Happy birthday to AO3 🎂🎉

"This fic was ai generated—" Cool, so lemme block you real quick

i immediately thought of this

I'm going to say something that will make sense to the Fandom Olds and will probably be slightly controversial to the younger crowds, but I'm going to say it anyways

TPTB becoming increasingly aware of fandom and fanfiction over the past two-ish decades and thus, the spawning of the expectation of your ship going canon has ruined fandom a little bit

I mean, fandom does a great job of ruining itself a lot of the time, but this idea that a ship isn't "real" or "valid" if it isn't canon

or the idea that one ship is superior to the other because one is canon and the other isn't?

it's absolutely bananas

I grew up in an era of fandom where characters didn't even have to be from the same media source to ship them. I mean, do you know how many BtVS/HP crossover fics I read back in the early 2000s???

That shit was never gonna be canon, but we had fun with it, anyways

Like. Yeah, a lot of fanon speculation is bullshit, but it always has been and always will be. You have hundreds and/or thousands of people riffing off each other, the observations and the meta will always be deeper than what TPTB intended, and that's okay! That's what makes it fun!

I just think more people would be a lot happier in their fandom experiences if they realized that fandom is supposed to be an escape instead of a crusade

This is why "eat the rich" is not a violent statement. Rich people literally kill others for their own profits. Any violence against rich people who do this is self defense.

This is also one of the many reasons why there are zero good cops. The nicest cop in existence would arrest someone for stealing to survive but would not arrest these greedy employers for killing for profit.

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Heads up regarding news coverage of Liam Payne's death

The TMZ article that comes up shows pictures of his dead body. They do not show his face, but they do show his arms, torso, and tattoos which I find extraordinarily tasteless and disrespectful. So if you are looking for news stories to confirm that this isn't an internet hoax, avoid that one.

Okay, you know what? After reading this post, I jokingly said we should all just make a pact to reblog it five times a day forever. So I'm gonna do this louder for the people in the back:

AO3 WAS CREATED BY FANS, FOR FANS

AO3 IS RUN BY FANS (VOLUNTEERS, NO LESS)

AO3 IS PART OF THE NON-PROFIT, ORGANIZATION FOR TRANSFORMATIVE WORKS

AO3 IS NOT OWNED BY ANY COMPANIES AND DOES NOT EARN REVENUE

AO3 OPERATES ON DONATIONS FROM FANS

again:

AO3 WAS CREATED BY FANS, FOR FANS

just a note#if trump wins and project 2025 is implemented we will probably have to say goodbye to ao3#they want to ban all porn#and even if it is written it wont matter#they consider any gay/trans content porn#so also vote#i have started downloading all my bookmarks#and everything in my Mark To Read is next via @reliand

I promise you: if a fic writer was able to update, they would be updating.

Fic writers want to be writing and updating. If they aren't, there is probably a reason!

a ship where i see what people see but it is simply not very interesting to me personally it’s like

"so how did you two meet"

she messaged me on tumblr and we became obsessed with each other literally immediately and now we are bound by the red string of fate

you think you hate usa and uk&co. and then you start reading/learning in depth about one of the gazillion coups and wars and etc. waged by them and think hm. i dont think ill ever see, in my lifetime, these countries and people suffer enough for what they did

if you don't feel like reading, Blowback podcast has 10x1hour episodes/season and bonus episodes on the Iraq war, the Cuban revolution, the Afghanistan war and currently releasing episodes about Cambodia. and you should listen to them.

See, the thing is about these attitudes is that they're so western-centric.

Every single powerful country across history has committed hideous, horrible atrocities on pretty much anyone they could. Do you think the Romans asked nicely to borrow all of Europe and much of Northern Africa? Do you think Egypt and China were NICE to their slaves?

Yeah. The US and the UK have done and are currently doing heinous, terrible, unforgivable things. But they aren't unique, or uniquely terrible.

unlike the us and uk, ancient rome imperial china and pharaonic egypt are not currently blockading, starving and robbing my home country. guess that's pretty western centric of me!

This is like a dumber version of climate deniers pointing to other issues and clamoring about how important they are as if they:

1. actually give a shit about them and

2. it changes anything about climate change also being a problem.

Except it's worse because they're pointing at dead empires like Rome and saying "well this isn't new so why are you so upset about the currently existing empires doing these things". why tf do you think??? One died 2,000 years ago and one is alive right now aiding a genocide use your fucking brain