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Shit like the Great Purges and the Strikethrough of Livejournal eventually led to fans banding together to create A03, which I would have absolutely KILLED for when I was 15.

Back up ao3 was created by fans?

It’s…right on the main page. 

I love this because I will bet you that persefv has read that bit we are all so inundated with hyperbole and advertising that says that the consumer is somehow in charge of whatever product they are shilling that we all just assumed this was another sales tactic.

But we’re not even… selling anything…  *quiet sobs*

No ads. No subscriptions. No data selling.

We are the definition of “what it says on the tin.”

Is there any way to spread this info? 

THE OTW WAS CREATED BY FANS SO WE’D HAVE AN ARCHIVE THAT WASN’T SUBJECT TO CORPORATE REVIEW. 

Nonprofit, so that nobody could ever say, “this isn’t making enough money; it’s getting shut down.” (See: Geocities, Quizilla, Figment, G+.) With lawyers involved and a firm awareness of the legalities of fanfic, so nobody would decide “we’ve gotten a nasty letter from a megacorporation with lawyers, so we’re hiding because we can’t afford to face a lawsuit. (Jedi Hurtaholics, Trevizo’s Millennium site.) With teams, so that an argument between co-mods didn’t result in the destruction of a whole archive. (Gryffindor Tower, Detention.)

AO3 IS OUR SITE.

It is by fans, for fans. Fans do all the coding. All the legal paperwork. All the abuse/tos violation complaints. Fans make all the choices about policies. Fans decide how to run the fundraisers. Fans write the blog posts. All the volunteer staff are fans; all the people who train them are fans. Fans wrangle all the tags. 

(And the other OTW projects, too. Fans manage the entries at Fanlore. Fans run the Open Doors project. Fans publish Transformative Works and Cultures.)

EVERYONE WORKING FOR THE OTW LOVES FANDOM. Wants it to survive. Wants it to be awesome for everyone.

(Knows that it can’t be awesome for everyone; some approaches to fandom just clash hard. But they strive to minimize those clashes as much as possible, because they love fandom.) 

AO3 is not some company that decided, “we’ll make a site for fanfic and then…” I don’t know what people are thinking is the reason. Money? Data harvesting? Tax shelter? Amusement and pity?

Nope; AO3 was fans saying, “Livejournal sucks; we’re tired of this fucked-up ‘rebuild every three years’ garbage; WE NEED TO OWN THE DAMN SERVERS.”

That’s the “of our own” part of the name. OTW isn’t a “them” running the site “for us.” It’s “us” making places for “us” to share what we love with others of “us.” 

This this this.

I was there for all of that shit, and AO3 is a godsend. If you enjoy or create fanworks, support AO3, donate if you can, and remember why it’s there in the first place!!

Fandom history really does get lost quickly. For current 20-something fans, AO3 has always been there.

I can’t believe proZD predicted Dimitri’s time skip design in 2017

Iron builds your bones. 

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doooooodllleessss 〔´∇｀〕

godfather au.

2019, probably going to channel Morrison.

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TALONS

Develop a roomba that reacts to being petted and you’re going to make bank with millennials

Don’t forget to give it a little screen so it can flash up emoticon faces.

*bump into wall* >_<

*gets pet* :3

*low battery* ;_;

*stick on a ledge* D:

*sucks up something it’s not supposed to* >:3c

I loathe how badly I want this.

I’ve been laughing at this stupid fucking video for 30 minutes

Yall sont understand this is the funniest thing ive experienced in weeks

this is missing the best bit. Harris wasn’t just saying this to some random guesthost. He was saying this to Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, who then went on to talk about how the Nintendo 64 is the best console.

u ever get really apathetic about your interests for no reason so u just start cycling through all your past hyperfixations in ur head out of an inexplicable need to feel passion for something

me trying to be interested in anything in the middle of a Depressive Episode™:

Welcome to Rialto.

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i hope donkey kong becomes known as the ultimate trans ally for eternity now

donkey kong said trans rights !

ALSO

DOOM GUY SAYS TRANS RIGHTS TOO!

JOHN ROMERO, CREATOR OF DOOM, SHOWED UP ON HBOMB’S STREAM TO SUPPORT TRANS RIGHTS AND FIGHT AGAINST TERFS. *

* the irony is that Graham Linehan, transphobe extraordinaire, previously said that DOOM was his all-time favourite game. And now, the creator of the game, came out to speak against him. This was sweet sweet victory.

Maybe video games aren’t a mistake

Y’all ever have a week that’s like, a yee without a haw. A ya without a hoo. A hoot without a holler. A proverbial snake in ones metaphorical weathered ranglin’ boot.

You know what them boys say. Don’t squat with yer spurs on, but I wore them darn spurs anyway didn’t I Larry

This is not the end.

(I’ve logged like upwards of 150 hours as Reaper guys. Help.)