"Why can't the freaks on AO3 just go and make a site for all the gross stuff and leave AO3 alone."
Because AO3 is that site. Because AO3 was that site long before you decided AO3 was better than the sites you bullied us off of before, and I can promise you if someone somehow comes up with a fanfic site you like better specifically for the 'gross stuff' you'll try to bully us off that too so you can benefit from it.
AO3's specific core purpose is to preserve fanfiction, yes, but it was also instigated as a host site for the fanfiction that kept getting yeeted off other platforms like Wattpad. Its designed to preserve all fanfiction, not just the fanfiction you, personally, think is 'allowed' to be written.
AO3 is the site for all the gross stuff the freaks make. We've been there just as long as you. We've been funding it just as long as you have. AO3 has specifically said you have a place here. The timeline was literally:
Wattpad/FF.net/LiveJournal purge fanfics > AO3 is born > The people who's fics got purged moved over to AO3 > AO3 gains popularity as the best functioning site > The people who pushed for the fics to be purged off Wattpad move to AO3 > The same people try to push for AO3 to purge fics.
AO3's source coding is open-access. You go make a polished, strict, rigid site where nothing 'icky' is allowed. You go make a site where you can control what is hosted. We already have our space.
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sα΄α΄α΄α΄ΚΚ || Bucky Barnes had accepted a long time ago that he was meant to be alone. Even if he did have a perfect match, why would he put her through being the soulmate of the winter soldier?
You had been dreaming of the day you met your other half, wishing for your kind of fairytale in a fucked up world.
With happiness so close, can Bucky truly deny himself of the sweet, clumsy girl he know he belongs with?
α΄‘α΄ΚΙ΄ΙͺΙ΄Ι’s || eventual smut, 18+, virgin reader, innocent!reader, angst, fluff, bucky being self loathing, canon divergence, soulmate au (juxtaposition), pet names [precious], injuries, jealously, side steve x natasha
Ι΄α΄α΄α΄s || i have been super excited for this for a long time and i want to make a big series with it, im currently planning five chapters obv but more could be added!
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fanfiction was such a good idea. like put those guys in situations
Ao3 is actually massively culturally important and very very good at being what it is. Iβm so serious when I say that ao3 needs to be protected as the anti censorship, by fans for fans, nonprofit, volunteer run, expertly designed archival site that it is. You donβt have to read or like fanfiction to understand that on principle, ao3 is a site that should be defended.
I just think being tied up while they find out exactly how many times I can cum in a row before I pass out would fix me
Guy wearing "I β€οΈ Arson" Shirt: Let me redecorate your house.
Voters: Okay.
Voters, later: Oh, no, the house is on fire!
Firefighter: I can put it out but you need to kick out the arsonist guy.
Voters: Whatever! Do it!
Voters, later: Ew, the house smells like smoke!
Firefighter: Okay? It was on fire earlier. I'm still dealing with it.
Guy wearing "I β€οΈ Arson and Killing Firefighters" Shirt: Let me back in and I'll fix the smoke issue.
Firefighter: Don't! He will literally set your house on fire again. He brought a whole crew with matches and cans of gasoline with him.
Voters: I'm pretty sure those are paint cans.
Firefighter: It says gasoline on the cans!
Voters: Get out, I'm gonna let the previous guy in.
I donβt know how to say this in a non-obsessed way, but I need the ao3 status updates to be beamed straight into my head whenever the archive goes down. I need that shit announced like weβre in a plane attempting to make a risky landing. Oh weβre down for another 20 minutes because of a server in the Pacific? Sure, thanks. Iβll just wait here.
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*taps mic* STEVE HARRINGTON IS NOT STUPID.
Thank you for your time.
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