the writer’s own version of the character. canon is only a suggestion, but whether or not an author will follow it / how much of canon an author will take is entirely up to them. you don’t get to stick your nose in their world and tell them “hey this is not to my liking therefore I think you’re doing it wrong” when you can simply leave quietly and move on to something else you may enjoy
"mens section"... more like where the hot women shop
i forgot how to draw collapse ;;;;;;;;
owawa i feel so bad i've been drawing everybody in my top 5 favorites except for him lately ;;
[Fictional character who is worse than me in every way] save me
the real true purpose of having a brain is to think about fictional characters
why do i even type like this lol i doubt its normal but its fun whenever i try to write rants they end up formatted like poems though
its frustrating but fun idk man
my guilty pleasure 🙏
im actively waiting for the collapse of humanity • any prns unlabelled arospec
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