The one thing I think about with the wall-of-tags fic is the fact that it’s exposed how entitled we feel to services from a platform that operates as a non-profit
I don’t think that AO3 doesn’t want to make changes, I think they lack the financial and logistical means to do so
And I’m not saying that the platform doesn’t exist in a way that encourages harassment, because it does. We’ve all seen it. But I’m not sure if there’s an obligation to the user when they aren’t profiting off of the site itself. There isn’t a customer/client relationship
And I wish something could be done about it, I really do, because there are some serious flaws in the platform that could be fixed with better moderation and a more secure set up, but that would require them to hire programmers and moderators that they simply can’t afford
Almost everyone working for the OTW as far as I know is a volunteer. So, unless they start finding a way to become profitable, I don’t see them being able to implement any form of widespread change in a meaningful way.
They’ve essentially outgrown their original model
And if they did try to make a profit off of the site, I’m not sure how they could do so without violating the DMCA, because the site literally is geared towards derivative works.
Basically what I’m saying is, unless AO3 develops a merch line, or they figure out how to profit off
some form of original content, we’re stuck with the site we have, not the one that we wished we had.
And in the case of the wall-of-tags I do think the simplest solution would have just been to change the community rules and then ban the user, but I see a lot of people taking
the situation and then using it to make broader criticisms of the platform. And while the flaws are there, I don’t know how we expect AO3 to fix them, realistically.
Anyways that’s my two cents and if they drop merch I will buy it ✌️
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Authors: well.. yea... it’s... an alternative... universe
🤡: also it’s pretty OOC
Authors: the characters have completely different backgrounds, so...
🤡: lame :(
Everyone else:
Like I see it happen to pretty much every author I know (including me) and like...ya’ll realize it’s the online equivalent of knowing you don’t like cheesecake, eating someone’s homemade cheesecake, then spitting it out in their face and saying “I don’t like cheesecake”
Like, no one made you eat it Samantha, maybe just choke on it next time instead
i think it's important to remember that "cis" should not be considered a default, and neither should heterosexuality.
when people call making a character who's gender identity and sexuality haven't been explicitly discussed LGBTQIA+ "bending the canon" that's pretty rough
like, unless the character has explicitly said, "this is my sexuality," or "these are my pronouns / how I identify," they could be anything. You don't know. So, you might see them as straight, or cis, but that isn't any more grounded in reality than someone else's interpretation.
like, i personally view Dazai as bisexual in the canon, even though it's never explicitly said one way or the other. And I prefer to view Chuuya as a genderqueer character. Other people don't, and that's fine, but presuming one is more valid than the other is not cool
Now that I have awoken, this song is the inspiration behind the Sequel to everything or nothing, “Unconditional,” which is a much more HOPEFUL story lmao
The themes are similar to angels on the moon in the sense that it does focus on recovery, but it’s less about grief in this sense and more about trauma.
It picks up around six months after Chuuya’s surgery, and while Everything or Nothing and Angels on the Moon focused more on
Dazai’s emotional growth, Unconditional is going to be more even handed in the sense that you’re going to see a lot more of Chuuya’s growth as well.
But overall it’s a happy story and there’s going to be comedy, smut, and fluff to go with everything, and a happy ending!
I sometimes feel like we don’t want to see characters as weak and insecure because we would rather think that self confidence is inherent rather than something that is built up over time with effort because it precludes us from having to take that journey ourselves
My little cousin has been getting into naruto lately and I’m rethinking my Sakura hatred okay I’m INTROSPECTIVE
Because honestly I hated characters like her, or Sansa from Game of Thrones, and Armin from attack on Titan, but they had some of the greatest character arcs ever BECAUSE they weren’t confident 🤔